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Re: Stop the world, I wanna get off.

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From: Gary Heston
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 18:17
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In article <1993Jan26.165304.13203@black.ox.ac.uk> tbrann@oxford.ac.uk (Tony Brannigan) writes:
>I was doing a practical this morning, when I noticed that while
>longitude extends from 180' East to 180' West, latitude only extends
>from 90' North to 90' South.  What happened to the other 180' of
>latitude?

It's classified, but there's not really a north and south pole. Agents 
have installed a wormhole at each point, through which the other half
of the latitude has been sucked (for reasons you needn't know) into an
alternate dimension.

>I can only conclude the Earth is shrinking :-(

You're not supposed to notice that!


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From: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston)
Subject: Re: Stop the world, I wanna get off.
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