From: tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode)
Subject: Re: Woman: will you go out with shorter man?
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 19:30:52 GMT

In article <1992Dec30.173114.29554@julian.uwo.ca> jdnicoll@prism.ccs.uwo.ca (James Davis Nicoll) writes:
>In article <1992Dec23.072717.20733@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode) writes:
>>
>>Well, next time you're feeling big and clumsy, just think of me--6'4",
>>wearing XXXL-Tall shirts, and--in repeated consummate displays of
>>clumsiness--in the process of learning just how much more annoying having
>>to have to turn at an angle to get one's shoulders through a doorway is
>>when on crutches.
>
>	You may want to keep track of vertical clearance as well. Back
>in '87, I was involved in a production where on opening night, a stage 
>hand, running to get to the right location, slipped and sprained his
>ankle. The next night, he was out of position *again*, and while
>running full out  discovered that crutches can add an inch or two
>to  height at midstride, as he ran through a door whose upper frame
>was about 0.5 inches higher than his scalp, provided he wasn't on
>crutches. *Beautiful* pressure cut...

Thanks--I hadn't even thought of that; I don't have that problem with
doors in my house, but as I start to get out more, I'll keep an eye 
on door heights.

>	That was also the year I found out ignoring dislocated knees
>is  a *bad* idea.

Yes, but whose knees were they?

Trygve
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