[TheForge] A little metrology humor - YAK

[Andy Vida]

Keporter@aol.com wrote:
> 
> Further along this path...
> And the pilgrims did join up with other outcasts to throw off the yoke of the
> French, Britannic, and Spanish kings, thereby waxing exceeding strong. So
> that in the fullness of time, sly Europeans sought to again establish control
> with a metric plan. Alas, by this time the crude colonial barbarians were no
> longer impressed with the debauched "old world," so that despite the cajoling and
> threats of their highly knowledgeable collegiate types--they did giveth the
> finger and make rude comments (amid raucous laughter) at the self appointed gods
> of good judgment.
> The disappointed godlings gave dire warnings that the kingdom of Ten would
> overwhelm the barbarians by force of numbers <G> but they, having no proper
> sense of helplessness did retaliate with computers--what a low blow.
>   Today, all Europe arises, saying "let us band together, and show up these
> colonials," thus do the barbarians quiver and shiver, realizing that they have
> awakened a sleeping...pigmy.

	But verily did the base colonials stand fast, saying "fie on thee, thou
	metric slyme, with thy vacuous powers of ten that requireth no
	talent nor art to employ" and continued to use the measures contrived
	by the superior minds of fresh blood.  And so it came to pass that
	in spite of the onslaught of the small minded collectivists, whose
	use of the brain fagging system of tens caused their inbred minds to 
	decay into stupidity and irrelevance, the vulgar seed of the New
	World continued onward to produce every significant goodness known to
	men, and did so using their multi-based systems of measure.