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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 2 of 2 1 2 Re: I'm not a kangaroo either #11984 12/19/2000 4:34 PM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,757 maverick Carpal Tunnel maverick Carpal Tunnel Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,757 F.Y.I. all, Shona has been enslaved... Is there something you need to tell us, oh faithless jezo-bel? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter The world turned rightside up #11985 12/19/2000 5:50 PM Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 3,467 Marion NC TEd Remington Carpal Tunnel TEd Remington Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 3,467 Marion NC > We actually publish maps which/that show the world the right way up. With apologies to General Cornwallis! I had one of those maps for years -- If I remember arightly it was the McCregor's Universal Corrective Map of the World. A nice Mercator projection with the South Pole at the top where it belongs, with Oz and NZ equidistant from the vertical center of the map. Mine was probably a meter plus wide and a meter high. It disappeared during an office move some years back. I bought it in Sydney Airport on my way out of the country back in 1986 and it (along with my Akubra hat) was one of my souvenirs of a wonderful trip. The Akubra finally fell apart after almost 15 years of service. The only thing I had done to it to alter it was to replace the hatband with the skin of a rattler I ran over while cycling west of Denver. TEd Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter The Center of the World #11986 12/20/2000 7:08 AM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,788 Seattle, Washington, USA Father Steve Carpal Tunnel Father Steve Carpal Tunnel Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,788 Seattle, Washington, USA I once bought a map of the world in Korea which showed China in the middle. Given the meaning of the Chinese name for China, that makes sense. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: The Center of the World #11987 12/20/2000 8:32 AM Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 3,146 Northamptonshire, England Capital Kiwi Carpal Tunnel Capital Kiwi Carpal Tunnel Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 3,146 Northamptonshire, England Given the meaning of the Chinese name for China, that makes sense. Oh, you're no doubt referring to the muddle dictatorship? The idiot also known as Capfka ... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: The Center of the World #11988 12/20/2000 8:49 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Father Steve freely states: I once bought a map of the world in Korea which showed China in the middle. Given the meaning of the Chinese name for China, that makes sense. Black Elk, the Lakota holy man, mentioned in his book Black Elk Speaks that a certain place was the center of the World. He expanded on his comment by noting that every place was the center of the World but some places were better at it than others. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: constipated parties #11989 12/20/2000 10:32 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 1,981 jmh Pooh-Bah jmh Pooh-Bah Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 1,981 Shanks, you go to the strangest parties! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Page 2 of 2 1 2 Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary

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