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Really bad maps.

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How bad are these maps?

Well it’s like this…

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They show Maine’s favorite fast food as Long John Silvers. Now, the husband and I travel our state pretty regularly and I don’t remember ever seeing that chain. Turns out there’s a reason…

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Bad map.

Baaaaad.

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Who knew Kansas was so popular in Germany?

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I was born in New Jersey.

I say waw- (as in saw) -der.

Wawder.

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This one they got right.

We have the world’s largest globe and her name is Eartha.

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Eartha is the world’s largest rotating globe, located in the former DeLorme headquarters (now Garmin) in Yarmouth, Maine, and is a free, public attraction open on weekdays. This massive, 41-foot-diameter globe rotates weighs 5,600 pounds and revolves on a 23.5-degree tilt, mimicking Earth’s movements, It offers detailed views of the planet from multiple levels in a three-story glass atrium.

We’ve visited, and it is pretty cool. In a geography nerd sort of way.

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Father jamas for me.

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I’d add a few more to the extremely tricky list. Nebraska and Kansas for sure.

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It should be illegal to tease skunks everywhere.

That’s just wrong.

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22 thoughts on “Really bad maps.”

  1. I think you should feel honored that they say your favorite food chain is one that doesn’t exist in your state – to me, it means you eat at locally-owned restaurants and only eat at chains while traveling, if at all.

    I guess hodag wins over musky, the largest of which is also in Wisconsin.

    I’m thinking there’s generally no need to make skunk-teasing illegal. There are probably few repeat offenders.

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  2. I always liked Long John SIlver’s but haven’t seen one anywhere in a long time. At least they got Culver’s right! (And beer…snort.)

    My dad is Jersey-born as well, and it’s “wooder” for him. Which always makes me laugh.

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    1. I kept my Jersey accent on four words. The aforementioned water, dog (pronounced dawg), coffee (pronounced cawfee) and aunt (pronounced ant). I also go to the shore, not the beach.
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  3. In my family (Massachusetts born and bred) we say gabbage instead of garbage. And woof instead of wolf. The only Dennys I know about in my area was near the Oakland airport – a notoriously crime ridden area in a notoriously crime-ridden city! It’s vacant now.

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  4. The fact that there are laws around dwarf tossing, Big Foot harassment, and skunk teasing suggests that these must have been real problems at one point in time… 🤔😅

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