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Just south of the Ohio state line were two fake towns, goblu and beatosu. Steve said the inclusion of these two towns was for copyright purposes.
Fake towns my eye! Why, Jackie and I met for a delicious lunch just the other day in Beatosu, Kentucky, and many of the University's most talented basketball players have hailed from tiny Goblu, KY.
/well not really, but we do have funny-sounding town names 'round these parts.
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the highway map published by the State of Michigan. Just south of the Ohio state line were two fake towns, goblu and beatosu. TEd, are you sure the map wasn't published by the University of Michigan? 
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Yup. It was available at tourist info centers in Michigan (and still may be for all I know). I expect I have a copy of it around somewhere; I keep the STRANGEST things, like a map of the zoo in either Melbourne or Sydney, can't remember which now, but it was a great zoo. Sigh. Someday I'll go back. I definitely want to see the capitol building in Canberra which was under construction in 86 when I was there. It had the earmarks of being one fascinating building.
I've always been fascinated by maps and I have to restrain myself when visiting downtown Asheville to keep from spending gobs of money at the antique map store there.
I even have the mapbook from when I did Ride the Rockies back in 1989.
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What's the word for 'map-lover'?
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If it isn't cartophile, it sure oughtta be.
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The pursuit of collecting, arranging, and studying cigarette-cards and similar items. So cartophilist, a person devoted to cartophily; cartophilic a.
1936 C. L. BAGNALL in Cigarette Card News Apr. 87, 30,000 people in the British Isles..collect cigarette cards... I have coined a new word for my clients and call them cartophilists. 1936 Morning Post 11 Aug. 12/6 There is a magazine entirely devoted to ‘cartophily’... For every one serious ‘cartophilist’ in 1930 there are 25 now. 1937 Cigarette Card News Apr. 120 In a mansion..the new cartophilic headquarters is to be found.
still leaving unanswered: what's a cigarette card then?
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thanks, ip. meanwhile, back at the ranch: chartophile, chartophilist: One who collects maps. http://snipurl.com/hbhxcf. chartographer/cartographer
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