March 14, 2013 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized
You know Texas education has fallen like spit off a tall building when this shows up on a Dallas teevee station —
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Click the little one to see the big one.
Extra points for having the right continent.
Thanks to Richard for the heads up.
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1OK, that’s really bad. Still, I’ve gotten used to all the typos, misspellings and other stupidities offered by our local (DC!) stations. What can ya do?
2Don’t they get an extra point for correctly spelling Argentina?
3When did they change the name of the Pacific Ocean? Maybe I need to go back to school to learn all the new geography.
4Jan – I didn’t even see that. That’s a hoot!
5Ouch.
6What shocked me most is it’s not FOX. Too bad.
7But not the right end of the right continent. That’s like saying Texas and pointing to Connecticut.
And saying that it’s next to the Arctic Ocean.
On the other hand, they did spell “pope” correctly. And “new”. And “the”.
8Can’t fool me – that’s s’possed to be Injun…
9Unbelievable…
10“When did they change the name of the Pacific Ocean?”
LOL GOOD CATCH!
11Dang, I know it’s spring break but they let the interns drink at the station??
12OH, Heck! I didn’t even notice the “Indian Ocean!” This is just all kinds of stupid. Interns drinking at the station would go a long way to explain this one!
13Just goes to show what happens when the principal saves those “social studies” positions for the coaches, who then go on to become principals. After all what’s more important than football in Texas?
14Even funnier is that the station is claiming they “accidentally” picked Argentina, Colombia… which isn’t anywhere near the CBS shows it being.
15Have the Indian and Pacific oceans changed places? As, I seem to remember: The Indian ocean is South of India. Maybe it got angry and there was a divorce.
16I don’t think drinking has anything to do with it, someone has been putting enough of Colombia’s biggest export (not Juan’s coffee) up their nose that their brains are fried to a crisp. Unfortunately a very large part of the US population wouldn’t know there was anything wrong with the graphic.
Saddest thing of all, when Grandpa went to school 8th grade was pretty much the end of the line but he was better educated than the vast majority of high school grads today. Plus he didn’t need a calculator to make change.
17Someone moved Argentina and renamed the Pacific Ocean. I must have missed the memo. At this rate, the flat spot I’m getting on my forehead from head desking is gonna be permanent!
18Ya’ll just stop picking on interns! They mighta been the only people in the building that knew it was wrong and no one would listen to them.
19Credibility! That’s what’s important in TV news, Credibility!
(Do they really wonder why we don’t trust them.)
20Obviously, ya can’t fix stupid! Good grief………that is just wayyyyyyyyyy past being pathetic. Did they think no one would notice?
21@scotty, um, they didn’t know there was anything for us to notice! They might think that Argentina is a state in the country of S America (that celebrated author Sarah Palin thinks Africa is a country!) so the graphic is ok in their litlle minds. Who knows, they might think Connecticut IS part of Texas, too! Rick Perry probably does!
22If it ain’t Reading or Math, it don’t get taught ’cause it’s not on the standardized test. This is why “No Child Left Behind” is failing our kids.
23Hey, Hey, Hey Everybody. Lookie here – it was on Channel 11 – the station that those of us who are from actual Dallas, always know – that station is in FORT WORTH.
Now you know why PeeBoy Bush lives in Ft. Worth. They ain’t too bright down the Turnpike in Cowtown.
Thirty miles has always made a hellavuh difference in the Metroplex.
ROFLMFAO
24If there is an Argentina in Columbia, it must be pretty tiny. If you google a map of Columbia, there is an Albania, an Armenia and a San Marcos but there doesn’t seem to be an Argentina. But then again, in the alternate universe that has the Indian Ocean where the Pacific usually is, maybe Argentina is located on the same road as Albania, before you get to Armenia. I guess we should be grateful they didn”t place Argentina on the Appalachian Trail.
25I work in QA and I have posted this on the wall of my cubicle. Aargh!
26Would you like to Supersize your order? Want fries with that?
27On maps countries are shown outlined. Cities are shown by small circles. So they think Argentina is a city?
28“Or like stout Cortez when with blue-footed boobie eyes
29He star’d at the Indian Ocean
Off the coast of Argentina…”
Thanks, Vonda! Even ol’ Keats would get a laugh out of that one!
30Thank you, I hope so!
31A little off-topic. A Japanese blog which focuses on Asia posted your map about Texas geography and gave you attribution.
Geography wasn’t their strongest subject
32Well, I sure would like to see a map of the rest of the world- who knows where the conflicts and hot spots are Now!
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