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- From: tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode)
- Subject: Re: Woman: will you go out with shorter man?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.193052.1740@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
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- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 19:30:52 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec30.173114.29554@julian.uwo.ca> jdnicoll@prism.ccs.uwo.ca (James Davis Nicoll) writes:
- >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...
-
- Thanks--I hadn't even thought of that; I don't have that problem with
- doors in my house, but as I start to get out more, I'll keep an eye
- on door heights.
-
- > That was also the year I found out ignoring dislocated knees
- >is a *bad* idea.
-
- Yes, but whose knees were they?
-
- Trygve
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