----------------------------Original message---------------------------- At 17:43 07/12/96 -0500, you wrote: >----------------------------Original message---------------------------- >Last night I was working on a project with some friends who are NOT >oriented to anything geographical (three of them are salespeople, one is a >bank examiner, one runs a pre-school). We were talking about getting >Christmas/Hannukah presents and one lady mentioned she'd seen a globe for >sale that was "anatomically correct". That gave me the giggles and I >thought you guys would like it too. Of course, what she meant was that the >globe had a relief surface with mountains and valleys rather than the >usual smooth surface that many globes have. She has actually bought one >for her four-year-old extremely precocious nephew. ;-) Except, of course, it was NOT "anatomically correct", unless either (a) it was an incredibly large globe indeed; or (b) the world's mountains have shot up significantly since I last looked! In scale terms, the height of even Mount Everest, or the Mariana Trench, would be less than the regular production irregularities found on the surface of a globe the diameter of a ten-pin bowling ball. So what she bought was not "anatomically correct", but rather a cartographic example of the type of anatomical exaggeration we males are invariably characatured (mostly by the female of the species!) as exhibiting! Don't you just hate a pedant? :-) Regards Darius *************************************************************************** Darius Bartlett Darius Bartlett Department of Geography Roinn na Tireolaiochta University College Cork Colaste na hOllscoile Corcaigh Cork, Ireland Corcaigh, Eire Phone: (+353) 21 902835 Fax: (+353) 21 271980 Internet: [log in to unmask] WWW: http://www.ucc.ie:80/ucc.depts/geography --------------------------------------------------------------------------- This message was transmitted using 100% recycled electrons.... ***************************************************************************