# How Do I Covertly Determine a Woman's Ring Size **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 19, 2008, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-covertly-determine-a-womans-ring-size/464251 "2008-09-19T02:15:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2008, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-covertly-determine-a-womans-ring-size/464251/41 "2008-09-19T19:35:08Z")
Get your car onto MTV’s “Pimp My Ride” and have them install injection molding equipment in your trunk. When she leaves her ring unattended, hustle out to your parking space and extrude 201 Bakelite copies. Give one to the jeweler as a sizing guide, and hand out the rest as favors at the reception. Or, when she leaves the ring unattended, grab it and stick it into a jar of herring snacks. Have your cat eat the herring and consume the ring in the process. Keep a close eye out, and as the ring emerges a day or two or later, carefully measure the cat’s anus. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2008, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-covertly-determine-a-womans-ring-size/464251/42 "2008-09-19T20:19:29Z")
41 replies and no sphincter jokes? ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2008, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-covertly-determine-a-womans-ring-size/464251/43 "2008-09-19T20:38:44Z")
> [@Tom\_Tildrum](#): > > Get your car onto MTV’s “Pimp My Ride” and have them install injection molding equipment in your trunk. When she leaves her ring unattended, hustle out to your parking space and extrude 201 Bakelite copies. Give one to the jeweler as a sizing guide, and hand out the rest as favors at the reception. > > Or, when she leaves the ring unattended, grab it and stick it into a jar of herring snacks. Have your cat eat the herring and consume the ring in the process. Keep a close eye out, and as the ring emerges a day or two or later, carefully measure the cat’s anus. Very carefully. ---
**Author:** ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2008, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-covertly-determine-a-womans-ring-size/464251/44 "2008-09-19T20:39:58Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > 41 replies and no sphincter jokes? Yes, I was going to say. Either fantastic and uncharacteristic self restraint from the board, or “ring” doesn’t quite have the _double entendre_ potential that it does over here. ---
**Author:** ![Tenebras](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/977dab/32.png) [@Tenebras](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tenebras)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2008, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-covertly-determine-a-womans-ring-size/464251/45 "2008-09-20T02:13:37Z")
Well, I see amputation has been mentioned. There’s always: _Psst! What’s your ring size?_ ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2008, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-covertly-determine-a-womans-ring-size/464251/46 "2008-09-20T03:41:55Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > 41 replies and no sphincter jokes? Was wondering, myself. Must be a Commonwealth English thing. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2008, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-covertly-determine-a-womans-ring-size/464251/47 "2008-09-20T09:02:39Z")
I suppose one way to determine the size would be to insert cylindrical objects of progressively larger cross-sectional diameter. ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2008, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-covertly-determine-a-womans-ring-size/464251/48 "2008-09-20T11:46:33Z")
strangely, if you can find out her shoe size you will have a base size for a ring if you use u.s. sizes. example… see the post above where we have size 10 shoe, size 8 ring. with this info i’m figuring the poster has fingers on the thinish side. so you would find out shoe size, look at hands, or play with hands. knuckle to finger muscle ration should give you an idea if the ring size is a bit bigger or smaller than shoe. i wear a 7 shoe, depending on what finger i have the ring on i can go from 5 pinkie, 6.5-7, next three fingers, and 8 on thumb. ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2008, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-covertly-determine-a-womans-ring-size/464251/49 "2008-09-20T14:45:24Z")
> [@Tastes\_of\_Chocolate](#): > > For those of you who don’t remember this thread, let me present, my all time favorite and the reason I joined here. > [I stuck my wedding ring up my nose.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=209087&highlight=wedding+and+ring+and+nose) That link must be to one of the funniest threads ever:D I knew **jjimm** was weird but not _that_ weird;) ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2008, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-covertly-determine-a-womans-ring-size/464251/50 "2008-09-20T15:05:33Z")
> [@ultrafilter](#): > > Ask one of your mutual female friends to find out for you. It’s suspicious if you ask her ring size, but if another woman does it, it’s just conversation. I am a 53-year-old female who has never had a ring size discussion with another female. If a woman asked me what size ring I wore, I would assume either she or someone she knew wanted to buy me jewelry. And, BTW, if any of you are interested – 7. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2008, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-covertly-determine-a-womans-ring-size/464251/51 "2008-09-20T16:44:05Z")
Hm. I should probably find out my ring size in case someone wants to [del]buy me jewelry[/del] have a conversation with me. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2008, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-covertly-determine-a-womans-ring-size/464251/52 "2008-09-20T18:32:50Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > Plasticene would be better than play-doh, I think. Ah, but I saw in the store the other day little-bitty cans of Play-doh intended to be handed out as Halloween favors. One would readily fit in a pocket and still has the plastic lid to keep the impression from getting squished. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2008, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-covertly-determine-a-womans-ring-size/464251/53 "2008-09-20T19:17:15Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > Ah, but I saw in the store the other day little-bitty cans of Play-doh intended to be handed out as Halloween favors. One would readily fit in a pocket and still has the plastic lid to keep the impression from getting squished. Yeah, but play-doh is inherently elastic and quite soft - not only will it bounce back a bit, losing the detail of the impression, it may not keep a very accurate-sized impression of the object pressed into it. ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2008, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-covertly-determine-a-womans-ring-size/464251/54 "2008-09-20T19:37:02Z")
Hasn’t Ivory soap been used to make impressions? You might do a test run first. And you could take just a small piece of the bar. If you are caught with it, tell her you have taken up the hobby of carving little animals. Then whittle it quickly away and telling you’re not very good yet. Or better yet, get a sheet of wax from the dentist’s office. Just be sure that it is warm and pliable when you go to do the impression. ---
**Author:** ![Tenebras](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/977dab/32.png) [@Tenebras](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tenebras)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2008, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-covertly-determine-a-womans-ring-size/464251/55 "2008-09-20T22:57:41Z")
> [@Zoe](#): > > Hasn’t Ivory soap been used to make impressions? You might do a test run first. And you could take just a small piece of the bar. If you are caught with it, tell her you have taken up the hobby of carving little animals. Then whittle it quickly away and telling you’re not very good yet. Yeah, so far you’ve only worked your way up to round indentations. “What’s that soap for?” “I’m making fossils!” ---
**Author:** ![Boozahol\_Squid\_P.I](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d9b06d/32.png) [@Boozahol\_Squid\_P.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boozahol_Squid_P.I)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2008, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-covertly-determine-a-womans-ring-size/464251/56 "2008-09-21T04:11:01Z")
Have you considered cloning her hand as a possibility? When you’re done, you’d have Thing’s girlfriend! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-covertly-determine-a-womans-ring-size/464251.md?page=2)