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Re: Impressions of Kate's "Sixteen Stone"?

From: nessus@mit.edu (Douglas Alan)
Date: 21 Nov 1995 03:50:18 GMT
Subject: Re: Impressions of Kate's "Sixteen Stone"?
To: rec-music-gaffa@uunet.uu.net
In-reply-to: chrisw@miso.wwa.com's message of Sun, 19 Nov 1995 18:54:33 -0500
Newsgroups: rec.music.gaffa
Organization: Kate Bush and Butthole Surfers Fandom Center
References: <m0tHJYc-001VzKC@sashimi.wwa.com>

In article <m0tHJYc-001VzKC@sashimi.wwa.com> chrisw@miso.wwa.com
(Chris Williams) writes:

> BTW, what is a "stone"? Is it 20 lbs? Is there a "metric stone?"

My dictionary says a stone is 14 pounds.  That would make Kate 224
pounds.  That's a lot of Kit Kats....

I don't think there is any such thing as a metric stone, but 224
pounds is very close to 100 kilos.  So I guess you could call 100
kilos a metric Kate.

|>oug