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SoCalCoug · 11-04-2005, 03:37 AM

We were playing co-ed softball, and I jumped up to snag a line drive, and all of a sudden I heard from the girl playing first base, "Wow! 18 inches! You jumped 18 inches!"

She meant well, but it really wasn't a compliment, because I was a high jumper in high school, and my vertical should have been much closer to 30 inches than 18 inches. I like to think she just mis-estimated how high off the ground I was, because it was a pretty good jump. She was impressed, though. I guess any girl would be impressed by 18 inches, right?

ute4ever · 11-04-2005, 03:46 AM

Did I read that correctly: what she said was 18 inches, you thought was 30?

SoCalCoug · 11-04-2005, 03:49 AM

Isn't that how it always is?

creekster · 11-04-2005, 05:53 AM

I had an Irish companion who was one of the most amusoing guys I ever met. Our first morning in the apratment together he is in taking a bath and yells out loudly and excitedly to me (please supply a lyrical Irish brogue as you read the quotation)

"Elder! I've just figured out how to make it 10 inches long!"

I tentaitvely respond "What?"

and he says "I folded it in half!"

11-04-2005, 03:37 AM	#1
SoCalCoug Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Orange County, California Posts: 3,059	I once had a girl exclaim to me, "Wow! 18 inches!" We were playing co-ed softball, and I jumped up to snag a line drive, and all of a sudden I heard from the girl playing first base, "Wow! 18 inches! You jumped 18 inches!" She meant well, but it really wasn't a compliment, because I was a high jumper in high school, and my vertical should have been much closer to 30 inches than 18 inches. I like to think she just mis-estimated how high off the ground I was, because it was a pretty good jump. She was impressed, though. I guess any girl would be impressed by 18 inches, right? __________________ Get your stinking paws off me, you damned, dirty Yewt! "Now perhaps as I spanked myself screaming out "Kozlowski, say it like you mean it bitch!" might have been out of line, but such was the mood." - Goatnapper "If you want to fatten a pig up to make the pig MORE delicious, you can feed it almost anything. Seriously. The pig is like the car on Back to the Future. You put in garbage, and out comes something magical!" - Cali Coug

11-04-2005, 03:49 AM	#3
SoCalCoug Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Orange County, California Posts: 3,059	Isn't that how it always is? __________________ Get your stinking paws off me, you damned, dirty Yewt! "Now perhaps as I spanked myself screaming out "Kozlowski, say it like you mean it bitch!" might have been out of line, but such was the mood." - Goatnapper "If you want to fatten a pig up to make the pig MORE delicious, you can feed it almost anything. Seriously. The pig is like the car on Back to the Future. You put in garbage, and out comes something magical!" - Cali Coug

11-04-2005, 05:53 AM	#4
creekster Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: the far corner of my mind Posts: 8,711	That reminds me of my mission . . . I had an Irish companion who was one of the most amusoing guys I ever met. Our first morning in the apratment together he is in taking a bath and yells out loudly and excitedly to me (please supply a lyrical Irish brogue as you read the quotation) "Elder! I've just figured out how to make it 10 inches long!" I tentaitvely respond "What?" and he says "I folded it in half!"

11-04-2005, 03:46 AM	#2
ute4ever I must not tell lies Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 5,103	Did I read that correctly: what she said was 18 inches, you thought was 30?