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.
You mean you didn't just say it was 5/11ths of a furlong and be done?!
ReplyDeleteBrilliant RR. Had me laughing my socks off!
ReplyDeleteI 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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