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marmar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-11 07:43 PM
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mainegreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-11 07:44 PM
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1. What?
That looks just like Australia!
It's even in the right place.

Are the colors wrong?
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Shagbark Hickory Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-11 08:06 PM
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2. Australia?! Um no.
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mainegreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-11 08:10 PM
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3. Is my humor too dry?
mainegreen gets out the humidity detector

:)
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Shagbark Hickory Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-11 08:16 PM
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4. Yes. n/t
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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-11 08:34 PM
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5. You are correct!
Good eye...

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mainegreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-11 08:36 PM
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6. I snorted.
Tea... meet monitor.

Africa there makes me chuckle.
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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-11 08:37 PM
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7. I love GIMP
Edited on Thu Sep-01-11 08:45 PM by pokerfan
I'm not particularly good at it but I amuse myself.

ETA: Poor Africa always looks so small on that projection. This shows how big it truly is:

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mainegreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-02-11 08:05 AM
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8. That's a hell of a picture
And yes, in my mind Africa was not quite that big.
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petronius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-02-11 12:32 PM
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14. LOL! Well played, both of you...
:)
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sarge43 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-02-11 10:20 AM
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9. One to five perching type birds in the US?! Please.
There's more than that in my back yard.

No perching species in Cuba?

That's a face palm fail.
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eyepaddle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-02-11 10:27 AM
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11. Ah hell-- I see you beat me to this point too!
I have been bested, alas! ;)
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sarge43 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-02-11 11:48 AM
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12. Nah.
A shared :wtf:
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surrealAmerican Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-02-11 12:10 PM
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13. Perhaps they mean birds who can ...
... catch perch.
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sarge43 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-02-11 12:53 PM
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15. or birds that only use a square rod of land n/t
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eyepaddle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-02-11 10:26 AM
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10. Yeah, that's a total load of shit--I watch more than 5 species of perching birds outside my
kitchen window on some mornings....

Or were they talking about something else?
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