From Bill S. via "Jmmogg"
Some believe that the world converting to the metric system
would greatly simplify our measures. But look what would
really happen to our old cliches...
* A miss is as good as 1.6 kilometres.
* Put your best 0.3 of a metre forward.
* Spare the 5.03 metres and spoil the child.
* Twenty-eight grams of prevention is worth 453 grams of cure.
* Give a man 2.5 centimetres and he'll take 1.6 kilometres.
* Peter Piper picked 8.8 litres of pickled peppers.
(
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