the united states of america

ALASKA - Aluetian Islands are frequently left off and misspelled.
ARKANSAS - Has two indentions: One in the northeast corner and one in the southwest.
DELAWARE - Is this really a state?
FLORIDA - That little part that juts up into Georgia a bit.
GEORGIA - See above
HAWAII - Oahu and three other little circles does not make a map of Hawaii.
IOWA - Has a sizable bulge on the eastern side.
MISSOURI - don't forget the boot heel!

― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 12:47 (ten years ago) Permalink

http://www.tremble.com/scribblins/images/us_of_ra.gif
http://www.tremble.com/scribblins/meet021027.html

― Electronic Bugaloo, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 13:03 (ten years ago) Permalink

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/ElectoralCollege1956-Large.png/400px-ElectoralCollege1956-Large.png

― Curt1s Stephens, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 13:16 (ten years ago) Permalink

racist aunt OTM

― Curt1s Stephens, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 13:19 (ten years ago) Permalink

Man, some of those old electoral maps look strange in today's context.

― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 13:58 (ten years ago) Permalink

MINNESOTA - That little tic of a state park that you can only get to via Canada.
NEVADA - Has six sides, not four.
NEW MEXICO - The panhandle down near El Paso.
NEW YORK - Long Island, surprisingly enough. It's like the Tasmania of the Empire State.
SOUTH DAKOTA - Not a perfect rectangle, thanks to the Missouri River.
WEST VIRGINIA - Wheeling is not in Ohio.
WISCONSIN - Does not have an upper peninsula.

― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 14:18 (ten years ago) Permalink

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Damn, Arizona dngaf.

― pplains, Tuesday, 31 July 2018 11:29 (four months ago) Permalink

Here's how America uses its land https://t.co/QdrokaMfI9 pic.twitter.com/ipfMznx2gk
— Bloomberg (@business) July 31, 2018

― I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Tuesday, 31 July 2018 11:59 (four months ago) Permalink

one month passes...

(right click for ultra-large source)

https://i.imgur.com/WhqONdG.jpg

― Karl Malone, Friday, 31 August 2018 19:35 (three months ago) Permalink

(buildings not to scale)

― Moves like Javert (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 1 September 2018 00:57 (three months ago) Permalink

~~(Especially the ones in NYC)~~

― pplains, Saturday, 1 September 2018 02:58 (three months ago) Permalink

https://i.imgur.com/yrEi9U3.png

― 龜, Monday, 10 September 2018 11:50 (three months ago) Permalink

heh, i've been guilty of this too.

https://i.imgur.com/x4y2GNz.png

― pplains, Monday, 10 September 2018 13:29 (three months ago) Permalink

And dammit, I just realized that I have W. Virginia included in there!

― pplains, Monday, 10 September 2018 13:29 (three months ago) Permalink

so it was arkansas that was in the briefcase in pulp fiction

― mookieproof, Monday, 10 September 2018 14:13 (three months ago) Permalink

this is more than the united states of america but i took the picture and uploaded it and i want to share it, dammit

https://i.imgur.com/ZitpLB1.jpg

from a pretty neat book called The Inversion of the World i came across in the oversize dept. of the library a few days ago

― Karl Malone, Thursday, 20 September 2018 23:11 (two months ago) Permalink

you can open it in a new tab to read some of the made-up inverted earth locations

― Karl Malone, Thursday, 20 September 2018 23:12 (two months ago) Permalink

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/09/19/upshot/facebook-county-friendships.html

― mookieproof, Friday, 21 September 2018 04:40 (two months ago) Permalink

https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/MetroMap2017a.png

― El Tomboto, Sunday, 30 September 2018 18:53 (two months ago) Permalink

Proud to be a dweller in the PORAQRANADA Atlantic seaboard megalopolis

― El Tomboto, Sunday, 30 September 2018 18:55 (two months ago) Permalink

what is going on with kentessee and virginolina

― mookieproof, Sunday, 30 September 2018 21:38 (two months ago) Permalink

Haha, MSP should've been Sweden, but Finland will work... Wait, Israel for Miami eh?

― pplains, Sunday, 30 September 2018 23:34 (two months ago) Permalink

I'm sure Microsoft and Amazon are proud of their ability to more or less match Nigeria in their economic contributions to the world

― El Tomboto, Sunday, 30 September 2018 23:38 (two months ago) Permalink

ya shoulda been cuba or some shit

la being mexico is apt

some real weird ones in there tho

i'm sure some canadians burned their pancakes when they saw how tiny their gdp is when placed in america like pour some maple syrup on that fire

― F# A# (∞), Sunday, 30 September 2018 23:38 (two months ago) Permalink

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DorVrbfXoAAVLd5.jpg

― mookieproof, Thursday, 4 October 2018 17:45 (two months ago) Permalink

lmao lucid dreams

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 15:11 (one month ago) Permalink

two weeks pass...

https://i.imgur.com/3xZOY1l.jpg

― mookieproof, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 19:59 (one month ago) Permalink

i... what is up with Tennessee

― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 1 November 2018 02:50 (one month ago) Permalink

https://teachthecivilwar.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Screen-shot-2011-05-23-at-10.04.08-AM.png

would be my guess.

― oder doch?, Thursday, 1 November 2018 10:01 (one month ago) Permalink

whoa! wild

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 1 November 2018 15:17 (one month ago) Permalink

Perhaps, though in that case the east coast would be glowing much more as well. Maybe also Tennessee soil is just super good for digging + good amount of empty space

― Evan, Thursday, 1 November 2018 15:34 (one month ago) Permalink

no graveyards in minnesota because they send their dead on flaming barges down the mississippi

― mookieproof, Thursday, 1 November 2018 16:12 (one month ago) Permalink

ha, that actually seems to be the case in Louisiana. (Down a river, at least.)

― pplains, Thursday, 1 November 2018 16:16 (one month ago) Permalink

Or wait, I'm looking at the battlefields. NEVER MIND.

― pplains, Thursday, 1 November 2018 16:16 (one month ago) Permalink

https://i.imgur.com/BJT7VQI.jpg

― Karl Malone, Friday, 2 November 2018 15:19 (one month ago) Permalink

hahah short pump

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 2 November 2018 15:23 (one month ago) Permalink

ESSEX? The choice is Mianus in Connecticut. Great for cracking people up on car rides ("Be careful of skidding through Mianus, it's slippery").

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 November 2018 15:26 (one month ago) Permalink

https://i.imgur.com/2PsWyeX.jpg

― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Thursday, 15 November 2018 18:45 (three weeks ago) Permalink

uh surprisingly accurate:

https://d2svrcwl6l7hz1.cloudfront.net/content/B01MF8P00H/resources/0?mime=image/*

it's actually the front cover of a book: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B01MF8P00H/

― F# A# (∞), Friday, 16 November 2018 16:21 (three weeks ago) Permalink

columbus got lost

― mookieproof, Friday, 16 November 2018 18:57 (three weeks ago) Permalink

"Be careful of skidding through Mianus, it's slippery"

"Mianus really needs to get plowed" is the appropriate reaction to this weather iirc

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 16 November 2018 19:07 (three weeks ago) Permalink

https://ddydc3qiky-flywheel.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/walmart-nation-1024x778.jpg

― sleeve, Sunday, 25 November 2018 17:41 (two weeks ago) Permalink

You can't get much more private than the Freemasons, can ya, Colorado?

― pplains, Sunday, 25 November 2018 19:33 (two weeks ago) Permalink

How are all those state university systems considered "private employers"?

― Brad C., Sunday, 25 November 2018 19:36 (two weeks ago) Permalink

I don't think this answers Brad's question, but

For the purposes of our analysis, we treated some state government employers like public universities as independent organizations, in keeping with how states frequently identify and compare company headcounts. Military bases were excluded from the list. In many cases, employee counts for the various colleges, laboratories, and medical centers falling under a single university system were combined. This was because these systems frequently attribute employees from the university and medical centers together. However, when a spokesperson from the medical centers or universities identified the organizations as distinct employers, they were counted separately.

― pplains, Sunday, 25 November 2018 22:18 (two weeks ago) Permalink

Because you'll also see this map pop up from time to time. Can't be both!

https://i.imgur.com/aFbCjzM.jpg

― pplains, Sunday, 25 November 2018 22:22 (two weeks ago) Permalink

wankers corner isn't a "town", it's an intersection in wilsonville

i'm very glad to learn that i work for oregon's equivalent of wal-mart though

― dub pilates (rushomancy), Monday, 26 November 2018 02:39 (two weeks ago) Permalink

really shows we have a long way to go before basketball coaches are taken as seriously as they should be

― Trϵϵship, Monday, 26 November 2018 02:53 (two weeks ago) Permalink

wankers corner isn't a "town", it's an intersection in wilsonville

it's a way of life imo

― Karl Malone, Monday, 26 November 2018 02:58 (two weeks ago) Permalink

Top 3 state employees in my state:

Athletics Head Football Coach $3,500,000
Athletics Head Basketball Coach $2,550,000
Surgery Chief, Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery $1,300,000

― pplains, Monday, 26 November 2018 03:11 (two weeks ago) Permalink

Highest-paid non-college state employee is the head of the Dept. of Human Services at $282,800.

― pplains, Monday, 26 November 2018 03:13 (two weeks ago) Permalink

https://persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu/sites/default/files/PJM_2240_01.jpg

show me puke

― mookieproof, Tuesday, 27 November 2018 17:50 (two weeks ago) Permalink

Utah

― I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Tuesday, 27 November 2018 17:54 (two weeks ago) Permalink

i would have liked to have been a fly on the wall when the artist drew the outlines of the states and just generally planned out where the states would go and how much space everything would need

― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 27 November 2018 18:24 (two weeks ago) Permalink

haha "sucker"

― F# A# (∞), Tuesday, 27 November 2018 18:56 (two weeks ago) Permalink

They got Texas right.

― pplains, Tuesday, 27 November 2018 20:16 (two weeks ago) Permalink

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