Lessons In Colorado: Shape
Thursday, May 15th, 2008 at 12:00 am
Can you guess what the image is to the left?
Wrong! It’s not Colorado. It is:
…the geoellipsoidal rectangle that stretches from 37°N to 41°N latitude and from 102°03′W to 109°03′W longitude…
Geoellipsoidal? Geoellipsoidal? No where in my brain does this word register. Since I don’t understand it, I shall laugh at it. And I did. Quite hardily. This hilarious description of Colorado is within the Wikipedia listing for the state and you would be correct in presuming that “geoellipsoidal” is a word that doesn’t exist… until now. Really. I did an exhaustive look for it and when I got to the second Google page of sites quoting the Wikipedia article, I gave up.
Oh, the word sounds fancy enough and at first thought sounds cool enough to actually work. At second thought, it doesn’t, but then as you take in the big picture, it does. Technically. But by then you’re so bored thinking so deeply you’d rather watch Whitney be the first “plus size” model to win “America’s Next Top Model” again. OMG! Can you believe it? So cool! She’s so pretty. I wish she was my sister.
geo-: geography
Check.
-ellipsoid: a surface all plane sections of which are ellipses or circles
This is where your inner sophomore cheerleader should be saying, “Uh, nooooo. Colorado is a rectangle. Duh. A quadrilateral. Dur-hoy. Take a geology lesson, dufus.”
“Actually,” your inner geography teacher says, “Earth is spherical and basically made up of many ellipsoidal planes on which Colorado rests making the quadrilateral bend along the z-axis giving it a third dimension, so the term ‘geoellipsoidal’ works in this instance. You see, if we apply the Cartesian coordinate system to our map of Colora…”
“Oh, my gawd, look! It’s Whitney!”
Listening to: “Candida” - Tony Orlando & Dawn
May 15th, 2008 at 12:48 am
You’re still thinking too much. Now go find the most difficult word ever. It’s more than likely to be some rare malady. Chemicals and Latin taxonomic classifications don’t count!
Taxonomy… That’s a word I’ve always found makes me sit up, take notice, and wonder about… for a few minutes sometimes even… :-))))
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May 15th, 2008 at 12:49 am
By the way, that gal looks like she’s used way too much starch ironing that shirt. Either that, or it’s made of cardboard! And does the poor lass realise her buttons are undone and that she has her skirt pulled up almost as high as old men pull up their trousers? >;-)
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May 15th, 2008 at 1:09 am
Geoellipsoidal!!!! That is a great 75cent word!!! Indiana is just “bounded on the north by Lake Michigan and the state of Michigan; on the east by Ohio; on the south by Kentucky, with which it shares the Ohio River as a border; and on the west by Illinois. Indiana is one of the Great Lakes states.”
*sigh*
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May 15th, 2008 at 6:18 am
I had an inner cheerleader. I fucked her. Those uniforms do something to me…
I have no idea what that means…
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May 15th, 2008 at 9:25 am
Andy: That is America’s next top model that you are dissing, mister. Shame on you!
Duck: Indiana is kinky.
Mr. Fab: It only means something if you grudge fucked her.
May 15th, 2008 at 10:27 am
I’m not exactly sure what this post is about. I’ve read it a few times and don’t get it. My Brain Hurts Today!!
May 15th, 2008 at 10:30 am
No, no, no! It was supposed to make you laugh. I’ve failed. FAILED! I’m a failure.
*sigh*
May 15th, 2008 at 11:31 am
Whitney is Bioellipsoidal.
May 15th, 2008 at 11:43 am
Hahaha! Damn! I missed that joke!
Bravo, sir.
May 15th, 2008 at 12:38 pm
Wyoming? Do I get a prize if I’m right or a prize if I’m wrong?
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May 15th, 2008 at 1:02 pm
Wyoming is wider. Gaaa. You’re a winner either way though.
May 15th, 2008 at 3:33 pm
that’s whitney houston?
May 15th, 2008 at 4:07 pm
It is after she got off the crack.
May 15th, 2008 at 11:08 pm
Can I answer Dan’s question?
Dan: this blog is just another way for Howard to talk about his not-so-secret recent addiction to America’s Top Model without gushing overtly. This is the THIRD reference I’ve heard him make to that show this week (#1 being at the show Monday, #2 in a google chat convo with him today, and #3 this post)
Jeeeez Howard, just audition already.
May 16th, 2008 at 10:24 am
Whitney arches her booty out so much, she’s geoellipsoidal. But I dig her and was glad she won.
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May 16th, 2008 at 11:58 am
Leslie: Why do you dispense truth so easily?
CB: At least she got some booty, ‘iight.
May 19th, 2008 at 10:06 am
The post made ME laugh. You are a triumph in my book.
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May 19th, 2008 at 10:13 am
Huzzah!
May 20th, 2008 at 4:45 am
I still say that poor lass is going to catch a chill. *snigger*
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