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Due to my inability to control my temper and complacently accept continued silliness with not-quite-as-reliable-as-it-ought-to-be Blogger/Blogspot, your beloved Possumblog will now waddle across the Information Dirt Road and park its prehensile tail at http://possumblog.mu.nu.

This site will remain in place as a backup in case Munuvia gets hit by a bus or something, but I don't think they have as much trouble with this as some places do. ::cough::blogspot::cough:: So click here and adjust your links. I apologize for the inconvenience, but it's one of those things.

Tuesday, July 22, 2003

Well, gee, Peg Britton could have told them THAT!--Kansas Really Is Flat as a Pancake

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Kansas really is flatter than a pancake, U.S. geographers reported on Monday.

A scientific comparison of the topography of Kansas to a pancake shows the state, known for its vast, even fields, is in fact really, really flat, geographer Mark Fonstad of Southwest Texas State University and colleagues found.

"While driving across the American Midwest, it is common to hear travelers remark, 'This state is as flat as a pancake,'" they wrote in their report, published in the Annals of Improbable Research.

"Simply put, our results show that Kansas is considerably flatter than a pancake." [...]

Even more odd than the story itself is the fact that it carries a Reuters dateline, yet nowhere in it are the words Kansas, pancake, or flatter surrounded by quote marks.

posted by Terry at 10:08:00 AM

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