PROBABLY this is database humour, if that isn’t an oxymoron. Dominic Mercier was the first of many to inform us that if you go to and seek directions to London (UK) from anywhere in North America, you are instructed first to go to the New England Aquarium in Boston, Massachusetts. The instructions then invariably read: “Turn right at Long Wharf (0.2 km). Swim across the Atlantic Ocean (5572 km). Slight right at E05 (0.8 km). Take the exit onto A29/E44 toward Amiens (44.7 km)”. You will be making landfall at the Terminal Grande-Bretagne in Le…
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