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@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@comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>> Well, a little fairy tale never hurt anyone.
>>
>> There is no justifiable reason for the USA to remain with the antiquated BSA
>> standard.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> That would be admitting that someone outside USA has a better idea.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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).
>>
>> 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!!!
>>
>> Gary
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