> I just looked out from the roof of the building and the earth is
> clearly flat

Well I'm up on my roof now - hey, I can see my house from
here - and it's not flat. OK, what's going on. I'm scared

BTW, the people who quote the Flat Earth stuff are way off. It
was known from ancient times that it's round, and was measured.
Blame author Washington (Rip Van Winkle) Irving

http://www.thegoonshow.co.uk/scripts/wings_over_dagenham.html

Seagoon: [over] Early British rhubarb. Early British rhubarb Rhubarb,=20
rhubarb. Rhubarb rhubarb! R-r-rhubarb! And, custard.
Sellers: Pardon me, I'm from the er, Geographical Society.
Secombe: [off, barely audible] I'm from the rhubarb!
Sellers: May I come along to your flight, so that I can, photograph the=20
earth from a great height?
Seagoon: What ever for?
Sellers: Because, sir, there are some stupid fools, who are still arguing=20
whether the earth is round or flat.
Seagoon: And so?
Sellers: I'm going to prove to them, that it -is- flat.
Seagoon: Prove the earth is flat? Hahaha! What a waste of time!
Sellers: Why why, why?
Seagoon: Everybody knows it's flat!
Sellers: Aha ha ha ha har.
Seagoon: Aha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha haa!
Sellers: Aha ha ha har!
Seagoon: Aha ha ha!
Sellers: But, there are idiots in this world, you know.
Seagoon: Have you met them?
Sellers: Met them? I listen to you every week!
Fx: fanfare

....................

Sellers: Er, could you slow down just a bit here, I want to take that=20
photograph of the earth.
Eccles: Oh here. I just saw the earth through the clouds.
Sellers: Did it look round?
Eccles: Yeah, but I don't think it saw me...=20

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