Over the last few months, it has become obvious that the shower curtain I once relied on for information regarding the world is largely inaccurate. Don't get me wrong, it's a precious shower curtain and the idea behind it is something grand ("Let's be educated and clean, yeah!")! But let's get one thing straight: it's like spell checking an English paper... If you're going to mass produce a shower curtain with a map of the world on it and have it available for purchase at a huge chain like Target... make sure it's flawless. I mean, at least make sure you include all the continents (ahem ahem Antarctica).
No really, there is NO Antarctica on my map of the world.
What else is wrong, you ask?
- Chad has no capitol.
- Lake Superior is spelled "Supereor".
- The East Sandwich Island is so small it can't physically be drawn to scale on a map of the world. The label for the island is there, but the actual island isn't.
- Alaska is about 4 times bigger than Texas, and over half the size of the United States.
That's all I can think of right now... but rest assured that every shower is a quest to find more errors. I'll get back to you.
*One thing I've learned that actually is true: there's an Unalaska, Alaska. :)
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You write things that make me laugh! Write some more!
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