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Old 01-20-2012, 12:17 PM
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What's Your 20?

What's your 20?

Particularly for the "Guest" Dopers.

My "20" is a wee bit outside and in Chitown.
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Old 01-20-2012, 12:36 PM
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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.
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Old 01-20-2012, 12:45 PM
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Old 01-20-2012, 12:46 PM
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Old 01-20-2012, 12:51 PM
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Ah, I thought you were Chicagoan for some reason...
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Old 01-20-2012, 12:53 PM
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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...
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Old 01-20-2012, 12:59 PM
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Old 01-20-2012, 01:00 PM
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Ah, I thought you were Chicagoan for some reason...
Must be the accent.
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Old 01-20-2012, 01:00 PM
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#9?
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Old 01-20-2012, 01:03 PM
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Old 01-20-2012, 01:16 PM
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Old 01-20-2012, 01:51 PM
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Between a rock and a hard place.
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Old 01-20-2012, 01:54 PM
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Old 01-20-2012, 01:55 PM
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Old 01-20-2012, 02:01 PM
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my kombatminigirlfriend
Not trying to pry but... Whut??
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Old 01-20-2012, 02:01 PM
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Old 01-20-2012, 02:14 PM
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Not trying to pry but... Whut??
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
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Old 01-20-2012, 02:17 PM
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Old 01-20-2012, 02:31 PM
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Old 01-20-2012, 02:34 PM
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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.
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Old 01-20-2012, 02:37 PM
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Old 01-20-2012, 02:40 PM
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Old 01-20-2012, 02:41 PM
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Old 01-20-2012, 02:45 PM
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Old 01-20-2012, 02:54 PM
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Old 01-20-2012, 03:15 PM
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Old 01-20-2012, 03:33 PM
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Old 01-20-2012, 03:35 PM
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Old 01-20-2012, 03:42 PM
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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.
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Old 01-20-2012, 03:44 PM
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Old 01-20-2012, 03:55 PM
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Old 01-20-2012, 04:03 PM
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Old 01-20-2012, 04:15 PM
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Old 01-20-2012, 04:21 PM
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Old 01-20-2012, 04:26 PM
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Old 01-20-2012, 04:41 PM
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Old 01-20-2012, 04:58 PM
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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".
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Old 01-20-2012, 05:45 PM
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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.
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Old 01-20-2012, 05:57 PM
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Old 01-20-2012, 06:09 PM
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Old 01-20-2012, 06:18 PM
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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.
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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...)
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Old 01-20-2012, 06:25 PM
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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.
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Old 01-20-2012, 06:30 PM
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Old 01-20-2012, 06:31 PM
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Old 01-20-2012, 06:33 PM
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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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Old 01-20-2012, 06:38 PM
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How do you folks procreate in your world?
Between a rock and a hard place?
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Old 01-20-2012, 06:39 PM
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Old 01-20-2012, 06:40 PM
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Old 01-20-2012, 06:40 PM
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Old 01-20-2012, 06:42 PM
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