I’ve always thought that was more J’accuse like it was identifying New Mexico/Octagon’s Oblong Cosplay as the culprit of some crime.
Anecdata (like Dear Abbey/Ann Landers and other popular syndicated newspaper columns) suggest people don’t believe New Mexico/Octagon’s Oblong Cosplay is actually part of the United States. So maybe J’accuse/Texashat is identifying the undocumented immigrant to ICE.
You missed my favorite state!
That’s what you get for not consulting the locals.
Years ago we had one of those 50-piece wooden maps for the kid.
Educational, of course, but also fulfilling a childhood dream of my own to see all 50 states in a pile.
– As the youngest child of five, I grew up with a puzzle of the 35 states (as well as many rather sadly mauled dolls).
As a result, as a mom I had rather a fetish for Not Broken stuff of Many Pieces.
Anyway, working with an intact map revealed the state of Kattywalds Wissen, kid’s own name for the leftover state.
It’s location was not fixed, but for some reason it was often either Fractal or Pew.
I also had one of those US state puzzles lauowolf mentions as a kid and still refer to all of those rectangular and nearly rectangular western states as “square states” to this day.
As a resident of Fractal, I would support nicknaming the parts Mitten and Deer-&-Mosquito-Land. Or we could nickname the Upper Peninsula Snowmad. Either works.
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And Minnesota’s number one. This seems to fit, it’s been my favourite continental state of the ones I’ve visited so far.
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I couldn’t keep naming states “other Canada”
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You also appear to have conflated New Jersey and Delaware (same colour) and have named Delaware both Dibble and Grub.)
Also, why is Hawaii called Hawaii? That’s so confusing.
I’m having fun with this map, though.
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Dela is Dibble and Ware is Grub
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This changes everything!
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It’s like Buda and Pest
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I propose Lavaland for Hawaii. Or does that make too much sense?
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I mean sure, but Hawaii is a great name already 🙂
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You can admit that you missed it. 🙂
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My favorite thing is that you’ve called West Virginia Narnia. You and your cat are definitely not American.
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Ohhhhh, yeah.
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Fractal? It’s a mitten! Of course, that’s ignoring the UP, but that’s okay.
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Have you left your brackets open? Don’t they usually come in pairs?
And where’s the other five?
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That’s what I came here to say. I don’t mind living in Left Bracket, but not if you’re going to leave your brackets hanging wide open like that!
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It’s really important to close brackets. Once, Mike Royko left one open, and all of his readers have been stuck in one of his asides ever since 1978.
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Nice. I’d have named one Turkey Sub, as I do in all my naming lists after having seen School of Rock. Probably Kentucky.
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You’ve got Rectangular One and Two mislabeled (swapped). Possibly North and South Rectangle?
Fractal is in fact, “Mitten and the Other Bit”.
And Handle is … well, I suppose you didn’t want to go NSFW.
Why Explodyland?
However, Yain, Tain, Texashat, Squished, Squashed, Tweedledum/dee, and the Lumps are perfect. But Flack’s part of East Lump.
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Texashat is “Pan”…I suppose Texashat is funnier. You could wear a pan for a hat. But Texasland is wearing this one upsidedown.
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Upside down is the natural progression from wearing the hat backwards.
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Or it’s one of those hats that have ear-warming flaps. I assume on clear nights in winter it would get very cold in Texas.
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Lukrertype, if we renamed Handle as you suggested, folks would get it mixed up with Knob.
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I object to being Squished. Squashed got the nicer word. Hmph.
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Texashat is my favorite. 😀
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That’s where the names started
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I’ve always thought that was more J’accuse like it was identifying New Mexico/Octagon’s Oblong Cosplay as the culprit of some crime.
Anecdata (like Dear Abbey/Ann Landers and other popular syndicated newspaper columns) suggest people don’t believe New Mexico/Octagon’s Oblong Cosplay is actually part of the United States. So maybe J’accuse/Texashat is identifying the undocumented immigrant to ICE.
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Not only is it funny, it’s kinda true.
@Jack: New Mexico Magazine has a page every month of stories about how so many people and companies think NM is foreign territory. Every month, for decades.
https://www.newmexico.org/nmmagazine/heart-of-nm/one-of-our-50-is-missing/
I would expect Texashat to make that mistake, wouldn’t you?
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I should say that I only just noticed that the name can be read as “tex-asshat” which wasn’t intended and I’m sorry.
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Pfft! And I didn’t notice it until now — oops! 😛
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As a Chigleyorker, why Chigley?
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Trumpton was to on the nose
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Huh.
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Flack is the fire brigade captain.
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That…makes sense, actually.
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You missed my favorite state!
That’s what you get for not consulting the locals.
Years ago we had one of those 50-piece wooden maps for the kid.
Educational, of course, but also fulfilling a childhood dream of my own to see all 50 states in a pile.
– As the youngest child of five, I grew up with a puzzle of the 35 states (as well as many rather sadly mauled dolls).
As a result, as a mom I had rather a fetish for Not Broken stuff of Many Pieces.
Anyway, working with an intact map revealed the state of Kattywalds Wissen, kid’s own name for the leftover state.
It’s location was not fixed, but for some reason it was often either Fractal or Pew.
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And I don’t see Gondor.
Pretty sure it’s up in the northwest somewhere.
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That would be Andor surely
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I stand corrected.
Gondor would be more more Left Bracket.
Or perhaps Texasland.
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Pretty much everyone lost Pew.
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I also had one of those US state puzzles lauowolf mentions as a kid and still refer to all of those rectangular and nearly rectangular western states as “square states” to this day.
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As a resident of Fractal, I would support nicknaming the parts Mitten and Deer-&-Mosquito-Land. Or we could nickname the Upper Peninsula Snowmad. Either works.
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It’s a mitten, except occasionally it’s also an oven mitt.
You can always tell people from there when they’re asked what town they grew up in and the hand comes up in mitten position.
Maybe Mitten and Why Isn’t This Part of Cheeseland?
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