Re: What did I see?


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"Frank Arthur" <Art@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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 glasses 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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