2 messages.----Johnnie
 
 
 
>Date: Mon, 02 Feb 1998 09:14:29 -0800
>From: Martana Rybnicek <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: Carto-humor?
 
 
Regarding the name "Dog Shit Park" on our Santa Barbara, CA map, I'm sorry
to say that is truly the name of the park.  The park was most probably
named by the UCSB students that inhabit that area of town.
 
 
 
 
 
At 01:15 PM 1/31/98 EST, you wrote:
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>One of our students (clearly with too much time on his
>hands) noticed on the Sheep Mountain, ID 7.5 minute topo
>quad 1997 printing the name =93Sheepshit=94 (at approx. N 47 29
>W 115 33). Since it's not in GNIS, we suspect this a
>cartographer's little joke.  Anyone know if it's a real
>place?
>
>Phil Hoehn, Map Bibliographer
>Branner Earth Sciences Library
>Stanford University
>Stanford, CA 94305-2210
>phoehn=40sulmail.stanford.edu
>
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>Can't say if this is a real place...but it surely isn't the only example of
>"colorful" naming. For one example, I have a MapLink map of Santa Barbara
>(Calif.) that locates "Dog Shit Park."
>
 
>Sincerely,
>
>Charles R. Neuschafer
>New World Maps, Inc.
>Apple Hill Road
>Bennington, VT 05201-9544
>(802 442-2846
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>Date: Mon, 02 Feb 1998 09:30:04 -0800
>From: Mark Crotteau <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: Sheep's Hit
 
 
Pete might object also, since his name is spelled "Townshend."
 
Mark Crotteau
Washington State University
Pullman, WA   <[log in to unmask]>
 
 
At 05:33 PM 1/31/98 EST, you wrote:
>2 messages.------------------Johnnie
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>>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
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>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
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>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
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>>From: "Taylor,Iain [Dartmouth]" <[log in to unmask]>
>>Subject: RE: Sheep Hits
>>Date: Sat, 31 Jan 1998 18:03:16 -0400
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>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.
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>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.
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>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!
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