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From: Frank Krygowski <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net>
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Subject: Re: fast tires
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2025 23:22:19 -0400
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On 6/16/2025 1:40 PM, Radey Shouman wrote:
> Frank Krygowski <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> writes:
> 
>>... I didn't remember
>> whether a stone is 12, 13 or 14 pounds. I still tend to forget.
> 
> Just remember the "98 pound weakling" trope.  Seven stone exactly, 49*2.

My brain's already storing facts like 12 inches per foot, 36 inches per 
yard, 5280 feet in a mile, 88 ft/s = 60 mph, 231 cubic inches per 
gallon, 43560 square feet per acre etc. ... all done by memory.

But OK, I can probably cram in that 98 pounds = 7 stones.

(Do they have an actual stone stored away somewhere, like they used to 
have an actual kilogram?)


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- Frank Krygowski