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LongBlade

Quote from: GDS_Starfury on May 12, 2015, 08:57:07 PM
cool!  I have a lake!  O0

I don't think so. That says "Mountains of Mist," not "Tigers in the..."
All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

Martok

Ha, that's a great map.  The name makes it much gooder.  ;D 

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mirth

Quote from: LongBlade on May 13, 2015, 08:30:52 AM
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on May 12, 2015, 08:57:07 PM
cool!  I have a lake!  O0

I don't think so. That says "Mountains of Mist," not "Tigers in the..."

:2funny:
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bayonetbrant

hooboys - there's some hilarious stuff here

http://judgmentalmaps.com
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"their citizens (all of them counted as such) glorified their mythology of 'rights'...and lost track of their duties. No nation, so constituted, can endure." Robert Heinlein, Starship Troopers

Martok

I love Judgmental Maps.  Always entertaining.  O0 

"Like we need an excuse to drink to anything..." - Banzai_Cat
"I like to think of it not as an excuse but more like Pavlovian Response." - Sir Slash

"At our ages, they all look like jailbait." - mirth

"If we had lines here that would have crossed all of them. For the 1,077,986th time." - Gusington

"Government is so expensive that it should at least be entertaining." - airboy

"As long as there's bacon, everything will be all right." - Toonces

BanzaiCat

Quote from: bayonetbrant on May 29, 2015, 12:00:19 PM
hooboys - there's some hilarious stuff here

http://judgmentalmaps.com

Yeah, the Houston map you posted to my timeline is pretty much dead-on.


Centurion40

So whereabouts do you live?  How about Steelie; whereabouts did Steelie hang his hat?
Any time is a good time for pie.

BanzaiCat

I live further north of the map, but I've worked all over town.

MetalDog

Our States renamed by country with roughly the same GDP and one with roughly the same population:


http://finance.yahoo.com/news/map-renames-state-country-similar-112712095.html
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besilarius

"Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out until too late that he's been playing with two queens all along".  Terry Pratchett.

During filming of Airplane, Leslie Nielsen used a whoopee cushion to keep the cast off-balance. Hays said that Nielsen "played that thing like a maestro"

Tallulah Bankhead: "I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late, start without me."

"When all other trusts fail, turn to Flashman." — Abraham Lincoln.

"I have enjoyed very warm relations with my two husbands."
"With your eyes closed?"
"That helped."  Lauren Bacall

Master Chiefs are sneaky, dastardly, and snarky miscreants who thrive on the tears of Ensigns and belly dancers.   Admiral Gerry Bogan.

besilarius

"Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out until too late that he's been playing with two queens all along".  Terry Pratchett.

During filming of Airplane, Leslie Nielsen used a whoopee cushion to keep the cast off-balance. Hays said that Nielsen "played that thing like a maestro"

Tallulah Bankhead: "I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late, start without me."

"When all other trusts fail, turn to Flashman." — Abraham Lincoln.

"I have enjoyed very warm relations with my two husbands."
"With your eyes closed?"
"That helped."  Lauren Bacall

Master Chiefs are sneaky, dastardly, and snarky miscreants who thrive on the tears of Ensigns and belly dancers.   Admiral Gerry Bogan.

LongBlade

All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

LongBlade

Secret Soviet Maps.

The Soviets mapped the West to a stunning degree.

QuoteGiven the technology of the time, the Soviet maps are incredibly accurate. Even today, the US State Department uses them (among other sources) to place international boundary lines on official government maps.

John Davies, a retired British software developer, has been studying the Soviet maps for a decade.

Guy's company, Omnimap, was one of the first to import Soviet military maps to the West. But he wasn't alone. Like the military officials charged with guarding the maps, map dealers around the world saw an opportunity. Maps that were once so secret that an officer who lost one could be sent to prison (or worse) were bought by the ton and resold for a profit to governments, telecommunications companies, and others.

"I'm guessing we bought a million sheets," Guy says. "Maybe more."

source: http://www.wired.com/2015/07/secret-cold-war-maps
All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

bayonetbrant

Outline of Connecticut overlaid on the Dallas metroplex area

The key to surviving this site is to not say something which ends up as someone's tag line - Steelgrave

"their citizens (all of them counted as such) glorified their mythology of 'rights'...and lost track of their duties. No nation, so constituted, can endure." Robert Heinlein, Starship Troopers

Centurion40

Any time is a good time for pie.