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Old April 15, 2003, 13:59   #1
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New Map of France
The U.S. Dept. of Education has approved a new political map of France for use in our text books to provide better understanding of French culture and history.



(Okay, I don't like French-bashing in general, but this is funny!)
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Old April 15, 2003, 14:01   #2
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Yeah - it's funny. But scary too.
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They would never choose this map for a class in the US.

1. The shape is too close to the real thing.

2. It has years of german intrusions that might actually make students think and learn something.

3. EuroDisney isn't listed.

4. It was done in 2003 instead of the normal 30 years out of date.

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They would never choose this map for a class in the US.

1. The shape is too close to the real thing.

2. It has years of german intrusions that might actually make students think and learn something.

3. EuroDisney isn't listed.

4. It was done in 2003 instead of the normal 30 years out of date.

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Not to mention that it features France.
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i learned more from civ than elementry school social studies / geography anyway.
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Yep, thank god for more realistic AVALON HILL games or I would have grown up thinking the RISK board was actually the map of the world.

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Yep, thank god for more realistic AVALON HILL games or I would have grown up thinking the RISK board was actually the map of the world.

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wait, you mean there aren't only two terriroties to the US?

that east africa is thie shiznit?

that whoever starts in austraila has a major advantage in the early game?
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They would never choose this map for a class in the US.

1. The shape is too close to the real thing.
They did forget to mark Corsica as part of France. This map may still work for our schools...
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wait, you mean there aren't only two terriroties to the US?

that east africa is thie shiznit?

that whoever starts in austraila has a major advantage in the early game?


and there is no Russia, it's really Yakusk, Irkusk, Siberia, etc. And south America is made up of only 4 countries.
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Town names are

I like the memorial roads.
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No, this is the map that will be used in US textbooks from now on.
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Man, people have a lot of Gaul posting those maps....
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Old April 15, 2003, 15:15   #18
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Perhaps my posting it wasn't very Nice. *tiddy-boom*

I didn't think the town names were very good, either, but the highways made me laugh out loud.
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The highways are somehow worth it and educational (I didn't know there was a guderian bypass right through the Maginot line in 1940, and I didn't know the 1940 attack on Paris used the same route as the 1870 one).

But the city names are pathetic.
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Sans Testicles!!

I think that went a little too far.
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I liked the highways . The towns became too corny to read after half a dosen or so.
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I guess I am kind of simple minded but I liked Spareus. It reminds me of a gambling city in Nevada called Wendover. The locals from Utah who frequent it call it "Bendover."
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It would be better if they would actually use more french words, such as Aperitif pour l'allemagne.

That provoked a chuckle.
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It would be better if they would actually use more french words, such as Aperitif pour l'allemagne.
The Americans, who are clearly the aimed audience, would have never understood
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I like Ix's map.
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