XPost: rec.arts.comics.strips   
   From: psperson@old.netcom.invalid   
      
   On Sat, 29 Nov 2025 16:13:07 -0500, William Hyde   
    wrote:   
      
   >Cryptoengineer wrote:   
   >> On 11/28/2025 1:23 PM, Mark Jackson wrote:   
   >>> On 11/28/2025 11:37 AM, Paul S Person wrote:   
   >>>> On Fri, 28 Nov 2025 06:26:35 +1100, sjharker@aussiebroadband.com.au   
   >>>> (Stephen Harker) wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>>> I had the same problem in a recent trip to Europe plus the fact that   
   >>>>> printed maps of cities were harder to find.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Elon said it long ago: "Print is dead."   
   >>>>   
   >>>> We just thought he was talking about books, not maps.   
   >>>   
   >>> I haven't been in Paris in a decade, but I find it difficult to    
   >>> believe people don't still buy the little "Plan de Paris."     
   >>> Indispensable.   
   >>>   
   >>    
   >> When I was at university in London during the 70s, the pocket   
   >> 'London A-Z Street Atlas' was an essential piece of kit.   
   >   
   >I was just thinking of that.  Very comprehensive, very easy to use. Mine    
   >is probably lying around here somewhere.   
      
   My records suggest that, when I stopped off in London for a day or two   
   on my way home from (then West) Germany while in the US Army, I   
   purchased a /London Stadtplan/ for 25 pence.    
      
   Clearly I was still functioning on the "everything in German" plan I   
   had used when on leave in (then West) Germany/Austria/Switzerland.   
      
   This was in 1982. The ISBN was 0 7095 0188 9, and I have a note of   
   another number: 50/GER/80/1853, which presumably identified the   
   edition.   
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   "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,   
   Who evil spoke of everyone but God,   
   Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"   
      
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