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Doesn't anyone at Discovery Channel know how to spell????



Sun, 16 Jul 2006 22:08:06 -0700 rec.arts.tv
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PastaLover...
"Bight University": an ad for their annual focus on sharks.

patty1...
Ummm, you do realize they did it on purpose to make it look like
a fancy college name, right? Not to mention that a bight is a
logical place to see sharks.


tmcd...
It may be a pun.

Bight:
...
2: a bend or curve (especially in a coastline)
3: a broad bay formed by an indentation (a bight) in the
shoreline; "the Bight of Benin"; "the Great Australian
Bight"
...

jayembee...
And as they say, every barque has its bight.


the concave section of coast all along the southern edge of Australia:
"The more generally accepted boundaries are from Cape Pasley, Western
Australia, to Cape Carnot, South Australia - a distance of 1,160 km or
720 miles."

It also says

The waters of the Great Australian Bight, despite being relatively
shallow, are not fertile. While most continental shelves are rich
in sea life and make popular fishing areas, the barren deserts
north of the bight have very little rainfall, and what there is
mostly flows inland, to dissipate underground or in salt lakes. In
consequence, the Great Australian Bight receives very little of
the runoff that fertilises most continental shelves and is
essentially a marine desert. It is probably best noted for the
large number of sharks that frequent its coastal waters, as well
as the increasing numbers of southern right whales that migrate
within the region.

I've not seen their ads and I can't find anything with "bight" at
Australian Bight or other bights, it could be a pun.
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