Andrew Chaplin wrote:
"Dave Kearton" wrote in message


Hey, it's still the same football field, only now it's metric.

Not in North America. NFL fields are still 100 yards from goal line
to goal line, and 53.33 yards from side line to side line
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America..._and_players);
CFL fields, 110 and 65 yards
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...all_field.png).
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Andrew Chaplin


heavy sigh I know, it was only wishful thinking....



Went to the hardware store last weekend, needing a handful of bolts - at
least 65mm long before the thread starts.


The only brand they had were 'Zenith' and they were in inches. I
suspected that 2 3/4" would do the trick, head scratching didn't help and
had to find a steel ruler to confirm it.



I realised the US would probably never fully accept metrification when I saw
Spock on Star Trek refer to a new M-class planet they were orbiting -
reading out it's mass in "metric tons...."




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Cheers

Dave Kearton