April 15, 2004

• 48/48 on the first try!!! I FUCKING RULE~@!!~!1 Fourth grade, here I come! montanta, dude? i could see, like, mixing up vermont/new hampshire or alabama/mississippi maybe. are you... from the US? ;)
• I have trouble getting the pieces of New England to stick in the right spaces.
• Argh, frustrating. First of all the minute you let go no matter where you are it counts you wrong, even if you haven't left the menu yet. It has a problem knowing which state's name you meant to click and you don't realize that until it has counted you wrong and you say "Hey, I didn't click Virginia!" Plus I don't remember failing the third grade for missing one state under the time limit cuz I was too slow dragging.... /frustrated rant for the record I didn't learn all the states til 5th grade...
• Delaware is almost impossible to hit. Same with Rhode Island. Spent about 10 or 15 seconds a piece on those two. Another few seconds hiding the window from passing bosses. Passed on the first try.
• ohhh...failed my first two tries. Give me 10 provinces and 3 territories any time!
• Uh, I just realized that Delaware probably isn't that hard if you don't have your browser shrunk down real tiny so no one can tell you're playing a game.
• What genial said. /frustrated and annoyed
• Yeah, forks, not knowing where Montana is only okay if you're not a U.S. citizen. Otherwise, your a sad, sad excuse for an American! (I tease, of course!)
• too hard for me.... even new york took a few tries. next let's do a "find canada on the world map" game so that the americans can have a challenge! :)
• One try 38/48. Not from the US.
• Wyoming? WYOMING???? I thought we got RID of that real estate after Truman bought Louisiana from New Orleans, and leased the 38th parallel from, like, the Prussians. With big gunboats. His VP Monroe was a Doctor, I think...
• As a child, I had a wooden block map puzzle of the United States. Gave me an unfair advantage. Thanks to that map, I also know that the continent ends in an abyss of fire and mist at the 49th parallel and the Rio Grande.
• Test your geographical knowledge - I learned my US states here at the age of 25 (50 goddam states - why can't you just have 10 provinces and 2 - opps 3 - territories like every decent country?). A friend of mine used this to prepare for the US foriegn service exams - I don't know how she did (they are incrediably hard, and she was young to try), but she said she felt so much more confident on the map tests.
• First try! Woo! Woo! Wow. I suck at Africa, though.
• Hooray for jb's link -- which refrains from awarding me a red X for no discernable reason. [I don't dare try Africa, which is so changed from the days I took geography, but happily that's what atlases are for.]
• The first link was far too USA-centric.
• i'd feel good about knowing my own country, but i'm betting a lot of us US-ians would do pretty badly at the "name the governor of the next state over" quiz, let alone the "name the leaders of countries other than the US" quiz. let's see... i can do (with confidence) vicente fox and tony blair and jean chretie... what? damn! oh hell, canada, why'd you have to go and elect a new guy? now i'm going to be all screwed on this "world leaders" test...
• and why, when dragging onto michigan, doesn't the upper peninsula get filled in? they keep neglecting the upper peninsula. if you look carefully at the lines on the map behind jon stewart on the daily show, you can see that some joker has apparently gone and ceded the upper peninsula of michigan over to the canadian side of the border. dammit, stewart, we want out UP back! i curse you again, canada, for stealing the prettiest part of our state! but damn, canada makes some nice cheese. 5 year old canadian sharp white cheddar, yum yum! (take that vermont! you've had the white cheddar stranglehold for far too long!)
• 85/111 on Europe (dirigibleman's link). The Balkans really mess me up. Oh, and first try easy with the states, but I still have trouble with the square states (definitely know where Montana is, though, since my childhood obsession with dinosaurs). And I lost time by dragging Michigan to the Upper Peninsula (and being told that was wrong!) so I'm annoyed to, clf. Hell, I do bad at "name of governor of your own state, or the mayor of your town, or [god help me] the names of your congressmen." I have managed to finally find the country I'll be studying in this summer on a map, though, which is a big step.
• rustcellar - poor little me, growing up near bozeman, going to the museum of the rockies and wondering "if the dinosaur skeletons here are cool, how much cooler must the collections be in big museums like in new york or chicago?" but then when i was older i realized i had been at the freakin' museum of the rockies. and all those "really big museums" were getting their specimens from the dudes who worked right there at the museum of the rockies.
• Psst, rustcellar! That's jb's link.
• Well, I can name all 50 states, but I sure as heck can't place them on a map. Hell, with a few minutes I can rhyme off about 150 countries, but I suck at maps. It's genetic. I could do Canada, though! Although I looked at jb's link, and I can do quite a bit of Africa. Bit of an obsession though, that is.
• 15/48 on first try... seriously, though, where the hell is Iowa? Furthermore, why is Iowa? 86/111 on Europe, gave up before completing Africa out of sheer embarrassment that I kept trying to put just about every country on top of Chad. I suck-diddly-uck at Geography.
• I'm in Iowa, so that answers the where and the why.
• Strangely, I did really well on Africa. It's the first continent we covered in World Geography in 7th grade and apparently it's the only one that stuck.
• See the little guy running down the center of the United States? Minnesota is his hat, Iowa is his head, Missourri is his torso, Arkansas is his lower body, and Louisiana is his boots. He is a magical elf named Mimal.
• No, Minnesota is defintely his head. He's got a nose!
• You're welcome for the world geography link, but I have to come clean and admit it's a metafilter double post :) CLF: It's now Paul Martin - and 5 year old Canadian sharp white cheddar is damn good, but not a spot on English cheese. I was eating the cheapest brand last summer, and they still put us to shame. And the variety! I liked Lancashire a lot myself.
• Finally summoned the nerve to try Africa: scored (an embarassing) 126 out of 147.
• That's really good beeswacky - I've been playing the game all year, and I'm currently taking an African history course, and I still can't get it all.
• I suppose I think of the maximum marks possible as good, and everything else as evil when it comes down to it. In other words, I expect me to do better than that, jb. Who ever heard of a country called "The Gambia"? Actually a very fine link, jb.
• jb - when i discovered stilton i knew i would be happy. too bad all i can get around here is pasteurized imported copies rather than the Real Thing. my first big cheese experience was in spain - damn, i probably could have been happy living off of bread and cheese the whole time i was there. mmmmm.... cheese.... beeswacky - the gambia? i've heard of it. probably couldn't place it on a map to save my live but i'm guessing it's east coast Africa, near where the congo comes out. north of Namibia. southeast of Cote d'Ivore. how'd i do?
• well, ok, it was on the east coast at least - but farther north than i thought. oh well. i suck at africa.
• You meant west, right? I had never heard of it before I played this game - learned from this game. Along with Western Sahara, and where exactly Sebia and Montenegro, Boznia and Hertzogovinia (sp?) and Slovenia are in relation to each other. But the absolutely impossible one is the Carribean - tiny countries I don't know, have of which start with "St-something or other" - and they have no borders with each other! They are all the same shape (island-shaped).
• Dear God, Do Canadians ever shut up about frickin Canada? Sincerely,
• didn't mean to be the threadkiller. sorry! i was just playin'.
• It was dying. Or so the post times indicate at any rate. No shame in being the last nail in the coffin.
• Hey, we can revive this (dead horse and all that). Anybody want a cheatsheet? Just mosey over to this thread over here. And so our formly innocuous little map thread acquires unholy unlife through sapping the juice out of a currently living pie thread. *Diuerse alarums*