How heavy, how big, how far?

I ventured into my favourite part of any office today, the stationery store, and fossicked around for a ruler. They have great old school wooden ones....but there's no centimetres on it. Just inches. I joked to the guy that sits next to me, Bob from Florida, that this would be a museum piece in Australia. He looked at me funny. I asked if there was a movement to get the US onto the metric system and he suggested someone might have more luck trying to get the world to move to the Mayan calendar. Pow!