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   NebulousRikulau said, over 1 year ago

   The Metric Calendar was the one part of that Revolutionary system that didn’t catch on.
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   Captain Kiddeo said, over 1 year ago

   Thank you! First real laugh I’ve had today. But my son just made a face. Is this joke age-specific?
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   Fairportfan2 said, over 1 year ago

   Hisss.
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   richardelguru said, over 1 year ago

   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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   SUSAN NEWMAN said, over 1 year ago

   They don’t use the metric system in the UK.
   Only on the Continent.
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   ghostkeeper said, over 1 year ago

   I have never understood the appeal of the Fahrenheit system. I suppose it’s what you grow up with and are used to, though. However, what is it with writing dates month-day-year? Where’s the sense in that? The only thing that can be said for that is that it’s better than year-month-day, but that’s still damning with faint praise.
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   3hourtour said, over 1 year ago

   …HA!…
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   perceptor3 said, over 1 year ago

   A funny joke you have to think about! How so not 2011. . .
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   WayneZombie said, over 1 year ago

   @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).
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    Eric said, over 1 year ago

    Very subtly funny. I love humour that isn’t “American” ;-)
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    corzak said, over 1 year ago

    @WayneZombie

    Agreed. Today and the next few days are:
    
    111210
    111211
    111212
    111213
    . . . etc
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    cooj said, over 1 year ago

    [snort!] How many years have you been keeping that one on the burner?
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    pabsungenis said, over 1 year ago

    @ghostkeeper

    It’s because the American tradition of saying dates is month, date, year. We say “August the 10th” while in the UK they say “the 10th of August.” That’s why we write month first; it matches our speech pattern.
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    pabsungenis said, over 1 year ago

    @cooj

    When I was writing this week’s strips I figured that the “toolbars” gag would run out of steam before today and started researching facts about December 10th to find some inspiration. That was when I stumbled upon the 212th anniversary of the metric system. It was almost totally unplanned.
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    omwae said, over 1 year ago

    HAHA.. MATH HUMOUR – WHERE’S MY SLIDE RULE SO I CAN SMACK SOMEBODY…
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