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Terry: You asked history trivia Q's? How about these?
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30/11/2005 11:59:12
 
 
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Dragan Nedeljkovich (Online)
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Zrenjanin, Serbia
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>I really see no reason to go metric. The existing units are quite logical - if a yard has three feet, a gallon has four quarts, a foot has twelve inches, then a pound, of course, has 16 ounces.

Look, it took me years to get that all figured out. You want me to give up all that training just for the sake of uniformity? It...it ain't 'Merican!!!
Dan LeClair
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