There was a British comedy song in the 1970s about metrication. Although I cannot trace it, even on their website, it may well have been by the Barron Knights. It suggested that a Cabinet Minister of the time be renamed Michael 30.24cm and the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police (who arrest people for 1.27cm-ing) Scotland 90.72cm.

Now meet someone they forgot: Joan of 0.405 hectares. Perhaps her great-great-nephew should be known as John of Ghent, to avoid encouraging eating disorders?


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  1. Think it might be this one? Bit crackley tho. Remember Decimalization https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcpv_gcZfQw. .

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    1. That is it – they used a slightly different title. Thankyou.

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