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Good luck, but I don't see it happening. The cooking world would be turned on it's head. Things like cups, fl oz, quarts, pints, gallons would no longer need complex math formulas to convert. Everything would be in ML. Hospitals already "get it" and use metric system, as do most scientists.

I wholeheartedly agree that we should make the switch (it will only hurt for a minute!). 
 
But I would remind those Brits that we got those units from them ;-)

Good luck with that, Allison. I have been wondering why I need two sets of wrenches for 40 years. And having to clarify F or C when writing to friends in Europe is not a huge hassle, but making the conversion sure is. Give it time, maybe when we are both dead & gone, someone will finally get it, but I doubt it. But thanks for trying.

Why didn't you hold off on posting this for just 9 more days and made it a Valentines Day sequel to last year's metric system post? My, has it been a whole year...where does the time go, and why isn't anyone bent out of shape by the fact we're not using a decimal calendar? :-D 
 
"Release the Kraken!"

When I was in 3rd grade they told us we all had to learn the metric system because the US was about to switch. 
 
Thing is, we already use it. It's called money.

Actually, if I may indulge myself for a moment here... 
 
The calendar most of us use on a daily basis is actually a pretty interesting (and arbitrarily complicated) computational structure. It's a hierarchy of several very diverse, and rather arbitrarily fitted-together, units.  
 
At the top levels of the hierarchy, you've got the Gregorian metrics of years, months, 24-hour days, and the somewhat arbitrary rules for relating/combining those. 
 
Then, you have those base-60 divisions of hours into minutes, and minutes into seconds. 
 
Then, at the lowest levels of the hierarchy, we finally employ the metric system, with 10ths of seconds, 100ths of seconds, milliseconds, microseconds, etc. 
 
And we express a precise moment in time using a single value of, not one unit, of course, but several combined; for example 
 
09.25.1960.16:15:23.9 
 
while usually not even respecting the relative order of the hierarchy at the highest level. (BFD that the Brits pride themselves on writing the day of the month first..the order is still wrong, from a hierarchical perspective). 
 
So, if time, as a dimension, is so critical to science (every bit as critical as lineal or volumetric measurements), why aren't scientific and technically-minded folks freaked out by any of this?  
 
I suppose it's because in typical use, one usually works with just one or several adjacent levels of the time hierarchy, without being required to convert (or aggregate, or allocate), values up or down this rather quirky hierarchy. 
 
Just some food for thought from one of the resident contrarians... :-D 
 
- John

Here in Canada we officially switched to metric several years ago along with everyone else but the U.S.. Most tradesmen however still use the imperial system and our supermarkets post both prices usually with the Imperial in the larger print. It looks as if a total switch is going to take us a lifetime or two. I have also noticed that the U.S is making the switch in many areas without it being official. Possibly the border influences of Mexico and Canada. Don't sweat it Alison, it will happen but not likely in your lifetime or mine.

This coming from a country that uses both metric and imperial. Speed limits are still MPH and distances in miles. And the last time I ordered a Guiness in the UK, it was a pint, not a liter.

Right after WWII when the US was the world power; calling the shots there was a world conference on measurement standerds.The congressmen partied all night and didn't make most of the meetings.that is why the problem.3/64"and 20thousands is more accrate or si units

Well, Tim H, I can't imagine Guinness NOT being sold by the pint!