Yeah, we used that measurement in surveys too...until female engineers
started rotating through the survey crews.  Oh, well, probably a good thing.
But we still used a euphonism [SP?] for a gad [steel device for starting or
making a hole in hard ground so that a piece of wood could be driven in].
Surveyors, however, have an excuse as they are the lowest form of life on
the planet [or a highway construction job at least] outside of a water truck
driver.

Mike
'85 Westy [longing for the bad old days, mainly cause they were my young
days I suspect]

> FWIW:  a human hair measures ~.003" in diameter - 3 one-thousandths of an
> inch.  There exists a penultimate unit of measure that made it's way down
> from NACA in the old days known as RCH - ostensibly the finest unit of
> measure ever detected, but which I can't divulge in a public/family forum
> (let yer polluted imaginations run wild,  & the context is that in the old
> Apollo days it was definitely a man's world, that going into space
business!).
>
> Austin