Silkovs measuring tape....

kovit · Post by **kovit** » 17 Apr 2004, 22:21

Let me ask you for the third time, how tall is Gunner Moir standing in height the same one who fought Tommy Burns for his World Heavyweight title in 1907. Please help me, find out, and take your time to answer my question.

Broncano · Post by **Broncano** » 17 Apr 2004, 22:53

kovit · Post by **kovit** » 18 Apr 2004, 22:22

Well when you comeback Silkov read up there about Gunner Moir, please.

Grey · Post by **Grey** » 18 Apr 2004, 23:29

Kovit, do you realize you're conveying yourself as a jerk to other people?

Broncano · Post by **Broncano** » 18 Apr 2004, 23:32

silkov · Post by **silkov** » 19 Apr 2004, 05:33

I think you guys are being a bit harsh on the fella!....

8) 8)

........ I think he was about 6 foot 1 and a half Kovit!....Ok!.... happy days!......

8)

silkov · Post by **silkov** » 19 Apr 2004, 05:36

....and that's standing up!..

8)

. I'm told he was much shorter sitting down,

:( :x though not as short as when he was laying down!...

8) ..

kovit · Post by **kovit** » 19 Apr 2004, 16:55

Thank you Silkov for telling me the answer and standing up for those guys who thinks I'm more annoying.

8) :P

I want to ask you how tall is all the challengers standing in height who fought Tommy Burns for his World Heavyweight title after winning the title and before losing his title to Jack Johnson?

Here's the list of all the challengers who are already listed in their records, including the 1 you just already answered:

"Fireman" Jim Flynn 5 foot 9 and a half inches
Philadelphia Jack O'Brien 5 foot 10 and a half inches
Bill Squires 5 foot 10 and a half inches or 5 foot 11 inches
Gunner Moir 6 foot 1 and a half inches
Bill Lang 6 foot 1 inches

Here's the list of all the challengers who wasn't listed in their records:

Jack Palmer
Jem Roche (Hint: I saw the picture of him fighting Tommy Burns and whey they were fighting in their stands, they both looked like they were standing in the same height)
Jewey Smith

Please help me and find out, okay.

kovit · Post by **kovit** » 20 Apr 2004, 21:54

Please read up there about Tommy Burns' challenger who fought for his World Heavyweight Title who didn't show there standing in height.

TheRiverCityHippy · Post by **TheRiverCityHippy** » 20 Apr 2004, 22:08

has anyone seen the fireman jim flynn v jack johnson fight.
f*****g h*ll, the fireman was throwing the head in good style, jack seemed to take it all in his stride but flynn looked the type of bloke you wouldn`t want to cross.

saad · Post by **saad** » 21 Apr 2004, 00:41

kovit wrote:Jem Roche (Hint: I saw the picture of him fighting Tommy Burns and whey they were fighting in their stands, they both looked like they were standing in the same height)

They were indeed standing in the same height. However, Roche's height was measured in centimeters. Unfortunately the world will never know Roche's height in feet and inches.

Eric the Viking · Post by **Eric the Viking** » 21 Apr 2004, 10:57

saad wrote:
kovit wrote:Jem Roche (Hint: I saw the picture of him fighting Tommy Burns and whey they were fighting in their stands, they both looked like they were standing in the same height)
They were indeed standing in the same height. However, Roche's height was measured in centimeters. Unfortunately the world will never know Roche's height in feet and inches.

An excellent point by saad. To clarify just a bit, let me add that the problem is not that we don't know how to convert from centimeters to feet and inches, but that the metric length standard (which determines the conversion factor) has changed since that 1908 fight. There actually used to be TWO standards: the first was to take the distance along the line of the 0 meridian (through Greenwich, England) from the equator to the North pole (which had been measured fairly accurately by a number of Briitish expeditions, the last few thousand km of course being traveled by way of icebreaking ships) and *define* it to be equal 10000 kilometers (in modern metric units it's still very close to that, but not spot on.) The other was similar to the kilogram weight standard - there was a precisely machined rod of a special zero-thermal-expansion alloy that was defined to be one meter long and kept under glass in a laboratory in Paris. However, these two standards gave slightly different lengths for the meter, which is why sometime in the 50s or 60s (forget exactly when, but the exact date isn't relevant here) the meter standard was changed to depend on the speed of light in a vacuum, which AFAWK is a universal constant.

The problem with the Burns/Roche fight is that we don't know which of the 2 then-extant metric standards were used to measure the 2 fighters, so an accurate conversion is impossible. Unfortunately, not even Silkov's magical measuring tape can help us in this situation.

silkov · Post by **silkov** » 21 Apr 2004, 12:08

:(

:x

kovit · Post by **kovit** » 21 Apr 2004, 16:05

Let's look at it this way I'll just ask you each fighters who fought Tommy Burns for his Heavyweight Title: How tall is Jack Palmer standing in height? Is he the same height as Burns or is Palmer is taller? Please help me and find out.

kovit · Post by **kovit** » 22 Apr 2004, 00:06

Is Jack Palmer standing in at 5 foot 8 inches or taller? Please help and find out when you comeback.

kovit · Post by **kovit** » 22 Apr 2004, 15:49

When you comeback Silkov, answer my question up there about Jack Palmer, please.

glittermonkey · Post by **glittermonkey** » 22 Apr 2004, 15:53

Just out of interest Kovit, why are you so curious about fighters heights?

kovit · Post by **kovit** » 22 Apr 2004, 22:21

Silkov when you comeback I want to ask you how tall is Jack Palmer standing in height who fought Tommy Burns for his World Heavyweight Title?

Broncano · Post by **Broncano** » 22 Apr 2004, 22:59

glitter, kovit is a bot program,
It is triggered whenever you type the words "height", "silkov", or "zero-thermal-expansion"...

kovit · Post by **kovit** » 22 Apr 2004, 23:41

I'm ingoring for those who wasn't you Silkov, so when you comeback, tell me is Jack Palmer the man who fought Tommy Burns for his World Heavyweight Title stands 5'8"? If not how tall is Jack Palmer standing in height? Jack Palmer used to be a middleweight before he fought Burns. Please help me and find out.

Broncano · Post by **Broncano** » 22 Apr 2004, 23:51

there you go. you see glittermonkey?

saad · Post by **saad** » 23 Apr 2004, 00:23

kovit, are you an Amway salesman?

Broncano · Post by **Broncano** » 23 Apr 2004, 00:24

saad, you gotta use the key words to trigger the bot program

saad · Post by **saad** » 23 Apr 2004, 00:28

kovit, do you sell zero-thermal-expansion Amway products?