or you are 8 times biggar than when you were a kid.

( urbane legend i have known the inexorable sadness of pencils, Wed 14 May 2008, 15:04, archived)

Or eight times further away from said confectionary.

( wheelybird http://www.creativecraving.co.uk/shops/the-aviary, Wed 14 May 2008, 15:04, archived)

That wuld mean when you were younger
wagon wheels would be over a foot in diameter.
( hexachordal GO SPORT, Wed 14 May 2008, 15:05, archived)

Yes.

( wheelybird http://www.creativecraving.co.uk/shops/the-aviary, Wed 14 May 2008, 15:07, archived)

ah, halcyon days
*goes misty-eyed*
( urbane legend i have known the inexorable sadness of pencils, Wed 14 May 2008, 15:14, archived)