If you've ever used a pica pole...

[P Thought]

...you know what I'm thinking.

 

[teletimetx]

As soon as I’ve finished this obit, and assuming we have the three column inches that it truly merits, I’ll get back to you on that story about buggy whips.

 

[don71]

I had to look it up.

It wasn't hard to gauge after that.

 

[clydethecat]

Fishing for pika?

 

[BigDaddyLH]

Lemme finish picking a peck of pickled peppers

 

[P Thought]

I’ll get back to you on that story about buggy whips.

Oh, Mrs. Harris, you long-legged, stern typing teacher. . . ?

 

[Lowerleftcoast]

Pretty sure I don't know what you are thinking...

b u t y o u a r e s h o w i n g y o u r a g e, and background.

EDIT: Hah! The sight didn't use my spacing.

 

[drf64]

Oliver Cromwell’s long dead head was attached to one.

 

[lowatter]

It's a gauge to measure font sizes in graphic design etc. I used them daily as a young man when I was in working in the publishing industry. I haven't seen one in many years.

 

[elihu]

In the healthcare world Pica is a psychological disorder manifested by eating substances that have no nutritional value. This can include dirt, paper, clay etc.

We can merge the meanings if someone wants to step up and eat the pica pole.

 

[drf64]

In the healthcare world Pica is a psychological disorder manifested by eating substances that have no nutritional value. This can include dirt, paper, clay etc.

We can merge the meanings if someone wants to step up and eat the pica pole.

BadDog Festivus

 

[P Thought]

I haven't seen one in many years.

A great photographer I ain't. Although I guess now where page production is concerned it's gone the way of the slantboard, the light table, the waxer, the exacto blade, border tape, the darkroom, phototypesetting, the PMT, and the reduction wheel I still like mine, so I kept a couple of them when I "retired" from my advertising business. It at least makes a great straightedge for cutting, drawing, woodburning, etc.

I always liked the pica scale, 6 picas to the inch and 12 points to the pica. And I'm sure I'm not the only guy building ads who discovered that if you use pica measurements with a calculator, you can figure the percentage of reduction or enlargement you need (Original / Desired = decimal percentage; will be obviously wrong if you do the equation backward) faster than you can find your "wheel".

 

[P-Nutz]

We called 'em pica sticks ... them thar poles is fighting' words ...

 

[BigDaddyLH]

Now for the bigguns...