"In case you're not up on your metric system. . . ."

John, within my experience, most Americans I know, and that includes the vast majority the people I know personally, are very fuzzy on the metric system, often not knowing a kilometer from a centimeter. I am fuzzy on it myself and still don't have the conversion tables down solid. For that matter, I've met Canadians who are a bit bewildered when it comes to converting between Celsius and Fahrenheit, for example. My son, who has been living in Canada for a couple of decades, is one of them. My intention, in converting meters to feet in my above post was exactly as I said it was:   to avoid confusion and to save those who might be interested the trouble of having to look up conversion tables and do the arithmetic themselves.

Now, if you want to interpret that as "patronizing" and "condescending," then that is your interpretation. Certainly not my intention. And that says more about you than it does about me.

Let's just drop this personal animosity and stick to the subject of the thread. This constant sniping makes both of us look like a pair of twits.

Don Firth