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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (104)	12/30/2000 10:30:28 PM
From: Jon Koplik	Respond to of 130

Re : 2001 -- I am surprised that the movie 2001 is NOT being re-released. Those greedy jerks in Hollywood usually use any opportunity to try to wring a few more dollars from a film. (Maybe Stanley Kubrick's estate insisted that no one would ever be allowed to do the typical Hollywood trick : See the NEW VERSION, including never before shown scenes ! The "Director's cut" version ... You are a nobody unless you transfer $8.00 from you to us ...) (Probably 23 extra frames of cinema (?)) Jon.

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (104)	12/31/2000 10:25:55 AM
From: John Walliker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 130

Maurice, But in the USA I heard they are so last century that they still use pounds, hundredweight, stones, inches, feet, yards, chains, miles, rods, acres, Fahrenheit, gallons, pints, quarts, barrels, poundals, slugs and probably pecks, bushels, furlongs, perches, grains and drams which I can't fathom. Don't forget that they also have two different sizes of inch, yard, chain, mile etc. There is the metric inch of 25.400000000000000000 mm (and all derivative units) and the US Land Survey inch (mile etc). I believe that this was done so that all those expensive properties along the coast of California would not fall into the ocean when the inch was metricated, as a result of cumulative errors in mapping across the continent. John