# What if Sicily and Tasmania swapped places? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 13, 2022, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-sicily-and-tasmania-swapped-places/960972 "2022-03-13T07:06:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hatchie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hatchie/32/3983_2.png) [@Hatchie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hatchie)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2022, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-sicily-and-tasmania-swapped-places/960972/1 "2022-03-13T07:06:11Z")
Okay, as I was typing that topic heading, Discourse insisted on popping up one of its desperate little pleas for attention: “ **Your topic is similar to… Simulated typewriter typeface in Microsoft Word?** ” which it is not in the least. This sort of thing has happened to me a lot, and I’m sick of it, especially since these little noodges show up when I’m trying to start a serious discussion typing on my phone, and suddenly here’s this blue rectangle blocking my view, automated overseeing at its worst. Discobot: show yourself! I’ll see you in Hell! Have any of you had this problem? ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2022, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-sicily-and-tasmania-swapped-places/960972/2 "2022-03-13T08:07:15Z")
Tasmania is quite a bit bigger than Sicily, although I imagine Sicily has more typewriters. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2022, 9:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-sicily-and-tasmania-swapped-places/960972/3 "2022-03-13T09:31:21Z")
> [@Hatchie](#): > > Discobot: show yourself! I’ll see you in Hell! You’re doing it wrong. @discobot, show yourself! By blood and fire, I bind thee seven times seven! ---
**Author:** ![discobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/discobot/32/570_2.png) [@discobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/discobot)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2022, 9:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-sicily-and-tasmania-swapped-places/960972/4 "2022-03-13T09:31:24Z")
Hi! To find out what I can do, say `@discobot display help`. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2022, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-sicily-and-tasmania-swapped-places/960972/5 "2022-03-13T10:40:15Z")
@discobot, display the seven secret names of God! ---
**Author:** ![GreenWyvern](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/greenwyvern/32/2834_2.png) [@GreenWyvern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenWyvern)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2022, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-sicily-and-tasmania-swapped-places/960972/6 "2022-03-13T11:44:11Z")
I’ve heard that to reveal the seven secret names of God, you first have to remove the seven seals. [![](https://i.postimg.cc/FKqncxcp/image.png) ](https://i.postimg.cc/FKqncxcp/image.png) ---
**Author:** ![abcdefghij](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/43a26b/32.png) [@abcdefghij](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/abcdefghij)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2022, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-sicily-and-tasmania-swapped-places/960972/7 "2022-03-13T11:48:33Z")
Are those Tasmanian seals or Sicilian seals? And where are their typewriters? ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2022, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-sicily-and-tasmania-swapped-places/960972/8 "2022-03-13T12:13:30Z")
> [@abcdefghij](#): > > Are those Tasmanian seals or Sicilian seals? [![](https://64.media.tumblr.com/0f526f02269e8a68685c67e9afb56604/tumblr_inline_omvtveX5Iy1qm3gv4_400.gifv) ](https://64.media.tumblr.com/0f526f02269e8a68685c67e9afb56604/tumblr_inline_omvtveX5Iy1qm3gv4_400.gifv) ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2022, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-sicily-and-tasmania-swapped-places/960972/9 "2022-03-14T06:13:48Z")
> [@Hatchie](#): > > Discourse insisted on popping up one of its desperate little pleas for attention: > > “ **Your topic is similar to… Simulated typewriter typeface in Microsoft Word?** ” > > which it is not in the least. I think this happens because “What if Sicily and Tasmania swapped places?” and “Simulated typewriter typeface in Microsoft Word” are anagrams of each other. Discobot catches things like that! ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2022, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-sicily-and-tasmania-swapped-places/960972/10 "2022-03-14T06:55:17Z")
I’m completely confused. Is the topic of this thread “_What if Sicily and Tasmania swapped places?_” or “_Have any of you had the problem of Discobot popping up desperate little pleas for attention?_” ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2022, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-sicily-and-tasmania-swapped-places/960972/11 "2022-03-14T13:15:37Z")
Australian cuisine would improve greatly, and Europe would get wombats. I can’t really see a downside. ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2022, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-sicily-and-tasmania-swapped-places/960972/12 "2022-03-14T13:28:16Z")
They are almost antipodes, so it would take a wormhole though the center of the Earth, and you would get tasmanian devil pizza, which is not worth the effort. The passage between [Scylla and Charybdis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Between_Scylla_and_Charybdis) would encompase the whole world, even more trouble, as if we did not have enough already! ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2022, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-sicily-and-tasmania-swapped-places/960972/13 "2022-03-14T13:45:59Z")
> [@Princhester](#): > > I’m completely confused. Is the topic of this thread “ _What if Sicily and Tasmania swapped places?_ ” or “ _Have any of you had the problem of Discobot popping up desperate little pleas for attention?_ ” I was wondering the same thing; the title and OP are completely different. ---
**Author:** ![Hatchie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hatchie/32/3983_2.png) [@Hatchie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hatchie)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2022, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-sicily-and-tasmania-swapped-places/960972/14 "2022-03-14T15:56:57Z")
The topic is Mundane Pointless Stuff I Must Share. Make of it what you will. ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2022, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-sicily-and-tasmania-swapped-places/960972/15 "2022-03-14T16:12:39Z")
As an experiment, I started to create a new thread titled … “what would happen if Sicily and tazmania swapped places ?” Discourse informed me that : **Your topic is similar to…** - What would happen if all the stars aligned? - What would happen if the moon was destroyed? - What Would Happen if the Price of Gold Collapsed? - What would happen if water couldn’t expand when freezing? - What would happen if the earth stopped spinning suddenly? but not " What if Sicily and Tasmania swapped places?", thereby proving that discobot knows sod all. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2022, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-sicily-and-tasmania-swapped-places/960972/16 "2022-03-14T16:14:52Z")
Europe would be inundated with Hobbits. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2022, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-sicily-and-tasmania-swapped-places/960972/17 "2022-03-14T20:07:50Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > Europe would be inundated with Hobbits Hobbiton is in New Zealand, not Tasmania. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2022, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-sicily-and-tasmania-swapped-places/960972/18 "2022-03-14T20:50:52Z")
> [@pjd](#): > > discobot knows sod all. What, the great, great grandnephew of the famed Lord Baldrick? Amazing. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2022, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-sicily-and-tasmania-swapped-places/960972/19 "2022-03-14T21:19:38Z")
> [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > They are almost antipodes They’re not that close to being antipodes. The actual antipodes of Tasmania is over near the Azores. New Zealand is a lot closer, which is maybe where the hobbits got into this thread.