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A shortened form of ruler is 'rule' "Use the rule". A male thumb is an inch wide (try it). Measuring a short distance thumb to thumb is the 'rule of thumb'. It means it's rough but better than nothing.

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Posted by BlueGloves
22nd April 2004ce
07:48

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Rule of thumb (Steve Gray)

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Fields Recordings From The Sea

(Annexus Quam, Apr 19, 2004, 18:37)

Settlers, semi-settlers, nomad-hunters (Annexus Quamm, Apr 19, 2004, 18:58)
- Re: Settlers, semi-settlers, nomad-hunters (Earthstepper, Apr 20, 2004, 21:55)
  - Re: Settlers, semi-settlers, nomad-hunters (GordonP, Apr 21, 2004, 20:03)
Re: Fields Recordings From The Sea (TomBo, Apr 19, 2004, 20:54)
- Re: Fields Recordings From The Sea (Hob, Apr 19, 2004, 22:48)
  - Re: Fields Recordings From The Sea (TomBo, Apr 19, 2004, 22:57)
    - Re: Fields Recordings From The Sea (Hob, Apr 19, 2004, 23:10)
      - Re: Fields Recordings From The Sea (FourWinds, Apr 19, 2004, 23:12)
        spare time (TomBo, Apr 19, 2004, 23:15)
        Sudden thought. (Hob, Apr 19, 2004, 23:24)
        Re: Sudden thought. (TomBo, Apr 19, 2004, 23:27)
        Re: Sudden thought. (Hob, Apr 19, 2004, 23:34)
        Re: Sudden thought. (FourWinds, Apr 20, 2004, 06:30)
        fishbrain (morfe, Apr 21, 2004, 09:28)
        Rule of thumb (Steve Gray, Apr 21, 2004, 20:51)
        Re: Rule of thumb (FourWinds, Apr 21, 2004, 21:00)
        Re: Rule of thumb (BlueGloves, Apr 22, 2004, 07:48)
        Re: Sudden thought. (TomBo, Apr 21, 2004, 20:54)
        Classic albino trout tale (FourWinds, Apr 21, 2004, 21:06)
        Throut (FourWinds, Apr 21, 2004, 21:08)
        Re: Throut (TomBo, Apr 21, 2004, 21:17)
        Re: Throut (FourWinds, Apr 22, 2004, 08:59)
        Horned Women (TomBo, Apr 23, 2004, 00:38)
        Re: Horned Women (GordonP, Apr 23, 2004, 20:40)
        Re: Horned Women (FourWinds, Apr 23, 2004, 20:45)
        Re: Sudden thought. (wideford, Apr 19, 2004, 23:45)
        Re: Sudden thought. (TomBo, Apr 19, 2004, 23:51)
        Re: Sudden thought. (TomBo, Apr 19, 2004, 23:56)
        Re: Sudden thought. (fitzcoraldo, Apr 20, 2004, 10:28)
        Re: Sudden thought. (TomBo, Apr 20, 2004, 15:10)
        Shell middens (fitzcoraldo, Apr 20, 2004, 09:47)
        It Comes In Whispers (Annexus Quamm, Apr 20, 2004, 19:06)
        Re: spare time (nigelswift, Apr 20, 2004, 10:14)
        Re: spare time (TomBo, Apr 20, 2004, 18:23)
        Suckling At The Teat (Annexus Quamm, Apr 20, 2004, 19:12)
        the red tide (fitzcoraldo, Apr 20, 2004, 20:31)
        The Sinking & S.T.A.R.C.A.R.R. (Annexus Quamm, Apr 20, 2004, 18:57)
        Re: Fields Recordings From The Sea (Hob, Apr 19, 2004, 23:21)
        Re: Fields Recordings From The Sea (wideford, Apr 19, 2004, 23:43)
        Re: Fields Recordings From The Sea (TomBo, Apr 19, 2004, 23:53)
        Re: Fields Recordings From The Sea (FourWinds, Apr 20, 2004, 06:36)
        Re: Fields Recordings From The Sea (GordonP, Apr 20, 2004, 06:49)
        Re: Fields Recordings From The Sea (FourWinds, Apr 20, 2004, 08:41)
        In This Slaveship (Annexus Quamm, Apr 20, 2004, 19:16)
        Re: In This Slaveship (GordonP, Apr 20, 2004, 19:33)
        Re: Fields Recordings From The Sea (morfe, Apr 22, 2004, 10:59)
        commuting (fitzcoraldo, Apr 22, 2004, 11:51)
        Re: commuting (FourWinds, Apr 22, 2004, 12:11)
        Re: commuting (Annexus Quam, Apr 26, 2004, 21:22)
        Re: Fields Recordings From The Sea (fitzcoraldo, Apr 20, 2004, 09:37)
        Re: Fields Recordings From The Sea (FourWinds, Apr 20, 2004, 10:31)
        time, tide & the domestic idyll (fitzcoraldo, Apr 20, 2004, 11:20)
        Re: time, tide & the domestic idyll (TomBo, Apr 20, 2004, 15:16)
        Re: time, tide & the domestic idyll (FourWinds, Apr 20, 2004, 15:56)
        Re: time, tide & the domestic idyll (fitzcoraldo, Apr 20, 2004, 16:23)
        Forget Atkins (fitzcoraldo, Apr 20, 2004, 16:41)
        Re: Forget Atkins (Hob, Apr 20, 2004, 17:55)
        ideal fires (morfe, Apr 22, 2004, 11:53)
        Re: ideal fires (fitzcoraldo, Apr 22, 2004, 13:42)
        Re: ideal fires (BlueGloves, Apr 22, 2004, 14:11)
        Re: ideal fires (TomBo, Apr 22, 2004, 14:34)
        Re: ideal fires (TomBo, Apr 22, 2004, 14:35)
        Re: ideal fires (morfe, Apr 22, 2004, 16:41)
        Re: ideal fires (TomBo, Apr 23, 2004, 00:41)
    - King Of Province Glacial (Annexus Quamm, Apr 20, 2004, 18:51)
  - Blood Red And True (Annexus Quamm, Apr 20, 2004, 18:49)
- Re: Fields Recordings From The Sea (FourWinds, Apr 19, 2004, 23:09)
  - Re: Fields Recordings From The Sea (TomBo, Apr 19, 2004, 23:23)
    - Re: Fields Recordings From The Sea (GordonP, Apr 20, 2004, 06:07)
      - Re: Fields Recordings From The Sea (FourWinds, Apr 20, 2004, 06:47)
        Re: Fields Recordings From The Sea (GordonP, Apr 20, 2004, 06:52)
        Re: Fields Recordings From The Sea (FourWinds, Apr 20, 2004, 08:39)
        Re: Fields Recordings From The Sea (TomBo, Apr 20, 2004, 15:22)
        Re: Fields Recordings From The Sea (GordonP, Apr 20, 2004, 18:02)
        Re: Fields Recordings From The Sea (TomBo, Apr 20, 2004, 18:15)
        Re: Fields Recordings From The Sea (GordonP, Apr 20, 2004, 18:55)
        Re: Fields Recordings From The Sea (TomBo, Apr 20, 2004, 23:25)
        "slavery outlawed" (TomBo, Apr 20, 2004, 18:19)
        Re: "slavery outlawed" (GordonP, Apr 20, 2004, 18:56)
        Not outlawed ... (FourWinds, Apr 20, 2004, 19:41)
        Re: Fields Recordings From The Sea (TomBo, Apr 20, 2004, 18:26)
        Re: Fields Recordings From The Sea (GordonP, Apr 20, 2004, 18:57)
        Re: Fields Recordings From The Sea (TomBo, Apr 20, 2004, 23:27)
        Re: Fields Recordings From The Sea (TomBo, Apr 20, 2004, 18:29)
        Re: Fields Recordings From The Sea (GordonP, Apr 20, 2004, 18:59)
        Re: Fields Recordings From The Sea (TomBo, Apr 20, 2004, 23:29)
        Re: Fields Recordings From The Sea (FourWinds, Apr 20, 2004, 19:43)
        Re: Fields Recordings From The Sea (nigelswift, Apr 20, 2004, 20:11)
        Re: Fields Recordings From The Sea (TomBo, Apr 20, 2004, 23:35)
        Them and Us (FourWinds, Apr 21, 2004, 00:18)
        Re: Them and Us (TomBo, Apr 21, 2004, 00:39)
        Re: Fields Recordings From The Sea (nigelswift, Apr 21, 2004, 00:55)
        Re: Fields Recordings From The Sea (nigelswift, Apr 21, 2004, 01:29)
        no sound ever comes from the gates of eden (TomBo, Apr 21, 2004, 01:41)
        and as for the stones and mounds... (TomBo, Apr 21, 2004, 01:48)
        Re: and as for the stones and mounds... (FourWinds, Apr 21, 2004, 07:14)
        Re: and as for the stones and mounds... (Hob, Apr 21, 2004, 12:53)
        spot on (morfe, Apr 21, 2004, 13:01)
        Re: and as for the stones and mounds... (FourWinds, Apr 21, 2004, 13:40)
        Re: and as for the stones and mounds... (nigelswift, Apr 21, 2004, 13:46)
        Re: and as for the stones and mounds... (FourWinds, Apr 21, 2004, 14:14)
        Re: and as for the stones and mounds... (BlueGloves, Apr 21, 2004, 14:54)
        keeping the wolf from the door (TomBo, Apr 21, 2004, 16:54)
        Re: keeping the wolf from the door (Rhiannon, Apr 21, 2004, 17:00)
        Re: keeping the wolf from the door (TomBo, Apr 21, 2004, 17:03)
        Re: keeping the wolf from the door (FourWinds, Apr 21, 2004, 17:09)
        Re: keeping the wolf from the door (TomBo, Apr 21, 2004, 17:11)
        Re: keeping the wolf from the door (TomBo, Apr 21, 2004, 17:35)
        Re: keeping the wolf from the door (Hob, Apr 21, 2004, 17:53)
        pine plantations (TomBo, Apr 21, 2004, 17:55)
        Re: keeping the wolf from the door (BlueGloves, Apr 21, 2004, 18:56)
        Re: keeping the wolf from the door (TomBo, Apr 21, 2004, 18:59)
        Old Irish saying ... (FourWinds, Apr 21, 2004, 17:50)
        arborescence (TomBo, Apr 21, 2004, 01:51)
        Re: no sound ever comes from the gates of eden (nigelswift, Apr 21, 2004, 07:30)
        Re: no sound ever comes from the gates of eden (Hob, Apr 21, 2004, 12:17)
        Re: no sound ever comes from the gates of eden (TomBo, Apr 21, 2004, 17:10)
        Re: no sound ever comes from the gates of eden (nigelswift, Apr 21, 2004, 18:38)
        Re: no sound ever comes from the gates of eden (nigelswift, Apr 21, 2004, 08:05)
        Re: no sound ever comes from the gates of eden (BlueGloves, Apr 21, 2004, 08:46)
        Re: no sound ever comes from the gates of eden (nigelswift, Apr 21, 2004, 09:12)
        Re: no sound ever comes from the gates of eden (FourWinds, Apr 21, 2004, 09:46)
        Re: no sound ever comes from the gates of eden (BlueGloves, Apr 21, 2004, 10:03)
        Re: no sound ever comes from the gates of eden (FourWinds, Apr 21, 2004, 12:03)
        Re: no sound ever comes from the gates of eden (nigelswift, Apr 21, 2004, 10:04)
        Re: no sound ever comes from the gates of eden (BlueGloves, Apr 21, 2004, 10:33)
        bringing it all back home (TomBo, Apr 21, 2004, 16:59)
        Re: bringing it all back home (BlueGloves, Apr 21, 2004, 19:07)
        Re: no sound ever comes from the gates of eden (FourWinds, Apr 21, 2004, 11:59)
        Re: no sound ever comes from the gates of eden (GordonP, Apr 21, 2004, 18:08)
        Re: no sound ever comes from the gates of eden (FourWinds, Apr 21, 2004, 19:23)
        Re: no sound ever comes from the gates of eden (GordonP, Apr 21, 2004, 19:59)
        Re: no sound ever comes from the gates of eden (FourWinds, Apr 21, 2004, 20:46)
        Re: no sound ever comes from the gates of eden (FourWinds, Apr 21, 2004, 20:48)
        Re: no sound ever comes from the gates of eden (TomBo, Apr 21, 2004, 20:48)
        Re: no sound ever comes from the gates of eden (GordonP, Apr 21, 2004, 21:02)
        Re: no sound ever comes from the gates of eden (FourWinds, Apr 21, 2004, 21:10)
        Re: no sound ever comes from the gates of eden (BlueGloves, Apr 21, 2004, 21:06)
        Re: no sound ever comes from the gates of eden (TomBo, Apr 21, 2004, 18:16)
        Re: no sound ever comes from the gates of eden (GordonP, Apr 21, 2004, 18:26)
        Re: no sound ever comes from the gates of eden (TomBo, Apr 21, 2004, 19:00)
        Re: no sound ever comes from the gates of eden (GordonP, Apr 21, 2004, 19:56)
        Walden Schmalden (morfe, Apr 21, 2004, 12:37)
        Re: no sound ever comes from the gates of eden (TomBo, Apr 21, 2004, 17:54)
        Re: no sound ever comes from the gates of eden (nigelswift, Apr 21, 2004, 18:28)
        Re: no sound ever comes from the gates of eden (TomBo, Apr 21, 2004, 18:53)
        Re: no sound ever comes from the gates of eden (nigelswift, Apr 21, 2004, 19:55)
        Re: no sound ever comes from the gates of eden (FourWinds, Apr 21, 2004, 19:28)
        Re: no sound ever comes from the gates of eden (BlueGloves, Apr 21, 2004, 20:26)
        a correction (TomBo, Apr 21, 2004, 00:57)
- Opaque (Annexus Quamm, Apr 20, 2004, 18:44)
  - Re: Opaque (FourWinds, Apr 20, 2004, 21:02)
    - Re: Opaque (TomBo, Apr 20, 2004, 23:45)
  - Re: Opaque (TomBo, Apr 20, 2004, 23:41)
stonehenge environs (fitzcoraldo, Apr 20, 2004, 10:11)
- Wined And Dined (Annexus Quamm, Apr 20, 2004, 19:22)
  - Re: Wined And Dined (GordonP, Apr 20, 2004, 19:36)
  - monumental masonry (fitzcoraldo, Apr 20, 2004, 20:51)
    - Sabra Cadabra (Annexus Quam, Apr 21, 2004, 14:57)
- Re: stonehenge environs (BrigantesNation, Apr 21, 2004, 13:11)
  - More Pits At Thornborough (Annexus Quam, Apr 21, 2004, 15:00)
    - Re: More Pits At Thornborough (BrigantesNation, Apr 22, 2004, 15:10)
      - Re: More Pits At Thornborough (Annexus Quam, Apr 22, 2004, 16:45)
New Discoveries in Pastoralism (gorseddphungus, Jun 14, 2005, 10:40)
Re: Fields Recordings From The Sea (FourWinds, Jun 15, 2005, 11:08)

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