# Location **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 8, 2008, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/location/432695 "2008-01-08T03:53:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![ArizonaTeach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/45deac/32.png) [@ArizonaTeach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArizonaTeach)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/location/432695/61 "2008-01-08T15:48:15Z")
I agree with this pitting. In fact, it doesn’t go far enough. Everyone should be required to put their location in their username. It just makes perfect sense. ---
**Author:** ![Wee\_Bairn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90db22/32.png) [@Wee\_Bairn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wee_Bairn)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/location/432695/62 "2008-01-08T15:51:03Z")
[QUOTE=Colibri] Yeah, right. Next you’ll want us to believe the Isle of Lucy is a real place too. [/QUOTE] I’ve been waiting for someone to have Isles of Langerhans as theirs. Also, thousands of American soldiers died for my right to not post a real location if I don’t want to- I’d be doing them a disservice to post it. ---
**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/location/432695/63 "2008-01-08T16:26:22Z")
[QUOTE=Leaffan] Well, I’m probably the only other person subscribing who even knows who Mike Bullard is (apart from maybe RickJay). [/QUOTE] Listen noob, I know who Mike Bullard is, and think his efforts are a pale shadow of the greatness that was the Ralph Benmergui show. Heck, people at CTV couldn’t believe they actually got paid a bonus when they foisted Dullard off on that other network. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/location/432695/64 "2008-01-08T16:35:10Z")
[QUOTE=Wolfian] … this isn’t the board for you. [/QUOTE] I sooo heard Alec Guinness saying that. ---
**Author:** ![essell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/34f0e0/32.png) [@essell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/essell)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/location/432695/65 "2008-01-08T16:56:50Z")
I was going to post a well reasoned argument. But I’ll just say instead “You’re a pillock, **leaffan** ” Most of the time the content of a person’s post _tells_ me where they’re from. I don’t need them to explain. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/location/432695/66 "2008-01-08T17:03:43Z")
I don’t make my location a secret. However, after reading **Leaffan** ’s petulant frenzy, I’m tempted to hide it. I hope he saves a little fury for when he finds something deserving of his rage. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/location/432695/67 "2008-01-08T17:20:11Z")
[QUOTE=Hockey Monkey] Wimpy pitting. [/QUOTE] And just when we were all hoping for a pimpy witting, too! ---
**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:** [January 8, 2008, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/location/432695/68 "2008-01-08T17:24:49Z")
My location is absolutely correct. If’n you don’t like it, you can come here and try to do something about it. P.S. I do tell my location if my post or the OP requires it. If it doesn’t, then it doesn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Lok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e8c25b/32.png) [@Lok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lok)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/location/432695/69 "2008-01-08T17:50:12Z")
[QUOTE=Aangelica] See, and for a while I had my actual location in the location field and I got PMs bitching that it was “inaccurate”. Because my location said “Hicksville” and I had mentioned I work in NYC. The authors of the PMs didn’t realize the name of my town is an actual name for a populous suburb of NYC and thought I was being all jokey and were irked at my jokey-ness. So I gave up, left the damn thing blank, and Leaffan can just deal. [/QUOTE] I was confused by your location originally, because there is a Hicksville here in Ohio about an hour north of me. I was wondering when the folks living there learned how to turn on a computer. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/location/432695/70 "2008-01-08T17:59:08Z")
My location is entirely accurate. Except when I’m at work. Maybe I should change. Boulevard of DEATH has a nice ring to it. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/location/432695/71 "2008-01-08T18:36:42Z")
[QUOTE=Leaffan] Well, I’m probably the only other person subscribing who even knows who Mike Bullard is (apart from maybe RickJay). So your post was a complete waste of board space. [/QUOTE] I met Mike Bullard once. He’s just as unfunny in person as he is on TV. ---
**Author:** ![Santo\_Rugger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Santo\_Rugger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santo_Rugger)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/location/432695/72 "2008-01-08T19:29:46Z")
😕 [QUOTE=Leaffan] Yeah but then we have posts like [this.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=9343123&postcount=1) And answers like [this.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=9343139&postcount=2) Brilliant. ☹ \*\*Why can’t **drm \*\* at least provide some reference for location.** \ [/QUOTE] Bolding mine. From the referenced post: [QUOTE=drm] Mike Bullard is a total wanker… He used to have a late night talk show in **Canada** \ [/QUOTE] Again, bolding mine. Perhaps the problem isn’t posters not referencing their location after all? ---
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/location/432695/73 "2008-01-08T19:52:12Z")
[QUOTE=Q.E.D.] UFKC UYO It’s a puzzle, just for you. Enjoy! [/QUOTE] He did! He did TWO Dane Cook jokes! ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/location/432695/74 "2008-01-08T19:58:28Z")
If **Dudley** keeps it up, I’m going for the trifecta. ---
**Author:** ![Plynck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Plynck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Plynck)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/location/432695/75 "2008-01-08T20:02:30Z")
[QUOTE=Wee Bairn] I’ve been waiting for someone to have Isles of Langerhans as theirs. [/QUOTE] A few years ago I was at a family reunion in Canada (our family is of Scottish descent). One of my nephews brought his best friend, who was Jewish. When we were introducing him, I would either say that his family hailed from the “far flung Isles of Langerhans”, or else that his family descended from the MacCabee clan. ---
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/location/432695/76 "2008-01-08T20:04:49Z")
Okay, let’s do Brian Regan next. (He’s my favorite) I passed this truck carrying logs the other day… ::super excited:: ---
**Author:** ![blinkingblinking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@blinkingblinking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blinkingblinking)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/location/432695/77 "2008-01-08T20:07:49Z")
Why does SDMB bother to have location next to a person’s post? ---
**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:** [January 8, 2008, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/location/432695/78 "2008-01-08T21:06:20Z")
[QUOTE=Aangelica] See, and for a while I had my actual location in the location field and I got PMs bitching that it was “inaccurate”. Because my location said “Hicksville” and I had mentioned I work in NYC. The authors of the PMs didn’t realize the name of my town is an actual name for a populous suburb of NYC and thought I was being all jokey and were irked at my jokey-ness. So I gave up, left the damn thing blank, and Leaffan can just deal. [/QUOTE] You are my doppleganger. I work in Hicksville and live in NYC. No, not really. I work in Jericho and used to live in NYC. Now I live in Elmont. And now **Leaf** knows so he can’t complain about me any more. ---
**Author:** ![Hockey\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a183cd/32.png) [@Hockey\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hockey_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/location/432695/79 "2008-01-08T21:58:30Z")
[QUOTE=SmartAleq] And just when we were all hoping for a pimpy witting, too! [/QUOTE] That’ll cost ya. ---
**Author:** ![Yeticus\_Rex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a698b9/32.png) [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/location/432695/80 "2008-01-08T22:40:42Z")
I don’t know where Carp, Canada is, but I certainly know where Basement, Northeast Division, NHL is. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/location/432695.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/location/432695.md?page=5)