Suddenly, a mesonoxian metaphor rang out!

[packbat]

Imagine you're hanging out in a semipublic place, like the ASME lounge (because I just haven't mentioned that place enough). Suddenly a question springs to your mind.

"Hey, what's the capital of Alaska?"

"Juneau."

"No, it's Anchorage."

"No, Anchorage is the largest city. Juneau is the capital."

"You sure about that?"

"Yeah. Yeah, hey, remember that bit in John McPhee's book, talking about the really strong winds in Juneau?"

Et cetera.

You see that dialogue up there? That's Wikipedia.

Comments

[kadyg.livejournal.com]

Juneau is also the smallest state capitol at 30k and there are no roads there. So don't call the paper asking for driving directions because they will point you to the web site where it says there are no roads, then hang up on you.

Signed -
Former Juneau resident and newspaper employee

[packbat.livejournal.com]

I did not know that. Being as I don't drive, I'm fairly safe on the latter point, but it's still a surprise - do you know if there's some special reason?

"That's Wikipedia"

[baxil.livejournal.com]

Well, that and the punchline of the 12/23 strip (http://www.absurdnotions.org/page112.html).

Re: "That's Wikipedia"

[packbat.livejournal.com]

Hah! So it is.