Re: Big Pins

In article <m5l6t35gil8b0kgf0th3up6bq0c7gvglq6@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Bob Ward  <bobward@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Sun, 09 Mar 2008 02:07:11 GMT, ebenZEROONE@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Hactar)
> wrote:
> 
> >In article <Xns9A5BA88BC9038944818cac31cddd2466d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> >groo  <afcagroo@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >> 
> >> Do people do that? We always just call it the bathroom scales.  
> >
> >Not normally, but if I want to differentiate it from some other type of
> >scale I might refer to it so.
> 
> I have seen the traditional doctor's scale referred to as a "beam
> balance".

I'd probably only say that if I were feeling ornery.  But I'd settle on
"that scale-like thing with the weights at eye level".  But if there
were one of those and a bathroom scale in the room, I'm not sure what
identifying characteristics I'd emphasize.

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