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Hey, Uncle Norman,
Back at any particular reason why you're covered
in paper. Mache? A Ah, yes. I am working on a new
project. What's the new project? Well, I need
a bust of myself. Okay? Like a statue of
you, like from the dressed up abs. Chibli came
and got it, and I was hoping that, you know, we could make one.
So, what do you need a bust for? Will?
I can't really tell you very
What was that? I never learned howto wink with one eye.
Okay? No. Does this have anything to do with
your mom?
Mysterious work. I
told you. Stereo secret.
So, um, kids, uh, able to help me out here with this
bust? Sure. You have a tape measure rolled up my
sleeve?
Actually, yeah.
Hey, that's okay. Way can use this.
I'll need your son. All right.
Right on. No
way. We're going to go. Are you saying that you could
make a bust of me just by measuring the base of my thumb with a piece of
string? Yeah, You're sometimes too well. D'oh!
This I gotta see.
Thank you so much for meeting with us today.
We want to make a bust of Uncle Norm, and we figured we should talk to someone
who knows a lot about body measurements and especially someone who knows something
about the rule of thumb. So do you think you could show us how there's a couple of things you need
to know? For example, where is the eye inside the head? Where
exactly does it locate? Take a measurement from the norms
are his chin and then from a redeye to the
top of his head, and you'll see those measurements are almost the same.
His eyes are exactly in the middle of it. That's
a relief. This'll type of measurement is called a non
standard measurement, right? No,
I don't always need to use a ruler when your mission. So there's another thing that
I learned in school, and it's called the rule of Thumb. Do you think you could show us that
Yes. Years ago, people use this measurement around the base of
the funds. Go once around once, twice
around twice. That measurement is equal
to measurement right around the wrist. Wow, You
wanted to go once around
twice around 20 surround three times
three times around and that measurement
would give you the measurement around your
bandanna door. Did you
know that every person, just about every person, is seven feet
tall with Wait a minute, don't I? I know. I
know. A lot of people I know very few people who are seven feet. Oh, I mean, that's
like a basketball, not seven feet tall. Oh, me
seven of your own.
So, really, those are body rules.
You believe this is math
twice around your some will definitely do. Causes people to your risk.
That's right. For me. A new stretch out your arms with all your mind
fingertip to figure chip the same as your height. That's right. The same was
your height. Here's a thing that's cool. Talking matter,
buddy. Our buddy rules. We don't need a ruler or misery
we can use because you are
our body rules.
Yeah. Hey, their
uncle Norm, Let's is use this space for our clubhouse. We do a
lot of really cool things here, and when it comes to cool, nothing beats are
pulled down screen. Check this out. I
discovered that the length of my arm span that's the distance from
fingertip fingertip is equal to my height. No kidding.
See what happens when I take a little
awesome. This works. We pretty much everyone, but not for
some people. Like basketball players, for instance.
Ah, lot of them have super long arms. And this cool way of
measuring height might not work for them. See, the difference when we spend this guy
around his
are span is actually longer than this high. That's why he's so
great a dunking balls into the basket and why he doesn't need to ask anyone
to pass him the potatoes at the supper table.
But for pretty much everyone else, this cool body rule works.
And there are a lot of sayings that include body parts. Like Uncle Norm is a
head taller than when I know it's
pretty amazing. No one standard measure. You use one thing to measure
another, and in this case, a part of your body. Yep.
Body rules, Uncle Norm, Are you ready to make your
bus? Boy, this is so exciting, but won't use paper
which didn't work too well. Well, that's
true. What kind of material shall we use for the bust
on? We're gonna mold or shaping using your body measurements
because, you know, you
start off with measuring the base of your thumb again. No, this non standard
measurement will give us all the other measurements you need to make the bus.
So this is the length of your head, OK? Yes. And if we turn it on
its side on double it, we should get the width of your
shoulders. And it does look a that it works perfectly.
Finishing touches.
Great.
All right, I think we're done. Guys, this is mag
measure. Magnificent. That would be non standard mission.
Yeah, right. You try saying Magnin center measurement
isn't Whoa, Can you say that again?
I don't think so. So are you
finally going to tell us why you need this bust? Well, first,
I'd like to make a few calls finishing touches
here. Help me out, Kevin. Sure. Thanks. Okay, you take that in, I'll take this
end. Very careful. He's important while
they finish up. I'm gonna show you how you can make something really cool using the
rule of thumb body rule. It's
nonstandard. Fishermen don't matter where the ruler went
because we could do a thing with the simple piece of
string to your thing. with a simple business string. Here's a thing
that matter, buddy. Our buddy rules we
don't deliver or misery because
so I mentioned earlier being creative, using our body rules. Now I'm gonna
show you exactly how you can do that. Let's say you want to make a present for a
friend or family member. I was thinking we could make a wristband for
them. All right. So earlier, I measured the base of my thumb two
times on. I made a mark right there. So after we do
that, you place it on the material you're using. Now I'm using leather, but you can
use anything you find around your house. All right, so we put this string
down at the edge, and then we make a mark
right there. All right, now, once you've made
your mark, you're gonna take scissors and cut it. Now, you may want to get a grown up to help you with
scissors, because they could be really tricky. Sometimes I'll show you something that I made
earlier. I did the exact same thing, except I made
it a little smaller. And I punched two holes on either side using
this hole punch So what you do first is take the string
and folded in two. You take the loops part of this string
and feed it through the hole. That and
then you take the other two ends of the string and feed it through the
big loop on the other side. And then you tighten
it, just like
let me do the exact same thing on the other side.
Okay, Now you've got your bracelet, so I'm
gonna use my glue input a
line straight across it. But now I'm going to take some of these
sparkles and put them
right on top of the glue. And you do this all
the way down the line. Now you have to wait for this
thio set and dry so that the sparkles will be in place when you put it
around your wrist. So now that the glue has dried, I'm gonna
take off the excess sparkles by shaking it like this. And
this is what we get.
This is an ankle. It and all I had to dio was measure the base of my
thumb two and 1/2 times and I got the distance around my ankle
when I made this cute little decoration in this fringe is neat, huh?
So all you need is your imagination and non standard measurements. And, of
course, the rule. The rule of thumb. Yeah, our body
rules.
I love it. It's like having two mi's. Isn't that
wonderful? But is the world ready for to Uncle
Norm's? Oh, boy, this is going to work perfectly.
Yeah, great work. Perfectly For
what Exactly? Well, for my new security system, of course.
Imagine you're outside that window and you look in now what do you think
you'd see a bunch of old junk?
Wait. See Uncle Norm in the
workshop? Abs intensively. Kittery
knows. And if people think I'm in here working,
then I could be elsewhere doing my really important
work. Oh, and what? Is that really
important? Well, I have to make sure
Nice dry came in. Sorry, buddy. It's a ll.
Well, I've got to say that is one cool bust. And you did it all using
non standard measurement, using one body part to get the measurements
of others. Like I've always said our body rules
right on, Uncle Norm.
Well, look at the time. I'm sorry. You've got to go Of course, it's time for you to
go now. Yes, yes. I'm sure you have homework to do. And of course, you want to read your
books and your friends and enjoy some outside time. Yeah, Yeah, but by
but by Uh huh, Uh huh.
Works perfectly. Oh, boy.
You security system?
Yes. Now I'm
free to do my very, very important secret work,
huh?
Uh,
no.
Twice around your some will definitely do. Could the people to your risk.
That's right. For me. A new stretch out your arms with all your mind
fingertip to fingertip the same as your height. That's right. The famous
your height, years of school,
everybody Our body rules. We don't need a or misery
we can use because our body Yeah, yeah, yeah, Our
body, our body rules. It's nonstandard. Fishermen
don't matter where the ruler went because we could do a thing
with the simple piece of string to your thing with a simple business. String
is a thing that our buddy
Wait, don't deal or measuring. Use are
because of money. Here's a
body. Our body rules. We don't need it.
We can use our body. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah! Our
body rules.
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