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--=====================_1140442==_.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 10:21 PM 3/09/2001 , Cobber wrote: >OK smartass, show me the pictures of a commie on the moon holding up a >hammer and sickle flag up and hitting a golf ball and I will kiss your ass >in Macy's window. Now go back to your pussy weenie-ass centimeters and I >will go back to my massive, manly inches and kick your metric asses every >time. > >The fact is it does not matter what unit you use to measure the distance >from point A to point B. All we would be doing by going metric is making it >easier for the EU to rip off American innovation and call it their own. The >dumb-ass Limeys fell for that metric crap and look what happened to them. >And need I even mention Canada? We gave you guys Werner von Braun 'cause you couldn't work it out for yourselves. We gave the engine guys to the Russians so you wouldn't get complacent. rgds billyw >Look what happened when we send that Mars lander to the moon. Everything was >working great until some metric-ized genius decided to use the "superior" >metric system and look what happened. > >It takes real brains to figure out eights and sixteenths, the metric system >makes you dull and slovenly. > > Jim > > > From: "Thomas Kleemann (EED)" <Thomas.Kleemann@ee*.er*.se*> > > Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2001 10:04:13 +0200 > > To: "'Jim Cobb'" <cobber@ci*.co*> > > Cc: techdiver <techdiver@aquanaut.com> > > Subject: RE: Metric vs. Imperial > > > > -----Original Message----- > >> From: Jim Cobb [mailto:cobber@ci*.co*] > >> > >> Screw the rest of the world. The rest of the world should be following *our* > >> lead and drop the metric system. > >> > >> I'll tell you what, when one of you metric sons of bitches land on the moon > >> with a metric spaceship, then I'll switch. > >> > > > > Nice rant, Jim! > > > > But, you're 30 years late, > > the Lunakhod moonwalker was metric. > > > > And that's only _Russian_, not DIR ;-) > > > > /Thomas. > > -- > > Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. > > Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. > > > >-- >Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. >Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. --=====================_1140442==_.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" <html> At 10:21 PM 3/09/2001 , Cobber wrote:<br> <blockquote type=cite cite>OK smartass, show me the pictures of a commie on the moon holding up a<br> hammer and sickle flag up and hitting a golf ball and I will kiss your ass<br> in Macy's window. Now go back to your pussy weenie-ass centimeters and I<br> will go back to my massive, manly inches and kick your metric asses every<br> time.<br> <br> The fact is it does not matter what unit you use to measure the distance<br> from point A to point B. All we would be doing by going metric is making it<br> easier for the EU to rip off American innovation and call it their own. The<br> dumb-ass Limeys fell for that metric crap and look what happened to them.<br> And need I even mention Canada?</blockquote><br> We gave you guys Werner von Braun 'cause you couldn't work it out<br> for yourselves. <br> <br> We gave the engine guys to the Russians so you wouldn't get complacent.<br> <br> rgds billyw<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <blockquote type=cite cite>Look what happened when we send that Mars lander to the moon. Everything was<br> working great until some metric-ized genius decided to use the "superior"<br> metric system and look what happened.<br> <br> It takes real brains to figure out eights and sixteenths, the metric system<br> makes you dull and slovenly.<br> <br> Jim<br> <br> > From: "Thomas Kleemann (EED)" <Thomas.Kleemann@ee*.er*.se*><br> > Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2001 10:04:13 +0200<br> > To: "'Jim Cobb'" <cobber@ci*.co*><br> > Cc: techdiver <techdiver@aquanaut.com><br> > Subject: RE: Metric vs. Imperial<br> > <br> > -----Original Message-----<br> >> From: Jim Cobb [<a href="mailto:cobber@ci*.co*" eudora="autourl">mailto:cobber@ci*.co*</a>]<br> >> <br> >> Screw the rest of the world. The rest of the world should be following *our*<br> >> lead and drop the metric system.<br> >> <br> >> I'll tell you what, when one of you metric sons of bitches land on the moon<br> >> with a metric spaceship, then I'll switch.<br> >> <br> > <br> > Nice rant, Jim!<br> > <br> > But, you're 30 years late,<br> > the Lunakhod moonwalker was metric.<br> > <br> > And that's only _Russian_, not DIR ;-)<br> > <br> > /Thomas.<br> > --<br> > Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'.<br> > Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.<br> > <br> <br> --<br> Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'.<br> Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.</blockquote></html> --=====================_1140442==_.ALT-- -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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