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Home My WebLink AboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1975-05-15, Page 8IA1 Ma 4 PAGE SIGNALSTAR, THURSDAY, MAY 15, 1975. SUGAR 'N' SPICE.� uo Bay SMILEY One of the things z bout modern society that bothers me 'is mouthy minorities at.- tempting t.tempting to " impose their wishes on silent majorities. Another is the attempt by those who profess a profound > ielief..in alvague concept called "progress" to find the common denominator in everything, and try to shove the rest of us in that direction. - Sometimes I have a night- mare about the future. In it, I see the entire earth populated by beings, no longer humans, who look alike, talk alike, think alike, and even smell alike.. Everyone will be a soft creamy yellow brown complexion. We'll all be th same ^height and weight: All individual anomalies ,such as hooked. noses, buck teeth and + jutting ears will have' been eliminated. .I wake up from this dream screaming, at the point where 1 am just about to be told that we are all of the `same sex. In the dream, everyone will speak the same language, some type of , bastard speech like Esperanto. Literature will be j xtinct, except for a few scholars studying its fossilized remnants. Shades 'of meaning will be lost. "I .love you," "Je t'adore," and "Eu to amo," wi11 ' all come out as "Yochamo" 'or something of the sort. In the dream, there are; no decisions to be made, because there will no longer be any difference between right and - wrong, black and 'white, good and evil. Television will tell us what to think, painlessly, and why. We will all -smell alike a subtle essence with traces of Chinese elm, Russian borscht, Congo musk and'American b.s. We will all 'arise when the universal 'siren sounds. In unison, at the appointed ntnent, we: will ,take our breakfast' pill, our pep pill to get us going, our tranquilizer to slow us down for our lunch pill, another pep pill, a dinner pill, . and at 2245 hours, 'we will simultaneously swallow our sleeping pills, and become unconscious for six hours and forty-eight seconds. . But ^ each evening, . before retiring, we will have our universal culture . and recreation period. Something like counting•our toes. It's only a nightmare, but each year that !;,:five, the pic- ture seerns closer and clearer. One of these days I'm afraid I won't wake up. Two of the mast recent .steps by mouthy minorities and the • people who cherish common denominators are the attempts at the forced application of Celsius temperatures and the metric system. � Did anyone ask you if .you wanted to switch from Fahrenheit to Celsius? No. Did anyone ask me? No. Did anyone ask either of us. if we wanted , to "think metric t�- Same answer. I am used to attempts to brainwash me by politicians, newspapers, experts, and my wife. That is what they are for, and at least I can fight back But I deeply resent simply being told by P some Ottawa ostriches and their stooges in the media that I Must, willy- nilly; 'switch to Celsius ther- mometer and metric weights and measures. I am a reasonable man, I hope. If someone convinces me that 'something is for the 'common good, even though it inconveniences me, I'l1: , go along with it. " • Example: at this very' moment, the government is removing money from me, Who has never been unemployed, and giving it to -some lazy bum who wants not to work. 'This is known as unemployment in- surance. In the same way I am helping subsidize other people's food, medical care, housing. Not a word of complaint. But what gets me is the arrogant attitude that typifies those who espouse Celsius and metric. They do not present one valid (to ,me' reason for the changes. They say vaguely that. everyone else is doing it. So what? If the latest fad is joining the Flat Earth Society, must I become a member'? I.f everyone else is picking his nose in public, does that mean that I should; too? 14. Metric maniacs insist'that metric is more accurate. More accurate than what? 16 a thousandth of a centimeter more acatlrate than a „ thousandth of , in inch? Of course not. It is Merely shorter. Or longer. I'm not sure which, ,.and I don't give a diddle. Canadians, with their wild extremes of climate and vast • expanse of geography, should battle this so-called "progress' with every ounce of their .q strength. Yes, the word was "oun!e." Do you realize that will soon be a dirty word, if the metric marauders have their way? AI tiF Canada would lose its very flavor as a nation should we allow this metric -Celsius pap to flow over us and flatten us into a dull facsimile of all those other dull nations. For one thing, it would cripple our conversation, 60 per cent of „ which begins with a 1/4 pseudo -complaint about the heat or the cold. It would destroy our idioms. Can you imagine our hero "centimetering" his way along the narrow ledge, rather than "inching"? ° ; "He's all wool and a meter wide" doesn't exactly stir me.. Nor does, "Third down and a meter, 40 centimeters to go for Winnipeg." Well, thc: varmints haven't heard the last of me. This is, only a skirmish.- But I need reinforcements. Come on, all you thousands who deplore the change. Let's hear from you. Fire off a letter to you: editor, for a start. Then we'll roll up the big guns. George Turton Shop A&P...Enjoy Gr at Meat BLADE BONE REMOVED CANADA GRADE "A" BEEF DINNER STYLE, SMOKED, COOKED, PICNIC STYLE MAPLE LEAF Blade Roast - • • Ib 98,! Pork ShoaIdroaEsses Ib $1.48 Sliced BolognaMAPR LEAF, SLICED, 4 VARIETIES ' 1 Ib vac Pat 9? Short Rib !toast 'lb 98% Corned Beef Roll 13 9 Cooked Meats Blade Steaks- . 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