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Submitted: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 at 09:23

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"Environment: The Great Barrier Reef is the longest coral reef in the world, extending over 2012.5km.".....did his tape measure break at exactly 2012.5 or was he just too lazy measure the next few metres making it exactly 2012.567klm

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AnswerID: 170372   Submitted: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 at 09:25

Member - Doug T (QLD) replied:

Your such a lazy bug#er ..why didn't ya help him

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FollowupID: 425773   Submitted: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 at 09:44

Member No 1 posted:

i was the supervisor.......in the boat sipping on a coopers...noway will you get me on the bottom with all those noah's around

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AnswerID: 170382   Submitted: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 at 10:01

agsmky replied:

I bet it came from the measurement being 1250 miles. Makes for a shorter tape measure :-)

Andrew
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AnswerID: 170390   Submitted: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 at 10:39

V8Diesel replied:

Nah, they already know the circumference of the planet so the start at the end of the reef and run the tape around to the beginning. They subtract that measurement from the known circumeference and hey presto.....that's the length of the reef.

The surveyors charge per 100km's so that amount was left off due to rounding up for the GST.
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FollowupID: 425799   Submitted: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 at 10:52

Member No 1 posted:

really?

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FollowupID: 425808   Submitted: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 at 11:50

V8Diesel posted:

Yep....deadset, honest injun!
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FollowupID: 425809   Submitted: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 at 11:55

Member No 1 posted:

just talkin to me mate in Aukland and he says thats crap cos they have no idea what a tape measure is

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FollowupID: 425811   Submitted: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 at 12:10

V8Diesel posted:

Was aware of that. Due to cultural 'sunsatuvuties', the NZ leg was measured in the standard local system of distance. For those unfamiliar with the NZ ISO system, here it is....

17 'chups' to a 'jandle'
7 'jandles' to a 'rubber boot'
3 'rubber boots' to a 'ewe'
942 'ewes' to a 'killer ewe'

So the NZ section was 1,241 kE's, 11 Rb's, and a chup which equates to 1,240km's.
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FollowupID: 425892   Submitted: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 at 17:29

Member No 1 posted:

oh yeah...i forgot about the ruddy jandles but....but where do the fish-n-chups into the equation

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AnswerID: 170419   Submitted: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 at 13:22

Mad Dog (Australia) replied:

Nup, they are just giving an honest measurement nude man, no rubber tape measures allowed.

IPF 900XS lights on another thread are waterproof to 11.8" for two minutes, just don't go that extra .2 or you'll be sorry.




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FollowupID: 425851   Submitted: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 at 14:39

Wombat posted:

11.8 seems a lot of inches and anything lasting for two minutes seems like a long time to me.
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FollowupID: 425885   Submitted: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 at 16:51

Mad Dog (Australia) posted:

Hows that desk Paul, Bus Man says 11.8" on that desk is just right.




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FollowupID: 425907   Submitted: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 at 18:16

Wombat posted:

Saw 'those' batteries last week. Bloody Nora they are BIG!
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