Best map ever

[sholio]

There ... just aren't words.

1940 map of Ireland: "You don't want to invade us! Really!"

Comments

[naye]

Heee! I am amused. For some reason, the sharks are what really make it for me.

[sholio]

The sharks are awesome! :D

[carose59.livejournal.com]

What, no Fire Swamps? No Rats of Unusual Size?

I love the Irish.

[sholio]

I totally need to watch Princess Bride again sometime soon. It's been years, and that movie is such pure condensed awesome.

[x-varda-x.livejournal.com]

Rocks... more rocks... yet more rocks... LOL!

[sholio]

That part cracked me up. :D Actually, it all did ...

[kristen999.livejournal.com]

This made me giggle. Thanks!

[sholio]

Glad you liked! It was too good not to share. :D

[rheanna27.livejournal.com]

My favourite parts are "Average rainfall: 85 inches" and, right in the middle, the lone arrow marking "A Tree".

I am currently deep in Unexplored Territory. Hee!

[sholio]

Hee! Well, at least you're not in the cholera belt.

[kriadydragon.livejournal.com]

Hee-hee! Too awesome :D

[sholio]

It was too good not to share!

[michelel72.livejournal.com]

I like that the directional thingys are playing bridge, and the lighthouse smack in the middle of the island. Disused, of course. Brilliant.

[sholio]

Yeah, there really isn't a part of the map that they didn't sneak some little visual joke into ...

[trystings.livejournal.com]

Well (believed unpolluted)

Their one selling point. :D

[sholio]

They also have edible fungus!

[with-apostrophe.livejournal.com]

Ah, the race of my ancestors. Fantastic sense of humour.

I also love this part of the text that goes with it:

...our Grangegorman Cartographer has designed the above map of Ireland, which is calculated to discourage the inhabitants, much less strangers. The trouble is, he feels, that, even as depicted, the country still looks more attractive than the rest of Europe.

Mostly because it was most likely true at the time.

[flingslass.livejournal.com]

Half my ancestry is from the Rheumatism areas :D