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- From: jdnicoll@prism.ccs.uwo.ca (James Davis Nicoll)
- Subject: Re: Woman: will you go out with shorter man?
- Organization: University of Western Ontario, London
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- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 17:31:14 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec23.072717.20733@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode) writes:
- >
- >Well, next time you're feeling big and clumsy, just think of me--6'4",
- >wearing XXXL-Tall shirts, and--in repeated consummate displays of
- >clumsiness--in the process of learning just how much more annoying having
- >to have to turn at an angle to get one's shoulders through a doorway is
- >when on crutches.
-
- You may want to keep track of vertical clearance as well. Back
- in '87, I was involved in a production where on opening night, a stage
- hand, running to get to the right location, slipped and sprained his
- ankle. The next night, he was out of position *again*, and while
- running full out discovered that crutches can add an inch or two
- to height at midstride, as he ran through a door whose upper frame
- was about 0.5 inches higher than his scalp, provided he wasn't on
- crutches. *Beautiful* pressure cut...
-
- That was also the year I found out ignoring dislocated knees
- is a *bad* idea.
-
- James Nicoll
-