Five Twenty

[unixronin]

A gem of a story from Sheldon T. Hall, on a mailing list I'm on:

I used to spend some time in a bar that employed a bouncer of epic proportions.  Larry was 6'8" tall and weighed 375 lbs.  He was a weightlifter, but built more like a bodybuilder.  Wore 38x38 pants and had biceps like Volkswagens.  He wasn't merely huge, he was vast.

It was a very quiet bar.

So one day, this tiny woman, maybe 5'0" and 90 lbs, discovered that the wall she was standing next to was actually Larry.  I suppose she had mistaken his beltbuckle for a wall sconce or something.  Anyway, she looks up (and up, and up) and finally ...

"My God ... How tall are you, anyway?"

"M'am, ah'm five twenty."

Comments

[ilcylic.livejournal.com]

I've given my height as 5' 17" before. :)

-Ogre

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

You can get away with it. :) I could give my height as 4'23", but it'd just sound silly. (And at that, I'd have to do it with my shoes on.)