[LMB] Miles's exact height?

[M Traber]

Kalina Varbanova wrote:
> On 8/2/06, James <cessnadriver at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Which then begs the question, does anyone regularly give their weight
>> in stones versus pounds these days? Or do people actually actively ask
>> for a person's weight in stones?
>>
>> Or do people do it to be fancy?

Hm, I have a friend who will give his height in angstroms, his weight in 
stone and speed in furlongs per fortnight, and measures land in rods and 
chains.

He is the only person I know that I can give a recipe to with the names 
of the ingredients in latin and use medieval measures=)