Name: Washington's Dream - SNL
Uploaded: 2025-02-18T07:50:45.000Z
Duration: 4 min 51 s
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I hear the British are sending another 5,000 troops.

We need your strength for the fight ahead.

And choose our own systems of weights and measures.

Yes, I dream that one day our proud nation will measure weights in pounds and that 2,000 pounds shall be called a ton.

And what will 1,000 pounds be called, sir?

It seems like we should have a word for 1,000 pounds, sir.

And we will be free to measure liquids in liters and milliliters, but not all liquids, only soda, wine, and alcohol.

Because for milk and paint, we will use gallons, pints, and quarts, God willing.

Um, sir, in this new country, what plans are there for men of color, such as I?

Distance will be measured in inches, feet, yards, and miles.

So 12 inches to a foot, uh, 12 feet to a yard.

I must confess, it feels a little complicated, sir.

But only in certain unpopular sports like track and swimming.

For popular sports, like football, we will use yards.

Yes, the sport where you throw a ball with your hands.

For our new nation, we will have rulers with two sets of numbers, inches on one side, centimeters on the other.

Yes, except that they don't line up and they never will.

We should have two different unrelated scales of temperature.

One of them will make sense to the entire world, and the other will be super random.

Our great nation will use the random one.

But one day, if we are brave, we will get rid of the U in a lot of British words like color and armor.

But by God, we will keep the British U in the word glamour.

That is my dream for our countrymen, a melting pot of different measurements that will make Europeans throw little tantrums.

In short, a land of liberty where all men are free.

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