Friday, June 04, 2010

Ahh... Joys of Geography Majors

Laura sent this screen shot. And there is a link to the site - it is about the World Cup - not a South African Team in the cup.
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The joke here is that South Africa (which is explicitly named on the poster) is NOT in South America (which is explicitly named on the map) - and no one catches this.
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In the news caster's defense, it includes two things Americans don't really care about, geography and the world cup.
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In the new caster's offense however, this is Chicago's WGN - a superstation that claims to play with the big boys.
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Ahh... geography trips us up again....
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Just don't ask me to spell the countries' names right.