Re: Scouted: Playboy models losing hourglass figures

[Jon Gabriel]

From: Richard Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: Scouted: Playboy models losing hourglass figures
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 18:32:55 +0000

Jon said:

> Can any of our British Brinnellers explain how many pounds a ":stone"
> is?

I thought that's the sort of arcane fact that only Americans know.
(dictionary.reference.com tells me it's 14lbs, but also says that it
varies with the article weighed[!] so that a butcher's stone is 8lbs, a
stone of cheese 16lbs, of hemp 32lbs and of glass 5lbs. I don't think
I've ever heard anything quite so absurd.)

Rich
GSV SI

*smacks forehead*
The dictionary! I shoulda thought of that.
Thanks, though!!!

....crazy Brits....

Jon



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