# Who is the shortest person here?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-shortest-person-here/29054
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [August 12, 2000, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-shortest-person-here/29054 "2000-08-12T02:02:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@Osip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Osip)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2000, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-shortest-person-here/29054/1 "2000-08-12T02:02:17Z")
I know I am not standing at 6 foot 3.
I know there is at least one person out there at 4 foot 10.
anyone shorter?
Osip
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### Author:  [@barflyer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/barflyer)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2000, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-shortest-person-here/29054/2 "2000-08-12T05:45:04Z")
6’ even for me. Sorry.
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### Author:  [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2000, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-shortest-person-here/29054/3 "2000-08-12T06:21:07Z")
5.8 inches… oops, you weren’t talking about… forget it.
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### Author:  [@APB9999](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/APB9999)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2000, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-shortest-person-here/29054/4 "2000-08-12T17:58:01Z")
I stand 2’3" in my stocking feet. Top That! (so to speak). Family tradition says that my great grandfather Patrick kept a pot of gold buried under a hill overgrown with shamrocks.
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### Author:  [@Monster104](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monster104)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2000, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-shortest-person-here/29054/5 "2000-08-12T19:33:49Z")
6’3" here…would I win if I was dyslexic and put 3’6"?
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### Author:  [@bunnymom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bunnymom)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2000, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-shortest-person-here/29054/6 "2000-08-12T19:59:35Z")
I’m 5’2’’. What do I win?
Oh, and can one of you hand me that bowl up there?
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### Author:  [@monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monster)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2000, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-shortest-person-here/29054/7 "2000-08-13T02:52:29Z")
Hey, I’m 5’2" too!
Shorties rule!!!
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### Author:  [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2000, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-shortest-person-here/29054/8 "2000-08-13T03:06:20Z")
I believe it’s tiggeril who’s 4’10.5" (and she says that extra half inch is crucial . . . ).
I’m 5’10", myself.
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### Author:  [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2000, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-shortest-person-here/29054/9 "2000-08-13T05:11:21Z")
To be as exact as possible, I’m 4’10 3/4", so perhaps I’m the second shortest person after tiggeril, and I’m probably the shortest male here.
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### Author:  [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2000, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-shortest-person-here/29054/10 "2000-08-14T05:00:45Z")
I’ve always been attracted to short girls… Short guys, especially short guys named Wendell, always drive me into a sex frenzy.
C’mere, you hot-potato, you!
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### Author:  [@nashiitashii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nashiitashii)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2000, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-shortest-person-here/29054/11 "2000-08-14T05:31:42Z")
I’m 5’9 1/2". Damn, I like my height, but it does me almost no good in the dating department at this stage in life.
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### Author:  [@Monster104](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monster104)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2000, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-shortest-person-here/29054/12 "2000-08-14T07:06:52Z")
Hey ssskuggiii, I wouldn’t mind know a girl around yoour height…I wouldn’t have to stoop a foot to kiss her.
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### Author:  [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2000, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-shortest-person-here/29054/13 "2000-08-14T21:41:48Z")
A possibly useful addition to your vocaulary:
Anasteemaphilia - Attraction to another person because of their difference in height.
I’m 6’8" (male) and, apart from professional basketball players and a 6’10" woman (!) who worked at a Safeway in Berkeley, the tallest person I’ve ever met. Although I once dated a woman who was 5’2", I’m somewhat of an anasteemaphobe – dancing is just too awkward otherwise.
(Yeah, this is all pretty off-topic, but I can’t help participating in threads about extreme height.)