Between you & I, Fuefollet, Gulliver sent me a message. I'm in....soon as I strike 2000. Kinda elitist, me thinks. 
How tall are you Chess players?
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Pulpofeira wrote:
I think that lies on a 12 base numeric system.
So, tell me again, ten bob is?
Feb 16, 2015
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#84
marcosite wrote:
Doggy_Style wrote:
marcosite wrote:
C'mon pulp. It's been Euro for a while now. You don't really think of the old stuff still?
My parents still convert modern money (GBP) into the old pounds, shillings and pennies, forty-five years after decimalization!
Ha. Your Parents though, not you. My old dad explains the chaos of old money...144 pennies to a pound & I still can't work out what ten-bob is. It makes no sence. Metric is sooo much neater.
240 pence to the pound.
12 pence per shilling. Twenty shillings to the pound.
p.s. "Ten bob" was half a pound (used to be a note).
p.p.s. 144 is a "gross", and was used mainly in the supply of materials. A dozen, dozen.
Feb 16, 2015
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#85
marcosite wrote:
Between you & I, Fuefollet, Gulliver sent me a message. I'm in....soon as I strike 2000. Kinda elitist, me thinks.
mighty clever of lilliputians, ay?...Good luck, marco.
Long live the Queen!
76 inches
Wow! Just waiting for BTigerr.
NewArdweaden wrote:
MSC157 wrote:
Anyone knows data about Kramnik? :)
http://www.astrotheme.com/heights/6'6
Thanks.
Ok, now I just found out that I (5' 11½") am as tall as Michelle Obama, George W. Bush, Hugo Chavez, Charles Darwin, Valentino Rossi, Mats Wilander, Franz Beckenbauer, Jenson Button, Stanislas Wawrinka, Jürgen Klinsmann, Daniela Huntuchova, Alberto Tomba, Joachim Löw, David Coulthard, Jean-Baptiste Grange, Sylvain Chavanel, Hermann Meier, Maria Höfl Riesch, Ingemar Stenmark, Ivica Kostelić & Richard Nixon.
Not bad.
@MSC: now googling the female names! (not sure about Ingemar).
Feb 16, 2015
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#93
MSC157 wrote:
NewArdweaden wrote:
MSC157 wrote:
Anyone knows data about Kramnik? :)
http://www.astrotheme.com/heights/6'6
Thanks.
Ok, now I just found out that I (5' 11½") am as tall as Michelle Obama, George W. Bush, Hugo Chavez, Charles Darwin, Valentino Rossi, Mats Wilander, Franz Beckenbauer, Jenson Button, Stanislas Wawrinka, Jürgen Klinsmann, Daniela Huntuchova, Alberto Tomba, Joachim Löw, David Coulthard, Jean-Baptiste Grange, Sylvain Chavanel, Hermann Meier, Maria Höfl Riesch, Ingemar Stenmark, Ivica Kostelić & Richard Nixon.
Not bad.
Richard Nixon, huh?
Feb 16, 2015
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#94
Elroch wrote:
Richard Nixon, huh?
That was my thought, too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_t8hpEKb4gk
What's wrong with him?
NewArdweaden, Kasparov is 5'10", too!
Pulpofeira wrote:
@MSC: now googling the female names! (not sure about Ingemar).
He was the great opponent in epic Stenmark - Križaj battle of the 80s.
More to the point : "How heavy are you chess players ?". I posted some time ago about there being weight divisions in chess , just like boxing. This was met with derision to the extent that no one commented ! No wonder a current thread is having a go at those not taking chess discussion seriously !
Feb 16, 2015
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#98
Pulpofeira wrote:
Not surprising. I still find myself calculating prices in pesetas sometimes.
There was a lot of price swindling going on when France switched from Francs to Euros...things that used to cost 5-6 Francs over night became 1.5-1.8 euros...which if you converted to back to Francs was like 10 -12 Francs, etc....
You are telling me! Not to mention... why the heck the 200-500 notes? How much black money have those thugs washed?
I think that lies on a 12 base numeric system.