Is it Time to Rethink US State Names?

[Smurf]

You know what, while we're at it let's just Merge all of Latin America and give it back to spain. Simplifies things nicely. In exchange we'll get spain to declare war on the UK so we can take back those eastern states you carelessly gave away and join them with Easterny.

http://img306.imageshack.us/img306/4155/mapstateinternational29yu7ij.gif

edit: Hey I just realized Canada doesn't have any good ports on either of the oceans.

 

[wasteofo2]

Can the U.S. just annex Chihuahua and rename the whole Chihuahua/Alberta region Chihuahua? That'd be much cooler...

 

[Math Is Hard]

I'm confused. How many presidents of the U.S. do we have now?

 

[Janus]

http://img288.imageshack.us/img288/6184/mapstateinternational29yu1ti.gif
Changes:
-British Columbia ceded from Britain and renamed.

Unfortunately, this newly formed country didn't last long, as their name led them to believe that they were on the East coast and they ended up grounding their Navy on the Mexican border and drowning their army when they marched them into the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to expand their borders.

 

[Moonbear]

Unfortunately, this newly formed country didn't last long, as their name led them to believe that they were on the East coast and they ended up grounding their Navy on the Mexican border and drowning their army when they marched them into the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to expand their borders.

I didn't even catch that he called it "Eastern." He should have just stuck with Smurfland. Well, I guess that's why those tiny blue dictators haven't managed to take over much more than mushroom patches.

 

[Smurf]

I knew I missed something... I'll fix it after class

 

[Danger]

Hey guys, while we're at it can Canada cede Alberta to you, in exchange for Alaska of course.

Wait just one second here!

The only way that we'll take Alberta is if we can shift it down to fill in that ugly gap made by giving up New Mexico!

Are you nuts?! Then when BC falls into the ocean along with California, Saskatchewan will be our west coast!

Produce your original birth certificate, and 5 affidavits, signed and notarized, stating that you are of good character.

Of course, pretending to be of good character would preclude her from ever visiting PF again.

How many presidents of the U.S. do we have now?

None, just like before we started this nonsense.

 

[Moonbear]

Of course, pretending to be of good character would preclude her from ever visiting PF again.

Nah, I just need to make five new friends and get them to sign that before they realize my true character.

 

[Danger]

If you can stay off of here long enough to make any...

 

[Janus]

To continue from where we left off...

After the debacle of the former British Columbia's attempt at self-government, Something else had to be done, the two choices were to rejoin the UK or be absorbed into Mexico. That is until clever PR program by the country Columbia, pointing out that it was called British Columbia swayed the populace to Vote to join this Country (remember, these were the same people that thought East was West). All that is except Vancouver Island which decided to return to UK rule.

Also, the French sector of Canada decided to go all the way and just become a part of France

In a surprise move, Russia invoked, a little known "buy back" clause in the original purchase Contract. After a brief battle int he international courts, the ceding of Alaska to Canade was voided and Alaska reverted to Russia.

The Four States of the US found it too hard to govern such large areas, so it was decided to break them back up, this time along the lines of a latitude.
certain states kept the time Zone Names, while the others adpted new ones.

some reasonings behind the new names:
The Northwest corner state encompassed what used to be the Oregon Territory, so it was decided to go back to this. However, tired of everyone else pronouncing the name wrong (or-a-gone), they decided on a more phonetic spelling.

Arakis was the Desert planet from Dune.

Fridgeria was the Frozen Moon of Mongo from Flash Gordon.

Mordor was chosen so that they could rename the super volcano known as the Yellowstone Plateau as Mount Doom.

The former New England states, tired of being a political Football, (US, UK, US), broke off and formed a separate country, Yanksland.

http://home.earthlink.net/~parvey/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/north-america2.gif

 

[Evo]

I love it. Sorry Smurf, you're now a citizen of Columbia.

That is great Janus. I think that's about as perfect as it gets. I'm sure some one will be unhappy about being a South American, or French, Russian, etc...

They should have thought ahead and seen what was coming.

 

[Moonbear]

I'm just waiting for some unfortunate person to stumble across one of these maps online and out of context and start revising the geography teaching.

 

[Evo]

Oh, I just saw Disneyland.

 

[Moonbear]

Oh, I just saw Disneyland.

Zz must have been involved in the naming.

 

[motai]

After the debacle of the former British Columbia's attempt at self-government, Something else had to be done, the two choices were to rejoin the UK or be absorbed into Mexico. That is until clever PR program by the country Columbia, pointing out that it was called British Columbia swayed the populace to Vote to join this Country (remember, these were the same people that thought East was West). All that is except Vancouver Island which decided to return to UK rule.

So is the province of Columbia actually owned by the South American country of Columbia?

edit: I guess so. Cool. Now we have a _somewhat_ logical North America now. The United States of America is definitely very orderly and logical due to the PF Think Tank.

Also, on another note, if Dixieland ever gets tired of calling itself "Dixieland", it can always be changed to "Disneyworld" to represent the other half of Disney's territory.

 

[mattmns]

Great job Janus, that is absolutely hilarious!

 

[Smurf]

After realising that their drug laws were completely unenforcable in the far off colony of Vancouver island (now conveniently located next to a Columbia Colony) the UK sells Vancouver Island to Columbia which, realising it's valuable supply of shrooms, buys it in exchange for 10,000 tons of cocaine.

Maritime rebels, disenchanted with being under the control of a European power that doesn't even speak their language, launch a civil war against the ill-equipped Quebecois (now administered by France) Government. After several weeks of fighting they manage to liberate most of the old maritime territory from French control and join Yankland.

http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/8120/world5on.png

 

[Evo]

Also, on another note, if Dixieland ever gets tired of calling itself "Dixieland", it can always be changed to "Disneyworld" to represent the other half of Disney's territory.

Motai, can you make that change, Zz would be thrilled!

 

[motai]

Motai, can you make that change, Zz would be thrilled!

Done . It isn't as polished, but it is a fast GIMP job.

http://img182.imageshack.us/img182/1994/northamerica36pt.gif

Now we have both Disneyland and Disneyworld .

 

[Astronuc]

So is the province of Columbia actually owned by the South American country of Columbia?

After realising that their drug laws were completely unenforcable in the far off colony of Vancouver island (now conveniently located next to a Columbia Colony) the UK sells Vancouver Island to Columbia which, realising it's valuable supply of shrooms, buys it in exchange for 10,000 tons of cocaine.

There is no South American country named 'Columbia'. There is however a nation called 'Colombia'.

So Vancouver is a Colombian colony? I would have thought the indigenous folk would have first rights to reclaim old land.

There are probably more Irish in Massachusetts and New York than all of Ireland, and I don't particularly care for Yanksland.

How about changing the name to New Ireland, which would fit with Nova Scotia, or West Ireland, or even better - Guinness - and we could take in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.

 

[Smurf]

So Vancouver is a Colombian colony? I would have thought the indigenous folk would have first rights to reclaim old land.

You havn't met the IMF and World Bank yet, have you?

 

[matthyaouw]

Many Brits were caught unaware by the colombian invasion of B.C., despite numerous warnings which they casually dismissed as tabloid scaremongering, and happily continued panicking about bird flu, 'happy slapping' or whatever else the media decided was the new huge threat this week. They suddenly found themselves refugees, and vancouver Island cut off by the Coloumbian navy, and so marched north, taking the western half of Yukwestuvat territory. They encountered more resistance from Caribou than they did from people.

 

[Mk]

Revised edition:
http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/340/northamerica27ph.gif

 

[Janus]

Done . It isn't as polished, but it is a fast GIMP job.
Now we have both Disneyland and Disneyworld .

I considered naming the that section Disneyworld, but didn't for a couple of reasons:

It seems inappropiate to call a state Disneyworld, as no other nation or state uses that suffix.
We already have a state of Disneyland, and it would be redundant to have both. (It is too much like having both a North and South Dakota or a Washington State and Washington DC. Eliminating such duplicate naming was the initial point of this exercise.)

 

[motai]

I considered naming the that section Disneyworld, but didn't for a couple of reasons:
It seems inappropiate to call a state Disneyworld, as no other nation or state uses that suffix.
We already have a state of Disneyland, and it would be redundant to have both. (It is too much like having both a North and South Dakota or a Washington State and Washington DC. Eliminating such duplicate naming was the initial point of this exercise.)

Hmm, good point. To ease costs, Disney Corporation could take over Disneyland, relieving the U.S. Government's burden on having to finance state costs. Perhaps do the same with Texaco...

And while we're at it, rename Columbia to Colombia and make the former province of British Columbia into another territory of Colombia. Then the South/Latin American countries would be better represented in North America.

 

[matthyaouw]

Following the UK refugee movement into Yukwestuvat.
Border tensions with russia were high, as they were already confused and paranoid as to why they had been given Alaska, no strings attached.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Isn't it a little outdated to show Russia in pink?

 

[matthyaouw]

Mother russia in pink? Outdated? I dunno, Alaska/I'll ask her.
bud-a-bum Tishhh!
(Worst pun of the year '05)

 

[Chi Meson]

Mother russia in pink? Outdated? I dunno, Alaska/I'll ask her.
bud-a-bum Tishhh!
(Worst pun of the year '05)

Old joke. THere was a whole song, from the 40's I think, that was all
"What did Delaware, boys, what did Delaware? (etc.)
"She wore a brand New Jersey, (etc etc)"

"Why did Cali phon-ya? (blah blah blah )I don't know Alaska."
"What did Missi sip, boys, what (blaaaaargh, hurl), She sipped a Minni-soda...(yaak yaaaaaK).

Hem. I guess we need to fix that song with the new names now.

 

[Smurf]

Stop Giving The Charlotte Islands To Alaska! They're Part Of Bc!