By Andy Keely (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #664) on Sunday, October 5, 2003 - 10:52 am: |
A question from Cynde yesterday, along the lines of "Do European dive computers display in metres or do you have to convert the feet that are shown there yourselves". After I'd got over the indignation of it all, it got me thinking ....
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By gregg brewer (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #349) on Sunday, October 5, 2003 - 11:11 am: |
Andy,
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By Martin de Weger (Supreme BonaireTalker - Post #2849) on Sunday, October 5, 2003 - 11:18 am: |
Andy, why is it you guys are still driving on the wrong side of the road??
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By Dean Botsford (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #276) on Sunday, October 5, 2003 - 11:28 am: |
Pushy, pushy, pushy, give the metric masters an inch and they will take 1.60934 Kilometers. We must stop this now, after all, an ounce of prevention is worth 0.453592 Kilograms of cure.
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By Cynde (Supreme BonaireTalker - Post #8898) on Sunday, October 5, 2003 - 1:44 pm: |
Andy...Fancypants...Mr. Keely...there you go misquoting me...guess I will have to go back and see exactly what I wrote, I believe I started with "Gee Golly" and I guess I should have added a "wink" to my comment as I was surely being a smarten arse, my friend. I thought you would have read that into it knowing my sarcastic sense of humor....I remember in college there was a big push to change our current system over to the metric/celcius system. In the end, I guess it was just too big a task to try to convert 300,000,000,000 people into learning a new system overnight.... Just too big of a task I suppose...now, I need to go re-adjust my nose [WINK]
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By joe brannan (BonaireTalker - Post #45) on Sunday, October 5, 2003 - 3:46 pm: |
Don't make me get in the back seat and separate you guys!!!!!!
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By Glen Reem (Extraordinary BonaireTalker - Post #1508) on Sunday, October 5, 2003 - 6:05 pm: |
Or is Andy just stirring the waters for a little excitement, not to be taken seriously????
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By Cynde (Supreme BonaireTalker - Post #8905) on Sunday, October 5, 2003 - 6:24 pm: |
Glen, yes, I think you are correct sir
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By Andy Keely (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #665) on Sunday, October 5, 2003 - 6:31 pm: |
You're right, of course, Dean ... if a nose is there to be tweaked, then I'll do my utmost to oblige.
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By Cynde (Supreme BonaireTalker - Post #8906) on Sunday, October 5, 2003 - 7:11 pm: |
Andy I checked what I wrote and I got my numbers all in a bunch and reversed...must be the the throat losenges...er...suppositories I had yesterday...now I'm off to make a nice hot tottee (oj, whiskey and honey to hopefully soothe this dang sore throat)
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By gregg brewer (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #350) on Sunday, October 5, 2003 - 7:53 pm: |
Andy,
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By Meryl Virga (Supreme BonaireTalker - Post #3507) on Monday, October 6, 2003 - 1:05 pm: |
What's metric?
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By seb schulherr (Extraordinary BonaireTalker - Post #1012) on Monday, October 6, 2003 - 2:27 pm: |
The start of Metrical, a popular diet drink of the sixties.
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By Andy Keely (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #666) on Monday, October 6, 2003 - 5:50 pm: |
Aaaah, at last a bite ... Nice one Meryl!
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By Cynde (Supreme BonaireTalker - Post #8913) on Monday, October 6, 2003 - 8:04 pm: |
Andy, you are quite right my friend...I thought for sure this was going to be another "deep diving" thread...you should feel good, Jake didn't move this over to CC, however, if I throw a few gifs in he might
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By gregg brewer (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #353) on Monday, October 6, 2003 - 8:45 pm: |
metriculate, metricate, masticate
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By Meryl Virga (Supreme BonaireTalker - Post #3508) on Monday, October 6, 2003 - 10:59 pm: |
Thanks Seb...I was thinking Metrix, tropical punch please.
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By Meryl Virga (Supreme BonaireTalker - Post #3509) on Monday, October 6, 2003 - 11:02 pm: |
Andy...you devil you...you finally made it to your 666th post. I love these milestones!
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By seb schulherr (Extraordinary BonaireTalker - Post #1014) on Tuesday, October 7, 2003 - 7:49 am: |
Metrical is mentioned in the show "Hairspray" I sometimes work on,and once I figured out what the line was it amused me greatly to remember it. Mom drank Metrical.
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By Cynde (Supreme BonaireTalker - Post #8916) on Tuesday, October 7, 2003 - 10:55 am: |
Good catch Meryl, Fancypants and his 666th post...what happens next?
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By Meryl Virga (Supreme BonaireTalker - Post #3512) on Tuesday, October 7, 2003 - 6:28 pm: |
"And the oceans parted"...gosh Cynde...I'm not sure...It's usually his story!
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By Dean Botsford (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #277) on Wednesday, October 8, 2003 - 8:13 am: |
Meryl...the French (gasp)started it. July of 1779. "The unit of length as well as basis of the metric system was defined a meter, which counterbalances with one-tenth millionth quadrant of length of meridian that it goes through from Paris." What ever the heck that means.
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By bob revel (New BonaireTalk Poster - Post #2) on Wednesday, October 8, 2003 - 11:16 pm: |
The whole nine yards
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By Andy Keely (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #669) on Thursday, October 9, 2003 - 4:53 pm: |
All plausible but highly unlikely explanations Bob.
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By Meryl Virga (Supreme BonaireTalker - Post #3516) on Thursday, October 9, 2003 - 6:27 pm: |
That was the Holiday Inn Express in Bonarie...right Andy? or Gregg?
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By Dean Botsford (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #278) on Friday, October 10, 2003 - 6:59 am: |
yes, Holiday Inn, no loooooooooong tales of holes and explosions, earthquakes, fancy pants, narrow escapes and a thread that stretches from a smoldering crater in the Hato area of Bonaire to somewhere outside the orbit of Mars.
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