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03-01-1999, 02:44 PM #21DKEvermore@aol.coGuest
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In a message dated 2/27/99 6:01:03 PM Central Standard Time,
dsbrown@is2.dal.ca writes:
> Course, if you really want to see how we've stacked up against the US in
> military might, check out why the white house is white...it had to be
> white washed after it was torched by us silly Canuks...
>
It was torched by the Brits in the war of 1812. "Canada" as a nation did not
exist then. It was an "imperialist" controlled territory. Sorry.
'Course your welcome to come down and try it again. I don't think anybody
would stop ya. It'd clean out the riff-raff for us. ;) hehehehe
- -Dustin "About to be flamed" Evermore
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03-01-1999, 03:14 PM #22Pieter A de JongGuest
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brandes wrote:
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> >Ben wrote:
> >>
> >> The real reason we stupid americans don't switch over is because our
> NFL
> >> would have to start measuring the field in meters! (It sounds stupid to
> say
> >> so-and-so gained some meterage on that play...)
> >>
> >> he he he
> >>
> >Nah, you americans just don't switch over 'cause your to dumb! After
> >all the CFL measures the field in yards, and yet Canada uses the metric
> >system.
> >--
> >
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03-09-1999, 08:18 PM #23Jeff DunnettGuest
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The CFL is also more exciting.
- ---Pieter A de Jong wrote:
>
> Ben wrote:
> >
> > The real reason we stupid americans don't switch over is
because our NFL
> > would have to start measuring the field in meters! (It sounds
stupid to say
> > so-and-so gained some meterage on that play...)
> >
> > he he he
> >
> Nah, you americans just don't switch over 'cause your to dumb! After
> all the CFL measures the field in yards, and yet Canada uses the
metric
> system.
> --
>
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03-09-1999, 08:21 PM #24Jeff DunnettGuest
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Culture....Culture...LOL. I wouldn't call crime and Beverly Hills
90210 culture...ROTFL.
Jeff
- ---Ben wrote:
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> >>Nah, you americans just don't switch over 'cause your to dumb!
After
> >>all the CFL measures the field in yards, and yet Canada uses the
metric
> >>system.
>
>
> How do you like that? We give them a culture and economic
prosperity
> with our open border policy, and they call us dumb!
>
> he he----Ben
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03-09-1999, 08:33 PM #25Jeff DunnettGuest
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Yes americans and respect they get respect because if they don't
they'll nuke'm till they glow
- ---Trizt wrote:
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>
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> brandes wrote:
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> > Ya know, I think the Canucks are just pissed off because they get
zero
> > respect from the rest of the world.
> I guess you Americans have to be disrespectful toward the Canadians as
> it's their thecnology which made it possible for you to get up into
> space, build better military aircrafts (I guess the Avro Arrow would
> still have been better than the best American fighter).
>
> There is only one thing about America which terrifies me, and it's
that
> an American car explodes when it's 5 inches off the road (evidence,
look
> at an American action movie ;).
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03-09-1999, 09:32 PM #26OlesensGuest
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Jeff Dunnett wrote:
> Yes americans and respect they get respect because if they don't
> they'll nuke'm till they glow
Oh yeah, I finally remembered why we Americans use month/day/year instead of
the day/month/year European style. You see, the month is listed first so
you'll know generally when it is from. Date is next to specificy. The year is
last since it is really there only for clarification, typically you'll know
what year it's from. Europeans used dd/mm/yy because they seem to like
organized systems instead of ones that work. Have you ever tried to map a
building's rooms in meters or decimeters? Feet may be illogical but they work
real well.
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03-09-1999, 10:44 PM #27prtr02@scorpion.nspco.coGuest
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As an American and engineer, I always loathed my country's clinging to the English system. I was forced to learn both systems and how to convert from one to the other in order to do my work. What a pain! What follows made me rethink my stance. It's an excerpt from an article so I make no claim to orginality.
The metric system was proposed to the French National Assembly in 1791. In the ensuing 2 years Louis XVI lost his head, quite possibly due to the populace's displeasure at having to buy 10 eggs for the price of 12. The Corsican who followed Louis embraced the system in his march for world domination. But alas, the Corsican's army and navy, equipped with metric cannon and musket, were no match for the one-eyed man at Trafalgar (1805) Nor the Duke at Waterloo (1815), both of whom had to rely on "archaic" English system weapons.
In fact, in armed conflict between English and metric system weapons, no war has ever been won by a country utilizing the metric system. The "perpetrators" of the metric system have had a particularly bad record agianst the English system. The U.S. military's switch to the metric system does not bode well for the U.S.
(a 9-mm ain't no .45).
;) Randax
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03-10-1999, 01:49 AM #28Tod HurlbertGuest
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>
> organized systems instead of ones that work. Have you ever tried to map a
> building's rooms in meters or decimeters? Feet may be illogical but they work
> real well.
Actually, in the architectural field we use millimeters on metric drawings. And to
be honest, it works rather well... er, uh, at least until the contractor gets the
drawings & doesn't know how to read them.
Tod
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03-10-1999, 03:40 AM #29Kenneth GauckGuest
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Armies from nations which drink distilled spirits also have a superior track
record against armies from nations which drink fermented beverages.
KG
- -----Original Message-----
From: Randall W. Porter@6550
To: birthright@mpgn.com
Date: Tuesday, March 09, 1999 4:53 PM
Subject: Re: [BIRTHRIGHT] - metric system
>As an American and engineer, I always loathed my country's clinging to the
English system. I was forced to learn both systems and how to convert from
one to the other in order to do my work. What a pain! What follows made me
rethink my stance. It's an excerpt from an article so I make no claim to
orginality.
>
>The metric system was proposed to the French National Assembly in 1791. In
the ensuing 2 years Louis XVI lost his head, quite possibly due to the
populace's displeasure at having to buy 10 eggs for the price of 12. The
Corsican who followed Louis embraced the system in his march for world
domination. But alas, the Corsican's army and navy, equipped with metric
cannon and musket, were no match for the one-eyed man at Trafalgar (1805)
Nor the Duke at Waterloo (1815), both of whom had to rely on "archaic"
English system weapons.
>
>In fact, in armed conflict between English and metric system weapons, no
war has ever been won by a country utilizing the metric system. The
"perpetrators" of the metric system have had a particularly bad record
agianst the English system. The U.S. military's switch to the metric system
does not bode well for the U.S.
>(a 9-mm ain't no .45).
>
>;) Randax
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03-10-1999, 03:57 AM #30Samuel WeissGuest
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>Armies from nations which drink distilled spirits also have a superior
track
record against armies from nations which drink fermented beverages.
KG<
I guess we are lucky we never had to go head to head with the USSR then huh?
Unless we restricted our troops to JD for the duration instead of brewskis.
Samwise
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