How many jamirs in a kadam?
While watching my newly acquired Indiana Jones DVDs I was reminded of a something that annoyed me in the days before the web. There’s a scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark where an old man is reading the inscription on the (Egyptian?) staff headpiece.
Imam: This was the old way. This means six kadam high.
Sallah: About seventy-two inches.
Imam: Wait.
Imam: “And [...]
