Maps
at a party and there was a young american woman who I was talking to. she asked where I was from. I told her and then having said it was near Northampton and helpfully for the geographically chalenged said that it was about 70 miles from London.

'No it isn't', she said 'It's a lot further than that it's about the same distance as from new york to chicago' she then rounded this off with the fact that her knowledge trumped my 'Actually being from there' as she had a Geography degree.

she then proceeded to prove this by getting my friends atlas and showing me that the distance between New York and Chicago and my home town and London were aproximately four inches on their respective maps.

How do you get a Geography degree without knowing that you can draw maps at different scales?
(ceebs, Fri 7 Jan 2005, 12:28, Reply)