[Beth Sweet]

:Warning, slightly off topic:

Ok, just have to share this fun story about english and metric.

My father and I had gone into Radio Shack to get some cords to hook up my uncle's speakers (and to reassure everyone, no I did not actually touch anything) and the salesguy approached us when we walked in. We told him what we wanted and he said that all he had was the 30 ft. cables (very expensive), but they were the best, so buy those. He was rather overly self confident, so I preceded to walk around the store and find the 8 ft. cables that we wanted and bring them over to my father. My dad said that these were the ones we were looking for to which the salesman replied "Oh yeah, we have those but they're no good for anything but tying down your trunk. Besides, the 30 ft. cables are English, the ones your daughter has are metric, American bought speakers won't work with them."

My father promptly put everything down and walked out of the store.

Sorry for going off topic, just thought of that the second I saw this thread.

On topic, I think we use metric tools, but English for the lengths of materials and stuff (like, 2 by 4's).