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Subject: Re: Geography
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Date: Wed, 20-Jun-84 15:44:40 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 20 15:44:40 1984
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, (sop to the blank line eaters--consider it a religious sacrifice)

  In a recent posting, 
	Wm Leler
	tektronix!tekchips!wm
	wm.Tektronix@csnet-relay

posted what he refered to as a "Definitive Geography of the
Contiguous United States".  The joke is truely on him.  As the
originator of the original geography lesson put on the net by
the man I gave it to, I can tell you that it was written tounge
in cheek at those people so geocentric that they define a local
by how it relates to them.  Many of the readers seem to think
that this is how it should be, or that because someone before
us named it that way it should stay that way.  Well, if that
is the case then we had better go back to calling ourselves the
"far East", as that is how the Europeans who founded the settlements
thought of this continent for a long time.  Mr. Leler has made
the least step in admitting that local has something to do with
how you think of other places by listing exceptions (e.g. in
LA the coast is NYC), but missed the fact that the original
posting to the net included the injoinder that when in Washington
he was to think of it in the way it was posted.

  I wrote a long paragraph that was mostly a tirade against wrong
(as in I don't agree with it) thinking but this is net.jokes so
I played a joke on myself and erased it.

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