Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for May 23, 2017

If it’s tape delay, you can call to find out if it’s a boy or girl.

And is Joanie there as her coach, or whatever they call the Lamaze partner?

When did the US go metric?

No, you don’t push till 10 cm!

The medical and scientific fields are far more enlightened, than the rest of the United States.

Metric is far more precise, easier to compute, and universally understood.

DMDIP “When did the US go metric?”

We have long been metric. We simply don’t shoot those who like furlongs and fortnights. By the way, it’s easy to calculate the speed of light in furlongs per fortnights. The simplification of decimal and Système international d’unités is less important due to calculators and computers.

“The metric system has been legal in this country since 1866 ,” Don Hillger, president of the U.S. Metric Association, a non-profit that battles for nation-wide metric conversion, told CNBC. “I wish we saw it out of a more popular candidate… but we’re not going to win the battle on popularity, its a logic thing.”

http://www.cnbc.com/2015/06/04/why-the-us-hasnt-fully-adopted-the-metric-system.html

Looks like GoComics fixed the comments!

Credit where due.

I am glad they fixed the comments.

Oh and saw a birth on PBS back in the 1970’s just like I saw part of a real autopsy.