"Peter" <peternew@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Dudley Hanks" <hanks.dudley@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> "SteveB" <deserttraveler@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> news:50an75-hqn2.ln1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> "Ken Hart" <kwhart1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>> "SteveB" <deserttraveler@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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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
>
>
> I believe you can measure accurately at that speed and distance. After
> all, my wife has the ability to tell me when the fruit isn't ripe when
we
> pass a farm stand at that speed, even without her gl***** on. :-)
>
>
> --
> Peter
How do they do that? I could tell you lots of stories about things I
thought I was interested in, but my wife told me that it wasn't any
good/worth it, so we (I) didn't stop.
Steve
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