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Victory?



After starting this blog I was trying to figure out what a victory would be. Do I have to get my friends to move to Minnesota, just like the blog title says, in order to claim a victory? What if one of my friends moved from Michigan to Wisconsin? Is that a victory, a partial victory, simply unfortunate since they didn't complete their transfer?

Well, you can call today's news a victory or whatever else you wish (however, if you don't call it some sort of victory, I will declare you are wrong). A friend who is living in Hong Kong, have plans to move back to Seattle, Washington. Sure they lived there before they moved to Hong Kong for a year. I guess they knew their relocation to Hong Kong wasn't permanent. Yes, I know that Washington isn't neighboring Minnesota. But, when I use Google Maps to calculate the directions from Hong Kong Island to Saint Paul, this is the answer I get:

We could not calculate directions between Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong and Saint Paul, MN.

I figured that maybe there was some Google Maps fluke, so I attempted to calculate the distance to Seattle:

We could not calculate directions between Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong and Seattle, WA.

I was too discouraged to try another city, so I came to the most logical conclusion that somebody who didn't spend any time using logic to come to a conclusion should come to.

1. Hong Kong is the constant starting position for both direction calculations.
2. Both destinations (Saint Paul and Seattle in case you forgot) have the same set of directions from Hong Kong "We could not calculate directions between"
3. Both Saint Paul and Seattle start with the letter "S"
4. If you flip the "W" in Washington upside down and then replace "ashington" with "innesota" you get Minnesota.
5. When my friends eventually move back to Seattle, they are equivalently moving to Minnesota.
6. Victory.

Welcome home to Washinton Minnesota.

When have you been able to take the credit for unwittingly convincing you friends to leave their country (not a just town down the road) to move to your geographically challenged city?

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