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Is this an existential problem?

July 23rd, 2008 | Category: Misc Silver Spring

In looking up a business location in Rockville today, I ran across this map. I present it to you in all its unadulterated glory. Anyone notice anything?

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  1. Debbie Cook July 23rd, 2008 12:21 pm

    Silver Spring is nowhere to be found. It’s SO BIG that it disappeared? Since Oakview, Hillandale Dennis Ave, Forest Glen and White Oak are in Silver Spring – it’s boundaries are too big to map?

  2. Bonifant more sinister than Thayer July 23rd, 2008 1:04 pm

    The Naval Surface Weapons Center is nowhere near the water. Except maybe for that pond they have out front. (Note to self: stay away from pond.)

  3. Sligo July 23rd, 2008 1:15 pm

    Hey, technically it doesn’t say Washington DC, either.

  4. Silver Springer July 23rd, 2008 1:17 pm

    Typical, map quest and navteq are notorious for not only leaving Silver Spring off the map but for giving bad directions too.

  5. dan reed July 23rd, 2008 1:40 pm

    That’s why you have to use Google Maps. Mapquest is so totally lame that Silver Spring refuses to acknowledge it. We dumped THEM, not the other way around.

  6. Eric July 23rd, 2008 2:02 pm

    Maybe if we weren’t too lazy to get out and vote (and incorporate the city), we wouldn’t have this problem. I’d run for mayor in a heartbeat.

  7. Bonifant more sinister than Thayer July 23rd, 2008 2:17 pm

    Aren’t there enough elected official for you to rant about already?!?

  8. Eric July 23rd, 2008 2:24 pm

    Assuming the universe didn’t collapse in on itself when I got elected, it would (at least) give me more opportunities to use a microphone and increase my broadcast presence exponentially. They’d HAVE to let me on Cable County Montgomery.

  9. Sligo July 23rd, 2008 3:01 pm

    To be mayor of Silver Spring you need to be homeless.

  10. chuck bisbee July 23rd, 2008 5:04 pm

    I never remember so many exit interchanges on the Beltway when I lived there. Then again, maybe those white squares are cars stuck on the Beltway. One square equals 10,000 cars.

  11. Easley Rider July 23rd, 2008 5:39 pm

    Would that mean that the McDonald’s on Colesville across from the metro is City hall, Sligo?

  12. Easley Does It July 23rd, 2008 8:26 pm

    Easley Rider!…. damn, why didn’t I think of that one!! I bow to your superior nom de plume.

  13. Sligo July 23rd, 2008 9:49 pm

    Easley, I have a homeless person McDonald’s story that I have been wanting to tell for awhile. Look for it in a post in the next week or so.

  14. Sligo July 23rd, 2008 9:49 pm

    If I lived on Easley, I’d be Easley-E.

  15. Eric July 23rd, 2008 10:00 pm

    I suppose I’m “Eric the Vampire Thayer”

  16. Thayer Ave., too July 23rd, 2008 10:16 pm

    Can I please be The ThoothThayer?

  17. Bonifant more sinister than Thayer July 24th, 2008 9:02 am

    Someone needs “Thayer?!? I don’t even know her!!”