Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Huge Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Revamped PDP-11 in Brooklyn Date: 21 May 2014 13:16:41 GMT Organization: Piglet's Pickles & Preserves Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: <20140519154416.487cd031.rsw@therandymon.com> <20140519154736.4237c20a.rsw@therandymon.com> <87zjibxp6m.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> Reply-To: usenet@huge.org.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net tBHmmYKNc0e5llkWMJ6gJwItmTtK2x/5ZJ0GvB1kGLreEi34g7 Cancel-Lock: sha1:hc2XMyKzxASToMxCjRpKUXyP3wU= X-No-Archive: Yes User-Agent: slrn/pre1.0.0-16 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:2951 On 2014-05-21, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > bill@server3.cs.scranton.edu (Bill Gunshannon): > >>>> have been 20 stone in the past >> >> [...] >> How big are those stones? Pebbles? Boulders? >> >> Sorry, here it is :-) >> >> I am sure most of our American readers are either confused or >> scrambling for Google to find out just what that means. > > No need to consult Google. In American units, that's almost exactly 992 > cups of corn starch. *applause* -- Today is Sweetmorn, the 68th day of Discord in the YOLD 3180 "I do not believe in revealed religion — I will have nothing to do with your immortality; we are miserable enough in this life, without speculating on another." Lord Byron, 1778-1824, letter to Rev. Francis Hodgson, 1811