New Adventures of Queen Victoria by Pab Sungenis for December 10, 2011

The Metric Calendar was the one part of that Revolutionary system that didn’t catch on.

Thank you! First real laugh I’ve had today. But my son just made a face. Is this joke age-specific?

Fahrenheit is much, much better than Celsius. Or at least it was before those standard-pressure-boiling-water buggers messed with it. 2^6 degrees from freezing (32°F) to normal body temp (originally 96°F)—-none of that pathetic metric counting on your fingers.Base ten is sooo kindergarten-y.

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A funny joke you have to think about! How so not 2011. . .

@Ghostkeper: the advantage of storing dates Year-Month-Day is in computer sorting. Internally that’s pretty much how they’re always done in databases, they can display in any format needed.Myself, I usually write the date 10 Dec 2011, universally recognized (except in countries following Islamic and other unusual calendars, which I do not frequent).

Very subtly funny. I love humour that isn’t “American” ;-)

[snort!] How many years have you been keeping that one on the burner?

I have my slide rule right here. I put it in 5 garage sales and no one made an offer.

I use the same conversion system for my age. Makes me feel younger! Thanks for the laugh Pab, great strip.

I agree with your logic of month, day, year and it works well with computer files, because then they are filed numerically and can be found easily. i.e. 121011, 121111, etc. they cannot be mixed up.

LOL!!!!! That is soooo funny. Thanks, Pab.

The oven in my stove is calibrated in Celsius. To bake a pizza, I set the temperature at 230.

I’m an American and I wouldn’t mind if this country used meters, liters, and grams, but I don’t see any advantage in using the Celsius scale instead of the Fahrenheit one. In fact, a temperature given in Fahrenheit is more precise than one in Celsius because the F-scale uses smaller degrees than the C-scale (9 F-degrees = 5 C-degrees).

I love this joke!

Unless I am mistaken Britain DOES use the metric system; the US is about the only hold out.

One advantage of the Fahrenheit system is that, for most of the world and most of the time, daily temperatures range from 0F to 100F.