I remember SCTV parodying this show by having Quincy be an M.E. for animated cartoon characters- and then bursting out of the old Warner cartoon logo at the end. ("That's all?...That CAN'T be all...").
I also learned metric alongside imperial when I was a kid - Canada DID go full metric in the 70s (I still have a "thinKMetric" ruler! note the "KM" for kilometer). As a result, I only know weight in pounds, height in inches and can only bake with cups and tsp/tbsp. But distance is all in meters and km. So weird!
That is a fascinating little bit of history you noticed! Well done!
I loved going home after school and converting stuff around the house into metric weights and telling my family .I am sure it was not annoying after the first month of me doing it. :P
I keep hoping we decide to switch to metric officially in the United States, but the movement seems dead right now. Fingers crossed that we will switch someday.
Guess the Expos makes sense. I have never watched and Expos game. Going to see if I can find some old game footage, I would love to just see some metric measurements on the walls.
At the time of Quincy, some baseball stadiums put metric measurements on the wall but that didn't last very long.
That is a powerful indicator of how close we came to real change towards Metric. Maybe the perfect example from the time.
I remember SCTV parodying this show by having Quincy be an M.E. for animated cartoon characters- and then bursting out of the old Warner cartoon logo at the end. ("That's all?...That CAN'T be all...").
Cartoon Coroner!
Well, they DO need a lot of critical medical attention, given all the accidents they have...
I also learned metric alongside imperial when I was a kid - Canada DID go full metric in the 70s (I still have a "thinKMetric" ruler! note the "KM" for kilometer). As a result, I only know weight in pounds, height in inches and can only bake with cups and tsp/tbsp. But distance is all in meters and km. So weird!
That is a fascinating little bit of history you noticed! Well done!
I loved going home after school and converting stuff around the house into metric weights and telling my family .I am sure it was not annoying after the first month of me doing it. :P
I keep hoping we decide to switch to metric officially in the United States, but the movement seems dead right now. Fingers crossed that we will switch someday.
I’m sure you were only a little annoying.😁
Canada never went full metric except in terms defining speed. Distance, temperature, mass, and volume are still expressed both ways.
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That was awesome, thank you so much, Ramona! 💕
Nope, that was just the Expos. Shrug, that may not be right.
I just binged Quincy (it's ok, I'm fine), skip the first and final seasons and you'll remember it well.
Guess the Expos makes sense. I have never watched and Expos game. Going to see if I can find some old game footage, I would love to just see some metric measurements on the walls.
You did not have imperial measuring devices in your American school. They used US Customary Units, which are NOT the same as imperial units.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_the_imperial_and_US_customary_measurement_systems