DistancesSomebody more modern than me purported not to know what a hundred yards was. I said that it was a hundred metres minus three hundred inches.
Nah! Three hundred inches? What's that?
Look, I said - most men in the UK stand a few inches shy of six feet or seventy-two inches. Take four men like that and lay them end to end. Add a midget.
Subtract that measure from your known measure of a hundred metres and you've got a hundred yards.
I hope it helped.
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3 comments:
You mean you didn't just say it was 5/11ths of a furlong and be done?!
Brilliant RR. Had me laughing my socks off!
I know Kenny. This is "our sort of humour". It's what makes our women love us so but it probably means that vocational preferrment will continue to elude us.
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