Re: MGC: What engine?

["W. Ray Gibbons" <gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu>]

On Mon, 30 Oct 1995, Denise Thorpe wrote:

> Only the British would feel the need to tell you that 72 is over half of a
> hundred.

Denise, 

Not half a hundred, but half a hundredweight.  A hundredweight is 
something absurd, like 112 pounds.  So 72 pounds is only about a stone 
more than half a hundredweight, give or take a couple of pounds.  

Ray

   Ray Gibbons  Dept. of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics
                Univ. of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT
                gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu  (802) 656-8910