On Fri, 01 Jan 2010 10:35:08 -0600, Lostgallifreyan
wrote:

As I recall, the question showed that the universe was truly screwed up...

I don't remember if the question was ever settled.

As the original poster (I presume it was Art) is in the habit of
quoting a German surveyor of the early 19th century; it should have
been settled by the Reichoffice of land boundaries.

These threads seem to be started in the vein of a breathless discovery
of an announcement tucked away in a locked file cabinet in the
janitor's closet in the third basement revealing plans for the "new"
hyper-Hohenzollern horse carriage expressway bypass - as much as the
original comment, responses and counter-responses are so distinctive
by fulfilling that metaphor.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC