# It's a tall people conspiracy **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 4, 2004, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-tall-people-conspiracy/227415 "2004-02-04T01:54:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![NeNee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f17d59/32.png) [@NeNee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NeNee)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2004, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-tall-people-conspiracy/227415/21 "2004-02-04T17:38:53Z")
> [@StarvingButStrong](#): > > I’m tired of having to hunt down a clerk or a helpful stranger all the time. I think from now own I’ll just grab that bottom most jar and duck out of the way as the ones on top of it come tumbling down. You’ll be able to track my progress through the store by the series of crashes and smashes and thuds. :mad: Wear heals ;D ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2004, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-tall-people-conspiracy/227415/22 "2004-02-04T18:55:27Z")
> [@NeNee](#): > > Wear heals ;D Not on the floor, it doesn’t. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![tanookie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/48db29/32.png) [@tanookie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanookie)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2004, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-tall-people-conspiracy/227415/23 "2004-02-04T19:01:46Z")
I too wonder about **Starvingbutstrong’s** plan. As a short person, 5 foot 4, I married a tall person, 6 foot 4, and we had children. The girl is 2 1/2 years old and the height of your average 4 year old. The boy is 4 months old and has already grown 5 1/2 inches! Will I be required to stunt the Jolly Green Munchkins? Or will I just have to ensure they marry short people? 🙂 My husband is stopped pretty much every time he comes shopping with me by ladies who need help reaching stuff. When I shop alone I just climb the shelf. In a few years I’ll just have my daughter reach stuff for me. I do keep a step stool at home though because my kitchen cabinets go all the way to the ceiling! ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2004, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-tall-people-conspiracy/227415/24 "2004-02-04T19:49:15Z")
I enjoy partying with midgets and tossing a few back. ---
**Author:** ![BlackKnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eb8c5e/32.png) [@BlackKnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlackKnight)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2004, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-tall-people-conspiracy/227415/25 "2004-02-04T19:51:21Z")
Oh WAH! We give you short people all sorts of things. Tables in restaurants actually FIT you. You don’t have to fold yourself neatly in half to enter your automobile. You have the entire urinal at the end of the row to yourself! Your own urinal! And yet you complain. Bucha anklebiters. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![BlinkingDuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eada6e/32.png) [@BlinkingDuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlinkingDuck)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2004, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-tall-people-conspiracy/227415/26 "2004-02-04T21:13:03Z")
I think Saturday Night LIve did many skits based on this back in 1988 (Bush vs Dukokis (sp?)) “Vote for Bush, He’s Taller” “Vote for Bush, He’s whiter” etc. I also thought it was well known that the taller and whiter you are the more likely you will win the primaries/Prez election ---
**Author:** ![NeNee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f17d59/32.png) [@NeNee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NeNee)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2004, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-tall-people-conspiracy/227415/27 "2004-02-04T21:35:26Z")
> [@BlackKnight](#): > > You don’t have to fold yourself neatly in half to enter your automobile. Boy I hate that. I’ll never buy a Honda for that reason. Tried to get into a friends civic one time and after whacking my head on the windshield… The entire ride was very uncomfortable. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2004, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-tall-people-conspiracy/227415/28 "2004-02-04T21:49:34Z")
'Tis better to have loved a short woman and lost, Than never to have loved a tall. ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2004, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-tall-people-conspiracy/227415/29 "2004-02-04T21:53:56Z")
Sure, it’s a conspiracy. But what are you going to do about it? We’re well established, well organized, and we’ve got high water pants in case you try anything funny. We’ve even got some of you working for us. Any time you see some person of average height asking us how the weather is up here, or if we play basketball, those are our lackeys passing us codewords about the next world domination meeting. Kneel before us, inferior one! ---
**Author:** ![jk1245](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/49beb7/32.png) [@jk1245](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jk1245)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2004, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-tall-people-conspiracy/227415/30 "2004-02-04T22:30:42Z")
OK, everyone should have to post their heights in this thread. I’m suspecting there are a lot of 5’7" guys acting tall in here. jk1245 (5’10" and thereby above averge height. HA! What’s up tiny people?) ---
**Author:** ![NeNee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f17d59/32.png) [@NeNee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NeNee)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2004, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-tall-people-conspiracy/227415/31 "2004-02-04T22:53:58Z")
> [@jk1245](#): > > jk1245 (5’10" and thereby above averge height. HA! What’s up tiny people?) 5’10" is above average? ---
**Author:** ![Etherman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/958977/32.png) [@Etherman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Etherman)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2004, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-tall-people-conspiracy/227415/32 "2004-02-04T23:10:53Z")
> [@NeNee](#): > > Boy I hate that. I’ll never buy a Honda for that reason. Tried to get into a friends civic one time and after whacking my head on the windshield… The entire ride was very uncomfortable. Actually I am 6’5" and I bought a Honda because its the only car I test-drove I was comfortable in. There is even room left for the seat to go back a little more. As to these short people, quiet you or I’ll move your keyboards to the top shelf. 😃 I say once we take over the world, the first thing we do is require a minimum height for light fixtures, and for god’s sake, no more f’in low ceiling fans. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2004, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-tall-people-conspiracy/227415/33 "2004-02-04T23:35:29Z")
6’2" and change, not quite 6’3". The funny thing is, almost evreyone else in my family is short, some of them _very_ short. My cousin is right around 5’2" or 5’4". He’s a triathlete and ultramarathoner. I’m in pretty good running shape, but nowhere near his, which makes it pretty funny when we go running together. He’s taking almost three steps for every one I take, and I’m struggling to keep up with him. ---
**Author:** ![sevenwood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@sevenwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sevenwood)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2004, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-tall-people-conspiracy/227415/34 "2004-02-04T23:54:55Z")
> [@BlackKnight](#): > > You have the entire urinal at the end of the row to yourself! Oh - sorry about that. I always thought that one was for us extremely well-endowed people. ---
**Author:** ![Angel\_Heart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@Angel\_Heart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angel_Heart)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2004, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-tall-people-conspiracy/227415/35 "2004-02-05T00:27:47Z")
> [@StarvingButStrong](#): > > You know, this thought of yours has real merit. Consider the natural outcome: all those tall guys being smitten with the charms of us pocket venuses, followed by marriage and children, naturally. > > The tall girls, now bereft of tall guys, will match up with the short guys, followed by marriage and children. > > And, with any luck, the children, though the mixture of parental genes, will come out average! It worked for my folks (Dad’s 6’1", Mom’s 5’2"), although I came out on the shorter side myself. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-tall-people-conspiracy/227415.md?page=1)