Friday beers on the river: 16.10.09: Captain Kidd in Wapping

That's pretty much it? Except the argument you build up is (either honestly or maliciously, I don't think it matters?) weaker than the actual argument would be.

Is this what you meant?

I didn't really read the wiki article. Maybe wiki knows more than me. Probably.

yeh, that's it. i remember it from a seminar on cartography of australia before it was discovered. so pretend australia. his argument was a strawman, i thought. but hey, he has 100 000 words and i have 10 000.