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   CaptainColorado said, 6 months ago

   I hate when that happens!

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   Michigander said, 6 months ago

   Aww, use’m anyway. It’ll make your task even more interesting : )

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   cdward said, 6 months ago

   One of these days we’ll catch up with the rest of the world.

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   Dale Hopson said, 6 months ago

   Uncle Fester is now an astronaut?

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   oldlegodad said, 6 months ago

   Chip Bok is just messing with minds. NASA only uses metric, always has.The original captured V2s were metric

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   motivemagus said, 6 months ago

   Guess what – metric IS our official national standard, at least for scientists. Who knew? Funny how liters have become readily accepted – probably because they are “about a quart.”

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   Corosive Frog said, 6 months ago

   Up here, the government has the metric system but many older people (like my parents) have trouble with the metrics. That’s why you often have the imperial measurments just beside the metric ones. Metrics are more accurate in some domains than others. For instance, most people represent weather temperatures in celsius while most people read cooking temperatures in farenheit.

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   lalas said, 6 months ago

   It’s too late for the US! We’ll never figure out how to use 10s instead of 12, 36, 1760, 5280, 1/4, 13/32…

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   akibono said, 6 months ago

   I taught the metric system to American oil workers overseas. I found that they disliked the system because Frenchmen invented it.

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    dtroutma said, 6 months ago

    Could have been Wentworth! With Lucas electicals the British would have ended the mission some time ago!

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    motivemagus said, 6 months ago

    akibono – tell them that one of the first people to promote a metric system (not quite the same one) was Thomas Jefferson!

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    oldlegodad said, 6 months ago

    Tho.Jefferson…Libocrat traitor,founder of Dumbocratic Party (at least according to them)

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    akibono said, 6 months ago

    motivemagus - That may soothe their hurt feelings a little. But these good old boys from the Lone Star state can hold a grudge sometimes.

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    MurphyHerself said, 6 months ago

    If the those hold outs will drive on the right side of the road, then we can and should go metric. It’s not really that hard and doesn’t cause accidents.

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    jvherrin said, 6 months ago

    You would think that in a free country the will of the majority would count for something and say to hell with metric (especially since it was invented by a frenchman).

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    motivemagus said, 6 months ago

    jvherrin - didn’t read my comment five above yours, eh? Thomas Jefferson was one of the first promoters of the metric system. It’s as American as apple pie. I think the French followed us! Why are we laboring under the burden of the “English system” of weights and measures??

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    nomad2112 said, 6 months ago

    … Russian parts, American parts, they’re all made in CHINA …

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    MurphyHerself said, 6 months ago

    satipera: Great company we keep.

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    fennec said, 6 months ago

    Y’know, jvh, if we did metric maybe our kids wouldn’t score so badly on the math. They’d have a chance to understand orders of magnitude, for instance.

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    olfart said, 6 months ago

    dtroutma;
    Q: Why do the English drink their beer warm?
    A; Because Lucas makes refrigerators, too.

    The above joke does not reflect the opinion of anyone reading this comic. Please don’t sue me!

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    dtroutma said, 6 months ago

    Olfart- Lucas= “prince of darkness”.

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    Obamascares said, 6 months ago

    This made me LOL

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    cdward said, 6 months ago

    You know, Joyce, I was looking at this toon again, and you’re right, it just made me smile. Good on you, Chip.