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Originally Posted by Toilet & Bowels, the pedantic Limey
Preposterous, even a simpleton knows an upright position for a ruler is for it to "lie flat", and that ruler's "height" is no more than the few millimetres between its larger "top" and "under" sides. So not only is the diagram illogical, it is also anatomically incorrect!
Please observe these anatomically correct, scientific diagrams of an anthropmorphised ruler:
fig.1
fig.2
the height of a ruler is determined by the measurent of the side placed on the y axis in fig.2.
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Pfffffft. Maybe BRITISH rulers.
The horizontal orientation of the body of the ruler is far too impractical. An anthropomorphized ruler's function is not, like the inanimate ruler, to measure, but to mingle with other less fortunate species, pleasing aesthetically with its precise symmetry and prudent right angles and socially with its jocular charm and playful persona. These duties require convenient mobility, which would quite obviously be hindered by such extensive width as that of the above-referenced diagram. Doorways, corridors, narrow Italian alleyways, and basic household furniture would be impossible to utilize for the horizontal ruler. Therefore, to accomodate these expanded functions, the evolved ruler stands upright in the lengthwise vertical position as portrayed by the initial drawing.