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: bill@server3.cs.scranton.edu (Bill Gunshannon) Newsgroups: comp.misc,alt.sys.pdp11,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Revamped PDP-11 in Brooklyn Date: 21 May 2014 14:38:32 GMT Organization: Computing Sciences Dept., University of Scranton Lines: 47 Message-ID: References: <20140519154416.487cd031.rsw@therandymon.com> <20140519154736.4237c20a.rsw@therandymon.com> Reply-To: billg999@cs.uofs.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: individual.net SBP6SNuGUN21H96HsKQARghG0dNXHo+jhAR4yRT/xS7gjGHnD8 Cancel-Lock: sha1:BXBKd2dGnTfYitlhXZfm1iHbWDI= X-Newsreader: knews 1.0b.1 X-Face: #S"T9jP[OH$fbA-]+!@r#:cHoa=2+R{,NY(E9Mw0/G2D_((6`6R8@JjodwakR~(J?mCY+]yn//;$5;=/Gc'22VrB Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:2961 In article , bill@server3.cs.scranton.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes: > In article , > scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) writes: >> bill@server3.cs.scranton.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes: >>>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? >>> >>>Sorry, here it is :-) >> >> 1 stone = 14 lbs. >> >> scott (12.7 stone, 4.2 cubits). > > Cubits under which Pharaoh? > No, wait. I suppose today it could be "selfie" cubits. Hmmm... Would that make everyone the same height? ;-) bill -- Bill Gunshannon | de-moc-ra-cy (di mok' ra see) n. Three wolves billg999@cs.scranton.edu | and a sheep voting on what's for dinner. University of Scranton | Scranton, Pennsylvania | #include