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At 17:43 07/12/96 -0500, you wrote:
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>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
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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
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