Today's Schultz cartoon has Florence and Franklin sitting at a school desk.

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Florence to Franklin:

"We're going to have to learn the metric system, Franklin"

"By the time we grow up, the metric system will probably be official..."

"One inch is 2.54 centimetres; one foot is 0.3048 metres, and one mile is 1.609 kilometres..."
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Franklin to Florence:

"I'll never measure anything again as long as I live!"

As far as I am aware, Shultz, the editor of Peanuts died several years ago and the ones shown now are repeats of old ones.

The joke is quite funny and I laugh at it along with everyone else.

But joking aside I can share Franklin's despair and frustration.

I don't look forward to a world where we are expected to cope with inches, cm, feet, km and miles all at the same time.

re: "But, joking aside, I can share Franklin's despair and frustration. I don't look forward to a world where we are expected to cope with inches, cm, feet, km and miles all at the same time."

REPLY: Franklin's pessimism about his ability to cope with metric units could be dispelled by one sentence from the American President: "The United States is not going to go metric - period"

Tony: "the" American President

Do you mean George W. Bush ?

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I don't look forward to a world where we are expected to cope with inches, cm, feet, km and miles all at the same time.
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Then don't come to America.

[Franklin's pessimism about his ability to cope with metric units could be dispelled by one sentence from the American President: "The United States is not going to go metric - period"]

Can any US president guarantee this for all time given that they can only exist in that office for a maximum of 8 years?

Who says the President was guaranteeing it?

Tony's remark that such a statement from the US president would allay the fears of Franklin clearly implied this.