FoxTrot Classics by Bill Amend for June 29, 2010
June 28, 2010
June 30, 2010
Transcript:
Roger: I got here as soon as I could! How is he? Andy: He's fine. He needed three stitches in his chin. Roger: Paige told me what happened! Thank God he's all right! Thank God he wasn't killed! I can't believed our little Jason was hit by a car! Andy: That's what Paige told you? Roger: Well, she said some other stuff, too, but I was running out of the door. Why? Andy: Are you familiar with the "Hot Wheels" line of vehicles?
Just for the record, back in the day when I dealt with metrics in high school chemistry and physics, I didn’t find them awkward - at all. Nabu’s excuses for the U.S. not switching over to the metric system strike me as just that - sophisticated excuses. If we’d just bitten the bullet when we had the chance (and I was studying the metric system right when we could’ve done so), we’d be used to it by now like our Canadian neighbors and nobody would be complaining about it.
We lost a probe to Mars because someone had to convert from the U.S. system to the metric system and forgot to do so. Inexcusible. Not the person’s action, the fact that such a conversion had to be made at all.
It’s been a long time since I’ve heard of slugs as a unit of mass - this may be only the second time.