Krall
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When I read the original Map In The Mirror challenge for the first time, I had an instant favorite with the reverse language assimilation inside OTL France. I was a bit sad when I saw he only got one vote back then. Of course, LSCatilina could have checked up that "teached" should've been "taught" in order to not ridicule the allohistoric Aquitanian Education Ministry or whoever was supposed to author the map. 
Anyway, I wonder what kind of entries will follow this round. More of a clichéd variety or rather original ones?
What happened back at MotF 51 in January 2012?
I'm glad too see that most contestants had to elaborate their entries to an extent. On the other hand, how original were the entries? Beside the killer entries going neck and neck (Blomma and H. C.) and my personal favorite about reverse-France, I especially find Future8's Dutch South Atlantic cute. Otherwise, the whole challenge turned into a Britwank spiced up with its North American daughter states.
Who's planning to enter with what? And what if anybody "copied" Krall and did a reverse Schlieffenplan again?
Anyway, I wonder what kind of entries will follow this round. More of a clichéd variety or rather original ones?
What happened back at MotF 51 in January 2012?
I'm glad too see that most contestants had to elaborate their entries to an extent. On the other hand, how original were the entries? Beside the killer entries going neck and neck (Blomma and H. C.) and my personal favorite about reverse-France, I especially find Future8's Dutch South Atlantic cute. Otherwise, the whole challenge turned into a Britwank spiced up with its North American daughter states.
Who's planning to enter with what? And what if anybody "copied" Krall and did a reverse Schlieffenplan again?
Krall
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We're about halfway through MotF 106's entry period now, so it's about time we decide which challenge we'd like to see for MotF 107! As always feel free to post new suggestions, repost old ones from the list on the Wiki (which you should also feel free to add to - just follow the instructions on the page for adding new challenges), and support/express your opinion on as many challenge suggestions as you want.
Here's the list of suggestions I posted from last time (minus "Maps in the Mirror"):
Here's the list of suggestions I posted from last time (minus "Maps in the Mirror"):
Lights, Cameras, ACTION!
Show a map of a nation's (or an international) movie industry.
Show a map of a nation's (or an international) movie industry.
They can be allies with the Most Obscene Republic. It's quite a firm alliance.
Is the Most Obscene Republic headquarted in San Fernando Valley, how far does it stretch? Will they always attack from behind? By the way, I got a joke too.
An unemployed gay is using the urinal when a well-endowed black man enters the scene to use any of the urinals as well. The gay can't get his eyes from the immense girth of the black man. When the black guy notices, he explaines that he's a hooker and that this girth were 8 inches and that any inch to be introduced were 10 dollars. Our gay only got 40 bucks in his wallet upon the black guy answered that he'd only insert 4 inches of this girth into him.
The transaction starts without complications, 40 bucks change the owner and four inches of BBC get inside the unemployed gay's butt. Some minutes later, another guy wants to leave the stall, but the opened door hits the black guys and rams the remainder of this BBC into our gay who finds out about his misery and replies: HOLY SHIT, NOW MY ASS IS FULL OF DEBT!
An unemployed gay is using the urinal when a well-endowed black man enters the scene to use any of the urinals as well. The gay can't get his eyes from the immense girth of the black man. When the black guy notices, he explaines that he's a hooker and that this girth were 8 inches and that any inch to be introduced were 10 dollars. Our gay only got 40 bucks in his wallet upon the black guy answered that he'd only insert 4 inches of this girth into him.
The transaction starts without complications, 40 bucks change the owner and four inches of BBC get inside the unemployed gay's butt. Some minutes later, another guy wants to leave the stall, but the opened door hits the black guys and rams the remainder of this BBC into our gay who finds out about his misery and replies: HOLY SHIT, NOW MY ASS IS FULL OF DEBT!
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Krall
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Random and unfunny jokes I don't mind, but referring to a homosexual man as a "gaylord" is a mixture of confusing and potentially offensive, and I'd rather you didn't do it.
...and this makes the slightest sense in this thread how exactly?
Don't threadcrap.
Krall
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Referring to someone as "a gay" still isn't exactly great, but at least it's not an insult.
Having never seen any of the "Meet the Fockers" franchise I don't know for sure, but I'm willing to guess his surname is "Gaylord", which is irrelevant.
Ah, that's a good idea! 5 to 10 seems like an odd set of limits, though - 3+ would suit me better, since the entrants only have twice the normal time, and it makes little sense to put a maximum on it.
I don't think it's better than your idea; just different.
There's a likewise affective difference in German between Schwuler/schwul (gay) and Schwuchtel (gaylord). There's also that sweet and PG film called Pédale douce (Sweet Gaylord).
But I'll stop it and rather won't get too much into the pedal etymology. I also got my second yellow card in 7½ years.
(Why does my Chrome tab close when I enter Alt+0171 for creating a 1/2-sign at the board's message field? That combined address field/search engine thing obviously does have some hidden disadvantage after all.)
Right. His parents are Bourgeois Bohemians or whatever you'd like to name affluent post-Hippies. And his father-in-law works for the CIA even after having officially retired. That's at least part of the comedy, both sets of respective parents-in-law appear like from different planets.
A thematic map series as a contest, nice. On the other hand, would it really need a month? In essence, my MotF 106 would already work for that proposal unless there were an extra rule that the several maps had to be "reasonably different" meaning no twinning basemaps. And if there's a Mr. Copy & Paste here, that's me.Ah, that's a good idea! 5 to 10 seems like an odd set of limits, though - 3+ would suit me better, since the entrants only have twice the normal time, and it makes little sense to put a maximum on it.
What about some announcements? Without roundels if necessary.I don't think it's better than your idea; just different.
Krall
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It needs a month if we want some of the entries to not be simple copy-and-paste jobs. The challenge would certainly benefit from the extended time, allowing people to make each map in the series significantly different with the same level of detail.
I think I'm going to start doing announcements without roundels; the backlog of unfinished roundels is just getting too big now for me to reasonably catch up any time soon.
With that in mind, expect some victory announcements soon.