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    Quote Originally Posted by IntheGroove View Post
    What's a cubit?
    In the inferial spirit...four and a half hands, give or take a finger.

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    Quote Originally Posted by IntheGroove View Post
    What's a cubit? How long can you tread water...
    Roughly, from forefinger to elbow. Most encounter the word in the Bible (KJV) It’s before the walking on water bit.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DIYSwede View Post
    From CNN yesterday:

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    Quote Originally Posted by jdurand View Post
    somebody watches CNN?
    it was a google ad.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Philip Davies View Post
    Roughly, from forefinger to elbow. Most encounter the word in the Bible (KJV) It’s before the walking on water bit.
    Also in the famous Christian proof that pi is equal to three...

    "And he [Hiram] made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one rim to the other it was round all about, and...a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about....And it was an hand breadth thick...." — First Kings, chapter 7, verses 23 and 26
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    Quote Originally Posted by mklotz View Post
    Also in the famous Christian proof that pi is equal to three...
    First Kings, chapter 7, verses 23 and 26
    and a footnote:
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    Well it could be three in that case, just need some dude whose arm is just a bit longer than Hirams...

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    "The size of 2 American football fields, with cooling towers four stories high."

    I for one haven't a clue as to how long an "American football field" is, or any other football field either.
    Then again how high is a "storie"? Is that like in a house? An apartment building? a skyscraper building? Or?

    It sure bugs me when they throw in these ambiguous measurements that they expect everybody to know perxactly what they mean.

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    Quote Originally Posted by katy View Post
    "The size of 2 American football fields, with cooling towers four stories high."

    I for one haven't a clue as to how long an "American football field" is, or any other football field either.
    Then again how high is a "storie"? Is that like in a house? An apartment building? a skyscraper building? Or?

    It sure bugs me when they throw in these ambiguous measurements that they expect everybody to know perxactly what they mean.
    A Usonian football field is 777... jugs of maple syrup long.

    A story is about the height of 36 jugs of maple syrup.
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    long enough to egt the job done and done well....well possibly not so well as I have to do it over and over. a never ending task that never gets old...but I do.

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