Re: The Glorantha Digest V7 #711

From: Tom Merchant <eachequal_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 01:52:11 -0700 (PDT)


>> One of our dogs is a ten-and-a-half
>> stone bull mastiff,

>All us yanks find this very colorful, but even us
>guys dat got real big
>vocabularies don't got no idea what that works out to
>in pounds or
>kilos or
>kilos or whether that's "Big 16" or "Big 5w".

14 lbs equals one stone. Over here they in the same family of measurement as pounds, inches and feet (called in Britain imperial but I don't suppose it's called that in the U.S). So that's why in cop shows they say the suspect was 200 pounds and not 14 and-a-bit stones. Ah!. Do Australians have stones?



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