Programmers' list has been a pleasure to read. Stats' list is growing fast as well. So perhaps there is a place for separate one on this site?
Please share your nuggets of wisdom / humour / inspiration from the world of GIS, cartography and mapping.
Answer
"Here be dragons"
The phrase "Here Be Dragons" (or hic sunt dracones) appears on maps such as the Lenox Globe (from early 1500s) and is now considered to be map shorthand for Here Be Other Stuff We Don't Quite Know About, rather than a claim to have seen a fire-breathing monster.
Usually placed to fill whitespace (un-known uncharted lands or seas) on old maps.
http://www.virginmedia.com/digital/features/how-did-we-ever-believe-that.php?ssid=8
Another
"The Earth is Flat"
http://theflatearthsociety.org/cms/
dedicated to unraveling the true mysteries of the universe and demonstrating that the earth is flat and that Round Earth doctrine is little more than an elaborate hoax
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