[sdiy] HP 202C Low Frequency Oscillator

[harrybissell]

Give them an inch, they want a FOOT
give them a foot, they want a YARD
give them a yard, they want a built in swimming pool....

Never judge a man until you have walked an unspecified metric distance
in his shoes....

H^) harry

john mahoney wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Magnus Danielson" <cfmd at bredband.net>
> >
> > Oh, and if you use Inch, be sure to use the *right* Inch definition. Even
> that
> > isn't correct in the US (sigh!).
>
> Yeah, people *say* that these new digital inches are the same as the old
> analog inches, but we're old enough to remember when an inch was an inch.
> ;-)
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Don Tillman" <don at till.com>
> >
> > I'll claim that the US will never go metric for a very good reason --
> > metric units just do not work in poetry or song lyrics.
>
> Let me try a conversion:
>     Imperial: "Give 'em an inch and they'll take a mile."
>     Metric: "Give 'em a centimeter and they'll take a kilometer."
> I think you're right, Don, metric has bad meter! ;-)
> --
> john