# Measuring height of ceiling without any ladder

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/measuring-height-of-ceiling-without-any-ladder/209978>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [October 28, 2003, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/measuring-height-of-ceiling-without-any-ladder/209978 "2003-10-28T04:28:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![xash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/c6cbf5/32.png) [@xash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xash)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2003, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/measuring-height-of-ceiling-without-any-ladder/209978/21 "2003-10-28T21:01:53Z")

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**Susma Rio Sep** , General Questions is for questions that you do not already know the answers to.

Moved to IMHO, where you will get opinions and ideas on other ways to calculate the height of the ceiling.

- **xash**  
General Questions Moderator

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**Author:** ![t-keela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a3d4f5/32.png) [@t-keela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/t-keela)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2003, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/measuring-height-of-ceiling-without-any-ladder/209978/22 "2003-10-29T04:00:22Z")

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Congrats **xash** simple proof that Mods are people too. 😉

I see **SRS** is outta here and IMHO is better, although I was thinking MPSIMS.

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**Author:** ![Urban\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Urban\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urban_Ranger)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2003, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/measuring-height-of-ceiling-without-any-ladder/209978/23 "2003-10-29T07:33:21Z")

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Just use one of those ultrasonic widgets.

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**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2003, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/measuring-height-of-ceiling-without-any-ladder/209978/24 "2003-10-29T08:58:30Z")

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So, how do you measure how far a poster flies when a moderator kicks him?

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**Author:** ![t-keela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a3d4f5/32.png) [@t-keela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/t-keela)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2003, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/measuring-height-of-ceiling-without-any-ladder/209978/25 "2003-10-29T15:04:29Z")

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By the skid marks left where his ass hit the pavement obviously. 😃

It must’ve been something else. I admit this thread is wasted hamster juice, but not a bannable offense. Oh well…another one bites the dust. The little rodents have been hungry lately. Posters keep stepping into the cage and _zap_ end of story.

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