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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
 
"Your honor, my client said he would beat his victim within an inch of his life. Unfortunately the victim is from Europe, and only speaks metric. Therefore, your honor, the victim brought this upon himself, and my client can hardly be held responsible for a simply misunderstanding due to language." |
Not all Europe! (Calm down STEED!) Britain invented Yards, Feet, and Inches, along with many other measurements.
If you go back to Tudor times, that story would have been 'within three barlycorns...'
