Re: Northern Jane

one time at band camp, Duncan MacKenzie ([email protected]) said:

>My understanding of geography is that the world tilts to the right somehere
>over the Atlantic, causing the whole planet to lean over as it spins, in a
>bendy sort of way. This creates all sorts of interesting things, such as
>variations in hair colour, regional accents, aural foreshortening, and an
>imbalance in the weather. It may explain why I'm sitting here in
>Staffordshire (that's in Engl... oh, forget it), verily several hundred
>miles North of even the Northernmost outlying logging cabin of Timmins
>itself (a very cold place indeed), wondering if that's a wandering deer I
>spy out of my window (nnnnnn...nope, it's next door's cat), anticipating the
>subtle, seamless morphing of the cold damp drizzle of the British Winter
>into the cold damp drizzle of the British Summer.

methinks you are confusing the tilt of the earth's axis with the
gulf stream ocean current! ;)

woj