EOSM 2005, get in there!

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Are you still awake Kathryn?

 

Lady Nina says...

Good lad.

 

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I will be attending and so will the clogged one (or so he says) have you got
us down on the list?

 

I thought that, excepting medical conditions, sons were *always*
taller than their mothers?

 

Monz says...

I don't know, have you emailed me as I asked in my OP?

 

That would be the medical condition known as shorterthanmumitis?

Surely it is just that the bell curves don't overlap much.

 

That's what I'm asking.

I've been told that sons are *always* taller than their mothers; I'm
interested if this is genetic fact, or just the normal distribution,
as you suggest.

 

Unsure, my mail client says it has sent but have been having a few probs
with mail not being delivered using the T-Mobile mail servers hence the post
to the thread... Will mail again to make sure.

 

The latter. I can think of several blokes I know who are shorter than
their mothers. I cannot, however, understand why the former would be
given any credence whatsoever. The 'tallness' gene (if such a thing
could be said to exist) would work line any other, bothin temrs of its
random inheritence and its application. Even once a set of genes is
inherited, such things as tallness are not fixed at birth. Some sets
of identical twins are not the same height, for example.

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Monz says...

I've got it here now, cheers.

 

Also remember that the average height for men and women is
significantly different (men is 5'8" ish and women 5'4" ish - from
memory).

So that would pre-dispose sons to be taller than their mothers anyway.

Average heights for both men and women have risen steadily over the
past 100 years too as a result of better healthcare and nutrition[1] so
it wouldn't be surprising if (as a combination of both factors) sons
were always taller than thei mothers[2]

Phil.

[1] Soon to start dropping again I would imagine. Junk food makes you
grow out, not up..
[2] Barring medical conditions like dwarfism or lack of HGH

 

Phil Launchbury wrote

and, as Handcock predicted, increased CO2

 

If anyone spots some of this

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Becherovka

on their travels, going reasonable in a duty free somewhere. Snag me a
bottle.

It is available in one UK import place, but costs more than a decent
Malt !

Alternatively, i'll just wait until I go back to Oslo Duty Free, which
is the last place I saw it !

Cheers

Paul.

 

As it happens, we have such a bottle in the Kitchen. Friend brought it
back from Czech rep. What are you supposed to do with it anyway? I
mean, drink it, obviously, but with ice, water, mixers, or what?

Really? I suspect it's quite cheap in CZ.

 

I drink all my spirits straight, or over a lump of ice if i'm feeling
really adventurous.

Sure, I think a litre came out about £17 duty free some years ago, but
it's a scorching £27 plus P+P from

http://www.laboheme.uk.com/index.html?target=p_16.html&lang=en-gb

It's good, but not that good !

Cheers

Paul.