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Big Red Posted Sep 17, 2003
You're welcome, creachy. People need to find their senses of humor, for garsh's sakes! I agree about the general scratchiness of some of these threads.
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A.Dent ....in time Posted Sep 17, 2003
Any names for the six-footer thread then
Hiya BR
Isabel was a strong Category 2 storm Wednesday, with wind near 110 mph and higher gusts, weakened from the weekend when it had 160 mph wind and held the top Category 5 rating on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale. (I may be nuts, 
but I love storms)J would be storm-chaser
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Big Red Posted Sep 17, 2003
Yeah, it looks now as if the worst of it will be west of us. I'm glad. Don't want to vacuum 7 gallons of water out of the basement carpet (what's that in liters? 26.5) like we did in 1999 when Floyd blew past us on the coast.
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A.Dent ....in time Posted Sep 17, 2003
Just a little something
(in the 22 September issue of Proc B p. )
Why are most men taller than women? This age-old height difference persists to this day, according to new research, because taller than average men and shorter than average women were found to be more successful in attracting a mate and having children.
Dr Daniel Nettle of the Open University used data from 10,000 men and women born in Britain in one week in March 1958 and his study concluded that the taller the men were, the less likely they were to be unmarried or childless 42 years later in 2000.
For the women, by contrast, those most likely to be married and have children by the same age were between 1.51m (4'9") and 1.58 m (5'1"), well below the average height of 1.62 m (5'3").
"It seems that tall men and petite women are favoured in evolutionary terms, even in a modern population, so the height difference between men and women is unlikely to disappear," Dr Nettle explained.
petite women 
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The Psycho Chicken -- self respect intact Posted Sep 17, 2003
That's kind of disturbing - surely that means that the gap is not only here to stay - it's widening. Pretty soon Terry Gilliam will be making a future-shock movie with 8 foot men and 3 foot women....
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creachy Posted Sep 17, 2003
it's my birthday on the 22nd of September
*whispers*that's this Monday guys*
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A.Dent ....in time Posted Sep 17, 2003
Hiya TCP.
Hows the better half, has she forgiven me yet: ( yaw munchy) I think that’s what she called me.
The full title of the paper is:
Women's Stature, Reproductive Success, and the Evolution of Sexual Dimorphism in Modern Humans. (Interesting reading)
Hiya creachy.
Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday dear creachy Happy birthday to you. “As I won’t be on next week” have a good one.
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Zantic - Who is this woman?? Posted Sep 17, 2003
Don't think so Dent. You'll have to apologize properly...
Zantic 
Apologies for taking over the thread..
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A.Dent ....in time Posted Sep 17, 2003
Come over to my place
I don’t actually agree TCP with it.
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Big Red Posted Sep 17, 2003
Happy birthday in advance, creachy, and there will be a brand-new Hootoo just for you that day!
I've forgotten what Dent and Zantic were fighting about, though I do remember that my page had the honor of hosting their spat.
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A.Dent ....in time Posted Sep 17, 2003
HI Big red
What’s wrong with my height then ?
I referred the young lady (Zanticas) as his squeeze
How tall are your mom and dad.
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Big Red Posted Sep 17, 2003
Dent: 
*Nothing* is wrong with it; I just don't think I've ever known anyone that tall. My husband is 6 f 4 and his brother is 6 f 6.
My mother is the same height I am _ 5 f 6, or was, till she started shrinking with age. My father is/was 5 f 8. My brother is 6 f 2.
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A.Dent ....in time Posted Sep 17, 2003
Hiya BR
Please don’t say sorry, well not to me anyway. I should have put that more carefully and may be put a in
Well, that’s shot down the midwifes theory then. Do you know any theories on how tell we are?
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Big Red Posted Sep 17, 2003
No, other than better nutrition.
Brits seem to be tall, anyway. My father-in-law's family was English -- he was the only one born in America. He wasn't terribly tall himself but his kids were (daughter is 5 f 10.)
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clzoomer- a bit woobly Posted Sep 17, 2003
Has anyone noticed that the world isn't really made for tall people? It could be that I have a long upper body (6'1" with a 32" inseam) but there are few cars where I don't brush my head against the ceiling, few chairs that are comfortable, and lots of hanging things I bang my head on. Shops are the worst, I usually end up with the imprint of a dreamcatcher or windchime in my forehead. 
Has anyone else noticed this or seen any research?
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Zantic - Who is this woman?? Posted Sep 17, 2003
Both my parent were around the 5'7 ish mark, but have started to shrink. My sister however is 5'3". She hit puberty and for some reason forgot to grow???
Zantic ; you don't think we've have spats on our own pages do you? What a waste of such a large community!
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