cant tell you, same way i cant tell you what a pound is, i know kilos and thats it.
OT: Weighty Question
Nov 20, 2004
11 Replies
Bill,
Google is our friend! A stone is 14 pounds. That would put our dear Capt. Aubrey in the 238-266 lb range.
Dean
Dean
OK Britain what's a 'stone' in pounds? I'm plowing through an O'Brian novel and find that Capt. Aubrey weighs
17-19 stone. That'd make him more like a Weeble, wouldn't it?
Bill Banaszak, MFE
"You're a whole lotta woman weighing in at nineteen stone..."
Whole Lotta Rosie
The Keeper (of too much crap!)
And it takes 12 rocks to equal one stone. A rock is equal to 28 pebbles.
;-) Ed "Democrats have spilled more oratory and convinced less voters than any party I know of, outside the Socialists." "I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!" -- Will Rogers
Fourteen pounds.
bon rules! acdc, yeah! (the 16 year old in me cheers.)
Still, Onslow might have fit the part better than Russell Crowe. :)
Bill Banaszak, MFE
The question of Aubrey's weight is subject to much debate. But I think you will find it changes and fluctuates quite dramatically throughout the 20 books. Sometimes Aubrey gets quite lean...due to stress or privations at sea. He isn't always fat. But I would say he is a big beefy man....as many men were in those days. Even the definition of 'Stones' is open to question. Stones have not always been standardized. In fact standardization of weight is a relatively recent thing. But stones at the time of the books were actually more usually 12 pounds...not fourteen.
Just what I was wondering. Thanks.
Bill Banaszak, MFE
How can you use pounds to weigh someone - to us they are meaningless
Stones or kg I can handle
If pounds get mentioned in a US author book I am converting them!
Sterling idea!
Bill Banaszak, MFE :)
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