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Darn that peer pressure. Nothing like you expected? Hope that's a good thing. :lol:

Don't worry. It's a wonderful thing . . . when you judge solely from people's words/avatars you end up with a really weird image of them in your head.

I guess the real shocker was you hair color . . . really don't know why . . . :lol:

No, it's not because you present such a scholarly image/persona, and we all know the stereotypical truth that blondes are dumb. It's a combination of those facts and the color of your avatar, maybe? :D

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Originally Posted by Petrarch's Love

Thought I'd do something interesting with my one thousandth post, so here's a pic of me with a bookcase lurking in the background for anyone who's ever wondered what an academic from Chicago looks like.:)

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Oooh...pwetty!!

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Originally Posted by Petrarch's Love

for anyone who's ever wondered what an academic from Chicago looks like.:)

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Upon inspection the academic from chicago looks much like an academic from anywhere else, but they do appear to be quite tall (either that or they have tiny bookcases).

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Originally Posted by ShoutGrace

Don't worry. It's a wonderful thing

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Thanks. :)

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Originally Posted by ShoutGrace

and we all know the stereotypical truth that blondes are dumb.

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Well, it's true I was reluctant to reveal the truth of my identity as a dumb blonde. I was doing such a good job of fooling everyone into thinking otherwise. Now, alas, they know the awful truth. :D

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Originally Posted by RobinHood3000

Oooh...pwetty!!

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Thanks Robin. :blush: (though I do wonder if you've shape shifted into tweety bird for the moment :p )

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Originally Posted by kilted exile

Upon inspection the academic from chicago looks much like an academic from anywhere else, but they do appear to be quite tall (either that or they have tiny bookcases).

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:lol: There are three possibilities:
1. The city of broad shoulders is not a merely metaphorical nickname, and the inhabitants of Chi Town are of an unusually large size.

2. Tiny bookcases are the latest thing among the chic literary circles and you're just totally unaware of the fact for some reason.

3. The bookcase is in fact on the other side of the room and perspective makes things appear smaller.

I'll let you decide which is most likely.

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Originally Posted by Petrarch's Love

:lol: There are three possibilities:
1. The city of broad shoulders is not a merely metaphorical nickname, and the inhabitants of Chi Town are of an unusually large size.

2. Tiny bookcases are the latest thing among the chic literary circles and you're just totally unaware of the fact for some reason.

3. The bookcase is in fact on the other side of the room and perspective makes things appear smaller.

I'll let you decide which is most likely.

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Ok, I just did some very rough scaling and estimating to try to decipher the correct answer to this.

If 1 is correct then you are infact somewhere in the region of 2.44m in hieght (this was rough scaling my claim of accuracy here is plus/minus 40cm)

No 2, can not be correct due to the width of the books (I cant make out the titles, but I doubt they would be short enough to be that thin in the tiny bookcase.

#3 could well be correct but it is the least fun of the options, and is therefore disregarded.


Leading me to conclude that you are in fact 2.44m tall (8' 0.1") :lol:

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Originally Posted by Petrarch's Love

Thought I'd do something interesting with my one thousandth post, so here's a pic of me with a bookcase lurking in the background for anyone who's ever wondered what an academic from Chicago looks like.:)

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You're gorgeous Petrarch! No I didn't quite expect you to look like that.

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Leading me to conclude that you are in fact 2.44m tall (8' 0.1")

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Well, I'm actually about 8'2" (~2.49m), but you were pretty close. :lol:

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You're gorgeous Petrarch! No I didn't quite expect you to look like that.

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:blush: Thanks for the compliment Virg.
(You do know, of course, that Petrarch's been waiting over six hundred years to have someone say he's gorgeous ;)).

...and it still hasn't happened yet, the poor fellow.

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Originally Posted by Petrarch's Love

:blush: Thanks for the compliment Virg.
(You do know, of course, that Petrarch's been waiting over six hundred years to have someone say he's gorgeous ;)).

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OK, but we can assume that Petrarch's Love was gorgeous, and you do your name sake justice. ;)

You're most kind.

Layin' it on kinda thick, there, aintcha, Virg? :brow:

Oh, my, Petrarch, I thought you looked like this:

http://www.gothicsouls.com/portfolio/6/31425.jpg

I'm happy to be proven wrong, you look great. Nice to see a stereotype smashed to smithereens today. One small blond genius, one giant leap for womankind.

well... then how about you posting a pic then huh?! :p :p :p