Re: [CR]Metric vs English vs...

(Example: Framebuilding)

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Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 11:41:20 -0500
To: Carb7008@cs.com, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
From: "Sheldon Brown" <CaptBike@sheldonbrown.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]Metric vs English vs...


At 2:49 AM -0500 3/10/04, Carb7008@cs.com wrote:
>Down with the metric system....we don't need no foreign rulers!
>
>Jack (SAE) Romans
>Sacramento

I got bit by this myself...when they first came out with those metric Coke bottles, I bought one, drank it as I walked down the street, then chucked the empty over my shoulder when I finished it. Wouln't ya know it, a cop saw me and he busted me...

[wait for it]

...for litering!

Sheldon "Groaner" Brown
[Location undisclosed to protect the guilty]
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