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Sunday, 16 February 2025

Hooptedoodle #472 - Odd One Out?

 Naturally I am not clever enough to understand this stuff, but a friend sent me this idea. No prizes, it goes without saying...

Which of the following places is the odd one out?

* SUDETENLAND

* UKRAINE

* GREENLAND 

* PANAMA

* GAZA


 

There are probably various different answers, but as far as I know Gaza is the only one which has been considered for annexation as a theme park

 

14 comments:

  1. The current American government are a f*@#£/&%g disgrace. Oh and Slava Ukraina while I’m at it.

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  2. I was thinking all 5 have unique features that would identify them as in some way the odd one out. Mind you, the thing that (for mine) distinguished Gaza might almost as well have identified the Donbas pre-2022: genocide.

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  3. Gaza. It is the only word where the difference between its Scrabble letter value vs the number of letters in the word is in double figures. QED.

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  4. I thought it was the Sudetenland as (so far) the Tangerine Tax & Draft Dodger hasn't tried to claim it. Yet.

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    1. I think this is probably "the real" answer, isn't it? Its what I thought, anyway - all five have something in common of course, a megalomaniac leader of a larger country wants to take them over - and in the case of Gaza, two megalomaniac leaders......
      Or maybe, it is the inhabitants of all 5 of these countries can be classified as "oppressed" and need to be liberated by their altruistic neighbouring states...??

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  5. It's all very shameful, very worrying and quite predictable, of you were following things this last 15-odd years. Funny how Vance says NATO members can't rely on the US, yet the US thought we should all flounce-off to Afghanistan after a terrorist attack on them? But I've already said too much, I'll be having a right-old rant on my Blog in the fullness of time! Greenland is the odd one out! No shots or deaths . . . yet?

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    1. Shameful is just the word. Over and above the normalisation of landgrabs for personal gain, the idea that the Fat Fool can decide who lives and who dies, with no sanction to do so, is an obscenity too far. I watch with interest to see how and when God will take him down.

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  6. Of Trumps great many hare-brained ideas, the Gaza one is well up there. Just what the US needs - NOT!

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  7. Greenland is the only one with Polar Bears...

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    1. Polar Bears?? No-one told me about Polar Bears...

      Hold the bus, we may have another theme park project here.

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    2. Polar bears? Are they the white ones? Don't they show up against the green? What do you mean "all ice" - it's called Green-land isn't it, like a golf course, and...... what, the green one is called Ice-land? You're yanking my chain, right? That's mis-representation - get my lawyers in here...... no, wait, that must be why they call Ice-land the Emerald Isle - I know that 'cause I'm smart, so smart. Get me the number for the British president! And cancel the Plaza deal - I hear they've got tired, poor and huddled masses there. We don't want that kind of thing; that's not great, no, not great (again).

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    3. Perfect.

      Bravissimo, Roberto.

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