# Post your height. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 7, 2000, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-height/40052 "2000-11-07T02:53:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![SSgtBaloo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@SSgtBaloo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SSgtBaloo)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2000, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-height/40052/121 "2000-11-08T06:00:19Z")
6’ 1¾", 250 lbs, and more jolly than you can imagine (when I think about it). All my sisters (older than me) shot up to 5’ 10" and got _boobs_ when they were 12. I didn’t get taller than my mom until I was 16 (she’s 5’ 6"). I didn’t hit 5’ 10" (and couldn’t cultivate a beard)until I’d graduated from HS. I didn’t reach full height until I was 26. I’m seriously disappointed I never got as tall as my dad (6’ 3"). ---
**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:** [November 8, 2000, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-height/40052/122 "2000-11-08T18:09:21Z")
Damnit, **Mullinator** , I read all the way through this thread, just for the petty joy of being the tallest, and you beat me. I’m a mere 6’8". Please don’t pat me on the head if we ever meet. ---
**Author:** ![h\_thur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/db5fbb/32.png) [@h\_thur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h_thur)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2000, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-height/40052/123 "2000-11-08T20:14:04Z")
5’6.5"/brown (with some grey)/brown my son will be 12 months old November 12 single - no contact with son’s father (thank god(s)) faithful yet faithless wanderer shy and reclusive ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2000, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-height/40052/124 "2000-11-08T20:51:53Z")
5’10" 280 lbs (a “woman of size” I believe we’re called 🙂 ) blue/gray/green eyes thick curly light brown/graying hair Libra Catholic reserved, sarcastic, loyal, love my friends and ignore my enemies ---
**Author:** ![Modian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Modian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Modian)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2000, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-height/40052/125 "2000-11-08T21:58:00Z")
I’ll post it all here so I don’t have to do it again. 6’4" 200 lbs (Though I look like I weigh 160, lean and mean) Sept 1976 Virgo Brown hair Hazel eyes Atheist Single Male White Programmer 300ZX, YZF600R Rent Movies, reading, riding my motorcycle, long walks off short piers Word most used to describe me which I now despise: cute, babyface (when I shave) There, that should cover the previous threads, and the next couple 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Neil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/839c29/32.png) [@Neil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neil)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2000, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-height/40052/126 "2000-11-08T22:43:25Z")
Height: 5’11’’ or 6 Weight: about 150 pounds Eyes: brown Hair: black By the way, for any women who felt strange being tall, I find tall girls attractive. The tall (about 6’) females I know seem to mostly prefer guys taller than themselves, though. -Neil ---
**Author:** ![Medea\_s\_Child](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Medea\_s\_Child](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Medea_s_Child)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2000, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-height/40052/127 "2000-11-08T23:57:54Z")
Thank you Neil. I just usually feel gangly. Taller guys give me the luxury of feeling short. Its nice. Unless they quote Shakespeare and then they can be whatever height they want, I’ll love them dearly. ---
**Author:** ![douglips](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@douglips](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/douglips)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2000, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-height/40052/128 "2000-11-09T00:11:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Medea’s Child \* > \*\*Unless they quote Shakespeare and then they can be whatever height they want, I’ll love them dearly. \*\* Odd, that’s how I ensnared my lovely bride. ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2000, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-height/40052/129 "2000-11-09T00:34:04Z")
5’11". Weight: a little too much, but I’m working on it. brown hair blue eyes Capricorn ---
**Author:** ![activgurl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7cd45c/32.png) [@activgurl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/activgurl)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2000, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-height/40052/130 "2000-11-09T01:55:25Z")
Five feet, eight inches Long brown hair, blue eyes 150 pounds, single Sagitarius, two cats Last of the Baby Boomers ---
**Author:** ![Crispy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e47774/32.png) [@Crispy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crispy)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2000, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-height/40052/131 "2000-11-09T04:03:52Z")
5’8" ---
**Author:** ![Crispy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e47774/32.png) [@Crispy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crispy)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2000, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-height/40052/132 "2000-11-09T04:26:00Z")
I might as well post the rest of my stats instead of feeling left out. That’s what happens when you neglect to read a thread before you post. Height- 5’8" (as stated above) Weight- about 125 lb. Eyes- bluish grey Hair- long, dark blond Agnostic (technically Catholic) Aries ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2000, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-height/40052/133 "2000-11-09T05:15:08Z")
Well about being tall… its not so bad I guess as long as you don’t mind hitting your head… doorways seem too short often (even if they are above my head they seem that way), the bars you hold on the bus are too low… anything set really low is hard to see because the short people crowd in front and so you can usually only glimpse a bit of it (I speak from experience. When I went to see the treasures brought up from the Atosha I had a heck of a time seeing them because they were a little below waist height for me and everyone assumed since I’m tall I could see…) It can be nice sometimes though… everything has its good and bad sides. ---
**Author:** ![Za\_Za](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b5a626/32.png) [@Za\_Za](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Za_Za)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2000, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-height/40052/134 "2000-11-09T08:30:44Z")
5 foot 1 according to my driver’s license. I don’t trust them though. They said they subtracted for my shoes, but they never looked to see how tall my heels were under my long skirt. ---
**Author:** ![Black\_Hole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Black\_Hole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Black_Hole)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2000, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-height/40052/135 "2000-11-09T14:14:57Z")
6’1" tall, 214 lbs. brown hair, hazel eyes, goatee. Typical Irish mick. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2000, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-height/40052/136 "2000-11-09T18:40:35Z")
I’m 5’5", a fluffy 170 lbs, 42DD, 42 years old, married, one son, 1 dog, Scorpio, naturally curly brunette, blue eyes. ---
**Author:** ![Gr8Kat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gr8kat/32/18668_2.png) [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2000, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-height/40052/137 "2000-11-09T19:03:34Z")
The last time I was officially measure in school, I was 5’6 3/4". However, I’m taller than my mom who says she’s supposed to be 5’7". So either I’ve grown since then (I was 13), or she has shrunk. ---
**Author:** ![Medea\_s\_Child](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Medea\_s\_Child](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Medea_s_Child)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2000, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-height/40052/138 "2000-11-09T20:26:41Z")
I discovered something very, very bad about being tall today. On rainy days your eye level is everyone else’s umbrella edge level. Caught a good one across my cheekbone by some idiot who didn’t figure out that their personal space had to include something pokey as well. It wasn’t all their fault, just a by-product of physical objects trying to occupy two spots at once, but it still hurt. ---
**Author:** ![Commander\_Fortune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Commander\_Fortune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Commander_Fortune)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2000, 8:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-height/40052/139 "2000-11-10T08:44:09Z")
Just a hair over 6’0" ---
**Author:** ![DRY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@DRY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DRY)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2000, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-height/40052/140 "2000-11-10T10:55:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Medea’s Child \* > \*\*Thank you Neil. I just usually feel gangly. Taller guys give me the luxury of feeling short. Its nice. > > Unless they quote Shakespeare and then they can be whatever height they want, I’ll love them dearly. \*\* “O, how ripe in show Thy lips, those kissing cherries, tempting grow! That pure congealed white, high Taurus snow, Fann’d with the eastern wind, turns to a crow When thou hold’st up thy hand” –A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act 3, Scene ii And how does the short, wizened DRY react to Medea’s Child’s importunings? “she hath urged her height; And with her personage, her tall personage, Her height, forsooth, she hath prevail’d with him” 😃 –A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act 3, Scene ii [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-height/40052.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-height/40052.md?page=8)