Arlo and Belafron were prancing about in utter darkness.

Suddenly, Arlo tripped over a telephone pole and shouted in pain.

Belafron asked, "what happened?"

Arlo replied, "I was prancing about in utter darkness, whereupon I was viciously attacked by this telephone pole."

Bewildered, Belafron slapped Arlo across the face with a slice of pepperoni pizza, and the two of them swam fifteen miles down the Erie canal.

To all progressive people on this board:
15 miles is an ancient unit of measurment that equals 24 km.

To 97% of the UK - a "km" is called a "kilometre" most know it, few really care - but it's used a lot on the continent.
Just remember that "100" is 60 and "50" is 30 and you'll avoid a speeding ticket

In the UK you will never hear it mentioned, of course.

Like a UK person who measures himself in cm, it might be quoted just to "show off" or perhaps to appear to be intelectually superior (to the individual concerned)- but that's about all.

TTH stands for "The Truth Hurts", by the way

"In the UK you will never hear it mentioned, of course."

Unless you're reading the previous post, of course.

eh?

Conrad's earlier answer underestimates the equivalent of 15 miles by 141 metres (or 154 yards)

You mentioned kilometre and are presumably in the UK.

...and are posting on a board about metric and imperial measures.

I guess the damn word had to come out sooner or later!