How long is a piece of string?

Question: How long is a piece of string?
- Keywords:
  philosophical,
  string
Asked by Isabelle_Sasha to Anna, George, Jodi, Rob, Stefan on 17 Nov 2014.
- Jodi Schneider answered on 17 Nov 2014:
  
  As long as your essay!
  
  (Well, my English teacher always used to answer “how long should my essay be” with: “as long as a piece of string”.)
- George Ryall answered on 17 Nov 2014:
  
  about this long
- Stefan Lines answered on 17 Nov 2014:
  
  As long as you’ve cut it.
- Anna Scaife answered on 19 Nov 2014:
  
  This string? About as long as the one next to it.

Question: How long is a piece of string?