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From: rbutterworth@watmath.waterloo.edu (Ray Butterworth)
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Subject: Re: Lotteries was: warning: scumbags using usenet for pyramid schemes
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Date: 8 Dec 89 16:42:44 GMT
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In article <993@maytag.waterloo.edu> gamiddon@maytag.waterloo.edu (Guy Middleton) writes:
>Anthony should know better, too.  He is in Canada, where we use Imperial
>pints.

Try buying an aquarium or a water pump or ....
They are all sold by the "gallon", and it sure isn't the Imperial gallon.

Some beer stores list their prices for quarts and pints.
Not only aren't these Imperial quarts or pints (40 or 20 ounzes),
they aren't even US quarts or pints (32 or 16 fluid ounzes).
In fact they are only (~25? and 12 ounzes).

And of course with Free Trade, we will get the US sizes of many
other things dumped on us too.
(e.g. beer is 355mL (12 fl.oz.) instead of 341mL (12 oz.)).

Isn't Mulroney's "metric presence" a wonderful thing?
Just think of what a mess we'd be in if he hadn't put a stop
to establishing a standard set of weights and measures for Canada.