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01-25-2008, 12:05 AM
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Why's the SEC pink?? LOL. Mustve got trapped in the locker rooms at Kinnick!
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go look at some cold-war era maps... 
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Good let's start throwing around the propaganda. U.S.S.C. is goin' down!!
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Why's the SEC pink?? LOL. Mustve got trapped in the locker rooms at Kinnick!
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Impossible! They'd never come that far north. 
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May very well be true... Gettysburg is at around 39 degrees north latitude. Iowa City's at around 41 degrees north latitude.
The trial incursion up north only got up to Gettysburg for our southern brothers. They didn't fare too well. They were doing alright until they got characteristically cocky and tried to run up the score by bringing what WWH would call a safety blitz. History tells us that they got scorched on that play and lost the battle and the momentum in the war. So maybe they've adopted the "once bitten..." principle when it comes to engaging in competitive endeavors north of the Mason-Dixon line.
Edit: corrected first sentence... thanks to DBB for pointing out my reversal of long/lat...
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Originally Posted by shetuck
May very well be true... Gettysburg is at around 77 degrees north longitude. Iowa City's at around 91 degrees north.
The trial incursion up north only got up to Gettysburg for our southern brothers. They didn't fare too well. They were doing alright until they got characteristically cocky and tried to run up the score by bringing what WWH would call a safety blitz. History tells us that they got scorched on that play and lost the battle and the momentum in the war. So maybe they've adopted the "once bitten..." principle when it comes to engaging in competitive endeavors north of the Mason-Dixon line. |
OK, I like the comparison of Pickett's Charge to a Safety Blitz.
But the problem is that you gave the Longitude of the places in question, which proves only that Iowa City is farther west of Greenwich than is Gettysburg.
But just to be clear: - Gettysburg is at 39.5 degrees North LATITUDE
- ...and 77.14 degrees West LONGITUDE
- Iowa City is at 41.4 degrees North LATITUDE
- ...and 91.32 degrees West LONGITUDE
I'm not sure what North Longitude is, but if Iowa City were at 91 degrees North LATITUDE; it would be 1 degree North of the North Pole, wherever the hell that is.
Geography Police: Out...
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Originally Posted by DaddyBigBucks
OK, I like the comparison of Pickett's Charge to a Safety Blitz.
But the problem is that you gave the Longitude of the places in question, which proves only that Iowa City is farther west of Greenwich than is Gettysburg.
But just to be clear: - Gettysburg is at 39.5 degrees North LATITUDE
- ...and 77.14 degrees West LONGITUDE
- Iowa City is at 41.4 degrees North LATITUDE
- ...and 91.32 degrees West LONGITUDE
I'm not sure what North Longitude is, but if Iowa City were at 91 degrees North LATITUDE; it would be 1 degree North of the North Pole, wherever the hell that is.
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oops. my bad. you're right. i got 'em mixed up. i'll go back and fix it for posterity's sake...
nonetheless, my point was that Iowa City is farther north (farther away from the equator) than Gettysburg.
re Pickett's Charge... there's a whole thing about that and it would be interesting to see where WWH draws his admiration for the safety blitz in terms of military history.
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