Re: OT: baloney and cheese

 --- Sarah Marie Parker-Allen <lloannna@...>
wrote:
> (of
> course, that's also because there were sadists
> involved in the determination
> of state boundaries, who had a secret love of
> squares).
Yay! for Australian states, where the squarest one is
sort of trapezoidal!

> I have no
> doubts about my ability to find Ireland, Spain, or
> Lithuania on a map of
> Europe, but I'm a lot more careful about Wales,
> Norway, and Austria
And then you have the people who think that Austria
was one of the Allies in the World Wars (and is in the
Southern Hemisphere and suchlike). Why can't we just
call them Oesterich (or whatever it is in Austrian
German).

> (I have
> serious problems with the centers of every
> continent).
Yay for Australia with nothing that counts (but Alice
Springs or maybe the ACT* & Canberra depending on how
you want to count it) in the middle!

*Is the District of Colunmbia, which is, I understand,
where Washington, DC is kept, nomally called DC (in
speech)? If if is, there are too many parallels
between DC and the ACT, and I don't care that it was
by design.

Tristan

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