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Damned compasses can fool some smart people. I remember deer hunting with a friend who
had a very elaborate compass. It was after dark, so we were just planning to do next morning
He looked into eyepiece of the compass, and said "that's North". and pointed - South. The Pole Star
was behind him. He had not thought to look for it.
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...said "that's North". and pointed - South. The Pole Star
was behind him. He had not thought to look for it.
Well, if he had gone off in that direction he would have been quite correct (provided that he went about eighteen thousand miles)!
It's not hard to read the wrong end of a compass needle. Pity they can't make only half of a bar magnet - the North end - to avoid all that confusion. You know: just cut off the South part! [straight-face-e]
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alidade
Isn't that a city in Australia?
No it's a future headline in Variety after the passing of Ali McGraw.
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My uncle Tate Remington did exactly that, and sold compasses that always pointed the wrong way. Certainly, "He who has a Tate's is lost."
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gone astray
Whilst singing the piece recently it occurred to me the imagery of the piece, that sheep are all off doing their own thangs, is not the one we customarily ascribe to sheep, that of following the herd, doing what everyone else is doing. Anybody know which of these stereotypes is more sheeplike IRL?
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sheep are very cleaver...
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very cleaver
Is that cleofan cleaver or cleofian cleaver?
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I think I can safely say, yes.
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