Maps make funny shapes...
In the "Things found while looking for something else" category... well, this time I was looking for myself (I did a Google search on "cartophilia") and I found the xtcian blog, by Ian Williams, with a post from 2003 called cartophilia! in which he has fun with the funny shapes of states...
I like it when states reach for something that they might not deserve. Take Alabama and Mississippi, for instance, both violently sticking out a body part to touch the Gulf of Mexico:
One of his commenters suggests, "Alabama and Mississippi ought to talk about it before going to bed. They look like a couple that's had a fight."
He forgot to note how funny the shape of Florida can be... and how it could be a little different after a little blue pill...Labels: alabama, cartophilia, florida, mississippi
posted by Cartophiliac @ Thursday, October 25, 2007
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Back in the mid/late 80s, there was a local comedy show on TV in Baltimore. To this day, my husband remembers one of the female comedians saying: "Maryland is the only state shaped like a hand gun" (in stereotypical Bawl'mer accent). We pull that line out regularly!
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