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Meandering Ties
Ties that don't just hang straight down in front of your shirt | |
Q..... and why do they not just hang
straight down in front of your shirt ?
A....... because their shapes are based
on maps of well known rivers of the
world.
Skinny rivers that don't wander about
much would look more like bolos.
Any major tributaries would be draped
over your shoulders
or travel around your
back, attached in place with velcro.
Some of the longer ones, without deltas,
could be threaded through your belt
loops
to continue their journeys.
The really long ones, like the Nile or the
Amazon would suit a more portly belly to
traverse, especially as they have an
extensive delta region that you could
tuck
into the front of your pants.
Nile tie
http://www.philapri...com/images/tie5.jpg
Upside down, too short, and nowhere near meandering enough. [jutta, Jan 05 2007]
Fabric Maps of WW II
http://www.silkmaps.com/
[jutta, Jan 05 2007]
po
http://magma.nation.../ngm/0205/feature6/
[po, Jan 05 2007]
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Vaguely related history: In world war II, British, and later US, Intelligence services printed and distributed maps printed on cloth as an aid to escape. They could double as neckerchiefs, but they're really mainly just very light, sturdy maps. |
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//The length of a river, divided by the straight line distance from its source to delta, approximates to pi.// |
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isnt that true of any continuous line? |
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[po] you can have a po tie. |
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Isn't a tie just a huge arrow? |
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+ oh yes, to be worn with a suit made from those fabric maps. |
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This is just too cool. I'd like to see a Mississippi tie that spilled into the top of my Louisiana hip pocket. |
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[boysparks] That can't be true! If the river's very very long it could meander hundreds of times... It may approximate to a multiple of Pi. |
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Spooky (thinks for a while - presumably the longer a river runs, the proportionately more it meanders) - but I'm wondering how you measure the actual length - E.g. the actual measured length of a coastline (and presumably a river's strand-line) is infinite. |
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Nevertheless, well found factoid, [boysparks] :) |
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