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[Ya-ta Boy]

Everyone has heard tall people whine about not finding clothes their size and beds too short, but we all know that they go through life with a genetic advantage they did not earn: being able to see the movie screen while blocking other people�s view, being able to find and be found by other people in a crowd, taking advantage of ditzy females who mistake height as an indication of virility, etc.

For the purposes of this thread, �tall� is over 6�.

Who has the most interesting, dramatic, pathetic or inspiring story about height and how it has affected your life, or the life of someone you know?
(Bonus points for pathetic.)

[Ya-ta Boy]

I will award myself 3 bonus points for the following pathetic story.

When I was a Junior in high school, I was the only male in the National Honor Society. Spring came and it was time for our group picture for the annual. We all gathered in Mr. Sharp's history classroom for the photo (he was our sponsor). There were 10 or 12 of us and the girls were all taller than I am. Almost all of them were on the girls basketball team.

We lined up in two rows and I stood in the front row with the girls under 6'. (I'm 5'9" if I have shoes on.) The photographer stopped the proceedings and called for a box. Mr. Sharp found a wooden box in his closet and I was forced to stand on the box in the back row in the middle, with Judy Widmar and Jill Jones in front of me, hiding the box with their multipurpose choir robes/graduation gown. Carla Miller and Nancy Phillips stood on either side of me and were still taller than me.

The moral of this story: Tall people have nothing to complain about.

(My senior year Bob McBeth and Richard Scherer both got elected to NHS. They are both over 6'2". )

[Ya-ta Boy]

BTW, I award myself an extra bonus point for the incident that made me particularly sensitive to height tonight.

After our school 'picnic' at Everland today I stopped at Deca Mart for some cigarettes. Outside was parked the BBQ chicken truck. I decided I was too tired to cook so I went over and bought a chicken. As I held the chicken in one hand and was putting my billfold back in my pocket with the other hand, I stepped back up onto the sidewalk and whacked my head against the corner of the awning on the truck. Blood and a headache ensued. I came home and staunched the blood and smoothed out the skin, but three hours later the blood is still oozing a little bit.

[SPINOZA]

Basically, height = power.

It's no surprise that the happiest Daves Warriors are tall. Helps if you can speak a bit of korean too, but tall people are generally the best and thus learn Korean anyway, because they can, because it comes naturally to them, because of confidence.

Height is not inherited. It's to do with wealth and health. As a trip to the DMZ confirms, in the 1950s, Koreans were extremely small. Nowadays, they're much taller, because (South) Koreans are richer and healthier. The reason why Northern Europeans are taller than little stumpy Italians and Spanish guys is not because God made it that way, or coincidence. It's because northern Europe is historically much richer than the south.

I'd truly hate to be small, because height is (a) intimidating to fellow males and (b) attractive to women. That's a pretty cool combination.

Many males in Itaewon are 5'6", have been in a gym every day for the last 5 years and have a bit of muscle on them, yet who's gonna (a) scare the most dudes and (b) get the most birds? The tall guy. Having a personality helps too - and in many cases, little guys are lacking there too, because they have such an inferiority complex about their height. There are, of course, notable exceptions.

[Ya-ta Boy]

[RACETRAITOR]

Short people have a much worse attitude problem, because they have something to prove.

I love seeing some 5'4" white guy in Korea. You know at that guy's going-away party, everyone was telling him "When you get to Korea you'll finally be the tallest guy in the room." And then he arrives and realises he's a shrimp here too. It must hurt.

[SPINOZA]

[gang ah jee]

I'm about 6 foot, which according to the bible is the perfect height, fitting in perfectly between the shortasses below and the sideshow freaks above.

I love my height.

[RACETRAITOR]

In the days of the Bible wouldn't 6 feet be giant-sized?

[Satori]

[gang ah jee]

[crazylemongirl]

[doggyji]

[jajdude]

I figure if basketball did not exist some very tall people would just be freaks. Maybe Shaquille O' Neal would have been a nightclub bouncer, and no one would have heard of Michael Jordan.

[Ya-ta Boy]

Class, may I have your attention?

It appears people are not reading the directions. Let's look at them again together, shall we?