<p>Deus ex's name means God in a Machine. It was an element in Greek plays, I believe.</p>
<p>it's sad that a lot of girls do act the way starman describes. i think it amounts to issues in their childood...</p>
<p>yup, tlaktan is right. i think it's also used as a literary term today for authors who build up all this suspense and then take the easy-@$$ way out with some cheesy plot twist that ties up all the loose ends too neatly. i guess i chose it because i'm afraid my life will turn out to be similar in that i'll leave all my potential (ha as if i have much) unfulfilled. </p>
<p>the origin of punkette is pretty straightforward, but where'd tlaktan come from?</p>
<p>actually, i thought it was god FROM the machine, not god in</p>
<p>5'4" is average for a woman!</p>
<p>way to make those of us who are actually short feel bad. :(</p>
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Tom Cruise is around 5'8" and he doesn't have trouble with the ladies.
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It's Tom Cruise for crying out loud haha. He could be 1' and still get a lot of women. He's a CELEBRITY.</p>
<p>if 5'4 really is average for a woman, all the designers out there must be in a league with the people who produce growth hormones. grrrr. so are you guys shorter or taller than your parents? i'm shorter than both my mom and dad.</p>
<p>hmm i thought it was God as the Machine</p>
<p>I liked tall guys but now I like them about two or three inches taller than me because it gets awkward lookin up all the time. I'm 5'4.</p>
<p>lol - my AP Eng. teacher says it's "God out of the Machine" - haha whatever</p>
<p>yeah I'm 5'6" and girls dont think I'm uber short or weird or anything. And yeah there are a lot of shorter cute girls so don't worry. If you want just grow a beard in college and people will know you are of "normal" age.</p>
<p>I'm taller than my parents. My dad is 5'5'' and my mom is 5'4'' and I am 6'1''. Not quite sure how that works out, but nevertheless.</p>
<p>"Girls totally DIG the guy who ignores them. ^_^"</p>
<p>wow- not true at all, i hate finding out years later that a guy friend had a crush on me and just didn't care to tell me - clearly there are other factors, but if you ignore the girl, she might take that as a hint to move on.</p>
<p>^exactly</p>
<p>that sure happened 4 me. some girl made some subtle advances toward me (well at least i thoguht they were subtle) and i, being the doofus i am, didn't even recognize the signs... and it soon went away</p>
<p>I'm pushing 20 and I'm only 5`5. Honestly it has made it harder to find a girl friend, since if you're shorter they tend to ignore you.</p>
<p>Yeah, it sucks pretty bad when you're the average height of an American female at 5'4''. I try to not think about it, but it's pretty obvious when about 70% of my school is white, and therefore considerably taller than me. I'm an asian male, btw.</p>
<p>if you're the average height of an american female, doesn't that mean half of the female population would be shorter than you? or is it a bell curve model? o_O. perhaps you should just transfer to my 66% asian school where the average female height is lower than usual...</p>
<p>this thread is kinda... interesting. i am 6'5" but my dad is 5'5" and my mom is 5'8". odd, i know. plus, my dad is the tallest perosn in his family. hmmmmmm</p>
<p>I'm 5'7"...maybe 5'8" now, but there are definitely a lot of cute girls shorter than me. There are a couple of girls that I would be all over if I was a little taller. Doctor still says I got some growth in me...hope he is right.</p>
<p>my mom's 5'3" and my dad's 5'4".</p>
<p>I ended up shorter than either of them, although the insanity has only been doubled.</p>
<p>5'4" is taller than average for girls here in India :D So I don't feel too bad</p>
<p>So what does your doctor say about that, adamo? Genetically, you should have topped off at maybe 5'9". No amount of nutrition would get you to 6'5". Maybe a pituitary gland thing?</p>