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P.S.: And still a question: How many lbs make a stone? The 14 lbs of Julius or the 12 lbs of Kathy? Or is that just a question of choosing the right lb??? ;-)
"Julius Boos" schrieb:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Petra Schmidt
> To: Multiple recipients of list AROID-L
> Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 3:55 PM
> Subject: Chains and Hundredweights
>
>
> >>I have my trusty "Hummert's Helpful Hints" (1997-1998 edition), not
> cyperspace info...
>
> 1 chain = 100 links (Surveyor's Measure Table)
> 1 hundredweight = 4 quarters (Avoirdupois Weight Table)
>
> And what this has to do with aroids...well...Julius, you tell 'em!<<
>
> Well done Petra! You would have won a ripe mango at my school! But how
> many pounds equal one quarter??? Ah Ha!! 28 lbs = 1 quarter!!!!
> So now you folk can request a box of 'suran' tubers weighing no less than
> one quarter, and specify that they weigh no less than six to a stone! See
> how simple all of this really is?? (They do grow best in beds no more than
> three chains, 75 links!)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Julius
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Julius Boos"
> To: "Multiple recipients of list AROID-L"
> Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 2:40 PM
> Subject: Re: Amorpholphallus titanum pollen request
>
>
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Wilbert Hetterscheid
> > To: Multiple recipients of list AROID-L
> > Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 11:36 AM
> > Subject: RE: Amorpholphallus titanum pollen request
> >
> >
> > Hi There Lord P,
> >
> > Now I think back 50 years or so to my little kindergarten school in the S.
> > of a Tropical Island, sitting under the shade of a tree, my Hindu teacher,
> > whip in hand, leading all us little rainbow-colored multi-racial kids in
> > one of the MANY 'chants we memorised--"sixteen drams one ounce, sixteen
> > ounces one pound, fourteen pounds one STONE---AH HA!!!! So 'your' tuber
> > weighs 154 lbs.!!! See, Colonialism was good for SOMETHING!! Anyone
> out
> > there in cyberspace care to find out how long a 'chain' is? Or how many
> > hundredweights equal a ton???
> >
> > Julius
> >
> > J '>>AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! Could anyone tell me
> what
> > 11
> > stones measures up to??????? Gads, I thought you USA'ers were a pain in
> > converting to Celsius but this one takes the cake....... Stones, can you
> > believe it? My crusade for the decimal/metric system on this group
> obviously
> > is futile........and I have tried SOOOOOOOOOOO hard. This is not going to
> > work by a mile (did I say "mile"?????).
> >
> >
> > Lord S. Tony Phalloids
> >
> >
> >
> > > -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> > > Van: aroid-l@mobot.org [mailto:aroid-l@mobot.org]Namens Scott Hyndman
> > > Verzonden: maandag 22 april 2002 4:50
> > > Aan: Multiple recipients of list AROID-L
> > > Onderwerp: FW: Amorpholphallus titanum pollen request
> > >
> > >
> > > Dear All,
> > >
> > > Please note the request below from Greg Redwood of Kew for pollen to
> > > pollinate their soon to bloom Titan Arum. For your
> > > information, I think
> > > that this may be the reblooming of the tuber that received all of the
> > > interesting publicity back in 1996 per the URL at
> > > http://www.kew.org.uk/kewscientist/ks_oct96/titan.html
> > > featuring our own
> > > Peter Boyce during his tenure there. Even if it is the not
> > > the same, it
> > > will truly be an enormous inflorescence judging by the weight
> > > of the tuber!
> > >
> > > There were so many Amorphophallus titanum bloomings here in
> > > the US and else
> > > where last year that it was hard to keep up with all of them=
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