Hank
Active Member
Bit of a dis if they decide that your city name is offensive. I wonder what cities would qualify in this category...
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Toronto's own Monopoly spot
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Bit of a dis if they decide that your city name is offensive. I wonder what cities would qualify in this category...
scarberiankhatru
Senior Member
rpgr
Active Member
Here are a few "offensive" ones you can look up:
Arsoli (Lazio, Italy)
Bastard (Norway)
Beaver (Oklahoma, USA)
Beaver Head (Idaho, USA)
Brown Willy (Cornwall,UK)
Chinaman's Knob (Australia)
Climax (Colorado, USA)
Cunt (Spain)
Cunter (Switzerland)
Dikshit (India)
Dildo (Newfoundland, Canada)
Dong Rack (Thailand-Cambodia border)
Dongo (Congo - Democratic Republic)
Effin (Limerick, Ireland)
Fuku (Shensi, China)
Fukue (Honshu, Japan)
Fukui (Honshu, Japan)
Fukum (Yemen)
Hold With Hope (Greenland)
Intercourse (Pennsylvania, USA)
Lickey End (West Midlands, UK)
Little Dix Village (West Indies)
Lord Berkeley's Knob (Sutherland, Scotland)
Middle Intercourse Island (Australia)
Muff (Northern Ireland)
Nobber (Donegal, Ireland)
Pis Pis River (Nicaragua)
Sexmoan (Luzon, Philippines)
Seymen (Turkey)
Shafter (California, USA)
Shag Island (Indian Ocean)
Shitlingthorpe (Yorkshire, UK)
Tittybong (Australia)
Tong Fuk (Japan)
Turdo (Romania)
Twatt (Orkney, UK)
Wank (Germany)
Wankendorf (Schleswig-Holstein, Germany)
Wankener (India)
Wankie (Zimbabwe)
Wankie Colliery (Zimbabwe)
Wanks River (Nicaragua)
Wankum (Germany)
Wet Beaver Creek (Australia)
Credit goes to http://www.thatsweird.net/facts9.shtml
Arsoli (Lazio, Italy)
Bastard (Norway)
Beaver (Oklahoma, USA)
Beaver Head (Idaho, USA)
Brown Willy (Cornwall,UK)
Chinaman's Knob (Australia)
Climax (Colorado, USA)
Cunt (Spain)
Cunter (Switzerland)
Dikshit (India)
Dildo (Newfoundland, Canada)
Dong Rack (Thailand-Cambodia border)
Dongo (Congo - Democratic Republic)
Effin (Limerick, Ireland)
Fuku (Shensi, China)
Fukue (Honshu, Japan)
Fukui (Honshu, Japan)
Fukum (Yemen)
Hold With Hope (Greenland)
Intercourse (Pennsylvania, USA)
Lickey End (West Midlands, UK)
Little Dix Village (West Indies)
Lord Berkeley's Knob (Sutherland, Scotland)
Middle Intercourse Island (Australia)
Muff (Northern Ireland)
Nobber (Donegal, Ireland)
Pis Pis River (Nicaragua)
Sexmoan (Luzon, Philippines)
Seymen (Turkey)
Shafter (California, USA)
Shag Island (Indian Ocean)
Shitlingthorpe (Yorkshire, UK)
Tittybong (Australia)
Tong Fuk (Japan)
Turdo (Romania)
Twatt (Orkney, UK)
Wank (Germany)
Wankendorf (Schleswig-Holstein, Germany)
Wankener (India)
Wankie (Zimbabwe)
Wankie Colliery (Zimbabwe)
Wanks River (Nicaragua)
Wankum (Germany)
Wet Beaver Creek (Australia)
Credit goes to http://www.thatsweird.net/facts9.shtml
maciej
Banned
Hasbro manipulates voting
sorry, but the situation seems really ridiculous - Hasbro blocked listing votes to make their own list - what is clearly manipulation of the whole process of voting...
Otherwise there would be no need to 'hide' current listing...
sorry, but the situation seems really ridiculous - Hasbro blocked listing votes to make their own list - what is clearly manipulation of the whole process of voting...
Otherwise there would be no need to 'hide' current listing...
maciej
Banned
my only possible comment on your pitiful response is silence... but if you have emotional problems, please go to the professionalist, and do not call me a troll, only because you do not agree with me
adma
Superstar
rpgr
Active Member
Montrealers hope to land on Monopoly’s Boardwalk
The world order threatens to be redefined this week with Montreal poised to capture bitterly contested territory thanks to an online poll of board game fans.
Bloggers, talk-show hosts and business leaders are calling Montrealers to the ramparts in the hopes of securing a prime spot in a new edition of Monopoly.
“The benefits for the city will be enormous,†said the head of Montreal’s board of trade, Isabelle Hudon.
Montreal was leading Istanbul and 66 other cities in the most recently published results, leaving such backwater towns as London, New York and Moscow in the dust.
The online poll, hosted by toy-making giant Hasbro Inc., pits cities across the globe for the naming rights to 20 squares on the upcoming “Monopoly Here and Now: The World Edition.â€
Voting ends Thursday, when the city with the most votes will take the place of Boardwalk as the most coveted bit of real estate on the board. Second place gets Park Place.
The Board of Trade of Metropolitan Montreal has gone so far as to create a web portal to facilitate voting.
The mayor of Quebec City even pitched in with a commercial calling on denizens to set aside their historic enmity for Montreal and cast a vote for the city.
For Hudon, the campaign for a spot on the Monopoly board is clearly more than just a game.
“In recent years, 200 million people have played Monopoly,†she said. “That’s enormous. We couldn’t afford an advertising campaign that would have that kind of scope.â€
Hasbro says it has averaged some 10,000 votes a day since the competition began in January.
If Montreal and Istanbul maintain their one-two ranking it would leave two cities 7,700 kilometres apart separated by nothing more than a $75 Luxury Tax. That irks some purists.
“It doesn’t make sense to have Istanbul next to Montreal on a Monopoly board,†said Jules Vautour, the manager at a local board-game store. “They’ll have to rearrange it.â€
Results of the online vote will be revealed in August, while the Monopoly world edition hits stores in September.
–Canadian Press
The world order threatens to be redefined this week with Montreal poised to capture bitterly contested territory thanks to an online poll of board game fans.
Bloggers, talk-show hosts and business leaders are calling Montrealers to the ramparts in the hopes of securing a prime spot in a new edition of Monopoly.
“The benefits for the city will be enormous,†said the head of Montreal’s board of trade, Isabelle Hudon.
Montreal was leading Istanbul and 66 other cities in the most recently published results, leaving such backwater towns as London, New York and Moscow in the dust.
The online poll, hosted by toy-making giant Hasbro Inc., pits cities across the globe for the naming rights to 20 squares on the upcoming “Monopoly Here and Now: The World Edition.â€
Voting ends Thursday, when the city with the most votes will take the place of Boardwalk as the most coveted bit of real estate on the board. Second place gets Park Place.
The Board of Trade of Metropolitan Montreal has gone so far as to create a web portal to facilitate voting.
The mayor of Quebec City even pitched in with a commercial calling on denizens to set aside their historic enmity for Montreal and cast a vote for the city.
For Hudon, the campaign for a spot on the Monopoly board is clearly more than just a game.
“In recent years, 200 million people have played Monopoly,†she said. “That’s enormous. We couldn’t afford an advertising campaign that would have that kind of scope.â€
Hasbro says it has averaged some 10,000 votes a day since the competition began in January.
If Montreal and Istanbul maintain their one-two ranking it would leave two cities 7,700 kilometres apart separated by nothing more than a $75 Luxury Tax. That irks some purists.
“It doesn’t make sense to have Istanbul next to Montreal on a Monopoly board,†said Jules Vautour, the manager at a local board-game store. “They’ll have to rearrange it.â€
Results of the online vote will be revealed in August, while the Monopoly world edition hits stores in September.
–Canadian Press
JasonParis
Moderator
August?@$#?
cacruden
Senior Member
For worth of land, I would make Boardwalk and Park Place to be Tokyo and London.
August? Dam, anyway if the voting was not hidden - Toronto would not make it - not enough media attention locally.
rpgr
Active Member
As I said, I would have prefer a selected panel do the judging what does where. The criteria should not be just worth of land though, it has to have value beyond just value of the land going into historical, cultural and social impact as well.
I wouldn't fault you for your desire for Tokyo and London as they are viable pics (as opposed to Montreal and Istanbul). Tokyo would be lower to me and would occupy the "green" section as it has less historical and cultural impact on the world but I'm not that educated on world culture as to definitively put it on gree instead of dark blue.
As the hobby/toy shop owner says above though, the placement as is makes very little sense.
St. Even
Active Member
I'm surprised the Montreal Board of Trade has invested so much in this. They risk egg on their face if they make getting Boardwalk the only desirable outcome -- what happens if they only get as far as Marvin Gardens?
Then the director has to resign in shame
for not laying claim
to the property of fame
on a children's board game.
These are pretty high stakes.
Then the director has to resign in shame
for not laying claim
to the property of fame
on a children's board game.
These are pretty high stakes.
JasonParis
Moderator
I didn't know Dr. Seus was on here!
Calrissian
Active Member
well there ya go.. montreal was in fact all over this promoting it trying to get their citizens to vote. don't blame 'em for it.. just explains the rise to the top, more.
rpgr
Active Member
Nobody really blames Montreal, it just makes for a bad board(walk). As i said before, Montreal was a slow riser, it didn't appear overnight. It took a few weeks for it to get from middle-bottom near list to the top where it traded places for a bit before solidying itself. As I said before, it's quite possible it's legit. Istambul and Jerusalem on the other hand took a mere few days to go from not on the list (as in not top 20) to the top which makes them very suspect.