[TenTec] Come On Guys

[Gary J FollettDukes HiFi]

I had one like that in Nice, France.

All I wanted to do was get to the highway “bord du Mer”.

Four times around the loop, four tolls to the same toll taker… 

O well, Nice is still pretty nice!

Gary
> On Apr 25, 2016, at 5:54 PM, Mike Bryce <prosolar at sssnet.com> wrote:
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> You’ve never spent a week on the Talmadge Circle by Akron Ohio then. Put fifteen miles on the car before I finally figured out how to get off that thing
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> Mike, WB8VGE
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> Mike Bryce, WB8VGE
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>> On Apr 25, 2016, at 5:35 PM, Gary J FollettDukes HiFi <dukeshifi at comcast.net> wrote:
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>> Well, a little fairy tale never hurt anyone.
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>> There is no justifiable reason for the USA to remain with the antiquated BSA standard.
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>> However, in reality, there is, sadly, some portion of the population that thinks the fact that the rest of the world uses the metric system is the reason why we should NOT use it.
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>> That would be admitting that someone outside USA has a better idea.
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>> Believe it or not, there are even folks here who rant about an occasional roundabout on the roadways, when they are the very most efficient way to move traffic, far better than our old stand by, the 4 way stop sign, whose only purpose is to impede traffic flow equally in all directions.
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>> Let’s see how simple this is: inches can be either divided by tenths, thousands and millionths etc., or 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16, 1/32, and so on. Then there are 12 inches per foot. Three feet to the yard. 5280 feet to the mile (unless you are talking nautical mile (6070 feet). 
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>> Certainly the metric system is much more difficult - 1 micron, 1 mm, 1 cm, 1 dm, 1 m, 1 km and so on… pretty tough math!!!
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>> Gary
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