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aljones@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Alice L Jones) writes:

>Two more ponderables to add to the list of tough geography questions to answer:

>1a)
>"If you're a geographer, how come you don't like the blue questions in Trivial
>Pursuit?"

>1b)
>"If you're a geographer, how come you don't know the names of all the countries
>in the world and their capitols?"

>and

>2)
>"Why aren't there any good geography jokes?"


   ...both answered by that most infamous (to geographers, anyway) Herman
cartoon, where he is playing in a game show. On his desk is a sign saying
"Geology", and he is saying "Oh good! That was my favourite subject in
school! Ask me the capital of Spain!"

   (This cartoon spent many months posted on multiple doors in our
department.) 

   To get back to the topic at hand, the most imponderable thing to me is
why geography professors seem to be so bad at reading maps....


--
Dave Halliwell
Department of Geography
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta