# Poll to find the tallest doper. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 13, 2004, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-to-find-the-tallest-doper/274488 "2004-11-13T00:26:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2004, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-to-find-the-tallest-doper/274488/41 "2004-11-16T19:55:20Z")
> [@astro](#): > > No, no you’re got it all wrong. 6’3" is just the high side of normal. 6’5" is where freakhood _begins_. To the back of the bus with your Brobdingnagian self. Careful… it’s a little low! > > Astro settles into BrotherCadfael’s now free, yet still warm seat. Hey, get your hands off my nice warm seat! Unless you are one of those 6’2" female types… I saw a tall comic doing a bit: [short guy]: “Hey, how’s the weather up there?” [tall comic]: “It’s raining.” [spits all over short guy] ---
**Author:** ![mouthbreather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2004, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-to-find-the-tallest-doper/274488/42 "2004-11-16T20:07:40Z")
> [@Fiver](#): > > And I had no idea you were that tall! You don’t look that tall. My girth makes me a moving optical illusion. Kinda like David Blaine falling out of a helicopter. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2004, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-to-find-the-tallest-doper/274488/43 "2004-11-16T22:47:43Z")
6’2" ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-to-find-the-tallest-doper/274488/44 "2004-11-17T00:24:13Z")
6’4 1/2" - 6’5" (barefoot) Somewhere in there. Tall enough, so I’ve never really bothered to be dead accurate. ---
**Author:** ![pool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pool/32/4152_2.png) [@pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pool)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-to-find-the-tallest-doper/274488/45 "2004-11-17T05:03:26Z")
While I am only 5’10’’ I have a very large friend who is 6’10’’ but the more frightening thing is that he is Indian which is just amazyingly huge compared to most other Indian people and he is over 300 pounds and coould prob win in a fight against anyone I can think of. His parents are really short too, he told me once his family went to India and all the people were just completely astonished by his size and stared at him. ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-to-find-the-tallest-doper/274488/46 "2004-11-17T05:11:33Z")
People who are 6’10" in the United States get stared at as well. If you break the curve, you break the curve, nomatter where you live. I doubt the reaction of an ordinary Indian is no different to the reaction of an ordinary American when confronted with someone that tall. ---
**Author:** ![pool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pool/32/4152_2.png) [@pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pool)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-to-find-the-tallest-doper/274488/47 "2004-11-17T05:15:01Z")
yeah I get what your saying but you have to admit that most(def not all) Indians are very short or not much greater than average height, I don’t think I have ever seen another Indian even close, and especially not one that was over 300 pounds a great deal of which is muscle, not that I’m saying there arent others. ---
**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-to-find-the-tallest-doper/274488/48 "2004-11-17T15:28:44Z")
I’m 5’9", but my towering ego adds at least 2’ to my height. I win. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-to-find-the-tallest-doper/274488/49 "2004-11-17T15:49:58Z")
_looks up at everyone_ Why is it that people always have to talk about how many inches they have? At least you won’t see this thread spawning a sequel for the smallest doper because we less endowed dopers know that size doesn’t matter. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-to-find-the-tallest-doper/274488/50 "2004-11-17T16:44:09Z")
Anyone ever seen those T-Shirts for tall people that say, "No. Do you play miniature golf? ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-to-find-the-tallest-doper/274488/51 "2004-11-17T16:53:43Z")
> [@LMM](#): > > I have a _serious_ thing about women over six feet. That’s probably because, at 6’2", I’m about the same height as all the women in my family. Well this thing you have about all of the women in your family is usually considered taboo but whatever works for you. ---
**Author:** ![Freyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freyr/32/5763_2.png) [@Freyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freyr)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-to-find-the-tallest-doper/274488/52 "2004-11-17T20:36:34Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > Preferably nude (hee-hee). I’ll settle for seeing shots of 'em barefoot, especially showing the soles! 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-to-find-the-tallest-doper/274488.md?page=2)