2 messages.------------------------Johnnie ---------------------------------------------------- >Date: Sat, 31 Jan 1998 11:36:40 -0800 (PST) >From: Connie Manson <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Re: response to "Carto-humor" posted Jan 28,1998 I invite all you map junkies out there to carefully check your copies of our Geologic Map 34, "Geologic Map of Washington--Northeast Quadrant" for the unit labeled eieio For GM 39, the Southeast Quadrant, one of our cartos almost got away with labeling a creek near Walla Walla, Wash. as "Walla Walla Bing Bang" but got nabbed. And, all that jokester's working copies of the Port Townsend quadrangle are carefully named the Pete Townsend quadrangle, although his boss sternly disapproves. It's a joke--Get it? -- Connie Manson, Washington Div. Geology & Earth Resources ------------------------------------------------------------- >From: "Taylor,Iain [Dartmouth]" <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: RE: Sheep Hits >Date: Sat, 31 Jan 1998 18:03:16 -0400 There is rumoured within Canadian topo. mapping circles to be somewhere in the wilds of the North West Territories, where the lakes outnumber the lands the legacy of a bored photogrammatrist (or perhaps just about to retire) who spelt out a crude and direct message to his superior in the various lake shapes. One could I suppose search the several thousand 1:50,000 NTS sheets in an attempt to disprove this Ottawa urban legend, but before dismissing it as such one should recall that the artist Whistler in his brief career with the US Hydrographic Dept. got his marching orders for adding tastefully drawn seagulls on the panorama of a North West Coastal US chart. I believe it used to be the tradition in newspaper publishing to attempt to slip a uncomplimentary message to the sub-editor by linking up the first letters of a column. Most of these were caught by their notorious eagle eyes, but I had a friend who 30 years ago always carried in his wallet one that got through on the front page of the [Toronto] Globe & Mail perpetrated by a retiring (next day) reporter! E-mail: [log in to unmask] >