The Argyle Sweater by Scott Hilburn for August 22, 2012

Hang your heads in shame.

No one has been able to fold them for the past 100 years.

Touché. Does that include the “origami boulder” method?

What if the kilometers don’t want to be converted?

Their second most embarrassing day. The most embarrassing day was when the government launched the first GPS satellite and started putting them out of business.

1 mile = 1,6 km so I guess he just suck at math.

All I remember about metrics is a kilo is 2.2 pounds (and I think I’m forgetting that tomorrow).

It’s a simple solution. Just throw away the map and head in a direction that has not been mapped yet. Whatever direction that might be.

I lived in Canada during metrication. They had no trouble handling two different quarts (US and imperial), but balked at anything new. I had fun in those gripe sessions by saying they should split the difference between the two quart sizes. This always brought agreement. “Then,” I said, “we can call it a litre.” This brought sputters, but no argument.

and I worked for them I never new that

Looks like a good place, right here.

I asked my wife if she knew what a metric quart was…and she replied " I don’t care what you call it !!!! You will NOT bring ANY whiskey in this house !!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Albuquerque? Nobody’s mentioned Albuquerque?

in a wagon named Chuck.

A GPS cannot have the information of a good topo. I doubt if it could even get you across Grand Canyon without going through Flagstaff.

I might let my GPS guide me to a destination, but I like to look at a map first to have an idea of what I am doing.