Re: [tlug] Emergency nomikai August 17th?

[Scott Robbins <scottro@example.com>]

On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 04:23:57PM -0700, Keith Bawden wrote:
> >


> Which reminds me of a story (true and scary one at that). I was
> chatting with this bloke from the U.S. and he was irate at how
> "arrogant" the Japanese were. Specifically how they think they are the
> centre of the world. To make his point he showed me a map of the world
> that had Japan firmly centre aligned. I pointed out that this was not
> an indication that Japan was the centre of the world, but simply a
> recognition that Australia was. I did not bother to tell him the Earth
> was no longer flat as at this stage I started to think he was some
> kind of "young Earther"[1].

Well, we in NY know that the old poster from a New Yorker cover is how
people should see the world. 

http://www.scottro.net/nyworldview.png

Ironically, I live between 9th and 10th Avenues.  :)


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Scott Robbins

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