I'm so short, I have to look up to see Danny DiVito's head! I can even walk under a dik dik without bending over. Now that's short!

(Ex-military types will know the meaning of this post)

GAHUNTER,

I am so short I can set on the edge of a dime and my feet not reach the ground!

May 5th.

GAHUnter,

In the Vietnam days we said we were so short we could sit on a dime and dangle our lets

Sprig

I mean legs not lets.

Sprig

"I'm so short that I have to lace my boots from the inside!" That was my favorite. My "short-timer" calendar had a little Marine in a boot. You filled in a numbered area for each of the last 100 days in country. I wish I'd kept mine. I wonder if anyone who posts here has his and can scan it. I'd love to see one.

I well remember watching DC-8's and 707's turning over the ocean and climbing for the clouds... and me knowing to the day when I'd be on a "Freedom Bird" on my way to "the Real World".... and when that time came (actually two days early) how anti-climatic it was and how much I hated to leave the best men I've ever met.

Have a good trip, Leon! Don't let no stinkin' buffalo get ya!

Semper Fi..

I'm so short I have to look up in order to see down.

Are you a single digit midget?

there was a time I was so "SHORT" my hairs didn't curl.
Judge my 100 day calidenar was a poster of Fahra Fawcet can you guess where my "0" ended up? (she was good loking back then....me too )

I don't know what I lost first my hair or the ability to spell correctly.
calendar look those are pretty basic words must need more Ginkoba!

i'm so short i've got 2 ft legs.........REALLY....25" inseams on my jeans......makes it fun to buy jeans.....33x25 size pants are what i wear ...try to find that size in wally's..... thats why i have a hot loaded 6"model 27 as an equalizer..........


the 2nd amendment protects short people too.......

Congrats! I started keeping a short-timers calendar more than 6 months out!

I'm 6'5" tall. It's nearly impossible to get any sober individual to believe me telling them I'm short.

When I was coming home, and the plane took off out of Kuwait, everyone on the plane hollered and applauded -- except me. Silently, I knew it wasn't over until we were out of "theater airspace." I just "knew" we were going to get hit by a surface-to-air missile or something.

Clearly, though... and gratefully... I was wrong.

We landed in Topeka on Valentine's Day, 2004.

Anyway... I've never really been "short."

Russ

Maybe it was just an Air Force thing, but our short timers ribbon was that gold cloth braid that was wrapped around the top of the bag that Crown Royal comes in. I wore mine proudly.

mike I have a quilt made out of those velvet blue bags for my bed at hunting camp!

"I'm so short I can do chin-ups on a staple."

When I was "in country," your were ostracized if you started your short-timer's calendar more than 69 days out.

Have no idea where they got the "69" number from!

And yes, I am now a single-diget midget.

I stand a mere 4ft 29inches.

I was once so short I could do a ten second free fall parachute jump off the thin edge of a dime.

lawndart

Now that's SHORT!

Congrats,

BTW, I'm so friggin' short, I have to reach up to touch bottom!!!! On Terminal baby....TERMINAL!

In South Africa we had the same thing for our National Service - it was 2 years. You were only considered really short at 40 days. (Occasion for a wild party) before "Klaaring out" (Clearing out) You then had "Min Dae" (Few days), and yes you kept a "Min Dae Calender" which was on your webbing or your bush hat (if you were in the bush) or on a poster (if you were a REMF).

We'd say to the newbies "I've got as many hours as you've got DAYS!!!"

Cheers

pete

8 days and a wake-up...

"Call me anything you want today but tomorrow call me long distance"

Ah, now I understand a mail I got from a friend a while back, who wrote that he was so short he had to reach up to cut his toe-nails...

I had not heard the expression before.

In Swedish National Service we used ordinary combs, and cut a tooth for each day.

Regards,
Martin

I am no where near shooooort-349 Days-first trip -S.A ,pistol hunting going for plains game Kudu,Nyala,bushbuck,maybe Eland....


Sean

Well, I am now so short that I just took my first dose of Malarone.

Unless you're sitting on the plane, you're going to have a hard time beating that one!