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,alt.sys.pdp11,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Revamped PDP-11 in Brooklyn Date: 21 May 2014 13:18:36 GMT Organization: Piglet's Pickles & Preserves Lines: 41 Message-ID: References: <20140519154416.487cd031.rsw@therandymon.com> <20140519154736.4237c20a.rsw@therandymon.com> 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 ERj34i5fcLe7Elsddm/q4w18dYypz30usJ6Ai8Ydo8ODmPAxwA Cancel-Lock: sha1:UV3U46jth1n6lAbUiznfVxN75As= X-No-Archive: Yes User-Agent: slrn/pre1.0.0-16 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:2952 On 2014-05-21, Bill Gunshannon wrote: > In article , > Bob Eager writes: >> On Wed, 21 May 2014 11:38:19 +0000, Huge wrote: >> >>> On 2014-05-21, Bob Eager wrote: >>>> On Wed, 21 May 2014 10:32:48 +0000, Huge wrote: >>>> >>>>> Happy days, and as many free biscuits/bags of crisps as you could eat. >>>> >>>> Is that why you are Huge? :-) >>> >>> One of the reasons. It differs only by one letter from my given name, >>> I'm 6'3" and have been 20 stone in the past (although back down to 16.5 >>> at the moment), and it's what my friends have been calling me for >>> decades. >> >> I was a bit over 21 stone this time last year. I'm now a bit under 17 >> stone although I've kept it fairly static at 17 stone since Christmas. >> Aiming to lose a bit more now...! >> > > How big are those stones? Pebbles? Boulders? 14 lb. So, when I really *was* "Huge", I was 280lb. > 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. Interesting that although America has retained much obsolete British terminology, usage and units, they have discarded the stone. And the fortnight. -- 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