Thoughts about d20 Past

[Vigilance]

Hey the Canadians tried to foist the metric system off on us... that's as insidious an attack as you could ever launch.

Chuck

 

[JPL]

Excellent article! (I mean, as source of stuff for some pulp rpg) Thanks. I especially like the nazi UFO pic, and the text about nazis finding entrances to deep earth on the south pole...

If you like that sort of thing, Ken Hite writes some great stuff. His Suppressed Transmissions columns for Pyramid are always full of RPG-ready goodness, and GURPS Weird War II has all kinds of Antarctic Space Nazis.

 

[JPL]

Hey the Canadians tried to foist the metric system off on us... that's as insidious an attack as you could ever launch.

Chuck

Hmm...and I guess there's always Snidely Whiplash.

OK, Canadian villains are acceptable if they twirl their mustaches and fight Mounties.

Throw in some savate rules from Blood and Fists, and you got yourself a martial arts / melodrama one-shot --- Canadian-style!

 

[Sebastian Francis]

Or maybe some racist Americans, or Canadians, or Jamaicans, or Zimbabweans, Mexicans, Brazilians, Chinese, Martians, English, French, Russians, or any other group of people.

Nah. They have to be German.

 

[Sebastian Francis]

Hey the Canadians tried to foist the metric system off on us... that's as insidious an attack as you could ever launch.

Chuck

Ah, I hate to break the news to you, but it isn't just Canadians that use the metric system. It's the *whole frigging world*. Minus the USA, of course.

 

[Vigilance]

Right... but it tried to get into America through our weak, undefended Canadian border. So I blame all Canucks... the rest of the world can do what it wants... but I am a veteran of the metric wars... and in the 6th grade math is hard enough without having them pour a completely alien numbers system down your throat for 1 year... and then abandon it and go back to the old system next year.

So, in the words of South Park, Blame Canada.

Chuck

 

[JPL]

Sebastian, don't argue with Chuck about this. He had a really bad experience at Gordon Lightfoot concert once, and he's been bitter toward our neighbors to the north ever since. Also, his family was killed by a caribou. Sad story, eh?

 

[Sebastian Francis]

Right... but it tried to get into America through our weak, undefended Canadian border. So I blame all Canucks... the rest of the world can do what it wants... but I am a veteran of the metric wars... and in the 6th grade math is hard enough without having them pour a completely alien numbers system down your throat for 1 year... and then abandon it and go back to the old system next year.

So, in the words of South Park, Blame Canada.

Chuck

Fair enough. As a Canadian, I use metric for a lot of stuff, but I still cringe when the youngsters today describe their height/weight in *meters* and *kilos*. (shudder) (Dusts off old fart's hat) Harrrrumph. In my day, we used metric for distance and temperature, and imperial for personal statistics, and that was good enough for us!

 

[The Shaman]

Ah, I hate to break the news to you, but it isn't just Canadians that use the metric system. It's the *whole frigging world*. Minus the USA, of course.

Listen, if G_d intended anyone to use the metric system he would've given us all ten fingers and ten toes.

Hey...wait a minute...

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[Krieg]

Listen, if G_d intended anyone to use the metric system he would've given us all ten fingers and ten toes.

Hey...wait a minute...

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No if he had wanted us to use the metric system our feet would be a meter long.