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From: inc@fluke.UUCP (Gary Benson)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: New Look for U.S. Paper Money
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Date: Sat, 12-Nov-83 20:52:12 EST
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Posted: Sat Nov 12 20:52:12 1983
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Canada has had thin-film metal impregnated paper for 103 years? My golly,
we really are behind! If you guys are such good neighbors, why didn't you
let us in on that technology long ago? We've only been capable of doing
that stuff since about 1980. Think of the money we could have saved in R&D.

As to the metric system, I seem to recall that Canada has only recently
entered the "18th Century", and it went kicking and screaming. Bob and
Doug McKenzie's formula doesn't work, either. It's ok for C to F, but I'll
wager that to this day, housewives all over Canada try to figure how much
meat in a kilo by saying, "Double it and add 30".

The US is an intensely complicated society, and conversion has in fact
begun, but it won't come easy, and it will probably only be legislated by
default after we in fact have already changed over. I beleive that Canada
went metric within the last five years, and it can't possibly be complete
already. There are probably lots of places where the land is still
measured in acres, paper products by inches, and produce in pounds and
ounces. True or not?



from the ever smiling, ever happy                   .).
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Gary Benson
John Fluke Mfg. Co.
Everett, WA                                      !fluke!inc