# Describe your geographic location badly **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 26, 2020, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982 "2020-10-26T22:25:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982/81 "2020-10-28T20:12:03Z")
That’s right for the bigger picture, but the clue was more specific than just that - down to the suburb. And it’s Cape Town, two words. ---
**Author:** ![Napier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982/82 "2020-10-28T21:33:24Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > I live near The First Ironworks in the American Colonies, not to be confused with The First Ironworks in the American Colonies further south, on the other side of Beantown, or with the other First Ironworks in the American Colonies that’s down in New Jersey. I live near an Ironworks started 79 years later in the American Colonies, but whose name means “First”, on a road of the same name. ---
**Author:** ![Karen\_Lingel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karen_lingel/32/18649_2.png) [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982/83 "2020-10-28T21:50:36Z")
I live about 20 miles from where there’s no there. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982/84 "2020-10-28T22:09:16Z")
I live on an island that used to be a British Crown Colony. I’m in the biggest city, on the southern end of the island, that is sometimes referred to as the land of “newly weds and nearly deads”. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2020, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982/85 "2020-10-29T02:15:19Z")
😖 ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2020, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982/86 "2020-10-29T02:28:30Z")
We have a lot of trees, but sometimes they catch on fire. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2020, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982/87 "2020-10-29T05:12:33Z")
Due north of Texas, due south of Victoria Island, in pancake country. Any tree you see around here, is there because someone wanted it there. ---
**Author:** ![Esprise\_Me](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprise_me/32/2947_2.png) [@Esprise\_Me](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprise_Me)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2020, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982/88 "2020-10-29T06:24:36Z")
I live in a city in which large numbers of adults are employed in an industry of make-believe, in a state that catches on fire every year (sometimes followed by mudslides) but is prized for its weather. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2020, 9:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982/89 "2020-10-29T09:46:41Z")
My west coast city was named after a book by a 19th Century Austrian journalist. The old part of the city is older than your city, and has a rock in its harbor to which a woman was once chained as a sacrifice to a sea monster. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2020, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982/90 "2020-10-29T12:24:44Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > My west coast city was named after a book by a 19th Century Austrian journalist. I did _not_ know that. For some reason, I always assumed it was named after an actual local example of the relevant archaeological feature, like _so_ many other places in the wider region, and not a metaphor. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2020, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982/91 "2020-10-29T13:48:06Z")
24 other towns in the USA have the same name as my town. In the ‘big city’ nearby, we have two very large rockets, one (mockup) erect and one (real) on it’s side. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2020, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982/92 "2020-10-29T16:20:00Z")
I live in a very rural part of the land of curdled milk, cow manure and beer flatulence, next to a huge body of fresh water which tries to eat my home every few decades. I’m a few miles southeast of a hamlet whose local name translates into English as “East East Town”. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2020, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982/93 "2020-10-29T16:48:18Z")
Is the ‘big city’ Huntsville, Alabama? Oh, just occurred to me: if so, you live in Madison. Say, “Hi! y’all,” to my kin when ya bump into 'em. ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2020, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982/94 "2020-10-29T17:44:53Z")
A Road Runner cartoon, . . . ruined by the arrival of humans. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2020, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982/95 "2020-10-29T17:47:22Z")
Yep–made it too obvious with the rockets. As for bumping into your kin, y’all seen how much this town has grown?? ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2020, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982/96 "2020-10-29T19:14:24Z")
Yup, on the underside, just in back of the head. Which makes it weird that this where you get discharges from the Big O. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2020, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982/97 "2020-10-29T19:19:01Z")
My city was named after a guy who was executed because while he was looking for the lost city of gold, his men broke the terms of his pardon and raided a Spanish outpost. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2020, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982/98 "2020-10-29T19:19:39Z")
I live on the skin tag on the underside of the wang. It is as sweaty as a crotch here. It’s heavenly name belies it’s hellish people. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2020, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982/99 "2020-10-29T22:41:23Z")
^ Leningrad! I live in Ocala and may have my anatomy re:foreskins incorrect. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2020, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982/100 "2020-10-29T23:32:05Z")
Hee! I took it to mean you live in South FL. What kind of scary ass circumcisions are you used too? 😲 😁 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-your-geographic-location-badly/923982.md?page=6)