Anyone know if this story is true?

On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 12:54:39PM -0500, Bob Lafleur wrote: They obviously didn't. Looks like you missed the amount of daily phone cord snippage: 2.5 cm which nicely translates to one inch (ok, so the correct conversion factor would be 1 inch = 2.54 but 2.5 is correct enough in this example). Also, using this approximate of 2.5 cm to the inch, the 140 cm long phone cords turn out to be exactly 56 inch long. So it looks to me like the original story (not judging wether it was true or not) used inches and just the current telling of it was metrified. The measurements used in the story therefore look credible from the units point of view. Of course, the whole story itself can still be a lot of invented bollocks. Regards, Alex. -- "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." -- Thomas A. Edison