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#125799 03/23/04 02:48 AM
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>>and sound as erudite as the rest of youse guys<<

That's you'ze guys.
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That's you'ze guys.

I cannot compass what "you'ze" means.


#125801 03/24/04 12:36 AM
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The compass rose is the symbol of the Anglican Communion and the official logo of the Anglican Consultative Council.

http://www.epischicago.org/Faith/Heritage/AboutCompassRose.cfm



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compass rose

The secular version is not capitalized and it is not symbolic, only stylized.

http://www.eoascientific.com/cartography/aaMaps_M3_compass_Z.htm


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This site gives an interesting brief history of the compass rose. It has apparently been appearing on maps since the 1300s.

http://www.gisnet.com/notebook/comprose.html

The expression ‘boxing the compass’, by the way, means to name all 32 points of the compass in correct order. It has come to figuratively indicate a state of confusion.



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Re "Boxing the compass": It has come to figuratively indicate a state of confusion.

Good one, dxb.

It's like "You're all over the map."

Or you're "spinning your wheels" ... except with a needle.

Which reminds me ... I should start a new thread.


#125805 03/24/04 01:31 PM
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I learned to box the compass when a young sailor in Uncle Sam's Navy. It struck me as such important and necessary knowledge that I taught it to my children when they were wee. Each of then could stand at attention and box the compass, loudly, by the time they were five years old. It is a nautical thing ... or perhaps a salty form of child abuse.



#125806 03/24/04 01:33 PM
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Hey, ya only gots ta know one direction. East. Then ya'll never git disorientated.


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Unless you are in Hawaii - where N.S.E.W. are useless!
For example, on O'ahu (where Honolulu is) directions are given as toward Diamond Head, toward Ewa (pronounced evah) toward the mountain -mauka or toward the sea - makai.
So you might hear directions as "Go Diamond Head three blocks then turn mauka and Kinau Street is the first left."
Since all the Hawaiian islands are basically volcanos they all have a mountain and - must I mention? - they are all surrounded by the sea!
There are similar directions based on local landmarks on each of the majotr islands - Maui, Hawaii (the Big Island) Molokai, Kaui and Lanai - but I'm not going into all that, thank you! ;)
While I'm on the subject - as a matter of courtesy the contiguous states are called The Mainland - never as The States. After all, Hawaii is a state!!

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