This is true? - Geographic oddities that defy conventional wisdom

[kphoger]

I've joked about Kansas that what might be named Dry Creek in other states would be named Raging River here.

[Rothman]

There are two different Dry Creeks in eastern Fresno County that are about twenty miles from each other near Shaver Lake.  One flows into the San Joaquin River as part of the Big Creek Hydroelectric Project.  The other flows into the Kings River watershed.  There is a Little Dry Creek and Big Dry Creek also nearby in the Auberry area.

Heh.  I wonder how many Mill Rivers there are in New England.

I know there are at least two that flow from either side of the Connecticut River...

As I tell my Mormon friends out west who have to pray for "moisture," I prefer living somewhere where rain is not faith-based...

[JayhawkCO]

two different Dry Creeks ...  One flows ...  The other flows

Oximoron?

Seemingly so given I've never seen either dry.

Semi-dry, like a nice red wine.

As a wine snob, I'd argue a semi-dry red wine is not likely nice.

[english si]

As a wine snob, I'd argue a semi-dry red wine is not likely nice.

As someone who doesn't like wine, I still know that demi-sec is a term used to describe semi dry white wines, and that concept isn't used about red.

[kphoger]

As a wine snob, I'd argue a semi-dry red wine is not likely nice.

Maybe a California zin?

[JayhawkCO]

As a wine snob, I'd argue a semi-dry red wine is not likely nice.

Maybe a California zin?

Nah. Still going to be bone dry to be a "real wine". Semi-dry wines are for those strawberry "wines" and such things. Other than fortified reds (Port, Madeira, etc.), no red wine that has any appreciable residual sugar will be considered a "serious" wine.

[NWI_Irish96]

As a wine snob, I'd argue a semi-dry red wine is not likely nice.

Maybe a California zin?

Nah. Still going to be bone dry to be a "real wine". Semi-dry wines are for those strawberry "wines" and such things. Other than fortified reds (Port, Madeira, etc.), no red wine that has any appreciable residual sugar will be considered a "serious" wine.

A strawberry wine would be considered a sweet wine. Semi-dry wines are Syrah and the similar.

[JayhawkCO]

As a wine snob, I'd argue a semi-dry red wine is not likely nice.

Maybe a California zin?

Nah. Still going to be bone dry to be a "real wine". Semi-dry wines are for those strawberry "wines" and such things. Other than fortified reds (Port, Madeira, etc.), no red wine that has any appreciable residual sugar will be considered a "serious" wine.

A strawberry wine would be considered a sweet wine. Semi-dry wines are Syrah and the similar.

I don't like to pull rank often, but I'm a certified sommelier. This is not a factual statement.

[kphoger]

I don't like to pull rank often, but I'm a certified sommelier. This is not a factual statement.

Which half of your statement is not factual? 

[JayhawkCO]

I don't like to pull rank often, but I'm a certified sommelier. This is not a factual statement.

Which half of your statement is not factual? 

Probably the "I don't like to pull rank often" part...

[7/8]

A good one that I'll shamelessly steal from a Reddit thread: Barcelona is about the same distance from Croatia as it is from Lisbon (both ~1000 km).

[JayhawkCO]

One I just saw on the book of faces:

The geographical center of Laos is in Thailand.
The geographical center of Vietnam is in Laos.

[kphoger]

One I just saw on the book of faces:

The geographical center of Laos is in Thailand.
The geographical center of Vietnam is in Laos.

I've suspected for a while that they're actually the same country.  You've just confirmed my suspicion.

[CNGL-Leudimin]

That sounds like the center of Croatia being in Bosnia and Herzegovina. However in all cases it's the centroid, not the center what is in another country.