ALTON, Ill. (AP) — It sounds like the sort of tale Mark Twain might have cooked up: A man fishing in the Mississippi River hauls in a blue catfish roughly the size of a sixth-grader. - USAToday.com



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05-26-05, 10:28 PM
Sailracer
How would you determine the size of a sixth-grader? Confused

05-27-05, 05:38 AM
DorianGreyed
The fish was 58" long. Presumably, sixth grade students in Alton are 58" tall and weigh 124 lbs. (And maybe 44" around, too.)

05-27-05, 07:56 PM
FredPuli
Hey, another new popular unit of measurement: 'the sixthgrader'. Americans must surely use these unusual units of measurement. English ones include ' the 'London bus' [height and length], 'the football pitch' [area], St Paul's cathedral [volume] and Wembley stadium [ crowd sizes]. 'An area the size of Wales'is another 'unit of area' for everything from deforestation of the Amazon region to natural disasters like fires or drought. Isn't Maine used as a unit of area ? ( 'Twice the size of Maine' ) The London bus is used absurdly. Something is described as 'as high as ten buses' or 'as long as thirty buses', both of which take some imagining ( the latter less so in the London rush hour, when you might see lines of them Smile)

05-27-05, 11:58 PM
Sailracer

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