I agree with your measurement technique, BodyScape. That's how I do it!
And, though I am not fighting pissed off like you are BodyScape, I do detest the liars. It hasn't caused any real problems with us like it seemingly has for you ... we just had the one incident and I just wrote it off to the guy being a total weirdo in every sense. lol I mean, I guess I should have clued in that if he could stand next to my husband, who at 6'2.5 towered over him by at least a good two inches, and say with a straight face that he was 6'5 ... it should have tipped me off that he was exaggerating his penis size as well.