# 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:** 9
**Author:** ![Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce7236/32.png) [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lisa_Simpson)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2008, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/location/432695/161 "2008-01-12T18:24:33Z")
I had the actual name of my city on my location, then thought better of it after some of what I posted would identify where I work. Plus my user name, a bit too transparent, although if you work with me, and read the SDMB and know who I am, please come tell me. Then we can make fun of the rest of the people we work with. šŸ™‚ Right now, my location gives that Iā€™m in Canada, and if anyone is curious, Iā€™m also in Ontario, but nowhere near Toronto. I think thats good enough. ---
**Author:** ![Rhubarb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/59ef9b/32.png) [@Rhubarb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhubarb)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2008, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/location/432695/162 "2008-01-12T18:46:40Z")
Hell, I give my real location, and people assume itā€™s a joke. If I tell a random acquaintance at work or in a bar where I live, most of them will give me a blank look as they try to figure out what the joke is. To be honest, Iā€™ve considered changing my user name to \*\*Geoffrey Fourmyle \*\* and having the location field be **Location: Elevation: Situation**. But only a handful of people would get it, and itā€™d piss off **Leaffan**. šŸ˜› ---
**Author:** ![Windwalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/5e9695/32.png) [@Windwalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Windwalker)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2008, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/location/432695/163 "2008-01-12T18:49:41Z")
[QUOTE=Hockey Monkey] And when we all change our location fields back to normal, this thread wonā€™t make any sense at all. A year from now, someone will say "Remember when \*\*Leaffan \*\* became a meme for a little while? [Link.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=450597&page=4&pp=50) " And everybody will say ā€œI donā€™t get it.ā€ Itā€™s too bad we canā€™t save this for posterity. [/QUOTE] It will be a mystery for future cyber-archaelogists, like Stonehenge or Jerry Lewis. They will appreciate the challenge while simultaneously What-the-Leaf-ing each other to death. And they will discover _this is where it all startedā€¦_ ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2008, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/location/432695/164 "2008-01-12T20:51:39Z")
[QUOTE=Rhubarb] To be honest, Iā€™ve considered changing my user name to \*\*Geoffrey Fourmyle \*\* and having the location field be **Location: Elevation: Situation**. But only a handful of people would get it, and itā€™d piss off **Leaffan**. šŸ˜› [/QUOTE] As long as he didnā€™t blue jaunt. ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2008, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/location/432695/165 "2008-01-13T01:30:00Z")
**Leaffan** , come back! Your thread misses you! Why did you leaf us? Tripler . . . of course, heā€™s probably getting ready to watch the Leafs play San Jose. . . ---
**Author:** ![Sunrazor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sunrazor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunrazor)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2008, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/location/432695/166 "2008-01-13T06:50:59Z")
I donā€™t know if this has been addressed yet, but you can put any location you lke in the ā€œlocationā€ blank. Iā€™ve lived in Washington, Oregon, Colorado and Germany ā€“ I could put any of them in the location space and make it believable. Hell, this is the internet! I could say I live in Paris and make it believable. Besides, who really wants to bother looking up Sterling, Colorado ā€“ if I had that in my location, would you really know anything about where I live? But when I list County Road 370 North, it creates a picture in your mind ā€“ and probably a pretty accurate one ā€“ of where I live. It doesnā€™t matter whether itā€™s Nebraska, Wyoming, Kansas, Colorado or Oklahoma ā€“ it sure as hell isnā€™t Florida or anywhere in Canadia. Listing your location as Carp, Canada, means nothng to me; all I think of is an SCTV skit, and I wonder, ā€œIs that where they filmed ā€˜Ice Road Truckersā€™?ā€ ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2008, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/location/432695/167 "2008-01-13T15:09:04Z")
Alright, screw this. Iā€™m changing it back. . . Tripler Iā€™ve floated down his crick long enough. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Dave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/46a35a/32.png) [@Great\_Dave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Dave)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/location/432695/168 "2008-01-14T18:03:32Z")
[QUOTE=Gorsnak] Meh. Anyone who canā€™t figure out where I am based on my location tag isnā€™t going to know where Saskatoon, Saskatchewan is anyways. Saskawhat? [/QUOTE] I interpreted it as somewhere in South Korea where all of the animation for the Simpsons, etc., is done these days. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2008, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/location/432695/169 "2008-03-09T15:03:22Z")
[QUOTE=Leaffan] I think we have a cultural digression here. I wouldnā€™t even blink at strangers at my door. [/QUOTE] [Leaffan answering the door to strangers.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkqqMPPg2VI) ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2008, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/location/432695/170 "2008-03-09T15:35:47Z")
Well, Laffan, today I posted at least a clue to my current location, but Iā€™m really on the Islet of Langerhans, just below the Greek Island of Pancreas. ---
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2008, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/location/432695/171 "2008-03-09T15:42:17Z")
hah hah hah ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2008, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/location/432695/172 "2008-03-09T16:41:58Z")
[QUOTE=Muffin] [Leaffan answering the door to strangers.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkqqMPPg2VI) [/QUOTE] Haaaaaaaa! ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2008, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/location/432695/173 "2008-03-09T16:47:53Z")
On that same page thereā€™s a video of black lemurs getting high off of millipedes. I love the internets. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2008, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/location/432695/174 "2008-03-09T16:54:43Z")
Iā€™m in Southern Californiaā€“which, as we all know perfectly well, is entirely different from Northern California. Thereā€™s even a straight line that runs right across the middle of the state to separate the two, and you need a permit to cross it. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Them](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/898d66/32.png) [@The\_Them](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Them)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2008, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/location/432695/175 "2008-03-09T21:38:05Z")
Good one, **viva**! Back in the day, we had a saying: ā€œLos Angeles always speaks badly of San Francisco. San Francisco does not speak of Los Angeles at all.ā€ While I donā€™t actually have a tent set up _on_ any runways, they ainā€™t far. ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2008, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/location/432695/176 "2008-03-10T00:19:17Z")
[QUOTE=The Them] Good one, **viva**! Back in the day, we had a saying: ā€œLos Angeles always speaks badly of San Francisco. San Francisco does not speak of Los Angeles at all.ā€ [/QUOTE] Really? Iā€™ve never met anyone in SoCal who didnā€™t like SF. Everyone likes SF. The people up there think thereā€™s some sort of rivalry, but outside the sports teams (maybe), itā€™s all one way. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2008, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/location/432695/177 "2008-03-10T01:23:23Z")
I lived for nearly half a century within 100 miles of Carp without ever having heard of it ā€“ and I knew where Smiths Falls, Arnprior, Renfrew, Penetanguishene, and Kenora are! As for my location, Iā€™m exactly where Harry Chapin said. Which has struck me as a good idea ever since we got here. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2008, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/location/432695/178 "2008-03-10T02:16:05Z")
[QUOTE=Klaatu] Youā€™re just pissed because the carp is a lame ass fish. You really wish you were from Trout Lake, BC. [/QUOTE] Bah! Sissy fish. Try King Salmon, AK or Halibut Cove, AK. MAN fish! ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2008, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/location/432695/179 "2008-03-10T04:15:36Z")
[QUOTE=Polycarp] I lived for nearly half a century within 100 miles of Carp without ever having heard of it ā€“ and I knew where Smiths Falls, Arnprior, Renfrew, Penetanguishene, and Kenora are!\ [/QUOTE] What are you, some kind of Canadian? ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2008, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/location/432695/180 "2008-03-10T05:12:52Z")
[QUOTE=featherlou] What are you, some kind of Canadian? [/QUOTE] Nope, just a Merkin who grew up on the border. We never had to set the clocks back ā€“ we just showed 'em a picture of John Diefenbaker! šŸ˜› [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/location/432695.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/location/432695.md?page=10)