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Since the Media Manipulation Thread is closed I will leave the results of a search I did here.

I went to the GNIS, (Geographic Names Information System), (Here https://edits.nationalmap.gov/apps/gaz-domestic/public/search/names), to search for geographic features in Alaska named Lethbridge. I didn't find any in my search and in fact I didn't find any in the USA at all.

Of course I may have missed something. So I will let other people have at it.
 
There is no Lethbridge, Alaska: everyone but Bubba accepts this.
Bubba also tried to wriggle out by claiming it could be 'a lethbridge', and hoping that would be some kind of general geographical term for 'a bay or something'.
Nope.
If it's in capitals, then that's the name of a specific place, not of a general place.
Utter failure. Even if there actualy was a Lethbridge, Alaska, it would still make absolutely no difference. The whole idea is crackpot nonsense, and unworthy of further discussion.
(Unless Bubba continues to try to defend it, in which case it gains entertainment value :D ).
 
bruto said:
I guess I missed what this is about, but you have to give credit where credit is due. There is an Alaska.
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Bubba has part of his conspiracy thinking alleged that there was a Lethbridge in Alaska. When told that so such town or village seemed to exist he then stated it could be a some sort of geographic feature. Using the GNIS I was not able to find any such feature in Alaska or even in the USA.
 
bruto said:
I guess I missed what this is about, but you have to give credit where credit is due. There is an Alaska.
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This pretty much sums it up in one post.

Bubba claimed that the Rulers of the Earth have historically amused themselves by naming places that geographically line up with other places of like name. So names like Perth, or Lethbridge lining up proves that they're in charge of everything. Bubba's problem is that the alignments don't work, even when the places named actually exist, proving he hasn't even bothered to check, and has credulously accepted false claims as true. He tried to change map projections, but that still didn't help. He made obtuse references to navigators using "flat earth maps", and refused to answer questions about whether or not he believed the earth to be flat. And he even tried to line up the names of places that don't exist, all the while referencing an unnamed "guy" whom he's refused to identify, but is assuredly really good at this stuff.
 
The conspiracy theory seems to have one further detail; the imaginary alignments are claimed to occur on lines which pass through Jerusalem. One suspects this is to indicate that these entirely fabricated alignments would be the work of the you-know-who's, if only they existed.

(The lines, I mean. Not the Jews. They exist, I'm pretty sure.)
 
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An interesting walkback here, isn't it? Basically, it seems to go "I linked to something I thought important, but after finding it's untrue, I disavow any suggestion that I thought it important; but if it had been true, it would be true, and wouldn't you be sorry."

Without actually trying it, I am guessing that if you draw a line across the earth, you will find that it intersects a number of places, and if you are flexible enough to consider that the names Perth and Lethbridge have something significantly in common, and if you simply discard all the lines that did not work, you will find one that works. Ta-daaa! Important magic is seen.

Start in Jerusalem and radiate lines out. Any bets?
 
Could someone who is not Bubba give me the BLUF on this one please? I expect to find in this sub forum lines connecting dots that aren't actually connected but I'm kind of lost on this one. The screams of the tortured logic hear are drowning out any understanding of the topic.
 
Foster Zygote said:
This pretty much sums it up in one post.

Bubba claimed that the Rulers of the Earth have historically amused themselves by naming places that geographically line up with other places of like name. So names like Perth, or Lethbridge lining up proves that they're in charge of everything. Bubba's problem is that the alignments don't work, even when the places named actually exist, proving he hasn't even bothered to check, and has credulously accepted false claims as true. He tried to change map projections, but that still didn't help. He made obtuse references to navigators using "flat earth maps", and refused to answer questions about whether or not he believed the earth to be flat. And he even tried to line up the names of places that don't exist, all the while referencing an unnamed "guy" whom he's refused to identify, but is assuredly really good at this stuff.
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This was back in July. Bubba's first example of this supposedly amazing discovery was the Perth one. When that was shown to be obviously and provably untrue, he promised he'd be back with a better example.
We got the Lethbridges, which turned out to be an even worse example- at least the Perths actually existed.
Bubba- you did say back then that would would contact the author of these claims.
Have you done so?
 
The previous thread was closed for exactly the same reasons this one is going to closed if it doesn't get back on track i.e. personalisation and an inability to stick to a topic. The topic in this thread is what is raised in the opening post. Do not attempt to raise other CTs in this thread. Stalybridge
Replying to this modbox in thread will be off topic  Posted By: Darat
 
Since it's been demonstrated by multiple posters (including myself) that there is no Lethbridge AK, and it has never been established that a Lethbridge is a geographical feature of some sort, this thread is dead unless or until "the guy" speaks to the poster who made the above assertions.
 
No.

I can assure you it began in an era before canada existed. Maybe before 1492, but I'll have to ask when the brits & french began entertaining themselves with the practice.

Which one of you asked if circles were used, as well as lines ?
 
Bubba said:
No.

I can assure you it began in an era before canada existed. Maybe before 1492, but I'll have to ask when the brits & french began entertaining themselves with the practice.

Which one of you asked if circles were used, as well as lines ?
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Since there is no Lethbridge AK, can you show us a lethbridge in Alaska as a geographical feature?* **

Thanks.



* Or do we have to wait for your guy?



** You know, the thread topic.
 
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In an attempt too lay to rest this idea that 'a lethbridge' might be a geographical feature, as opposed to a name given to a settlement in honour of a founder or funder, here is a definition I posted in the original thread:

This unusual surname, recorded in English Church Registers from the mid 16th Century under the variant spellings Lethebridge, Lethabridge, Lethibridge and Lethbrig, is of Anglo-Saxon origin, and is a locational name from some minor, unrecorded, or now "lost" place, believed to have been in Devonshire because of the high incidence of early surname recordings from that county. The component elements of the placename are most ikely the Olde English pre 7th Century "(ge)leat", an open water-course to conduct water for household purposes and mills, with "brycg", bridge; thus implying a type of medieval aqueduct
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SurnameDB

Even if such a structure were to exist in Alaska, I very much doubt it it would be referred to by an archaic Anglo-Saxon title.
 
junkshop said:
In an attempt too lay to rest this idea that 'a lethbridge' might be a geographical feature, as opposed to a name given to a settlement in honour of a founder or funder, here is a definition I posted in the original thread:


SurnameDB

Even if such a structure were to exist in Alaska, I very much doubt it it would be referred to by an archaic Anglo-Saxon title.
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Thanks for this; while researching, I read a citation concerning a surname Lethbridge, but not the entire bit concerning the perhaps tortured component placename "(gl) leat-brycg."

As you note, it is doubtful this is the Lethbridge AK placename a poster hopefully asserts.
 
Bubba said:
No.

I can assure you it began in an era before canada existed. Maybe before 1492, but I'll have to ask when the brits & french began entertaining themselves with the practice.

Which one of you asked if circles were used, as well as lines ?
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Wait, what began before 1492? I thought we were speaking of lines drawn on a map between known places.
 
Resume said:
Thanks for this; while researching, I read a citation concerning a surname Lethbridge, but not the entire bit concerning the perhaps tortured component placename "(gl) leat-brycg."

As you note, it is doubtful this is the Lethbridge AK placename a poster hopefully asserts.
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No, you just wish (twisting my statement as usual) that I 'hopefully asserted' it.....you'd be pretending I did not indicate that "a Lethbridge in Alaska" didnt count since it was not on the line, therefore IMO it would have been part of the guy's raw data he compiled before plotting.


Example: You lied/pretended I claimed there was a town or place named "Lethbridge, Alaska". No one said that. I said "a Lethbridge in Alaska" is what I was told.

If there is not "a Lethbridge in Alaska", then the guy was mistaken, and bully for you. I dont much care, since the line does not pass through Alaska. (compiling raw data before plotting, and possibly was mistaken)

I suppose there could be a Lethbridge statue or some other fixed monument, as those count. I still would not much care since it would not be on the line.
 
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bruto said:
Wait, what began before 1492? I thought we were speaking of lines drawn on a map between known places.
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Close..


..and yep, its true...places were known/named before 1492.
 
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Cosmic Yak said:
Exactly. That rules out both America and Australia, meaning none of Bubba's examples can be used.
This just keeps getting more bizarre.
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Narratives tend to do that when you make stuff up as you go. :p

Hans
 
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