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 :-)))


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