There was a rather good Alexie Sayle skit a number of years ago where Sayle, playing Noah, had built an foot long Ark according to God's instructions. His mate asked him "how big's a cubit anyway"? answer, "about three-quarters of a milimeter isnt't it" says Noah.
I went to a local apple orchard a couple of years ago and the chalkboard said Russets $10 a bushel. I was feeling flush and not in the mood to appear ignorant of the local parlance so I took a gamble and said to the guy "One bushel please" not knowing whether I was buying four apples or ten. It was a big box and enough apples to last all winter. So take it from me a bushel is a lot.
Based on the common short measurement where 1 cubit is 18 inches I am 3.888(Recurring.) cubits tall.
Being somewhat rusty on what exactly a cubit is I goggled it; it's the distance between the elbow and the fingertip which probably explains why, inch wise, the length of a cubit is different in different early cultures.
[QUOTE 2780919, member: 259"]I still recall the happy day they told us in primary school that we didn't have to do imperial measurements any more.[/quote]
For younger readers, there were 16½ feet in a rod and 40 rods in a furlong.
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