"SteveB" <deserttraveler@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Ken Hart" <kwhart1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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>> "SteveB" <deserttraveler@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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>>> "Frank Arthur" <Art@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>> snip
>>>> Sorry but you don't get any prize. Your 55mph story is just that- a
>>>> story.
>>>> Even if you placed that lens against someones shoulder and you stood
>>>> still 6 feet away you
>>>> couldn't determine that it was 18 inches long even if you knew how
wide
>>>> that shoulder was!
>>>
>>> My bad. I apologize. I wasn't even there. I did not see what I saw.
>>> I did not experience what I experienced. I have no common sense. In
my
>>> sixty years, I have not learned anything about judging sizes,
distances,
>>> or anything else that can be linked to life experience.
>>>
>>> Thank you ever so much for straightening me out. I shall now go to
the
>>> woodpile to endlessly pound my body with lengths of firewood to the
>>> point of unconsciousness so that I NEVER EVER make the same mistake
>>> again.
>>>
>>> Steve
>> How long will those lengths of wood be? What kind of wood? How many
cords
>> of wood is the woodpile? Also, you stated the beating would be
"endless';
>> who will continue the beating after you are unconscious?
>> For the record, I realized that when you described the size in your
>> original post, there was some 'give' in your measurements. It's very
>> difficult to use a micrometer at 55 MPH. Generally, micrometers aren't
>> accurate above 40MPH and must be within the same county as the object
>> being measured.
>
> I was using the metric system, so your argument does hot hold oatmeal.
>
> Steve
>
Hey, Steve, just tell 'em I was with you and I can verify the
measurements...
Grin,
Dudley
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