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Ok, well not technically. Our school's heating system broke down so we got sent home. (This is Peel Region, Ontario...and without heating its cooooooooooolllllddddd)
But you really gotta hand it to them, we LOVE these impromptu holidays
The last time we had an impromptu holiday was "Bomb threat" day....
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I went to Arizona once, a year ago -- in November. It was -40�F (or Celsius -- almost the same down there), snowing, and they said they didn't open the local ski hill until there was at least seven to eight feet of snow. That scared me.
That's Flagstaff. Go an hour and a half south to Sedona and it's like the rest of the state.
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Actually, -40� is the only time the metric and English systems meet :-)
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By the "English" system, do you mean the system that we don't use in England?
Well, not much. And it's called "imperial", not "English" anyway.
We haven't has a snow day since 91. Well, we might have, but I'm not at school anyway. And people don't need snow as an excuse to miss university. A test match on TV is good enough excuse.
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Actually, -40 is the exact temperature at which the scales converge...
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English system, Imperial system, no. Not quite the same thing.
The Imperial system uses gallons and feet and inches, like the English system of measurements (which, oddly enough, is only used in the U.S. Independence, indeed!) However, there are differences. The Imperial gallon is larger than the English (American) gallon. The difference in feet and inches is so slight that if you measure North America from Washington to San Francisco, the difference between the two is about 5 inches (~125 cm). That difference seems slight, but it also meant that during World War II, parts manufactured under licence for American-built Merlin Engines were not interchangeable with the same parts manufactured in England.
Thus ends the history lesson.
--Baloo
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