Metric Cliches -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Some believe that the world converting to the metric system would greatly simplify our measures. But look what would really happen to our old cliches... ;-) * A miss is as good as 1.6 kilometers. * Put your best 0.3 of a meter forward. * Spare the 5.03 meters and spoil the child. * Twenty-eight grams of prevention is worth 453 grams of cure. * Give a man 2.5 centimeters and he'll take 1.6 kilometers. * Peter Piper picked 8.8 liters of pickled peppers. obviously there will be more on this important issue still to come! Contributed by: Donald The sermon had been going on endlessly. Finally the minister's voice cracked and said, "What more can I say?" One parishioner yelled, "How about `Amen'!"