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xkcd: Reaction Maps

Published on 28 January 2020 by Jonathan Crowe
xkcd: Reaction Maps
Randall Munroe, “Reaction Maps.” xkcd, 27 Jan 2020.

The latest xkcd comic suggests a fiendish way to express yourself: by creating phrases from driving direction waypoints.

An obvious upgrade would be to use one or more of the places from the Magnificently Rude Map of World Place Names (previously).

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