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- From: dinn@ug.cs.dal.ca (Michael 'Moose' Dinn)
- Subject: Peeve: Geography Weenies
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- References: <1992Nov18.025507.1200@dg-rtp.dg.com> <1992Nov19.192306.9182@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 21:17:57 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov19.192306.9182@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> bberbeni@nyx.cs.du.edu (Bill Berbenich) writes:
- >I'll tell ya, it must be the nippy air and snow up thataway. Or maybe being
- >on an ISLAND, which I think Nova Scotia is, isn't it?
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- If you look really carefully at a map, you can see blue stuff. This is water.
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- If you look really carefully at the same map, you will (typically) see green
- stuff. This is land.
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- An island is a small bit of land surrounded by water.
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- Find a map with Nova Scotia on it. See? we aren't surrounded by water.
- Therefore we aren't an island.
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- Peeve: Geography Weenies.
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- Peeve: having to use the terminal and 1200 baud modem I lent my SO rather
- than use the USR HST I have at home.
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