A Classical Note:
And while they’re staring, a couple post-Independence Day thoughts:
And back to the usual slop:
And only in Murka:
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A Classical Note:
And while they’re staring, a couple post-Independence Day thoughts:
And back to the usual slop:
And only in Murka:
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Mansplaining is like Femsplaining, only it’s disfavored by half the population and almost all of the media.
Thanks, Kim for posting a photo of my truck, and the lovely latina, in your “And only in Murka: segment”. I was just chillin’ on a Sunday afternoon when some photographers knocked on my shop door and asked if they could use my trucks in a photoshoot. I said sure and they sent someone to buy me a sixpack of Heineken as a thank you.
Small world, innit?
Here’s a link to another pic of that gal (booty shot) with me and said beer hosted on my website. I was trying to effect a nonchalant pose but came off as looking constipated.
https://www.laroke.com/larryk4674/2011/pinup1f.JPG
Did you get cooties?
I would have welcomed the opportunity. That pic would have been better if I had been wearing my Nation of Riflemen tee-shirt.
Re: Lemon or lime
Either way, it’s gonna be a sour puss.
I’ll just see myself out.
Weirdly enough, we’ve actually been metric “behind the scenes” pretty much all along.
Thomas Jefferson was looking into having the US start using a decimal-based system he came up with (still using pounds, but with 10 ounces ot the pound) during his term as the Secretary of State in 1790, but it didn’t catch on.
In 1793 Jefferson ordered a set of metric standards from France to see if that might catch on instead of his system, but they were lost to piracy and no new standards were ordered. Those standards were eventually recovered and given to the US govt in 1952.
The “United Stated Customary Units” that we currently use (not “Imperial”) were codified in 1832.
The metric system was authorized for use in 1866, and each state was provided with standards to use. But it wasn’t mandatory, so it didn’t catch on again.
USA signed the “Metre Convention” treaty in 1875. This treaty established the universal standard for the length of the meter.
The US began defining all of its units by the metric system in 1893.
Weird sidenote: The State of Utah specified in its original 1895 constitution that the metric system is the official one. In practice, it never really happened and that section of its constitution was repealed in 1987, though.
Laws adopting the metric system have been passed in 1975, 1988, 1996, and 2004, but, well…. Systemic inertia is a thing.