A Ugandan Riddle
Q: Could we stop along the road to the ferry so I can buy a hat?
A: It depends on what time we cross the equator.
Needless to say, I wasn't able to process that correctly at 4 in the morning after two hours of sleep at the Hotel Niagra, Kampala, Uganda.
(I didn't buy a hat, as it turned out, but I did learn that, according to our guide, the toilets really do flush in opposite directions on either sides of the equator, even when the distance is only a few meters from the big north/south divide. This legend from middle school science class days always troubled me slightly, along the lines of: aren't people on the other side of the earth from where I am standing upside down? Etc.)
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I always wanted to test the toilet flushing thing, but usually when I'm near the equator, none of the toilets flush, so it's hard to keep an eye on that whole clockwise/anti-clockwise thing.
Have a great time. Avoid the matoke.
Posted by: Ethan | January 12, 2006 09:03 PM
Jesus, I didn't know this was true either.
Posted by: Erik | January 14, 2006 10:01 AM
For the flushing thing:
http://www.snopes.com/science/coriolis.htm
:)
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