What's Your 20?

[brittekland]

What's your 20? (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=what%27s%20your%2020%3F&defid=2038100)

Particularly for the "Guest" Dopers.

My "20" is a wee bit outside and in Chitown.

[Mr. Accident]

It depends. If you're driving north on the road nearest me, I'm in Arcade GA. If you're driving south, I'm in Jefferson GA.

If you go by the fire/police department, I'm in Arcade, but the post office says Jefferson. I'm sorta stuck in a place that really doesn't belong anywhere.

[Zeldar]

Nashville

[Doctor]

Hollywood, CA. :cool:

[brittekland]

Nashville

Ah, I thought you were Chicagoan for some reason...

[brittekland]

It depends. If you're driving north on the road nearest me, I'm in Arcade GA. If you're driving south, I'm in Jefferson GA.

If you go by the fire/police department, I'm in Arcade, but the post office says Jefferson. I'm sorta stuck in a place that really doesn't belong anywhere.

Neither here nor there?

Don't feel bad; That's how I feel most of times in my head...

[slm2955]

In the clouds.

[Zeldar]

Ah, I thought you were Chicagoan for some reason...

Must be the accent.

[brittekland]

In the clouds.

#9?

[slm2955]

#9?

Yup :)

[Mahaloth]

Work. In a school.

[cjepson]

Between a rock and a hard place.

[kombatminipig]

Smack in the middle of Stockholm, with a head cold, watching Six Feet Under with my kombatminigirlfriend

[blondebear]

Near the intersection of 237 and 880.

[brittekland]

my kombatminigirlfriend

Not trying to pry but... Whut?? :confused:

[Hal Briston]

Jersey shore.

No jokes about North Jersey/NY d-bags fucking up our towns for reality TV purposes, please.

[ugly ripe tomato]

Not trying to pry but... Whut?? :confused:

I do believe kombatminipig is doing the "tweak username to create cutesy title for significant other" routine.

As for the OP, my 20 is Luzerne Co, PA

[MacTech]

Sector ZZ-9 Plural Z Alpha

[olivesmarch4th]

Joisey.

[brittekland]

I do believe kombatminipig is doing the "tweak username to create cutesy title for significant other" routine.

As for the OP, my 20 is Luzerne Co, PA

Oy... must be my glasses... completely missed the user name, doh. Danke.

[brittekland]

Sector ZZ-9 Plural Z Alpha

How do you folks procreate in your world?

[brittekland]

Between a rock and a hard place.

Sorry.

[Maggie the Ocelot]

San Gabriel Valley, CA. Also known as China West.

[SeaDragonTattoo]

On my couch. Watching a lot of snow come down and off work today.

[Barkis is Willin']

Columbus, OH

[Lord Il Palazzo]

Northern Virginia

[Sandra Battye]

San Francisco

[Foggy]

37.78317, -122.41575

[Crafter_Man]

I can tell you my exact location, but my time will be uncertain.

Or I can tell you my exact time, but my location will be uncertain.

[ladyfoxfyre]

Downtown St Petersburg, FL.

[ShibbOleth]

I have a home just outside of Tampa, FL. Most of my time is currently spent working in El Segundo, CA. My "home" hotel is walking distance from LAX.

[Tim R. Mortiss]

Lincoln Park, Chicago, watching the snow fly. I should be on the south side at my office, but I saw the forecast and said "F*** that!"

[elfkin477]

By woods on a snowy evening.

[enipla]

Central Colorado Rockies. Breckenridge is the closest noteable town.

[UncaStuart]

Sunnyvale, where it ain't, right now.

[simsimian]

Western Springs (West of Chicago)
Watching the snow come down.

[brittekland]

I can tell you my exact location, but my time will be uncertain.

Or I can tell you my exact time, but my location will be uncertain.

Perhaps you should look into "Uncertainty Reduction Theory".

[Lacunae Matata]

It depends. If you're driving north on the road nearest me, I'm in Arcade GA. If you're driving south, I'm in Jefferson GA.

If you go by the fire/police department, I'm in Arcade, but the post office says Jefferson. I'm sorta stuck in a place that really doesn't belong anywhere.

Heh. Must be something about Georgia. My previous 20 was Bloomingdale, but if I'd lived about 200 yards west, I'd have been in Faulkville according to the posted signs, but still in B'dale according to the post office. I'd have also been in a different county.

My current 20 is Statesboro, Georgia. I don't have the blues, but I pay my water bill in the building where the song was written.

[panache45]

"The Land of Lake-Effect Snow."

[Cub Mistress]

Reasonably near Zeldar. Hi, Zeldar!

[brittekland]

It depends. If you're driving north on the road nearest me, I'm in Arcade GA. If you're driving south, I'm in Jefferson GA.

If you go by the fire/police department, I'm in Arcade, but the post office says Jefferson. I'm sorta stuck in a place that really doesn't belong anywhere.
Heh. Must be something about Georgia. My previous 20 was Bloomingdale, but if I'd lived about 200 yards west, I'd have been in Faulkville according to the posted signs, but still in B'dale according to the post office. I'd have also been in a different county.

Oy....


(BTW I'm not dissin GA, no really...)

[the lone cashew]

I am just north of Higgins Lake, Michigan, in a valley, a fresh-water marshland bowl and tamarack grove; where the evening chill descends, like a ceremonial march, procession of silent soldiers, currents entranced and summoned by the frozen lows.

The region is perched, situated on an north/south inland ridge, where the basins fall either west, or to the east; waters making steady way, playing and percolating along, building in crescendo, eventually meeting Huron's western shore, or west to Lake Michigan.
25 miles from here in another spring fed bog, much like this one only greater in size - is the birth place of the rivers Au Sable, and mighty Manistee - one making its way east - the other, west.


Okay. In a nutshell: I am basically out in the middle of no damn where. I tried to describe my location poetically the best I could.
But what I am really experiencing right now is cabin fever, and delusions of grandeur, in this what is little more than an ice-box hell hole.

[woodstockbirdybird]

Oakland, CA.

[Bumbershoot]

Take a left turn at Albuquerque* to find me.



*On Alameda Blvd. from northbound I-25, then go 7-8 miles

[brittekland]

I am just north of Higgins Lake, Michigan, in a valley, a fresh-water marshland bowl and tamarack grove; where the evening chill descends, like a ceremonial march, procession of silent soldiers, currents entranced and summoned by the frozen lows.

The region is perched, situated on an north/south inland ridge, where the basins fall either west, or to the east; waters making steady way, playing and percolating along, building in crescendo, eventually meeting Huron's western shore, or west to Lake Michigan.
25 miles from here in another spring fed bog, much like this one only greater in size - is the birth place of the rivers Au Sable, and mighty Manistee - one making its way east - the other, west.

A+

ETA: Wait... I take that back.

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[jjimm]

How do you folks procreate in your world?Between a rock and a hard place?

[DCnDC]

About a mile outside the DC border in Takoma Park, MD.

[brittekland]

Between a rock and a hard place?

Ouch.

[Scubaqueen]

39.92786,-86.061005 so sayeth http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/geocoder/

[Jonathan Chance]

Monck's Corner, SC, by God.

I wish the primary'd get over with already.

[Trom]

Bucktown, Chicago

[twickster]

Philly. Northwest Philly, to be specific.

[brittekland]

About a mile outside the DC border in Takoma Park, MD.

You'll have to excuse me if I'm faux pas-ing but what's "DCnDC" stands for? Just curious considering you are technically a Marylander. :D

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[Asimovian]

Currently in front of the TV on the 32nd floor of an apartment in downtown Chicago. Normally, in the Valley outside of (well, technically inside of) LA.

[brittekland]

Currently in front of the TV on the 32nd floor of an apartment in downtown Chicago. Normally, in the Valley outside of (well, technically inside of) LA.

Aren't you going outside to make a snowman?

[Asimovian]

Aren't you going outside to make a snowman?If I could find some place where people wouldn't look at me like I'm crazy (not that it isn't true), I would. I was actually discussing that very idea with some coworkers today. :)

[DCnDC]

You'll have to excuse me if I'm faux pas-ing but what's "DCnDC" stands for? Just curious considering you are technically a Marylander. :D

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My initials and the city I self-identify as my home are both "DC", thus I am "DC in DC".

I was born in the city, and when I was 7 we moved out to the Maryland 'burbs (MoCo). At the time I joined the board, I was living in Petworth, a very exclusive (:D) neighborhood in NW DC. I still own the house there, but I rent it to some friends. I currently live in Takoma Park, Maryland, the "Berkeley of the East."

[Jack Batty]

I'm eastbound and down, good buddy.

[brittekland]

My initials and the city I self-identify as my home are both "DC", thus I am "DC in DC".

I was born in the city, and when I was 7 we moved out to the Maryland 'burbs (MoCo). At the time I joined the board, I was living in Petworth, a very exclusive (:D) neighborhood in NW DC. I still own the house there, but I rent it to some friends. I currently live in Takoma Park, Maryland, the "Berkeley of the East."

Ah, okeydoke then.

[brittekland]

Lincoln Park, Chicago, watching the snow fly. I should be on the south side at my office, but I saw the forecast and said "F*** that!"

Yeah, remember LSD last winter?

[Becky2844]

LA. (Lower Alabama.) Actually the Florida panhandle. But I'm not from here!

[Sunspace]

I am in bed, somewhere in the Greater Toronto Area.

[Zeldar]

Reasonably near Zeldar. Hi, Zeldar!

Hey, yourself, Cub Mistress! Wonder how many of the Mid-TN crowd will speak up here.

[manila]

Am at work in the Jungle in Gabon West Africa

[brittekland]

Am at work in the Jungle in Gabon West Africa

Cool... is it?

May I ask doing what?

[Gagundathar]

Athenstown, Georgia, baby!
Hanging out and pretending to be 30 years younger than I am!!!!

No, really, I am in a hotel room, posting on a message board.

[Khendrask]

Monck's Corner, SC, by God.

I wish the primary'd get over with already.

Hey Neighbor...
Wyboo, north end of Lake Marion here. Summerton mailing address, but really Summerton is about 14 miles away from me.

I live pretty much right smack in the middle of nowhere.

And love it.

Second your sentiments about the primary. Jeez, I'm sorry, I'm basically a conservative, but I can't stand any of them. It's a good thing I don't watch TV, I've seen the non-stop garbage ads constantly on the tube at my mother's house (She lives about 8 miles from me by road, 1 mile by water, still in the middle of nowhere).

[Tim R. Mortiss]

Yeah, remember LSD last winter?

Yes, I do. And I remember watching people who were stranded in their cars on LSD for hours. And I remember thinking, you dumbass! LSD is on the Gold Coast! Get out of your car and walk for two minutes and you are in a luxury hotel bar!!

ETA: for non-Chicagoans, LSD is Lake Shore Drive, a road that runs along the most luxurious strip of the city. There is no better place on the planet to be stranded.

[missred]

Hey, yourself, Cub Mistress! Wonder how many of the Mid-TN crowd will speak up here.

Within spitting distance of Zeldar and Cub Mistress. Hi y'all! :)

[Zeldar]

Within spitting distance of Zeldar and Cub Mistress. Hi y'all! :)

Good to see you, missred! Wanna take a shot at who the next Tennesseean will be to sign in?

[Wolverine]

5 stories up in Beijing

[missred]

Good to see you, missred! Wanna take a shot at who the next Tennesseean will be to sign in?

Either Skammer or Brynda would be my guess.

[Zeldar]

Either Skammer or Brynda would be my guess.

Good guesses!

I just had the idea to start another thread on the theme of this one, and decided just to mention my idea here. If anyone is uncomfortable revealing some specific location out of privacy concerns, perhaps a link to their local newspaper's "news of the weird" would work. One might live some distance from the city/town where the paper is located and still consider it their "local paper." In any case it would help locate them somewher on the planet! ;)

If that privacy concern isn't all that heavy, maybe a visit to Some Geography Trivia Fun: Degree Confluences (http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=554045) would make a cool follow-up to this thread.

[Proudest Monkey]

Take your 2nd left off Pond Road onto Brentwood Ave. My house is the first one on the left. It's a white ranch with brick trim and attached garage. I am located just off the kitchen in the office space I carved out from the dining room. Please wipe your feet, grab a beer, and give that split pea soup a stir on your way by. We'll eat soon.

[SeldomSeen]

Malheur County Oregon. Pretty much out back of beyond.

[applebetty]

Washington Parish, Louisiana. About where the A (in Washington) is if you're looking at a map. Not from here, my skin needs humidity and I need trees.

Sorry about the chilly temps in other places, I'm thinking of turning on the attic fan to draw some cooler air in as it's so muggy here.

[Mona Lott]

Osburn
Shoshone County
Idaho

[Mrs_Ducky]

Columbus, OH

Me, too!

[jz78817]

My name's Striker, I'm sitting down and facing front. Why would you want to know that?

seriously, I'm in Metro Detroit

[MostlyClueless]

Rotterdam.

[An Gadaí]

Shitsylvania

[brittekland]

Okay. In a nutshell: I am basically out in the middle of no damn where. I tried to describe my location poetically the best I could.
But what I am really experiencing right now is cabin fever, and delusions of grandeur, in this what is little more than an ice-box hell hole.

Okay, I'll explain: this paragraph was the reason I changed my decision and I took away your A+.

Never make less than full commitment to your "Art" or shrug off your own artistic effort... Let this be a lesson to you.

[brittekland]

Thanks, manila and take care.

[Ann Onimous]

Central Mississippi. 73 degrees and loving it!

[AnalogSignal]

Lawn Guy Land

[Accidental Martyr]

Tuscaloosa, AL

[EvilMinion]

Cairns, far northern Australia, sweating into my couch in 80% humidity.

[Silophant]

Minneapolis.

[brittekland]

Cairns, far northern Australia, sweating into my couch in 80% humidity.

Want some snow and icicles?

[LavenderBlue]

Babyhell right now.

[the lone cashew]

Okay, I'll explain: this paragraph was the reason I changed my decision and I took away your A+.

Never make less than full commitment to your "Art" or shrug off your own artistic effort... Let this be a lesson to you.
Ow, you're a real ball buster. I don't think I deserved the A+. But to have originally been assigned one, only to have it taken away, apparently within the first 5 minutes of having received it. Well, that is why I am hurt.

[brittekland]

Ow, you're a real ball buster. I don't think I deserved the A+. But to have originally been assigned one, only to have it taken away, apparently within the first 5 minutes of having received it. Well, that is why I am hurt.

Well, that was the effect I was going after... so you'd never repeat this haphazard effort again.

[the lone cashew]

I still don't know what I did wrong. What haphazard effort?

[brittekland]

Meaning: don't look back.

[JustinC]

Dunkin' Donuts, Gwangju, S Korea.

/Internet at home is off ... again :mad:

[Wargamer]

Hex 1728 on the map of Guilford by GMT Games.

Guilford (http://www.gmtgames.com/p-16-guilford.aspx)

[Rhiannon8404]

West El Camino and Truxel.

[Diver]

Wherever my wheels are parked. Bouse AZ right now.

We live full time in a motor home.

[Enright3]

1145 Sanctuary Parkway
Alpharetta, GA.

[Ike Witt]

I am in bed, somewhere in the Greater Toronto Area.

Shout out to the T Dot.

[raindog]

Dayton, Ohio

April 1 it will 50 miles up the road in Cincinnati, Ohio

[Astroboy14]

Right here, as usual.

[Digital is the new Analog]

South Florida. Near Sawgrass Mills Mall, for what it's worth.

-D/a

[Spiderman]

Philly. Northwest Philly, to be specific.

Wave. I'm on the other side of the county line.

[Lsura]

Decatur, GA.

So much better than being OTP. ;)

[Skammer]

Good to see you, missred! Wanna take a shot at who the next Tennesseean will be to sign in?

Either Skammer or Brynda would be my guess.

A late bump to the thread, but I didn't want missred to be wrong.

[Czarcasm]

On the northern edge of Portland, Oregon, gazing at the mighty Columbia River.

[Invisible Chimp]

On the northern edge of Portland, Oregon, gazing at the mighty Columbia River.

Same. I can see downtown Vancouver, WA out the window.

[Typo Negative]

Southern California's beautiful San Fernando Valley!

Come see the Paradise!

[Rhiannon8404]

South Natomas

[Jasper Kent]

Chattanooga, TN

[Jasper Kent]

Zeldar, Cub Mistress, missred, and any other Tennesseans:

I'm in Chat-Town now but I've also lived in Nashville, Knoxville, Oak Ridge, Dandridge, Sevierville, and Gatlinburg.

Is this a record for "hometowns" in TN?

[Jasper Kent]

Oh, and Skammer....didn't mean to leave you out.

[mkecane]

Milwaukee, WI.

[Silophant]

Minneapolis, MN. Just a block from TCF Bank Stadium, as it happens.

[hlanelee]

Great Salkehatchie Swamp near the Hampton/Colleton County border.

[(mostly) Harmless]

If I walked outside and pointed a laser pointer at Disneyland's Tower of Terror building I would be able to see the dot.

[missred]

Zeldar, Cub Mistress, missred, and any other Tennesseans:

I'm in Chat-Town now but I've also lived in Nashville, Knoxville, Oak Ridge, Dandridge, Sevierville, and Gatlinburg.

Is this a record for "hometowns" in TN?

Probably not, but the next time you visit the Nashville area, let us know; we could use a good excuse for a middle Tennessee Dopefest. :p

[Zeldar]

Zeldar, Cub Mistress, missred, and any other Tennesseans:

I'm in Chat-Town now but I've also lived in Nashville, Knoxville, Oak Ridge, Dandridge, Sevierville, and Gatlinburg.

Is this a record for "hometowns" in TN?

Oh, and Skammer....didn't mean to leave you out.

Probably not, but the next time you visit the Nashville area, let us know; we could use a good excuse for a middle Tennessee Dopefest. :p

Sounds like an idea! As for record of hometowns in Tennessee, I can't think of anybody with more. Makes me wonder (I'm not about to go counting) which state's Dopers has the record for most posts in this thread. Tennessee's looking pretty good so far!

[digs]

Y'know where Wauwatosa is? Well, not there anymore.

But not too far away...

[Zeldar]

Reasonably near Zeldar. Hi, Zeldar!

Hey, yourself, Cub Mistress! Wonder how many of the Mid-TN crowd will speak up here.

Within spitting distance of Zeldar and Cub Mistress. Hi y'all! :)

Good to see you, missred! Wanna take a shot at who the next Tennesseean will be to sign in?

Either Skammer or Brynda would be my guess.

A late bump to the thread, but I didn't want missred to be wrong.

Chattanooga, TN

Zeldar, Cub Mistress, missred, and any other Tennesseans:

I'm in Chat-Town now but I've also lived in Nashville, Knoxville, Oak Ridge, Dandridge, Sevierville, and Gatlinburg.

Is this a record for "hometowns" in TN?

Oh, and Skammer....didn't mean to leave you out.

Probably not, but the next time you visit the Nashville area, let us know; we could use a good excuse for a middle Tennessee Dopefest. :p

Sounds like an idea! As for record of hometowns in Tennessee, I can't think of anybody with more. Makes me wonder (I'm not about to go counting) which state's Dopers has the record for most posts in this thread. Tennessee's looking pretty good so far!

Okay, I'm not going to go counting all the states, but I did want to make all the Tennessee people who read here aware of Middle Tennessee Doper Roll Call (http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=557793) (which includes more than just Middle TN Dopers) and which has had 73 posts between 03-30-2010 and 07-08-2011 and might be worth a look and a post by others who don't mind sharing their location data.

[DrumBum]

Zona Miramar (http://maps.google.com/maps?oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&q=Alvalade+Luanda&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=rHU5T5u5Du_JsQKT2bGxAg&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=3&ved=0CBwQ_AUoAg), Luanda, Rep. Angola.

We have a nice view of the south Atlantic from our third floor balcony. :cool:

[Lsura]

Zeldar, Cub Mistress, missred, and any other Tennesseans:

I'm in Chat-Town now but I've also lived in Nashville, Knoxville, Oak Ridge, Dandridge, Sevierville, and Gatlinburg.

Is this a record for "hometowns" in TN?

Well, you beat me:

Chattanooga, Murfreesboro, Nashville, Knoxville. But I keep moving out of state too. I try to escape, I just don't manage it fully. ;)

[Zeldar]

Well, you beat me:

Chattanooga, Murfreesboro, Nashville, Knoxville. But I keep moving out of state too. I try to escape, I just don't manage it fully. ;)

Hi, Lsura! You back in Tennessee?

Okay, I'm not going to go counting all the states, but I did want to make all the Tennessee people who read here aware of Middle Tennessee Doper Roll Call (http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=557793) (which includes more than just Middle TN Dopers) and which has had 73 posts between 03-30-2010 and 07-08-2011 and might be worth a look and a post by others who don't mind sharing their location data.

Since that old thread was closed due to its zombie status, I started Tennessee Dopers Roll Call (Updated Feb/2012) (http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=642048) to take its place.

All Tennesseeans Welcome!

[Lsura]

Hi, Lsura! You back in Tennessee?


Nope, just down the road in Atlanta. Plenty of family all around the state, though, so I make it to different cities pretty regularly.

[digs]

Could someone from Up North or Out West please post? I'm getting sick of hearing about Tennesee!

[Attack from the 3rd dimension]

I'm about as North and East as you can get: The middle of the Rock, Newfoundland, Canada

[karlawitak]

About a mile outside the DC border in Takoma Park, MD.my bf used to work there.

Los Angeleeeees

[DrumBum]

Could someone from Up North or Out West please post? I'm getting sick of hearing about Tennesee!


My "20" is about 11,400 Km East of Tennessee and we have better beaches. :D