At a recent gathering of major scientific minds, a startiling new study has revealed that, what has long been believed to be an undisputable fact, namely that the earth is 'round', is not true. When pressed for details, scientist and spokesman Professor Amful O. Meself explained that the planet is not really a square, but actually a cube, but the distinction would be too difficult to explain to the interested neophyte. When the new corrected globes come out, one look will explain everything. "Round has never meant spherical, but it has served us well, so why confuse the issue by calling our planet a cube?" he said. "It's easier to simply say the earth is square." When asked how these new findings came about, he said that "scientists the world over have long studied the contemporary modern, but woefully inaccurate globes of our planet searching for the most likely spots that could be called a 'corner' as in 'the four corners of the earth'. That was a clue right there, but was mistaken for left over nonsense from the time when the earth was believed to be flat. Four corners would work fine there. Now there are eight corners, and we are very close to knowing where they are.  Now we know that the earth is flat, but flat on six sides. Hah! See how confusing it gets?" The breakthrough came about when astro-physicist and father Dr. Klob Wrzyzink was playing with his young toddler son, and showing him how a square object does not fit in the round hole, even when pounded with the little wooden mallet. "That was my 'aha!' moment." he says. "It occured to me then that all telescopes are round! Round lenses, round eye pieces.We all have round eyes! Don't you think it's a little too convienient that every planet in the solar system is round? I mean, what with all the shapes to chose from, every single planet, star, sun, whatever, is round?. In the whole universe?   That's when the whole 'the earth is round' theory started to unravel, for me anyway. There is an urgent need for a couple billion dollars to construct a square telescope. Then we'll see." When pressed to further explain he responded, "Are you people stupid, or what?"