# Are these "Obama" location-puns unique to this site? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 27, 2008, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-these-obama-location-puns-unique-to-this-site/454430 "2008-06-27T13:12:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2008, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-these-obama-location-puns-unique-to-this-site/454430/1 "2008-06-27T13:12:23Z")
I don’t go to many other bulletin boards. Is that a dope thing that everyone is making these silly changes to their location fields, or is it widespread? ---
**Author:** ![Madd\_Maxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Madd\_Maxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Madd_Maxx)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2008, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-these-obama-location-puns-unique-to-this-site/454430/2 "2008-06-27T13:51:10Z")
I have no idea what you are talking about. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2008, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-these-obama-location-puns-unique-to-this-site/454430/3 "2008-06-27T13:54:10Z")
There’s nobody like us. ---
**Author:** ![Staggerlee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/staggerlee/32/3134_2.png) [@Staggerlee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Staggerlee)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2008, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-these-obama-location-puns-unique-to-this-site/454430/4 "2008-06-27T14:50:09Z")
I’m not sure, but it’s childish, and quite possibly Communist. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2008, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-these-obama-location-puns-unique-to-this-site/454430/5 "2008-06-27T14:55:47Z")
I believe it started with an MPSIMS thread called something like “I’m changing my location to ‘Obama County’, who’s with me?”, which strangely the hamsters aren’t finding right now. Edit: Ah, [here it is](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=470807&highlight=location). ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2008, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-these-obama-location-puns-unique-to-this-site/454430/6 "2008-06-27T15:11:38Z")
[QUOTE=Colophon] I believe it started with an MPSIMS thread called something like “I’m changing my location to ‘Obama County’, who’s with me?”, which strangely the hamsters aren’t finding right now. Edit: Ah, [here it is](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=470807&highlight=location). [/QUOTE] Ah, good find. ---
**Author:** ![MeanJoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanjoe/32/5693_2.png) [@MeanJoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanJoe)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2008, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-these-obama-location-puns-unique-to-this-site/454430/7 "2008-06-27T15:25:09Z")
_glances at my “Location”_ Damn kids… _grabs windex_ (I kid, I kid) ---
**Author:** ![Phlosphr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Phlosphr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phlosphr)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2008, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-these-obama-location-puns-unique-to-this-site/454430/8 "2008-06-27T15:31:13Z")
Well, the cite was given, so I think I will speak a little to the “wide-spreadedness” of the phenomenon. I was in Boulder, Colorado for the last two weeks, and if there is a town more didicated to a candidate please let me know! Holy Cow there are a lot of Obama folks out there. I even noticed on the university website where I was there was an entire section on Obama. People are even painting their own Obama logos and digitizing them to put as an avatar. Really cool stuff! ---
**Author:** ![Kuboydal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecb155/32.png) [@Kuboydal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kuboydal)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2008, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-these-obama-location-puns-unique-to-this-site/454430/9 "2008-06-27T17:21:22Z")
You changed what with the who-now? ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2008, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-these-obama-location-puns-unique-to-this-site/454430/10 "2008-06-27T18:39:42Z")
It’s silly. There is no ‘Obama County’. Just an ‘Obama Nation’. edit: Hey, that really doesn’t sound as good as I thought it would. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2008, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-these-obama-location-puns-unique-to-this-site/454430/11 "2008-06-27T18:48:23Z")
[QUOTE=Ellen Cherry] There’s nobody like us. [/QUOTE] There’s everybody hate us. There’s guess we’ll go eat worms. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Weird\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@The\_Weird\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Weird_One)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2008, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-these-obama-location-puns-unique-to-this-site/454430/12 "2008-06-27T20:41:54Z")
[QUOTE=tdn] There’s everybody hate us. There’s guess we’ll go eat worms. [/QUOTE] 😃 I’m still laughing. **Colophon** , thanks for the link. I’d been wondering what the heck was going on. ---
**Author:** ![ShelliBean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@ShelliBean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShelliBean)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2008, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-these-obama-location-puns-unique-to-this-site/454430/13 "2008-06-28T01:42:53Z")
I had been wondering too, but I jumped on the Obamawagon. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2008, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-these-obama-location-puns-unique-to-this-site/454430/14 "2008-06-28T02:20:35Z")
We hope to see him lead our Nation, He can surely use our participation, He might not lead us to salvation, But it don’t hurt to change location. ---
**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2008, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-these-obama-location-puns-unique-to-this-site/454430/15 "2008-06-29T08:30:53Z")
[QUOTE=Staggerlee] I’m not sure, but it’s childish, and quite possibly Communist. [/QUOTE] I know you’re not being serious, but I am and I agree with the “childish” part of your statement. And, to a lesser extent, the “Communist” aspect of it, but only insofar as I use “Communism” as a label for things I don’t like. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2008, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-these-obama-location-puns-unique-to-this-site/454430/16 "2008-06-29T13:13:55Z")
[QUOTE=Martini Enfield] I know you’re not being serious, but I am and I agree with the “childish” part of your statement. And, to a lesser extent, the “Communist” aspect of it, but only insofar as I use “Communism” as a label for things I don’t like. [/QUOTE] And why would you care? Obama won’t be in charge of your lot until 20… oops, nearly let the Masterplan out of the bag there. :o ---
**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2008, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-these-obama-location-puns-unique-to-this-site/454430/17 "2008-06-29T13:18:48Z")
[QUOTE=Colophon] And why would you care? Obama won’t be in charge of your lot until 20… oops, nearly let the Masterplan out of the bag there. :o [/QUOTE] I care because I thought I’d joined a message board full of otherwise intelligent, interesting people- not the Barack Obama Mouseketeer Fanclub. ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2008, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-these-obama-location-puns-unique-to-this-site/454430/18 "2008-06-29T13:23:52Z")
[QUOTE=Martini Enfield] I care because I thought I’d joined a message board full of otherwise intelligent, interesting people- not the Barack Obama Mouseketeer Fanclub. [/QUOTE] Well, just in case he becomes the next POTUS, keep a list of people with Obama-related location lines, and bait 'em with it in a few years when he’s second-term, the presidency has become stale, people are jaded, he has fucked something up, and they start a Pit thread about him. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2008, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-these-obama-location-puns-unique-to-this-site/454430/19 "2008-06-29T14:05:59Z")
[QUOTE=TheLoadedDog] … in a few years when he’s second-term… [/QUOTE] From your mouth to God’s ear. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Kuboydal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecb155/32.png) [@Kuboydal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kuboydal)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2008, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-these-obama-location-puns-unique-to-this-site/454430/20 "2008-06-29T14:42:38Z")
[QUOTE=Martini Enfield] I care because I thought I’d joined a message board full of otherwise intelligent, interesting people- not the Barack Obama Mouseketeer Fanclub. [/QUOTE] These tend to not be mutually exclusive these days. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-these-obama-location-puns-unique-to-this-site/454430.md?page=2)