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Old 18-10-2007, 12:59 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Short people rate worse on health

Oh dear, I'm in so much trouble then

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Old 18-10-2007, 01:03 PM   #2 (permalink)
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I'm 5'10" and most people are taller than me. Having said that, I'm the tallest in my family and am taller than my wife, her sisters and her parents.

Ah well, got less distance to fall when I go AOT.
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Old 18-10-2007, 01:08 PM   #3 (permalink)
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I'm 5'10" and most people are taller than me. Having said that, I'm the tallest in my family and am taller than my wife, her sisters and her parents.

Ah well, got less distance to fall when I go AOT.
I'm 6ft so if you grew the required amount of 2.7inches you would be taller than me and feel much healthier.
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(Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.)

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Old 18-10-2007, 01:23 PM   #5 (permalink)
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I am 5 11 and most of my brothers are over six feet! One, my brother Peter, is only 5 81/2 but he became a policeman!
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If I put a hat on...

Spidgeman, you're tall? Really? And your daughters play basketball...
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If I put a hat on...

Spidgeman, you're tall? Really? And your daughters play basketball...
Airlie is only 5' 7" and Ashley is only 5' 4".

My brother was 6' 8".
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"You were given the choice between war and dishonor.
You chose dishonor and you will have war."

(Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.)

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I'm 5' 4". My mother is 5' 8". my older twin brothers are 6' 4".

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