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phone number for you? That phone number is 855-935. Talk 855-935-8-2-5-5 give us a call i have a question for you tom yes what is the origin of

the phrase the adage rule of thumb what does what what what is the well how did that originate i'm not going to cheat and look it up, and I'm just going to say I don't know. Is that when the is that when the Romans cut off your thumb if you were wrong? Actually the from the crook of your thumb the joint to the tip of your thumb. Yeah. About how about how long is that? About four inches. No, from the crook of you from the the the the top part of your thumb. About how long is that? About four inches? No, from the crook of you, from the, the, the top part of your thumb, this part right up here. How big is that? What would you guess that is? About an inch? Yeah, inch and a half maybe. No, it's almost exactly, unless you have a really long thumb, which you don't. You know, I'm warped in many ways. And I know, you're going for the hand thing.

I get it.

Uh-huh.

Not working.

You're too old.

It doesn't matter anyway.

Anyway, this is an inch approximately.

Okay.

Okay.

So the rule of thumb is they would measure something.

That's the rule of thumb.

It's like, originally, a horse was how many hands high?

Right.

They measured in hands, five hands, all that stuff.

A cubit is from the distance from your elbow to your fingertip.

That's a cubit.

You always wanted to know what a cubit was, didn't you?

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