METRIC CONVERSIONS

Here are six reasons not to go metric:

1. A miss is as good as 1.6 kilometers.
2. Put your best 3/10 of a meter forward.
3. Spare the 5.03 meters and spoil the child.
4. Peter Piper picked 8.8 liters of pickled peppers.
5. Give a man 2.5 centimeters and he'll take 1.609 kilometers.
6. Twenty-eight grams of prevention are worth 453 grams of cure.