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I often remember the number of times that I've not been allowed into fancy hotels, five-star restaurants and military messes because I'd not been wearing "proper" clothes. Okay, I don't possess a suit or - horrors - even a tux, so I don't even try to crash black-tie affairs. But, not wearing a shirt has also featured in a major way among my various butt-outs. So has wearing T-shirts without a collar. Or T-shirts with a &collar, but not tucked in. Or sneakers without socks. Or vice versa. (And all this, mind you, while my dulcet-eyed mate wearing drop-dead duds that wouldn't raise an eyelash at a Stones concert is regaled in amidst muted applause by the management.)
The last time it happened was in a grim little club in Moscow where, as I was being shuffled gate-wards by a posse of serious Siberian huskies, a man dressed exactly like a penguin informed my protests that in that case the next thing you know even street-sweepers would be coming in to hit the high fives and boogieing themselves silly into the dawn. Imagine. Obviously we can't allow that kind of a thing to happen without the very fabric or rubric or whatever the heck of our society tattering to confetti, can we?
But I stray. Therefore, to get back: A certain person lived for many years to a ripe old age. But he celebrated his birthdays only a few times initially and then not at all since, as he put it, they simply "stopped coming". He was right. What is the explanation?
DEAR MS
(The problem was: "Everyone knows a compass doesn't point towards the north geographical pole. However, it doesn't point towards the north magnetic pole either. So where does it point?" - MS)
Point-Counterpoint Dept:
For the compass question this week, I remember something from my high school Physics class. A compass will point 17° inclined to magnetic north vs geographic north. The reason is right poles repel, and the repulsion is 17° to actual north.
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