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11-20-2015, 03:46 AM
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Dogehlaugher -Scrutari
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Northwest
Gender: Female
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
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Ishmaeline of Domesticity drinker of smurf tears
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11-20-2015, 11:28 AM
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Solipsist
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Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Kolmannessa kerroksessa
Gender: Male
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
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11-20-2015, 03:03 PM
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Bizarre unknowable space alien
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Flint, MI
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
If you zoom out to see the globe and put Antarctica in the center, it gives the illusion that it's moving.
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11-22-2015, 05:22 AM
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Member
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Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Lebanon, OR, USA
Gender: Male
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
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11-25-2015, 08:28 PM
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Projecting my phallogos with long, hard diction
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Dee Cee
Gender: Male
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
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11-25-2015, 09:24 PM
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Solipsist
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Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Kolmannessa kerroksessa
Gender: Male
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
The bears sleep for you
By my reckoning the surname Mäkijärvi means "hill lake".
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11-25-2015, 11:01 PM
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Member
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Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Lebanon, OR, USA
Gender: Male
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
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11-26-2015, 12:13 AM
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A fellow sophisticate
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Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Cowtown, Kansas
Gender: Male
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
Rosetta's Philea comet probe landing site(s).
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Sleep - the most beautiful experience in life - except drink.--W.C. Fields
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12-04-2015, 05:41 PM
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Fishy mokey
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Furrin parts
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
For the record, I'm in Little Havana.
And Pan is in Train Delay Central
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12-04-2015, 07:25 PM
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Solipsist
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Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Kolmannessa kerroksessa
Gender: Male
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
So it's incorrect to apply "cheeseheads", "flat and dull" and "why did they drain this bit" to the entire country? Well, I believe I've learnt something.
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12-04-2015, 09:50 PM
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Bizarre unknowable space alien
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Flint, MI
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
That light brown bit just next to the words "First to drown" looks like the lower peninsula of Michigan on its side.
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"freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter much. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order."
- Justice Robert Jackson, West Virginia State Board of Ed. v. Barnette
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12-05-2015, 11:59 PM
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Projecting my phallogos with long, hard diction
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Dee Cee
Gender: Male
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
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Originally Posted by JoeP
So it's incorrect to apply "cheeseheads", "flat and dull" and "why did they drain this bit" to the entire country? Well, I believe I've learnt something.
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Also the same for "frugal", apparently.
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02-11-2016, 10:38 PM
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Bizarre unknowable space alien
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Flint, MI
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
Locations of British television shows, more or less.
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"freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter much. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order."
- Justice Robert Jackson, West Virginia State Board of Ed. v. Barnette
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02-11-2016, 10:59 PM
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Fishy mokey
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Furrin parts
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
Tagarrrrt is pretty clearly Glaswegian. I love how they pronounce Murrrrrrdarrrrr.
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02-12-2016, 04:30 AM
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A fellow sophisticate
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Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Cowtown, Kansas
Gender: Male
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
What about Monarch of the Glen? Whar be Glenbogle and Ben Bogle?
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Sleep - the most beautiful experience in life - except drink.--W.C. Fields
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08-06-2016, 01:37 PM
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forever in search of dill pickle doritos
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
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08-06-2016, 02:53 PM
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Admin of THIEVES and SLUGABEDS
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
Yeah Robocop!
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08-06-2016, 11:25 PM
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Jin, Gi, Rei, Ko, Chi, Shin, Tei
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
The United States Geological Survey makes wonderful topographic maps on various scales. Those are cool enough, but Hubbard Scientific makes and sells 3-D raised relief versions of the USGS's 1:250,000 scale topographic maps.
Here, for example, is their raised relief map of the Knoxville, TN quadrangle.
For reference, the map is about 30 inches wide. The Knoxville quadrangle includes Great Smoky Mountains National Park and some of my favorite hiking & camping areas. I just ordered 4 of these maps (the Knoxville, Charlotte, Johnson City, and Winston-Salem quadrangles). These 4 maps cover the entirety of GSMNP, as well as a large portion of the Blue Ridge Parkway, plus other interesting areas, such as several of my favorite State Parks and National Forests.
Ultimately, I plan to connect the 4 maps and mount them on my office wall. I think it'll look fantastic.
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08-07-2016, 11:45 AM
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Dissonance is its own reward
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Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: World's End, NY
Gender: Bender
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
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Originally Posted by slimshady2357
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Wait, Wile E. Coyote is from Utah? Since when? Man, all those cartoons looked like the mojave desert to me, east california/west nevada.
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08-07-2016, 12:00 PM
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Jin, Gi, Rei, Ko, Chi, Shin, Tei
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
Several of the cartoons feature what are unmistakably Saguaro Cactus (Carnegiea gigantea), which are native to the Sonoran Desert. That would place the cartoons in Southern Arizona, the Mexican state of Sonora, or extreme southeastern California.
That having been said, from what I recall, the landscapes in some of the cartoons seemed to resemble the Arches region of Utah more than the Sonoran or Mojave regions.
Of course, whatever bird that is that Wile E. Coyote is chasing, it looks nothing like an actual Roadrunner. (Fun fact: the ground speed of a Greater Roadrunner tops out at about 20 mph; a Coyote can run at over 40 mph.)
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“The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.” -- Socrates
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08-07-2016, 12:07 PM
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puzzler
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Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: UK
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
I always thought the scenery looked like Monument Valley which is on the Arizona/Utah border.
Road Runner is named as 'Texas Road Burner' in one of the cartoons, but I don't recall ever seeing any mention of where Wile E came from.
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08-07-2016, 12:28 PM
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Dissonance is its own reward
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Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: World's End, NY
Gender: Bender
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
Quote:
Originally Posted by The Lone Ranger
Of course, whatever bird that is that Wile E. Coyote is chasing, it looks nothing like an actual Roadrunner. (Fun fact: the ground speed of a Greater Roadrunner tops out at about 20 mph; a Coyote can run at over 40 mph.)
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yeah, I've seen a greater roadrunner. I was actually rather disappointed as a kid. Then I heard that those bastards can (and frequently DO) kill rattlesnakes, which is cool as hell.
(good lord is there anything TLR doesn't know? one of these days I'm going to find it.)
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Father Helel, save us from the dark.
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08-07-2016, 01:00 PM
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Solipsist
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Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Kolmannessa kerroksessa
Gender: Male
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Re: Maps are fun, so is food.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Megatron
(good lord is there anything TLR doesn't know? one of these days I'm going to find it.)
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Let's ask.
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