Adam Shostack 
You think American engineers are no good? They did this without even using the metric system!
Paul_IPv6not to mention conversions between "large boulder the size of a small boulder", numbers of armadillos, and numbers of baby hippos. :)
muddle
@paul_ipv6 @adamshostack "it was definitely a certain number of linguini long..."
https://www.theregister.com/Design/page/reg-standards-converter.html