The AI Engine

12 degrees C? Isn't that like hotter than the sun? Colder than space? Can't we all just agree on Fahrenheit? I mean, that way you know it's hot when it's 112 or cold when it's -20! While we're at it, let's get rid of that silly metric system and stick with feet.

Hey! It was Ford or Carter who made us Canadians go metric!

Go metric or go home... How come we call how many kilometres we've got on our cars "Mileage"?

I say switch to metric. It's one of the few good things to come out of the French Revolution.

It's no use. We got stuck half way through the conversion. Now we kinda like it that way. Canadians love it when no one understands us.

If math majors ruled the world, it would not be thus.

Well, since I grew up in a country where we use the metric system, I think that it makes about a million times more sense. Now that I'm here, however, I'm starting to warm to those other things.

Locals believe that the English system makes 5280 times more sense.

(to be continued in Seasons)

In the 1960s the British monetary system had:
1/4 pence
1/2 pence
3 pence
6 pence
12 pence = 1 shilling
a 1 shilling coin
a 2 shilling coin
a coin worth 2 shillings and six pence
a ten shilling note
20 shillings = one pound
notes of 1, 5 and 10 pounds etc.
a CONCEPT: 1 guinea = 21 shilllings but not represented by any coin or bill.

When the idea of decimal currency was proposed, many Brits thought it would be too confusing.
notes of various pound denominations

Oops, and, of course, the penny.

Ouch my head! Anyways... I have the BEST IDEA for a bot-language day! FURBISH! Can't you just see all those little critters running around here?

There's even a whole dictionary of translations
http://www.furby.com/library/dictionary/