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Vote For Dublin!

Xavi6 · 2008-01-23 01:19:40

http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/0122/monopoly.html Cast your vote here - http://www.monopolyworldvote.com/en_US/world Come on culchies, lend your support!

23-01-2008 1:19am

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http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/0122/monopoly.html

Dublin seeks square on game board
Tuesday, 22 January 2008 16:21
Voting has opened for the first ever world edition of the board game Monopoly.

The manufacturer of Monopoly, Hasbro, has set up a website where people can vote for cities from a prepared list or nominate a city to feature in the game.

Just 22 cities will make it on to the new game, which traditionally listed street names in each spot on the board.

AdvertisementDublin is the only Irish location to appear on the list and it stands alongside other major cities like New York, London and Tokyo.

Displaying photos of Trinity College, the Ha'penny bridge and the Spire of Dublin, the Monopoly website cites Dublin's 'world-famous' literary history and 'carnival style' St Patrick's Day Festival.

At 4pm, Dublin was ranked 6th on the leader board with 1.9% of the total vote.

London is in the lead with 3.2% followed by New York, Paris and Rome.

Polls close for the top 20 cities on 29 February 2008.

Two wildcard cities will also make the final board, which will be announced at a press conference in Time Square, New York.

Cast your vote here -

http://www.monopolyworldvote.com/en_US/world

Come on culchies, lend your support!

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#2 23-01-2008 1:21am

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Hasbro should be able to fix the vote and put Waterford on it instead of Jackeen land

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#3 23-01-2008 1:24am

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Vancouver?! Where is my native Seattle...

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#4 23-01-2008 1:28am

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I don't want to register. Otherwise I def would have voted.

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#5 23-01-2008 12:27pm

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I hate registering for anything myself but I went ahead and did it this time anyway. Dublin is number six in the leaderboard still.

http://www.monopolyworldvote.com/en_IE/world

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#6 23-01-2008 12:31pm

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Voted for Dublin, and Galway for the wildcard

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#7 23-01-2008 12:37pm

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Voted for Dublin, doing ok in 6th place

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#8 23-01-2008 12:38pm

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http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055222852

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#9 23-01-2008 12:57pm

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green123 wrote: »

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055222852

Meh I was there first

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#10 23-01-2008 1:02pm

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Haha I love your Sven quote and response Xavi. Dunne is doing great this year. Really matured as a player. I'd give him the Ireland captaincy TBH

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#11 23-01-2008 1:27pm

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These voted monopoly things are stupid. They had one for England a while back.
Clearly London should have been number one, but because a lot of people, from a place noone has heard of, St Albans, banded together, that is now the number one place on the board.

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#12 23-01-2008 1:30pm

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Dublin got my vote. It had better end up as at least a red street. If we end up onr of the brown or light blue ones, I'll be very unhappy indeed.

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#13 23-01-2008 1:51pm

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I'm torn, Amsterdam a city that I love or Dublin just for the sake of voting Irish.

See Galway is number 6 in the wildcard league.

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#14 23-01-2008 1:56pm

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The problem here is, you'll guy it for €4 (bargain!!) and then the next time you come round, there'll be twenty times as many houses and a load of over-priced hotels that weren't there five minutes ago...

Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.

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#15 23-01-2008 2:01pm

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Dublin ftw! (Enniscorthy for wildcard... ahem!!!)

Wacker wrote: »

Dublin got my vote. It had better end up as at least a red street. If we end up onr of the brown or light blue ones, I'll be very unhappy indeed.

The browns are for the wildcards thankfully!

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#16 23-01-2008 2:28pm

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who voted cork as #2 on the wildcard league. granted cork is a nice town, but it would be a lot better if it wasnt full of filthy cork people.

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#17 24-01-2008 8:23am

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Ah, fixing internet votes - something we can all do as a nation.
However don't we usually screw these things up by pushing an unknown.
Roosky, County Roscommon, IE
So that it ends up no1 on the world board....
Isnt that the point

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#18 24-01-2008 8:24am

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egan007 wrote: »

Ah, fixing internet votes - something we can all do as a nation.

Fixing how?

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#19 24-01-2008 8:50am

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Fixing as In we all vote for an unknown village in Ireland and it ends up on a world boardgame....

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#20 24-01-2008 9:38am

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Blisterman wrote: »

These voted monopoly things are stupid. They had one for England a while back.
Clearly London should have been number one, but because a lot of people, from a place noone has heard of, St Albans, banded together, that is now the number one place on the board.

Who can forget this? World's Favourite Song.

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#21 24-01-2008 11:14am

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Wacker wrote: »

Dublin got my vote. It had better end up as at least a red street. If we end up onr of the brown or light blue ones, I'll be very unhappy indeed.

I think the higher up the leader board you get, the more "valuable" the city. The colours on the actual board indicate the colour the city will be...

Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.

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#22 24-01-2008 12:15pm

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I voted, come on everyone! you can vote every day, it would be good to see dublin on the board, but only in a high position, we don't want to be the crumlin of the world board!

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#23 24-01-2008 2:29pm

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Move to the Dublin board!

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#24 24-01-2008 2:38pm

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invincibleirish wrote: »

Move to the Dublin board!

Why?

This is an effort for Ireland to get a place on the world monopoly board? More votes from people around the country give the ability for tiny Ireland to get on a big monopoly board with the big wigs. Tis is not just for Dublin, its for the Country to be seen on the world map alongside Paris, London, LA etc.

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#25 24-01-2008 2:43pm

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voted - dublin is now 7th

you have to keep going back to the website i think every 72 hours in order to keep your votes...

maybe someone should edit the thread title to include monopoly world edition

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#26 24-01-2008 3:49pm

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ulster wrote: »

maybe someone should edit the thread title to include monopoly world edition

+1

I voted Dublin and Gaillimh :cool:

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#27 24-01-2008 6:12pm

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Will there be a "Get out of Dublin Free" card?

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#28 25-01-2008 2:45pm

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Is there a problem with the wildcard nomations at the moment?
Worked for me yesterday but today no matter what I type I get 'You must use the autocomplete to pick a city'. Yesterday when I typed my city another box opened with the city name and country but not today.

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#29 25-01-2008 3:04pm

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Click twice on the box. It happened to me too, that it wouldn't autocomplete. it you double click on the box where you've typed the name in the list will appear.

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#30 26-01-2008 6:11pm

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C'mon people, keep voting. We're slipping into the red.

http://www.monopolyworldvote.com/en_US/world/leaders

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#31 26-01-2008 6:40pm

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Voted for London.

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#32 26-01-2008 9:45pm

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Voted for Montreal. Dublin, pfft.

Voted for Sligo as the wild card. Sligo Town is the "Gateway City", don't you know?

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#33 26-01-2008 9:48pm

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Xavi6 wrote: »

Come on culchies, lend your support!

And...I just heard from Satan that there is a blizzard blowing down in hell so you may be in luck...

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ejmaztec wrote: »

Will there be a "Get out of Dublin Free" card?

Yes! but you'll still have to pay €2.70 at the M4 toll!

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#35 29-01-2008 12:21am

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Ah! Dublin has slipped to 10th, come on we were 6th!!! Keep voting damnit!!! :D:D:D

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#36 29-01-2008 12:24am

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You have to register to vote?!

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#37 29-01-2008 12:27pm

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Looks like Dublin's gonna be the Crumlin. Get voting you idiots!

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#38 29-01-2008 12:42pm

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dont bother

its fixed anyway

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#39 31-01-2008 1:19pm

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We've now slipped to 14th place - keep voting

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#40 03-02-2008 6:13pm

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17th and sliding.

and Cork is down to 13th for the Wild card slot.

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#41 03-02-2008 9:18pm

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Pal wrote: »

dont bother

its fixed anyway

it might not be. Roscommon won the vote for the All Ireland edition a couple of months ago. Largely due to a campaign on a local website to get people voting.

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#42 04-02-2008 9:29am

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18th! Another 0.2% and we're out of it altogether!! (Might not be a bad thing: land on Dublin at the wrong time and it'll be two hours before you get off it again)

Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.

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#43 06-02-2008 1:02am

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Guys seriously,

GET VOTING FOR DUBLIN

Or we lose out. Its about status people!:)

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#44 06-02-2008 9:17am

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It's about giving to big a ****...! At this rate it'll be a lowly ranked Rathmines-like Blue property anyway....

Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.

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The city for new zealand is queenstown? Thats odd, i googled the place and it only has a population of about 10,000. Its just some resort town. Why not auckland or Christchurch?

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#46 07-02-2008 10:16am

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21st now same percent as Zurich 19th and Shanghai 20th

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#47 07-02-2008 10:35am

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That's Ireland off the board now. to be expected.

Well done everyone.

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#48 07-02-2008 11:44am

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Even Galways gone of the brown streets. A push in the final 5 days could do it.

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#49 07-02-2008 11:46am

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I voted today and yesterday. It'd suck if Dublin finished just one spot off being on the boards.

Get voting people!

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#50 07-02-2008 11:50am

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It would be a cryin outrage, ring Joe Duffy.

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#51 07-02-2008 11:54am

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ScumLord wrote: »

It would be a cryin outrage, ring Joe Duffy.

Who is Joe Duffy? Seriously, I don't know. i believe he is a radio presenter but i don't listen to the radio (i hate all radio DJs). Do people just ring him to complain about stuff? Is it like after hours on the radio? /shudders

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