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From: "Theodore E. Dennison" <dennison@escmail.orl.mmc.com>
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Date: 1996/05/13
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Dave wrote:
> *do* consider Australia to be significant.  (For those who live in
> countries where there are not peas:  A pea is a small (about five
> millimeter diameter), round vegetable.)

This explanation will be lost on those who live in non-metric using 
countries witout peas. Plus there are probably a lot of Innuit reading
right now who are wondering just what a "vegetable" is.

:-)

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