One of my high school principals and coaches was 5 ft 23 inches. He did play basketball in college. And, he drove an unmodified Volkswagen Beetle.
Emmett
On that same topic, back in HS, we used to ask really tall people "So, can you see your house from up there?"
Don't recall getting any clever responses to that. But I love Ken's response of "So, do you play miniature golf?"
One would hope that, as a culture, we'd by now have moved beyond the need to comment about physical differences. And that seems to be the case for disabilities, gender, race, obesity, etc. But for some reason, it persists with height. I wonder why that is. Envy perhaps? I can't imagine one 5 ft 23 inch person asking another 5 ft 23 inch person "So, nice weather up here, huh?"
EDIT: On second thought ... if I were a 5 foot 23 inch person, and met another one, that just might be a clever conversation starter. 🙂
Some folks probably think the basketball question is flattery or at worst harmless. From that point of view, the miniature golf retaliation must sound completely uncalled-for. That is if they finally get the point of it at all, given that they had failed to get the basketball part in the first place.
Re Soda Suicide
In Bermuda a mixture of all of the sodas is called a "round the world". It is so much a part of the culture that you will find the mix labelled on most fountain soda dispensers labelled as "roun d world" 🙂
Hilarious and uniquely Bermudian I am sure.
The schoolyard rhyme "Three six nine..." was used in "The Clapping Song" by Shirley Ellis in 1965, reaching the top ten in the US and the UK.