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Re: Crowd size at AnyGathering

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From: rocker
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 05:21
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kendall@adobe.com (Janice Kendall) writes:

> drieux, haven't you heard this old joke?...

> Know why women can't judge distance?

>      Because they're always told 

>	  this much:  |--thumb-n-forefinger-measure--|

>		is 10 inches.    :-0   ;-)

Nah, that's not it.  ;-)

It's because all my engineering calculations are in meters, and microns,
and angstroms - and all the road signs, and my speedometer, and my 
American maps (but not my Canadian ones) are in miles and inches and
such, and I always stop to do the conversions (a meter is sort of a yard,
but bigger, and a yard is three feet, and i hate multiplying by 3 in my
head, and an inch is 2.54 cm and try multiplying by 2.54...) and then by
the time I've tried to do the estimate in one system, and convert to the
other, and I never have my trusty Casio fx-7000G when I need it, and by
then I've forgotten what it was I was supposed to be judging.

> Janice Kendall 

                -rocker
                 who deserves at least a nomination for run-on sentence
                 of the month
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