"How big is a bee's dick."
2. anything small or insignificant
"John skidded off the road only to miss a girl on a bicycle by half a "bee's dick!"
Or then again as stated in this discussion group @ seabreeze.com.au by a guy called Skid, it seems their could be a finite measurement and who knew a Bee's dick was imperial and not metric.
Well, I do now!
Thanks to Skid all has been explained:
Definitely imperial! In a former life I was a fitter & turner; in the trade, a bee's dick was 'half a thou' (ie. 0.0005") however the use of the term was expanded to include any amount that was 'less than a thou'*. Perhaps Frant was a boilermaker? (boilermakers having, over time, adopted their own approach to measurement & tolerances). Any serious discussion on this matter would not be complete without mentioning another imperial unit, the "c*nt hair". This unit is a distance equal to 'two thou' (ie. 0.002") (plus or minus a bee's dick). Those of you with access to both a micrometer and an actual "c*nt hair" will be able to verify this. Note: both the "bee's dick" and "c*nt hair" are singular units, and as such are only used by themselves and never in the plural sense. You would NEVER refer two "two bee's dicks", or "three c*nt hairs"; that would just be silly!
I trust that this helps clear things up.
*Reference: Page 2435 MAchinery's handbook, 25th edition, 1996 Industrial Press Inchttp://www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/General-Discussion/Chat/A-Bees-dick-metric-or-imperial/
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