# That's six inches? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 5, 2002, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-six-inches/140677 "2002-12-05T12:47:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2002, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-six-inches/140677/1 "2002-12-05T12:47:10Z")
Ha! Looks more like [three or four inches](http://wcpo.cincinnati.com/weather/) to me. Maybe only two. ---
**Author:** ![welby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@welby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/welby)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2002, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-six-inches/140677/2 "2002-12-05T13:18:51Z")
Hey! Quit making fun of our snow! Besides, it hasn’t quit yet. Jerk. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![headshok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e56c9b/32.png) [@headshok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/headshok)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2002, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-six-inches/140677/3 "2002-12-05T13:26:28Z")
Hmph. Well, it _is_ cold outside, you know. ---
**Author:** ![beagledave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@beagledave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beagledave)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2002, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-six-inches/140677/4 "2002-12-05T13:30:19Z")
So Shibb’s a size queen eh? ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2002, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-six-inches/140677/5 "2002-12-05T13:48:07Z")
More inches are better, if you’re hoping the government will shut down for the day. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2002, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-six-inches/140677/6 "2002-12-05T14:58:49Z")
I thought this was a sex thread. So, was the snow good for you? ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2002, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-six-inches/140677/7 "2002-12-05T15:08:14Z")
That took a lot of balls to say… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2002, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-six-inches/140677/8 "2002-12-05T15:08:55Z")
Frosty is still hung like a rhino. ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2002, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-six-inches/140677/9 "2002-12-05T15:15:46Z")
I figured this was about a Subway sandwich, or something else. Something else being snowfall of course 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2002, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-six-inches/140677/10 "2002-12-05T15:46:38Z")
Poor depth perception. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2002, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-six-inches/140677/11 "2002-12-05T15:50:02Z")
I hear no two inches are alike. ---
**Author:** ![dorkusmalorkusmafia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dorkusmalorkusmafia/32/7266_2.png) [@dorkusmalorkusmafia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorkusmalorkusmafia)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2002, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-six-inches/140677/12 "2002-12-05T15:55:42Z")
Those are AOL inches. You know, the place where every man says his penis is 8 inches but in actual fact their penises are closer to 4-6. Seems AOL must have some say in the way the weather is measured now, huh? ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2002, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-six-inches/140677/13 "2002-12-05T16:05:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Sunspace \* > \*\*That took a lot of balls to say… 😃 \*\* I gots alot of balls! ;j Golf balls. (damn, that must hurt. I had tennis elbow once and it dern near killed me…) **Lieu** helped save mine by deft use of a spatula. TMI? Anyone need spares? BTW, six inches is a good snowfall amount. It’s not how much snow fell, it’s what you do with it. ---
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2002, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-six-inches/140677/14 "2002-12-05T16:18:58Z")
Right. Let’s build a snow tower and menace Transylvania! Or something. There’s no snow here, and I hope it stays that way. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2002, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-six-inches/140677/15 "2002-12-05T16:33:08Z")
Damn, Y’all! Get me in here with my tape measure… \*%#@!!! 😃 Q ---
**Author:** ![Rug\_Burn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a87d85/32.png) [@Rug\_Burn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rug_Burn)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2002, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-six-inches/140677/16 "2002-12-05T17:27:41Z")
Ah hail , a snow job like that one is enough to give ya blue balls. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![thinksnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thinksnow/32/2849_2.png) [@thinksnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thinksnow)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2002, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-six-inches/140677/17 "2002-12-05T17:30:40Z")
Sure, but have you seen the _width_?! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![The\_Ace\_of\_Swords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@The\_Ace\_of\_Swords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Ace_of_Swords)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2002, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-six-inches/140677/18 "2002-12-05T17:36:32Z")
Damn hype, you’re right, it isn’t 6 inches. I’ll mow the lawn, maybe it’ll look like more? ---
**Author:** ![Legomancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/779978/32.png) [@Legomancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legomancer)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2002, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-six-inches/140677/19 "2002-12-05T17:44:33Z")
It’s not the height of the white, it’s the shift of the drift. ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2002, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-six-inches/140677/20 "2002-12-05T17:52:15Z")
If that’s the size of your “snow” **ShibbOleth** , [here’s mine](http://www.suntimes.com/century/m1979.html) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-six-inches/140677.md?page=2)