Survey: How tall are you

....................I'm proud that I'm not proud.

On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 00:37:59 GMT, "B.C. Bugger" shared the following:

Have I ever shown y'all my .3543 inch pistol that I broke? ;-)

(I fixed it)

-- Travis

meek shall inherit the earth. After I'm finished with it.:wq!

Gotta love the "plastic fantastic" That would never happen with a Kimber 1911. ;) Eric

Ok Travis. It looks fine now. You fixed it all right.

"Douglas" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@comcast.com:

6 foot eight inches.

Just kidding... 6' 1"

In the Matrix I'm 6'7"

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most women seem to love tall men. unfortunately, I'm only 5'7...

Damn; and thats a glock? Looks a lot like the "new" springfield armory XD's...

--Eric

We'll love you anyway, Mez.

Kidd "Back in black. It's a fact."

snipped-for-privacy@webtv.net (Dennis Wik) wrote in news:16578-3FB82659-271 @storefull-2134.public.lawson.webtv.net:

Mr. Anderson.......We've....Missed You!!!!

Huh?

I never left.

Jan :D

"You think that's AIR you're breathing?"

Jan

I'm in the US, and I answer I'm 205 centimeters. Which if you stand

205 cm, you get asked this question a lot. So I must take victim for a ride, it helps me keep my sanity... Or maintains my insanity... Whatever. Victim looks at me like I just stepped out of a space ship, after I've told them two hundred and five centimeters. And then ask "How tall is that?" I put my hand flat on top of my head, and tell them "It's about this tall". Then they say "No, Really how tall it that?" Now I have them hooked for the long fight, and say "It's twenty hands", (the hand is a measure of the horses) horsey type girls might find that somewhat amusing. Then victim again asks "How tall is that", which I reply with "It's 80 inches". Now they try to do the math, I've fed them a few numbers, so it won't go well. Let's see eighty inches divided by twelve feet... Victim stumbles around for a few seconds, and flustered they usually try a guess, usually 6'7". I reply with "It's five feet and twenty inches". Most can do the math from there. The whole charade may be rather cruel, but it prevents most of them asking if I play basket ball. For the record, I don't, I'm a jockey.

For our friends outside of the US, President Carter signed a law that started the US conversion to the metric system in the late 70's. But being Americans, when forced, we voted with our feet (really, we voted with our Hollorith cards first, and threw the bum out). After a few years, the highway signs changed from kilometers back to miles, and fuel pumps changed back from the liter to the US gallon. Most other things never left the American version of the English measurement system. So the moral of the story is that most Americans (US ones that is) don't have a clue how tall 205 cm is.

I'm 6'8", and I don't have to duck at all, my type 1 is the only car I can drive while wearing a hat. Now shifting can be a problem, as my knee is stuck between the steering wheel, and the shifter. It causes missed shifts on occasion.

I do a similar, albeit shorter version of the number game when politely declining second helpings. My plea is that I am desperately dieting in an effort to get back under an eighth of a ton....once in a long long while a sharp one will inquire whether that is a short, standard or long ton... :)

Tim

Michael Kelly wrote:

I am 6'5"... in my last bug I cut a couple of inches to the shifter and rethreaded the top... :)

That's a good one, how about a metric ton? What are those? 1,000 kilos?

Yup

Jan

Metric tons give me gas...so I avoid them. :)