[extropy-chat] Geowanking

[The Avantguardian]

--- Emlyn <emlynoregan at gmail.com> wrote:

> Australians will be scratching out their eyes in
> horror at this
> subject line, but apparently this is the name of a
> list for elite GPS
> and mapping enthusiasts. I just had to mention it,
> maybe some of my
> fellow Aussies can describe what it suggests to
> them? Our cultures
> (Aussies and generic US internet) are so close, but
> there is the odd
> catastrophic disconnect.

Perhaps it is an obscure reference to a oft repeated,
and possibly urban-mythological, story of a school
teacher who had a student turn in a history report
about how Magellan circumcised the Earth with a 100 ft
clipper. ;)
  

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