Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site teldata.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!zehntel!tektronix!uw-beaver!teltone!teldata!tac From: tac@teldata.UUCP () Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Re: Geography Message-ID: <402@teldata.UUCP> Date: Wed, 20-Jun-84 15:44:40 EDT Article-I.D.: teldata.402 Posted: Wed Jun 20 15:44:40 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 22-Jun-84 20:38:51 EDT References: <783@trwrba.UUCP> <875@tekchips.UUCP> Organization: Teltone Corp., Kirkland, WA Lines: 37 , (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. From the Soapbox of Tom Condon {...!uw-beaver!teltone!teldata!tac} There is nothing which keeps the idiots away. DISCLAIMER: The opinions expressed herein are those of everyone who matters, but not necessarily anyone you know, and most certainly not my employers!