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Ontario man's 8-foot zucchini might be the longest in world (www.upi.com)
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Not a euphemism

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

The current record is eight foot thirty three inches…? Did I hear that right?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

3.3 not 33 (at least that's what the article says now anyway)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Goddamn “engineering units”

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Video definitely sounds like thirty, but also 3.3 that doesn’t correlate to any imperial fraction they would measure with, so it’s weird it would even be that regardless. American units and how you express them are weird. If it was measured at 3/8 than us .375 or round correctly.