why

[lI1|1!]

why not?

[tvashtarkatena]

Now I would walk five hundred kilometers

and I would walk five hundred more,

just to be the man who walked a thousand kilometers

to avoid burning all those liters of petrol in his Smart Car

at your door.

 

You load sixteen thousand kilograms, and what do you get?

Another day older and deeper in debt.

St. Peter don'tcha call me cause I can't go

I owe my Euros to the company store.

 

Art is measured in pounds, shots, and miles.

[kevbone]

In "Battlefield: Earth" the bad guys (John Travolta) use a Base 11 system. That is why they are so bad.

 

Dont be rippin on that movie.....it was rad.

[tvashtarkatena]

Certainly one of Travolta's most masterful performances.

[builder206]

I am happy we have not switched to the system of French revolutionists. The other day I participated in a discussion with our Polish CADD drafter about how to show the diff between a 5/8" fastener and a 3/4" fastener in the context of a tool with 1.06" offset. It was wonderful watching his eyes roll back in his head, defocus, then spread to the far sides of his skull. But, he got the drawing done.

[Dechristo]

was his solution to draw the 5/8" fastener an 1/8" wider on the monitor with a Sharpee?

[Sherri]

I wonder how Canadian lumbermills feel about having to make "2x4's" for the silly unitedstatesians.

Or is it even worse--we buy their trees and sell "2x4's" back to them.

Luckily they can measure close enough with their little 'millimeters.'

 

I wish they'd just call the damn things what they really are: 1 1/2's by 3 1/2's. Would the metric unit reflect their actual dimension, or would it be a direct conversion of the "2x4" nominal description?

[archenemy]

tubafor

[RogerJ]

tubafor ... eh?

[E-rock]

Wow, another soft-ball target for asswipejustin to spray his sanctimonious pseudo-scientific derision towards. I think your advisor is calling, he wants that paper written by Friday, and no, you're not the first author.

[Sherri]

There's a general contractor around here with that as his business name("Tubafor").

 

But my favorite is the one called "Gutter Done."

 

 

I doubt either of them is into using teh metrical systems.

[Dechristo]

In the late '70's/early '80's, a couple of friends had a business named "Some Clown Construction".

 

Their motto: "If you've got a tough job, you can always get Some Clown to do it."

[Cobra_Commander]

wtf am I going to do with my 10 yard fight cartidges

[Cobra_Commander]

cc.com sucks now. I stroll in here days later and still have the opportunity to make the "measuring hardwood" joke. meh.

[olyclimber]

cc.com dies a little death everytime you breath out