Greg received this e-mail newsletter from Zagg, which doesn’t just offer free shipping. It makes a strange and wonderful secret known only to those Americans lucky enough to be on Zagg’s mailing list. According to this map, Lake Michigan either no longer exists, or is home to a secret society of iPhone-using, water-dwelling mer-people.
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I blame Paul Bunyan for not keeping Babe the Blue Ox under control
LOL, that is if you get ZAGG to actually ship when they say they will. I’ve yet to get anything from them that doesn’t take nearly a month to ship. I’ve given up getting anything from them and just use Amazon to buy ZAGG products.
At least you got your product. Tried ordering a phone protector 2 years ago or so, and never got them, even after they said they shipped a replacement (if I remember correctly, they did not provide any sort of tracking). Took a few threatening emails until they refunded my card.
Yeah, if you go the economy shipping, they don’t provide a tracking number. This was a case of “oops, we forgot to ship it, so we’re going to wait another week before we really ship the product.”
More importantly, Michigan’s upper penninsula has expatriated from its home state and has been annexed by Wisconsin.
Michigan can have it back, just as long as someone rescues us from lake SuperMichigan.
Damn cheeseheads!
It also appears that the Zagg version of the US has about 3/4 of Rhode Island annexed by Massachusetts, and South Carolina and Georgia are now one.
And so the process of Confederate reunification begins…
Looks like RI and CT also merged.
They also seem to have attached Long Island to New Jersey.
I really hate the term continental US, they should just use contiguous US since that is more literal understanding of the area covered. Then you don’t need disclaimers like USA addresses in the lower 48 states only but that disclaimer is ambigous because DC is not a state.
And also because Hawaii is the southernmost (or “lowest”) state
Not to mention Alaska’s still on the continent, as well. “The contiguous United States” would suffice. Or “excluding AK and HI” as most of these offers state.
That’s just really lazy map-making on their part. Most people are lazy about getting Michigan right though. It’s amusing to spot the inconsistencies in media.
/native Michigander
Yeah, I remember that for a long time UPS’s service map didn’t include the U.P.!
Many maps conveniently forget the U.P., or just wing it with some sort of flaccid phallic squiggle. In this case, I’m thinking Zagg knows full well that AT&T will most likely never provide any decent coverage in the area, so why bother?
Looks like they just used the political boundaries of the USA as they go through the Great Lakes. That’s not actually how New York is shaped either – it’s just not as noticeable.
Thanks for pointing that out. You’re right. New York kind of swallowed half of Lake Ontario as well. Hopefully the water displacement flows out of the St. Lawrence and into the Atlantic, and not turn the Golden Horseshoe into the Lost City of Atlantis. Thankfully 1> I live in an apartment up high and 2> there’s a scuba gear shop across the street from here.
Some errors are so obvious that I can’t help but wonder how ads containing them manage to get approval.
It’s because the people reviewing and approving them are not very smart.
Some of them must be a level of not-so-smart to the point where simultaneous walking and breathing presents a difficulty!
Caitlin Upton was right, we really DO need more maps.
everywhere like such as … the iraq
Zagg did purchase golden-shellback’s splash proof coating technology, so it is possible that they are shipping to the mer-people of the great lake of Michigan.
In addition to taking the UP, it appears Wisconsin has also annexed (and filled in) Lake Huron and Lake Superior.
Behold the mighty Mega-Badger! Who’s laughing now, Garrison Keillor?
The UP exploded!
It looks kind of like the alternate world United States map from Fringe.
Should have submitted it to Strange Maps.
http://bigthink.com/blogs/strange-maps
Someone failed geography…
I knew it…Namor finally invaded and has taken possession of the great lakes. And apparently is having stuff shipped there. Vile, nefarious stuff.
That’s just Wisconsin’s muffin top over-flowing.
Maybe it evaporated. Global warming?
The people of the Secret Province are not amused that their location has been disclosed.
This map is clearly outlining the border line at the great lakes area. Bit weird, yes, but not really “wrong” imo.
This is simply an attempt to fool the Asian carp into turning around and going back down the Mississippi. Lake? Lake Michigan you say? Sorry, no lake here, best you get back before you’re gills dry out.
The Great Lakes are actually there, it’s just REALLY SNOWY.