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Comment author: badger 25 April 2009 05:20:59AM *  10 points [-]

College of Cartographers has a nice secret society ring to it. It's versatile as well. I can imagine it being applied to explorer-adventurers out to conquer terra incognita or a shadowy group governing the world.

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 26 April 2009 03:05:53PM 1 point [-]

Cartography seems to be about trivia, like Cyc. Doesn't seem to be the right connotation.

Comment author: badger 26 April 2009 05:06:44PM *  3 points [-]

That reminds me of a scene from the Arrested Development pilot.

Narrator: Thanks to the family’s largesse, Buster has studied everything from Native American tribal ceremonies…

Narrator: ...to cartography, the mapping of uncharted territories.

Buster: Actually, I’m studying cartography now — the mapping of uncharted territories.

Michael: Sure. Hasn’t everything already sort of been discovered, though, by, like Magellan and Cortes? NASA, you know?

Buster: Oh, yeah, yeah.

Michael: Those people.

Buster: But there’s still…

Lucile: (appearing between her sons) Never hurts to double-check.

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