Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news-1.dfn.de!news.dfn.de!news.informatik.hu-berlin.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Bob Eager Newsgroups: comp.misc,alt.sys.pdp11,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Revamped PDP-11 in Brooklyn Followup-To: comp.misc,alt.sys.pdp11,alt.folklore.computers Date: 25 May 2014 19:33:46 GMT Lines: 32 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net aCoD9W5chaK1mXYb7BelTwqGRoMCrLQDURH1z0wyImQbv/V3RS Cancel-Lock: sha1:OiaPSRGDgo+vbJFGdpXt2Dl4a8o= User-Agent: Pan/0.135 (Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea; GIT 30dc37b master) Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:3174 On Sun, 25 May 2014 16:08:42 +0000, Huge wrote: > On 2014-05-23, Dale R Worley wrote: >> Huge writes: >>>> 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. >> >> The fortnight is little-used, but its meaning is clear if you look it >> up in the dictionary. The problem with the stone is that there are two >> versions: 14 lb. and 20 lb, > > Really? Where? I have never in my life come across a 20lb stone. I agree, but I like the idea. I would be only 12 stone! -- Using UNIX since v6 (1975)... Use the BIG mirror service in the UK: http://www.mirrorservice.org