Andrew Healy wrote: > >The title says it all... > > > > http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_115496.html > > <<Ananova - Mum loses seven stone on diet of chillis.url>> Ok, am I just too much of a sheltered American here, or what? I understand she halved her dress size (I hope she wasn't a size 4), but what the he&* does losing "seven stone" mean???? Is this some kind of bizarre foreign system of weight measurement? If so, what happened to the metric system??? What's going on??? I'm so confused... HELP!!! -- Erich C-H # 2099