# All you fucking assholes with joke "location"s **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 20, 2006, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-you-fucking-assholes-with-joke-location-s/384925 "2006-12-20T15:36:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2006, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-you-fucking-assholes-with-joke-location-s/384925/21 "2006-12-20T16:36:40Z")
What, you want an exact location? Next thing I suppose you’ll want to know what everybody’s gender is. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2006, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-you-fucking-assholes-with-joke-location-s/384925/22 "2006-12-20T16:40:07Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] Do I need to be more specific, or does my location suffice? 😃 [/QUOTE] I’m not sure if you’re from Caledonia or Calcutta. ---
**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2006, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-you-fucking-assholes-with-joke-location-s/384925/23 "2006-12-20T16:40:10Z")
[QUOTE=EddyTeddyFreddy] What, you want an exact location? Next thing I suppose you’ll want to know what everybody’s gender is. [/QUOTE] Hey, some days I have to unzip just to be reminded of my own. ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2006, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-you-fucking-assholes-with-joke-location-s/384925/24 "2006-12-20T16:40:47Z")
Zen Arcade is the title of an album by the band Husker Du. They were a local Minneapolis band. Minnesota. United States. Western hemisphere. Earth. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2006, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-you-fucking-assholes-with-joke-location-s/384925/25 "2006-12-20T16:44:48Z")
[QUOTE=pseudotriton ruber ruber] I wouldnt be surprised if that was you I shoved to get that last seat on the J train yesterday. [/QUOTE] I’m in midtown lately, so I’m taking the F. When I work downtown, it certainly could be a possibility. 🆒 If the train is crowded, though, I usually don’t sit. I find it more comfortable to stand rather than to be wedge into a seat. ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2006, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-you-fucking-assholes-with-joke-location-s/384925/26 "2006-12-20T16:48:47Z")
Why on earth would anyone CARE where I am? And frankly, if I make a comment referencing something happening “here”, what difference does THAT make? Like you’re going to join me or something? Email me if you’re that curious. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2006, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-you-fucking-assholes-with-joke-location-s/384925/27 "2006-12-20T16:50:33Z")
I’m generally somewhere between exits 45 (Plainfield) and 29 (King Street, Shippensburg) on Interstate 81 in Pennsylvania. Although I generally don’t take 81, this just seemed to be more accurate. Robin ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2006, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-you-fucking-assholes-with-joke-location-s/384925/28 "2006-12-20T16:51:28Z")
[QUOTE=pseudotriton ruber ruber] But if I was dead set against disclosing my actual location, it would be easy to write “Eastern Seaboard” or just “U.S.” or something that would be both vague and not a joke at the same time. [/QUOTE] That’s not good enough. Let’s say you are a Canadian and you constantly want to talk American politics… you’d get taken a lot less seriously by many Americans in the discussion if they knew you lived in Alberta. I chose not to put anything there because I prefer more anonymity (like **Book Monster** ) and a permanent joke in that spot is lame. I get the impression though that a blank spot doesn’t help out your complaint either, so I guess it’s just tough shit for you - you’ll have to actually type out “Where is here?” in all those threads that vex you so. ---
**Author:** ![Plynck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Plynck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Plynck)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2006, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-you-fucking-assholes-with-joke-location-s/384925/29 "2006-12-20T16:56:18Z")
[QUOTE=Debaser] Anyone from the North Shore in Massachusetts would recognize it as a local greeting/saying. Yeat! [/QUOTE] Well, “Nawth of Bawstin” is North of Boston, and I am on the shore. Lynn, specifically. But I’ll be damned if I know what Yeat! means. I’m assuming that Debaser is a nod to Los Pixies? ETF, we would seem to have similar locations, although we are not from the same town. However, I can assure you that “Nawth of Bawstin” has been my location in most of my online identities since 1999 or so, and I am not stealing from you. Great minds, etc. etc. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2006, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-you-fucking-assholes-with-joke-location-s/384925/30 "2006-12-20T16:57:49Z")
With over 2.2 million people living in Queens, I still feel pretty anonymous. ---
**Author:** ![Qwisp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qwisp/32/397_2.png) [@Qwisp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qwisp)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2006, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-you-fucking-assholes-with-joke-location-s/384925/31 "2006-12-20T16:58:00Z")
I could tell you where I live…but then I’d have to kill you. ---
**Author:** ![Foxy40](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a9a28c/32.png) [@Foxy40](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foxy40)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2006, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-you-fucking-assholes-with-joke-location-s/384925/32 "2006-12-20T16:59:07Z")
[QUOTE=Polycarp] My location is quite accurate. If you happen to know my home town and are a compleatist Harry Chapin fan to know the background story, I’m exactly where he said in the song with my location’s title. 🙂 [/QUOTE] Great, now you’ve got me singing the entire song at my desk. As if my staff doesn’t think I am odd enough. ---
**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2006, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-you-fucking-assholes-with-joke-location-s/384925/33 "2006-12-20T17:02:11Z")
[QUOTE=CarnalK] That’s not good enough. Let’s say you are a Canadian and you constantly want to talk American politics… you’d get taken a lot less seriously by many Americans in the discussion if they knew you lived in Alberta. I chose not to put anything there because I prefer more anonymity (like **Book Monster** ) and a permanent joke in that spot is lame. I get the impression though that a blank spot doesn’t help out your complaint either, so I guess it’s just tough shit for you - you’ll have to actually type out “Where is here?” in all those threads that vex you so. [/QUOTE] [agonized bellow of despair] NOOOOOOO![/a.b.o.d.] Take me seriously for a tweltfh of a second, please. I’m assuming (maybe wrongly) that the three items in the upper right were all institionalized by the Overlords originally as useful info to know, but only one, the “location”, is supplied by the user. You can’t mess with the post count or join date, but let’s say you could. It would be annoying, right? And if the location were simply taken from the billing address you gave when you signed up with a credit card, we’d all accept that giving away an area as broad as a zip code was no big deal, right? It’s just that the concept of goofing on the supplied location is by now a tradition that we all accept, so no one notices anymore. This is just me noticing, and casting a ballot “Against.” (While keeping my lame joke location–pseudotritons are found in mossy forests, though not the in one I live next to, not that I ever noticed anyway). ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2006, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-you-fucking-assholes-with-joke-location-s/384925/34 "2006-12-20T17:01:28Z")
[QUOTE=Debaser] My location is a deeply held secret. It’s not even on the internets! (The last time I searched anyway.) Anyone from the North Shore in Massachusetts would recognize it as a local greeting/saying. Yeat! [/QUOTE] Guess I haven’t lived here long enough. Someone says “Yeat”, and I think they live in Innisfree in a cabin built of clay and wattles. ---
**Author:** ![Foxy40](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a9a28c/32.png) [@Foxy40](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foxy40)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2006, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-you-fucking-assholes-with-joke-location-s/384925/35 "2006-12-20T17:04:48Z")
[QUOTE=Polycarp] My location is quite accurate. If you happen to know my home town and are a compleatist Harry Chapin fan to know the background story, I’m exactly where he said in the song with my location’s title. 🙂 [/QUOTE] Okay, Polycarp. Help me out. Water (something) New York? Watertown? Waterfield? ---
**Author:** ![Heckity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a5b964/32.png) [@Heckity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heckity)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2006, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-you-fucking-assholes-with-joke-location-s/384925/36 "2006-12-20T17:14:06Z")
I think **Polycarp** was saying that “anywhere’s a better place to be”. Which would make his actual location “anywhere”. But I could be wrong. I will now have that song in my head sufficiently loud to drown out all of those overmodulated Christmas songs. That’s not a bad thing. Little known fact about Heckity #145, Harry kissed me at one of his last concerts. I miss him. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2006, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-you-fucking-assholes-with-joke-location-s/384925/37 "2006-12-20T17:14:06Z")
[QUOTE=NurseCarmen] Zen Arcade is the title of an album by the band Husker Du. … [/QUOTE] Hey! I remember them. ---
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2006, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-you-fucking-assholes-with-joke-location-s/384925/38 "2006-12-20T17:18:55Z")
By “San Diego” I mean “Poway” if that helps. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2006, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-you-fucking-assholes-with-joke-location-s/384925/39 "2006-12-20T17:19:33Z")
[QUOTE=Missy2U] Why on earth would anyone CARE where I am? And frankly, if I make a comment referencing something happening “here”, what difference does THAT make? Like you’re going to join me or something? Email me if you’re that curious. :rolleyes: [/QUOTE] It often matters quite a bit, when asking for help or advice or even just about something you’ve noticed, to know where you are. Sometimes it makes a huge difference. “I just don’t understand why people can’t get along on public transportation and a bike”, well, do you live in Copenhagen? ---
**Author:** ![Foxy40](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a9a28c/32.png) [@Foxy40](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foxy40)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2006, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-you-fucking-assholes-with-joke-location-s/384925/40 "2006-12-20T17:21:59Z")
[QUOTE=Heckity] I think **Polycarp** was saying that “anywhere’s a better place to be”. Which would make his actual location “anywhere”. But I could be wrong. I will now have that song in my head sufficiently loud to drown out all of those overmodulated Christmas songs. That’s not a bad thing. Little known fact about Heckity #145, Harry kissed me at one of his last concerts. I miss him. [/QUOTE] There is a song on a Harry Chapan live album called A Better Place To Be. He prefaces it by saying he spent time in this particular town one day and walked away with the story that led to the song. The name of the town is what I am trying to recall and what I was assuming Polycarp meant. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-you-fucking-assholes-with-joke-location-s/384925.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-you-fucking-assholes-with-joke-location-s/384925.md?page=3)