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On Fri, 24 Aug 2001 14:42:03 -0700, "Don Widders"
<widders@talkwithoutdifficulty.org> wrote:

>Albeit insensitive to the hypersensitive, there is only one trend current or
>historical:  North at the top.

A trend is a course or drift in a direction. Do you allege that maps
are more likely now than in years past to be north-topped?

>Which 'we' has heard a number of complaints and how many is the number?  You
>did say "Aussies" and not 'Aussie', so I take it there are two of them
>complaining.

Complaints have also come from Argentina, Chile, New Zealand, etc.

>Funny, the grass is always greener on the other side.

Erma Bombeck observed that _The Grass Is Always Greener Over the
Septic Tank_.

>I've always wished I
>lived on the "underside" of the world just to see if the toilets really do
>flush the other way.

What is this obsession with excretory functions? Are you still in the
anal stage of development?

>"...convey the earth's
>rotation..." -- yeah right! lol  Never heard of a horizontal scroll bar?

Most web pages scroll vertically. They can be designed to scroll
horizontally. Because the left edge displays first, a map on such a
page should show east on the left; west on the right.

> Do
>you really believe that if you were standing on the moon looking at the
>Earth you would position yourself so that the Earth was spinning from bottom
>to top?

Standing on the moon, I wouldn't need a computer to see it. With the
naked eye, I would not perceive the rotation. (Either a high-power
telescope or time-lapse photography would help.)

-- Eartha Underall <http://www.rev.net/people/aloe/geography>