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Deadlock Clock: Jun 19th 2013 at 11:59:00 PM
peasant Since: Mar, 2011
#51: Jun 16th 2013 at 8:30:01 PM

Does anyone have a good pick of the map for the boardgame Risk; particularly Europe or South America? The way the borders were drawn up definitely do not - nor did they ever - reflect Real Life and were creative liberties made by the creators for the sake of the game.

Edit: Never mind. Made one myself:

Because apparently Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago or Uruguay don't exist. Neither do French Guiana, the Sandwich Islands or the Falklands.

edited 16th Jun '13 9:00:44 PM by peasant

Telcontar In uffish thought from England Since: Feb, 2012
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#53: Jun 17th 2013 at 12:16:00 AM

Good one. And apparently Mexico and the Caribbean don't exist either.

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#54: Jun 17th 2013 at 12:23:00 AM

Or Cuba, or any Central American country, or Haiti and the Dominican Republic, or...

Looks good to me.

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#56: Jun 17th 2013 at 2:30:32 AM

A few more votes and we can go with that.

Also, caption idea: "Where's the Caribbean?"

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#57: Jun 17th 2013 at 2:47:48 AM

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#58: Jun 17th 2013 at 3:11:25 AM

51 is a good image, but the proposed caption is too long.

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#59: Jun 17th 2013 at 3:12:05 AM

Same for me.

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peasant Since: Mar, 2011
#60: Jun 17th 2013 at 3:33:34 AM

[up][up] Fair enough. What about:

"It would seem The Parker Bros should have spent more time learning The Nations of the World with The Warner Bros.

Or would that reference be too oblique?

edited 17th Jun '13 3:35:10 AM by peasant

Telcontar In uffish thought from England Since: Feb, 2012
In uffish thought
#61: Jun 17th 2013 at 3:39:18 AM

I would like the caption to list all the countries left out, be it as the main caption or in a note.

[up]The reference is lost on me, but lots of references are.

edited 17th Jun '13 3:39:37 AM by Telcontar

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#62: Jun 17th 2013 at 3:44:03 AM

Too oblique a reference.

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peasant Since: Mar, 2011
#63: Jun 17th 2013 at 3:46:14 AM

[up][up] It was a reference to this Animaniacs song.

Another suggestion: "Wait a second... Where'd Texas go?!"

I think that succinctly communicates the difference between the two tropes. tongue

edited 17th Jun '13 3:49:12 AM by peasant

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#64: Jun 17th 2013 at 4:11:48 AM

The point of the caption is not to pedantically correct everything that is wrong in the picture. I don't see how this needs a caption, really, but if we must have one then listing two or three countries is preferable to listing a dozen.

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#65: Jun 17th 2013 at 6:23:01 AM

"Global Politics are much easier when there's only four countries per continent."

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#66: Jun 17th 2013 at 8:54:19 AM

[up]Not Global War?

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#68: Jun 17th 2013 at 1:00:17 PM

Put the image up, and tagged it. No caption consensus so far.

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#69: Jun 17th 2013 at 1:05:44 PM

[up][up][up]Potayto, potahto.

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Telcontar In uffish thought from England Since: Feb, 2012
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#70: Jun 20th 2013 at 5:25:02 AM

65 is fine with me, with or without the list of countries missing, I guess.

I'll holler for a lock later today without adding a caption, if nobody posts anything else.

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#71: Jun 21st 2013 at 12:51:27 AM

Seems like we don't have caption consensus here. Requesting lock.

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