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[challenge entry] The US of A's quarters would be a bit different

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(Towedwart, Tue 27 Apr 2004, 2:51, archived)
# EVERYTHING WOULD BE METRIC.
i swear.
(I helped save b3ta! Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Tue 27 Apr 2004, 2:54, archived)
# that wouldn't be too bad.
Learning both systems is *really dumb*.
(fantastic german, Tue 27 Apr 2004, 2:56, archived)
# I agree.
Feet and inches suck eggs.
I'm a carpenter (like Jesus) and my mind explodes on a daily basis.
Try it. What's one third of 10 inches? Using 16ths of an inch. Fuck all it blows my mind.
(I helped save b3ta! sof sof, Tue 27 Apr 2004, 3:04, archived)
# yeah there's no good reason for using imperial systems anymore
though a metre is just a fraction of what the french worked out to be the circumfrence of the world. Even the american military switched to metric decades ago.

Also ha! I wasn't fooled by that virus on weeblnbob mailing list, did anyone get caught out? what happened?
(Arsenic, Fri 13 Jul, 2:73 and, Tue 27 Apr 2004, 3:12, archived)
# a wanna
catapult!!!!
(I helped save b3ta! Sattamassagana, the LEGO-man needs to change his username's relevancy, Tue 27 Apr 2004, 3:15, archived)
# They're not hard to make
that's my third though, working on the fourth now, a trebuchet. I've spent a total of $13 on them.
(Arsenic, Fri 13 Jul, 2:73 and, Tue 27 Apr 2004, 3:40, archived)
# Just cant the ruler.
measure 12" diagonally and make your marks at 4" and 8".
I'm sure you knew this already.

What's one third of 10 cm?
(I helped save b3ta! Syncubus Yarr! Ye'll be walking Planck's Constant! [GMT-5], Tue 27 Apr 2004, 3:14, archived)
# That's easy
3 and 1/3.. oh

well my ruler's got pi on it, what's the use of that??
(Arsenic, Fri 13 Jul, 2:73 and, Tue 27 Apr 2004, 3:19, archived)
# It'll be useful if you ever get lost in the woods...
You can suck on it for sustenance.
(I helped save b3ta! Syncubus Yarr! Ye'll be walking Planck's Constant! [GMT-5], Tue 27 Apr 2004, 3:20, archived)
# Never CAN America change its currency
Haha... but try getting Americans, even if Russian had won the Cold War, to accept change. We, as a nation, are infuriated at the fact that we have to pay $1.25 USD for a gallon of gaoline.
Switching the horrible counting system we live by would totally have thrown us off balance. We enjoy using completely mind boggingly difficult systems of measurement. Or rather, we are too used to them.
Oh well. Hail Russia.
(Towedwart, Tue 27 Apr 2004, 3:14, archived)
# that's cheaper than
here i think though!
(I helped save b3ta! Sattamassagana, the LEGO-man needs to change his username's relevancy, Tue 27 Apr 2004, 3:16, archived)
# If it makes you feel any better
it's $1.70 USD per gallon in the USA.
(I helped save b3ta! Syncubus Yarr! Ye'll be walking Planck's Constant! [GMT-5], Tue 27 Apr 2004, 3:17, archived)
# $1.25 per gallon?
can I borrow your time machine?
(fantastic german, Tue 27 Apr 2004, 3:21, archived)
# more than $1.25??
Well, where I live it is actually down to $1.11 USD at the moment. it was about $1.50 a few weeks ago.
(Towedwart, Tue 27 Apr 2004, 3:30, archived)
# holy *cow*,
where you live?

I'm in North Carolina and it's $1.70. that's supposed to be the lowest in the country.
(fantastic german, Tue 27 Apr 2004, 3:35, archived)
# Hoorah for Oxnard
I live in the Nard of the Ox (Oxnard) in Southern California. Blessed be our low petrol prices.

Edit: Nard of the Ox... Oxnard. It's a joke. I live in the city of Oxnard. Grand city. 20th largest (or so) in California. The Terminator is our governor.
(Towedwart, Tue 27 Apr 2004, 3:38, archived)
# Nard of the Ox, I've never heard of that.
Though I've never been to Cali, either.

Well, I'm lucky that I drive a tiny little car.
(fantastic german, Tue 27 Apr 2004, 3:43, archived)
# Seconded
Winston-Salem, here.
(I helped save b3ta! Syncubus Yarr! Ye'll be walking Planck's Constant! [GMT-5], Tue 27 Apr 2004, 3:41, archived)
# wow!
That isn't too far from my perminant residence. I didn't know anybody here was from NC.
(fantastic german, Tue 27 Apr 2004, 3:44, archived)
# There's another, but I forget who.
who lives out toward the coast.
(I helped save b3ta! Syncubus Yarr! Ye'll be walking Planck's Constant! [GMT-5], Tue 27 Apr 2004, 3:49, archived)
# it is....
53.3333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333
16ths of an inch, aka 3.33333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333 inches....

happy?
(HolyHolley, Tue 27 Apr 2004, 9:17, archived)