Tuesday 16 January 2007

the united states of the world?

a prize for anyone who can work out what this map is about...

8 comments:

Greg said...

Who cares, it must have been written by Americans, look at how they abbreviated South Africa. The shame!

Did i win?

preamble said...

no.

Greg said...

You are my harshest critic Andrew...

preamble said...

and there is only one possible comeback: no i am not (obviously implying that i could be even more harsh as there exists a harsher critic out there ;-))

actually, me explaining what should be obvious just makes this all the more harsh

Dr Phil said...

It shows all the countries whose asses have been saved from terrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrists since 2001 by the Bush Administration.

No?

Didn't think so...

preamble said...

okay, you losers.

it is supposed to equate the countries that have a similar GDP's as US states.

prolly not that accurate.

Dr Phil said...

Seriously? No way! Which state is Russia then?

And Alaska has oil. As far as I know Belarus has vokkol.

But the Nigeria-Hawaii thing sounds about right. Scary ne?

preamble said...

and south africa is wisconsin!

ya, i doubt that it is really that accurate but makes you think...