--- jim van dura <
jimvandura@...> wrote:
> --- aletheiak <aletheiak@...> wrote:
>
> > --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Roger
> > McCutcheon" <rogerdwmac@...> wrote:
> > >
> > > I am puzzled by the coordinates mentioned: that
> > part of Devon is around 51
> > > North, 4 degrees West.
> >
> > thanx roger & you are certainly right about the
> > coords
> > so i too am puzzled by not finding any others
> > mentioned anywhere in all this that you
> > might have been puzzled by
> > unless
> > but yikes this is too funny
> > you might well be referring to the last 6
> characters
> > in the guessed tripoint name i offered
> > gb2en3do4cocrds
> >
> > for i agree cocrds does by chance unintentionally
> &
> > misleadingly suggest coordinates
> > & or co coordinates
> > when in fact it is just my arbitrary cockabebble
> > notation for the 3 parishes involved in the
> > tripoint
> > namely
> > co colebrook
> > cr crediton &
> > ds down saint mary
> > arranged in standard hierarchical & alphabetical
> > order
> >
> > provided
> > gb great britain is first
> > en england 2nd
> > do devon 3rd
> > & the parishes indeed 4th in the hierarchy
> >
> > all of which is also subject to confirmation & or
> > correction btw
> >
> >
> > so hopefully all our puzzlement is just owing to a
> > highly felicitous communication disorder
> > for which i take full credit & or responsibility
> as
> > the case may be
>
> Yes, I too agree with the whole idea of puzzlement,
> and thank you all many times over for this hearty
> cosmic joke -- and lets never again think of such a
> riot as disorder (!) but rather as a whole new order
> of communication. For we certainly could make
> GB2EN3(etc.?) "do for cocoords"! Indeed this entire
> crazy (but natural) multipoint naming system does
> very
> well for them!! (You just have to know your
> geopolitical divisions, hierarchies and
> abbreviations...or be willing to invent them.) In
> the
> case of the Copplestone tripoint hierarchy, I think
> the beginning of your name for it is OK, even if UK
> might be preferred by some to GB, since I realize
> you
> are fairly wedded to standard ISO. And, I can't
> imagine there will be any objection to your EN for
> England, even if I am not so confident your DO is
> "the
> Law" for Devon (nor so nuts about HASC in general)
> as
> you and Gwillim here may be:
> http://statoids.com/ugb.html
> . . . but, more to the point, he provides a missing
> layer in your hierarchy by indicating that the
> tertiary entity of Devon is subdivided,
> quaternarily,
> into districts first, rather than into parishes
> directly, so the parishes must comprise not the 4th
> but the 5th order of rank there. And, cribbing if I
> dare from the map at the bottom here:
> http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devon
> . . . I get the distinct impression your COCRDS
> tripoint (if that's truly what it is) will be found
> well within the district of Mid Devon... or MD if I
> may assume the honor for it in order to finally
> offer
> the hopefully corrected (as well as refructified)
> now-octodecaglyph:
> GB2EN3DO4MD5COCRDS (or gb2en3do4md5cocrds in lite,
> as
> you may prefer). --Jimi
thanx pals
& you are a man & a van after my own heart
i would only add that i am indeed nuts about both hasc
& gwillim because it & he in one swell foop have
spared me
& all other such fanatical beepers everywhere if any
an enormity of difficulty
by providing ready made yet admirably careful
diglyphic encipherment of practically the entire 2nd
order of geopolitical reality worldwide
& even sometimes beyond the 2nd
so i find myself as happily married to his cockabebble
hasc code for level 2 entities as to the official iso
coded voice of the turtle for level 1
& only on those rare but usually very special
excursions like the present one into levels 3 & 4 &
yikes now 5 too with your extra md fructification jimi
must i even as you say assume the honor of improvising
diglyphics
& i confess it was gwillims choice of
do for devon
that inspired me to select not do again for down saint
mary parish here but the distinct diglyph of ds
& thereby to unconsciously create the nicety of this
funny cocrds name
which would otherwise merely have been an unremarkable
& unoffputting cocrdo hexaglyph
since my personal rule whenever i find myself in such
depths that i have to improvise diglyphs is just grab
the first 2 letters & run
if possible
& the fact that the extended phrase do4cocrds did
indeed say & make do for cocoords
& did indeed make the full regalia format of
gb2en3do4cocrds into a kind of puzzling sentence or
question
but remained unnoticed by me til roger presumably
first cracked it
was just a more delicious icing on the cosmic joke or
multi layer cake
or puzzle or whatever it was we just got kissed by
here at copplestone
& let me just add to you jimi that i do indeed prefer
lite as you say
or plain barbarian as i also prefer to call it
tho when i arrived here at bp i was writing in your
preferred style too
& so can emulate & appreciate it as well as you can
mine
nor btw are you my first van to show up here at bp
either
long time members will recall the original navy van
too
which was the blue 84 chevy van with modified logotype
& all the fish & palindromes painted on it
&
its immediate successor
the 82 dodge maxivan hippie limo
which tho also defunct as a vehicle is still a
sometime contributing personality of the group as
maxivan82
which was in turn followed all too soon by my former
jimi or gymmy
a 93ish gmc
which expired almost immediately
i assume because it was just too new & untested
to be replaced by my former big red
an 86 dodge prospector
& again too soon by the present big red & present gmc
who are both one unit
which is in fact a 75 gymmy vandura
& which i was sensible enough to acquire with an
already well demonstrated capacity for longevity &
magicality
seeing as running thru 5 vans in 6 years was getting a
bit ridiculous
the magicality ensues from the fact that both my now
jimi vandura & its predecessor the dodge prospector
had been named big red
by their respective previous owners
& this despite the fact that the dodge had only a
maroon stripe on it & the jimi is even more amazingly
100 percent caucasian
so it may come as a horrible shock to some new members
that our mild mannered pure white jimi van dura here
is really none other than the reincarnation of big red
but our mellower veteran beepers may just nod & or
smile knowingly again as usual
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