# Damn you and your smarty-pants "location" entry. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 23, 2004, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-and-your-smarty-pants-location-entry/261068 "2004-08-23T08:27:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2004, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-and-your-smarty-pants-location-entry/261068/21 "2004-08-23T13:53:51Z")
Sorry 'bout that. When I get in touch with reality, I’ll let you know my actual location. ---
**Author:** ![cornflakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2004, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-and-your-smarty-pants-location-entry/261068/22 "2004-08-23T14:32:40Z")
I just want to state for the record that I _do_ live in Bubbaville. Now, you just have to figure out _which_ Bubbaville… ---
**Author:** ![Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4da419/32.png) [@Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gala_Matrix_Fire)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2004, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-and-your-smarty-pants-location-entry/261068/23 "2004-08-23T14:37:28Z")
What the hell difference does it make? What I’d really like to know is how old everyone is, so I don’t waste time reading teenagers’ posts. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2004, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-and-your-smarty-pants-location-entry/261068/24 "2004-08-23T14:44:44Z")
Sick liasons raise this monumental mark The sun sets forever over Blackwater Park. _-Mikael Akerfelt_ What **Idlewild** said. Where I live is nobody’s business. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2004, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-and-your-smarty-pants-location-entry/261068/25 "2004-08-23T14:50:53Z")
I’m not sure where I am. Let me check. ---
**Author:** ![Terrifel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2004, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-and-your-smarty-pants-location-entry/261068/26 "2004-08-23T15:10:04Z")
Oh, sure, **Muad’Dib** , you want to know where everybody _else_ is from, and yet you still insist on listing your own location as “California”–as if such a place really existed outside folklore and urban legends. _“Yes, I’m from the magical sunshiney land of California, defended by our mighty king, the Terminator.”_ Go on, pull the other one. ---
**Author:** ![BJMoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@BJMoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BJMoose)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2004, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-and-your-smarty-pants-location-entry/261068/27 "2004-08-23T15:33:06Z")
Pfffth. ---
**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2004, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-and-your-smarty-pants-location-entry/261068/28 "2004-08-23T15:34:35Z")
My location is really just an effort to place myself in the correct time continuum. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2004, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-and-your-smarty-pants-location-entry/261068/29 "2004-08-23T15:39:40Z")
> [@Priceguy](#): > > OK, so roughly 75% of the board’s population is American. But damn it, I write “colour” and “grey” and “labour” and “defence”. I say “pavement” and “fellow” and “motorway” and “autumn”. Can’t you at least assume I’m British? **Is that too much to ask?** Yes, because I’m Canadian living in America and I say those things as well. And use colour and grey and labour and defense. And eat Cadbury’s. I live not so North as I used to be. 39.29N, 76.61W as opposed to my previous 62.45N,114.40W. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2004, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-and-your-smarty-pants-location-entry/261068/30 "2004-08-23T15:48:26Z")
With my location, I get to be accurate _and_ get a laugh. ---
**Author:** ![Sister\_Vigilante](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Sister\_Vigilante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sister_Vigilante)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2004, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-and-your-smarty-pants-location-entry/261068/31 "2004-08-23T15:50:39Z")
Whatever. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2004, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-and-your-smarty-pants-location-entry/261068/32 "2004-08-23T16:01:13Z")
> [@Priceguy](#): > > But damn it, I write “colour” and “grey” and “labour” and “defence”. I say “pavement” and “fellow” and “motorway” and “autumn”. 😕 Do you mean you say “pavement” when you mean “colour,” and you say “fellow” when you mean “grey,” etc.? That’s just weird. Must be a British thing. Nobody gets the joke in my location. ---
**Author:** ![Muad\_Dib](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/35a633/32.png) [@Muad\_Dib](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muad_Dib)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2004, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-and-your-smarty-pants-location-entry/261068/33 "2004-08-23T16:17:30Z")
> [@Priceguy](#): > > But damn it, I write “colour” and “grey” and “labour” and “defence”. I say “pavement” and “fellow” and “motorway” and “autumn”. Can’t you at least assume I’m British? Is that too much to ask? I dunno, could be a snooty American. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2004, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-and-your-smarty-pants-location-entry/261068/34 "2004-08-23T16:22:18Z")
[The Great Black Swamp](http://users.ipfw.edu/zeppp/Nature/swamp.html) is a true and accurate geography, if not slightly arcane. I am here in the middle of it. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2004, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-and-your-smarty-pants-location-entry/261068/35 "2004-08-23T16:30:25Z")
> [@Ukulele Ike](#): > > With my location, I get to be accurate _and_ get a laugh. I’ll probably :smack: myself when you explain it, but what’s so funny about Brooklyn? ---
**Author:** ![Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helen_s_Eidolon)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2004, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-and-your-smarty-pants-location-entry/261068/36 "2004-08-23T16:39:43Z")
> [@bluethree](#): > > What the hell difference does it make? What I’d really like to know is how old everyone is, so I don’t waste time reading teenagers’ posts. Maybe a spot for IQ so I can avoid reading the posts of idiots. (Yes, I meant you) ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2004, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-and-your-smarty-pants-location-entry/261068/37 "2004-08-23T16:42:44Z")
If you were right here, **Muad’Dib** , you could get a beef, cheese and bean burrito. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2004, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-and-your-smarty-pants-location-entry/261068/38 "2004-08-23T16:43:02Z")
I do think it’s kind of annoying that over in GQ there’s a LOT of questions (usually legal) that have to be followed up with “where do you live?” so the question can be answered correctly. I sort of share Maud’s rant. But I wish that locations had more of a dating service feel to them. It is very hard for me to pick out the SWM 25-35, Northeast Ohio when people are all from someplace much more clever 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Danalan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@Danalan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danalan)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2004, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-and-your-smarty-pants-location-entry/261068/39 "2004-08-23T16:48:25Z")
My “Location:” is essentially accurate, but unhelpful. The actual location engenders an unfortunate association that I’d like to avoid. ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2004, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-and-your-smarty-pants-location-entry/261068/40 "2004-08-23T16:48:36Z")
As with **Jonathan Chance** and **avabeth** , if you get it, you get it. My location accurately describes my nonphysical location. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-and-your-smarty-pants-location-entry/261068.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-you-and-your-smarty-pants-location-entry/261068.md?page=3)