On Sunday, May 27, 2012 3:25:57 PM UTC+10, 1/3 of land cooling wrote:
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> My nickname is not an embarrassment to me.
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> It is only an embarrassment to you, because you can't disprove it.
Ahh. Who wants to disprove it? We all pretty much expect it, given
the data and distribution of land of various elevations.
But enough of facts.
This embarrassment thing.
Everyone over 21 has things from their childhood that still tug at them in one way or the other. Perhaps they got very low marks in arithmetic in school, no
now compensate for that counting lines and posting it to USENET.
Perhaps they remember some smart-alecky remark they made to a teacher that
they learned years later was silly, and when they see another smart aleck
making similar remarks they live that moment over again and it may make them
a little unconfortable.
I remember... I had to think a moment or 2 because I am so near perfect as makes
no difference... something from my childhood I still remember and tugs a little.
I used to catch a bus from my highschool -- must have been year 9 or so -- over
to Mossman, Sydney (its a big bird that lives near Ayers Rock in central Australia; I'm sure your grandpa will know) and pay with the funny pennies and farthings we had at the time. They were nice green double deckers that could take a collision with a car like it wasn't there.
Anyway.
One day the conductor (sort of like a mobile ATM with a beard and bad eyesight)
told me I had over-paid my fare, meaning I had over-paid my fare for the previous 2 years or so.
Boy, was I embarrassed as it was money my mummy gave me and I could have been saving up for my own porn channel.
Now, whenever I see someone fondling a farthing I get goosebumps and I think "silly goose".
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Is Hobart harbour still significantly higher than sea level, or
have massive sea level rises elsewhere reduced the difference?