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06-02-2017, 07:26 PM
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
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06-02-2017, 08:39 PM
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ChuckF's sock
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
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06-30-2017, 11:55 PM
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Solipsist
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
I had occasion to check the spelling of the word quincunx and came across this delightful quincuncial projection world map. It's quincuncial in that the North Pole occupies the centre point and the South Pole occupies all four corners.
Quincuncial.
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07-01-2017, 12:56 AM
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puzzler
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
Poor New Zealand looks very lonely on that projection.
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07-06-2017, 05:59 AM
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Shitpost Sommelier
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
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07-06-2017, 01:10 PM
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A fellow sophisticate
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Location: Cowtown, Kansas
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
Two of my coworkers are from Hooker.
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07-06-2017, 02:41 PM
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Solipsist
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
I have to say "Bangor" and "Essex" are pretty weak as placenames go.
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07-11-2017, 10:08 AM
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Servant of the Dark Lord
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
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I find myself skeptical of some of those town names.
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07-16-2017, 07:33 AM
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Shitpost Sommelier
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
...Lichenstein?
Lichtenstein did not deserve this.
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07-19-2017, 06:45 PM
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Adequately Crumbulent
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
I'm not sure what they were thinking with the US pick. How could they pick Tom Sawyer instead of Huckleberry Finn or To Kill a Mockingbird? That's just silly.
Source: The Most Iconic Book Set in Every Country [Infographic]
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07-19-2017, 06:52 PM
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Fishy mokey
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Location: Furrin parts
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
Bleurgh, we got the Diary of Anne Frank? Not exactly part of our literary canon...
But then it's not about the local literature, it's books set there. I guess we got lucky that it's even written in Dutch.
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07-19-2017, 06:55 PM
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the internet says I'm right
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
Well, it's books set in that country, not from that country, which strikes me as potentially problematic.
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07-19-2017, 07:59 PM
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Solipsist
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
Lots make sense.
Pride and Prejudice for Britain? Really?
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07-19-2017, 08:31 PM
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Shitpost Sommelier
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
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Lots make sense.
Pride and Prejudice for Britain? Really?
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Mr Bennet of the Longbourn estate has five daughters, but his property is entailed, meaning that none of the girls can inherit it. Since his wife had no fortune, it is imperative that one of the girls marries well in order to support the others on his death.
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Very much describes Brexit. Now we just swap Mr and Mrs Bennet for Cameron and May.
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07-19-2017, 10:23 PM
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mesospheric bore
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
Arrows for Morocco and Algeria are switched. Sudan not a single country any more.
/pedantry
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07-19-2017, 10:45 PM
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California Sober
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
I mean if there's ever an appropriate place to be pedantic about geography, it's in a map thread on 
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07-19-2017, 11:45 PM
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Projecting my phallogos with long, hard diction
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
Liechtenstein got an entry, but not Luxembourg 
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Arrows for Morocco and Algeria are switched.
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How do you know it's the arrows that are switched, and not the little labels? 
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07-22-2017, 01:39 AM
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Hound
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
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Lots make sense.
Pride and Prejudice for Britain? Really?
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Britain should have had Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.
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07-23-2017, 03:50 PM
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Fishy mokey
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
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07-23-2017, 07:37 PM
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A fellow sophisticate
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Location: Cowtown, Kansas
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
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When I was 16, I called my dad from Hooker just to say I was in Hooker.
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07-23-2017, 07:39 PM
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A fellow sophisticate
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
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Also, I cannot believe that Big Bone, KY beat out Bald Knob Lick or Big Beaver Lick.
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07-24-2017, 05:54 PM
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A fellow sophisticate
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
If Canada annexed Cuba, there would be nobody left up there.
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07-24-2017, 07:16 PM
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Projecting my phallogos with long, hard diction
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
Oh, I had the opportunity to go to Honaunau-Napoopoo. But I didn't.
But apparently the name is not technically pronounced or spelled like English "poopoo", it's Hōnaunau-Napoʻopoʻo, with the ʻ being a glottal stop. The ʻokina tends to be left out of US government documents, but Hawaiian road signs and things would include the proper Hawaiian spelling.
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07-25-2017, 05:14 AM
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NeoTillichian Hierophant & Partisan Hack
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
I have been to Mary's Igloo. Mary wasn't home.
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07-25-2017, 05:46 AM
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Shitpost Sommelier
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
Well hey, welcome back Angakuk. Was wondering if youse been alright.
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