>Oddly enough, last time I was in the U.S. and looked around in a Lowe's,
one
>of the very few metric things that caught my eye were some plumbing pipes
>and fixtures; in fact, all their plumbing stuff was metric. What's strange
>about this is that plumbing supplies are just about the only thing over
here
>in Germany (don't know how it is in other European countries) for which the
>antique measures are still used exclusively.
We do this on purpose to keep you krauts confused....<ggg>
Be seeing you.
Dirk Wright, (of fine German heritage, somehow with an English name, go
figure!)
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