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To: Sedohr Nod who wrote (256743)	7/4/2008 6:14:02 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 794032

Tough choice, slavery or sixpence? Hmmm. It might depend on whether you were a slave or not. You would also have got rid of the imperial system of weights and measures instead of keeping the silly inches, feet, miles, pounds, ounces, pints, gallons, fahrenheits and the like. Imagine how great the USA would have been if it had been metricated. Engineering is hard work in poundals. Mq Esquire is a suitable title for me; abbreviated to Mq Eq if you wish. Mqurice