people who are embarassingly bad at geography...

[adpiucf]

Until yesterday at lunch, our intern (age 21) believed Canada was part of the United States, and that North Dakota was located on the east coast... I don't know which is worse, but it is compounded by the fact that she is the Government Relations intern!

[DGqueen17]

I've always been really good at geography. In 7th grade my teacher had a cow when I told him I knew where Sri Lanka and Madagascar were.





(I may not have spelled them right. I can't spell anything right. I did not feel like using spell check. Please don't have a cow.)

[Private I]

You spelled them correctly. I always found Madagascar pretty interesting, isn't it the fourth largest island in the world? Now the thing that always confused me was Greenland, cos on the map when its all stretched out it looks bigger than Australia.
It's always fun to watch the opening ceremony for the Olympics and see how there's always one or two volcanic island countries I've NEVER heard of in my life (and probably never will again, at least until the next Olympics hehe).

[moe.ron]

Originally posted by Private I
Also Guam was I believe taken during that Spanish American War 1898-1900.

Speaking of Guam, according to FIFA, they have the worst national man team in the world. Ranked 205 out of 205 teams. Montserrat used to be the worst last month, but they went up 4 places to 201.

[Lady Pi Phi]

Originally posted by adpiucf
Until yesterday at lunch, our intern (age 21) believed Canada was part of the United States, and that North Dakota was located on the east coast... I don't know which is worse, but it is compounded by the fact that she is the Government Relations intern!

Originally posted by KSigkid
Me too...haha

I actually had to read it a couple times to make sure that there weren't any references to Geometry, because it was that funny.

Bein a military brat and constantly on the move, US geography has always been rather easy for me. Add in the fact that my relatives lived in far away places, South Dakota and Long Island, and any trip to see them covered a few states at least.

I can do pretty well with South American and older European countries but am totally lost when it comes to Eastern Europe and Africa.

KS 361

[AlphaSigOU]

Originally posted by Private I
You spelled them correctly. I always found Madagascar pretty interesting, isn't it the fourth largest island in the world? Now the thing that always confused me was Greenland, cos on the map when its all stretched out it looks bigger than Australia.

That's because of the Mercator map projection... as you move north or south from the equator the distortion apparent from flattening the top of a sphere is noticeable.

It's always fun to watch the opening ceremony for the Olympics and see how there's always one or two volcanic island countries I've NEVER heard of in my life (and probably never will again, at least until the next Olympics hehe).

Then again, these tiny, insignificant countries will have more people in the entourage than athletes participating!

[Tom Earp]

Dez (Des) Moinsee is French! Grinning anyway! Just a Word FooPa for degenerets pf word games!

Oh GeoGraphics is quite interesting!

There has been so many New Names of Countrys over the Years. What is Persia, what is Christiania, What is anyting in some countrys who were were here and gone?

What were some of the Really Old Countrys in Asia? Or The True Middle East or Africa? God how Polotics change things and ASSes who take over the Countrys they Lust for.

I want to be a King on this little place where every one is a Happy Sole!

Life is Good isnt it?

[AlphaSigOU]

Originally posted by Tom Earp
Dez (Des) Moinsee is French! Grinning anyway! Just a Word FooPa for degenerets pf word games!

Faux pas, mon frère Tom, faux pas. Otherwise, we'd have a resurrection of the (in)famous FUPA thread!!!

(BTW, no speakee Froggee here! )

[honeychile]

Originally posted by moe.ron
Speaking of Guam, according to FIFA, they have the worst national man team in the world. Ranked 205 out of 205 teams. Montserrat used to be the worst last month, but they went up 4 places to 201.

I'm giggling to myself over how many people have no idea what FIFA is!

Anyhow, when I was a little girl, my uncle travelled a LOT. As in, you can't name a city that he can't tell you something about. He decided that I needed to know geography (to know where he was), so I had new puzzles almost yearly for both the United States & the world in general.

I am Carmen Sandiego!!

[AlphaSigOU]

Originally posted by honeychile
I'm giggling to myself over how many people have no idea what FIFA is!

Along with FIA and FAI (Federation Internationale de l'Automobile and Federation Aeronautique Internationale, the governing bodies of automobile and aviation sports, respectively.)

Now would anyone even remotely understand about seriously competing in FAI Class S5C and S7? (S5C - Spacemodeling (model rocketry) Scale Altitude and S7 (Scale) competition - essentially the Olympic-level of competition model rocketry (spacemodeling in the rest of the world).)

[CutiePie2000]

OKAY PEOPLE----
The big Miss America Secret revealed.....

The reason why there are 51 women at Miss America is for 50 States plus the girl who represents the District of Columbia
(which is a FEDERAL DISTRICT, not a STATE, but for the pageant, they act as though DC is a STATE).
Therefore: 50+1=51

A few years back, I talked to an American Immigration Officer and asked him what Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands were considered to be (since they're not States, but they are kinda sorta kinda part of the US in general); he said that they were considered "Possessions of the U.S."

Miss Puerto Rico does not compete at Miss America (though she does compete at Miss Universe). Funnily enough, in the early early days of Miss America (when it was not yet "standardized"), Canada actually went to Miss America.

[lifesaver]

Originally posted by CutiePie2000
OKAY PEOPLE----
The big Miss America Secret revealed.....

The reason why there are 51 women at Miss America is for 50 States plus the girl who represents the District of Columbia
(which is a FEDERAL DISTRICT, not a STATE, but for the pageant, they act as though DC is a STATE).
Therefore: 50+1=51

A few years back, I talked to an American Immigration Officer and asked him what Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands were considered to be (since they're not States, but they are kinda sorta kinda part of the US in general); he said that they were considered "Possessions of the U.S."

Miss Puerto Rico does not compete at Miss America (though she does compete at Miss Universe). Funnily enough, in the early early days of Miss America (when it was not yet "standardized"), Canada actually went to Miss America.

Or how the Puerto Ricans fielded teams in the olympics.

On a side note, as an undergrad I had a brother in the chapter who was puerto rican and was all about statehood. I'd give him grief about it all the time. Once I asked him "ya know why there is one star on your flag? Cause it aint ever gonna be on ours." lol

[Optimist Prime]

Man, i think it would be cool if peurto Rico was a state. A same for the U.S. and British Virgin Islands, and Bermuda. We need to start enforcing the Monroe Doctirine.

[moe.ron]

Let us see how good you are in Geography