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[adamantined]

There's been a lot going on lately, no one's arguing that. Sometimes it feels like we don't get much of a break in terms of jumping from one insane thing to the next, whether it's good or bad. I wanted to say something about that, but something else kind of came up. Something that I feel like I should really bring to your attention

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[worksmart]

[There is a LONG PAUSE.]

And yet you're still suffering with small person syndrome. That could use looking into.

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[adamantined]

[Ffft.]

I don't suffer from small person syndrome. I suffer from small person jokes.

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[worksmart]

If I knew you thought of yourself as an ant, I'd never have been so cruel.

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[adamantined]

How is it you're still making short jokes when I'm taller than you? I'm going to squash you.

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[worksmart]

You don't know you're six foot. You picked an arbitrary figure because you woke up tall enough to have thrown off your point of view. You're probably five seven.

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[adamantined]

There's no way I'm only five seven. Ginny looks like she's about four-years-old. I have to be a foot taller at least.

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[worksmart]

Height's impossible to estimate that way. It's like when you've got a sore in your mouth: it feels a lot more than it looks.

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[adamantined]

[The squint she is giving her network device might be audible.]

Don't go anywhere.

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[adamantined]

[From somewhere far off there is a cry of 'GINNY.']

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[adamantined]

[And five minutes (of ungainly maneuvering) later:]

It's roughly six feet.

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[worksmart]

[You'll have to wait because he's got distracted in those five minutes, but gets back to the microphone with a huff.]

What is she, a Bombay tailor? She can't just guess it either.

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[adamantined]

I used a ruler. I know that's not going to give me an exact measurement, but like I said, roughly six feet. Five-seven would be an adjustment, but I don't think it'd be this much of an adjustment.

[There is laughing.]

A Bombay tailor?

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[worksmart]

They make suits just by looking at you. [This is all spoken through a frown.] You'll be a couple of inches out, at least.

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[adamantined]

At this point I don't even care if it's not exactly six feet. I'd settle for five ten if I had to.

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[worksmart]

You're just trying to settle a score.

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[adamantined]

Maybe. I'd just like to think of it as killing two birds with one nicely tall stone.