Susan Beth wrote: <It's shameful how little I know of British geography.>
Wouldn't fret; where the US is concerned, despite all the media focus on it, *I* know only that California is west and New York is east and there's a whole bunch of stuff inbetween but don't ask me what :-)
Then again, while we're were travelling, many of my nearest and dearest were waiting for that phone call that said "sorry, we took a wrong turn and seem to have ended up in Vladivostock."
ObB7 - they are *really* lucky that Zen has all the maps, aren't they? all Our Heroes need is a fine vague Fearless-Leaderish "standard by six to Planet Fred" ...
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Sally Manton wrote:
Susan Beth wrote: <It's shameful how little I know of British geography.>
Wouldn't fret; where the US is concerned, despite all the media focus on it, *I* know only that California is west and New York is east and there's a whole bunch of stuff inbetween but don't ask me what :-)
But, darlin', that's what we Americans who live on the coast think, too. There's a tourist poster you can buy that shows the country as imagined by a Bostonian: There's a fairly well-laid map of the BosWash corridor (er, that's the conglomeration of cities from Boston to Washington, D.C.), and on the west coast there's LA and SF and Silicon Valley....and everything in between is a blank labeled "Flyover Territory." ;-)
ObB7 - they are *really* lucky that Zen has all the maps, aren't they? all Our Heroes need is a fine vague Fearless-Leaderish "standard by six to Planet Fred" ...
Good thing the Feds didn't know that, eh? All they'd have had to do was send out an official data update changing the names of likely rebellious planets to all match with the galactic location they have their fleet massed and waiting....
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Susan Beth said:
Good thing the Feds didn't know that, eh? All they'd have had to do was send out an official data update changing the names of likely rebellious planets to all match with the galactic location they have their fleet massed and waiting....
Not to mention the hours of play value from Zen denying that there's any such place as Horizon because Zen thinks it's called Silmareno or vice versa--this can be an important political point, cf. St. Petersburg/ Petrograd/St. Petersburg or Peking/Beijing/whatever they call it now.
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Sally said:
ObB7 - they are *really* lucky that Zen has all the maps, aren't they? all Our Heroes need is a fine vague Fearless-Leaderish "standard by six to Planet Fred" ...
Zen didn't have ALL the maps--there's the big one that appears in (I think) Breakdown that has Epinal on it. But as I said in a story, it's a bad sign when Blake asks for one of those printouts to transparent plastic, because he who acetates is lost.
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"Dana Shilling" dshilling@worldnet.att.net wrote:
Sally said:
ObB7 - they are *really* lucky that Zen has all the maps, aren't they? all Our Heroes need is a fine vague Fearless-Leaderish "standard by six to Planet Fred" ...
Zen didn't have ALL the maps--there's the big one that appears in (I think) Breakdown that has Epinal on it. But as I said in a story, it's a bad sign when Blake asks for one of those printouts to transparent plastic, because he who acetates is lost.
-(Y)
My idea is that the 'plastic' sheets are the ultimate in computer screens - there are currently 'clear calculators'.
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