I hope this clears up a few things for some of you

In honor of my friend XUP's impending trip to Paris...

...I give you this map of the week:

Racist much?

Click on this map from the 1930's to make it bigger and then look at the little drawing they did for Alabama. And then check out the one they did for Mexico. Also, back then they must have hoped that Baja, Mexico was going to become part of the USA.

Map of the week

We now join our story which is already in progress...

The people on the street heard a noise and as they turned to see what the loud boom was, they saw a map of Europe after the Congress of Vienna running away.
Inspector Creech shouted, "Drop those doughnuts you fat bastards! Let's get that map!"