On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Ron Stodden wrote: > Levi Ramsey wrote: > > On Wed Aug 28 17:07 +0200, Guy.Bormann wrote: > > > >>Why do you always smile the other way? :-))) > > > > He's Australian... it's kind of like how water drains in the opposite > > direction and they drive on the wrong (not the right...) side of the > > road... :o) > > And: The sun traverses the Northern sky. > > [which disorients anyone from the other hemisphere, since your innate > sense of where north, south, east and west are by sunlight and shadows > will all be 180 degrees out - Fun!] Mmm, me thinks it is not innate but by experience since otherwise most Australians would have died out already some time ago by getting lost in the desert :-) (Or never reached land in the first place...) (They didn't have GPS in those days, you know ;-)
Guy P.S.: And anybody who tried to discover South-America f.i. would have ended sailing in circles :-)))
