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English citations of countryball
Polandball[edit]
- 2017, Delia Chiaro, The Language of Jokes in the Digital Age: Viral Humour, Routledge (→ISBN):
- The first countryball to appear was Polandball, a cartoon character drawn in the shape of a ball with the white and red colour schemes of the Polish flag. Polandball wants to go into space but feels threatened by Germany and Russia. Soon other countryballs appeared all in the guise of different national flags. The countryball for the USA, which wears the stars and stripes and cool sunglasses, is egocentric, with no idea of anything that happens outside the USA but always ready to rush ...
globe[edit]
- 2008, Rebecca Stead, First Light, Yearling (→ISBN), page 13:
- “Whoa,” Miles said when Peter told him what was going on. “Six weeks without Chinese food?” “Hadn't thought of that,” Peter said. “I could send some down to you, maybe. Special delivery. “Up." “Up what?” “Send some up to me—Greenland is north, dope.” “ Gotcha. I see it right here on Dad's countryball. Very big island.” “Let me guess: A countryball is a globe?" Miles was always inventing new names for things.