Location

[Lionne]

I just changed mine because, while I like having a cutesy location, I can understand the OP’s frustration. I started a thread recently in which I should have posted my location, but forgot. Now I won’t make the same mistake twice.

[Otto]

@Klaatu

Where the fuck is Gort.

How the fuck should I know? He refuses to fill in his location field!

[Little_Nemo]

Well, the OP convinced me.

[Q.E.D]

@blinkingblinking

Why does SDMB bother to have location next to a person’s post?

So that some anal retentive whiners have something to piss and moan about, apparently.

[meek]

@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.

(I’m not too happy with the Leafs these days either! :smack: )

Perhaps the Leafs can sign Mike Bullard… again.
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[SmartAleq]

@Hockey Monkey

That’ll cost ya.

Yeah, I know–it’s a sickness, I tellya!

[Cat_Whisperer]

@Yeticus Rex

I don’t know where Carp, Canada is, but I certainly know where Basement, Northeast Division, NHL is.

Scorch-Pow!

I hope my location field is up to the exacting standards of this board. No, actually, I can see Leaffan’s point, but if he wears a hat, it covers it nicely.

[drm]

@meek

Perhaps the Leafs can sign Mike Bullard… again.
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He IS only 2 years older than Chelios…he can’t hurt. Hell, they could sign Mike Bullard the talk show host and he couldn’t hurt.

[Yookeroo]

@TheLoadedDog

I wouldn’t go as far as say people shouldn’t be able to insert joke locations, but I do know that I can’t remember the last time I’ve seen one that I thought was funny, but almost daily I find myself disappointed when I look to somebody’s location field hoping it will clarify a post.

I agree with this. The OP was over the top, but:

1. You guys aren’t as funny as you think you are in your “Location” field
2. You may think you always let us know location when it’s relevant, but you really don’t
3. “You can Google mine!” is even lamer than the attempts at humor

I do get why some of you really can’t list your location. And if you really want that much privacy, that’s fine with me, it’s really only a small thing. But, really, giving us some general idea of where you’re from, even if it’s only the country, does help more than you think.

[bbs2k]

@Q.E.D.

So that some anal retentive whiners have something to piss and moan about, apparently.

Where’s my joke?

[EddyTeddyFreddy]

@bbs2k

Where’s my joke?

Read my location lips.

[Aangelica]

@Biggirl

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.

See, I used to live in Astoria, and then I up and got married to a guy who lived in Hicksville and moved into his place.*

But before I moved to NYC, I lived on the west coast where “Hicksville” was common usage slang for “out in the boonies”. When I told my west coast friends my new address, they were all like “Hicksville, really and truly? I didn’t know it was an actual place!” We all thought it was a metaphor.

In either case, Leaffan can suck it
*Which, in retrospect, was almost certainly a mistake - not the marrying the guy part, the moving into his place part. It’s a long, complicated story involving his mom, his grandmother, his grandfather, raccoons, assclowns, floods, aqua blue shag carpet, mirrored tiles and tarpaper, among other things.

[Weaver_of_Nightmares]

Fine. Mine was just a play on MHaye’s location, since I know him in RL. I changed it some, now.

[Ellen_Cherry]

So I’m lame? I’ve had “Eskippakithiki” in my location field since I registered and have only had people tell me was intriguing enough to Google and that they were pleased to find out what it is! (Or was, rather.*)

I mean, really. If you lived near Eskippakithiki, I doubt you could pass up the opportunity.

• A Native American village. In Kentucky.

[jali]

I don’t understand what my location has to do with my opinions.

I’ve lived so far in 4 cities. I spent most of my life in Hollis, Queens - the place I consider my home.

College and early married life was in Richmond, Virginia.

I lived in Delaware for about 3 years, but spent time there every summer from ages 2 - 20 or so.

Now I live in Georgia.

Knowing the city where I live is helpful how?
I really don’t get it.

If I join a rant about the NYC subway and my location states Georgia, will my opinions be tossed out as irrelevent although I rode the subway for over 20 years?

If there’s a post about Shockhoe Slip and I make a comment, is it less real because my location doesn’t state “Richmond, Va.”?

I don’t know very much about Georgia, although location: 'Georgia" might lead others to believe I’m able to answer questions about the area.

[Biggirl]

@Aangelica

*Which, in retrospect, was almost certainly a mistake - not the marrying the guy part, the moving into his place part. It’s a long, complicated story involving his mom, his grandmother, his grandfather, raccoons, assclowns, floods, aqua blue shag carpet, mirrored tiles and tarpaper, among other things.

For sure you ain’t lyin’. There is something about Long Islanders and really bad interior design. What the hell is it with them and their mirrored walls and shag carpet in the bathroom? And pink clam-shaped sinks? And cheap bowed wood panelling?

That’s real reason I don’t put my location. I don’t want anyone to know I live in the land of Bad Taste.
Not that I’m saying your in-laws have bad taste. Even though I guess I am. Sorry.

[Q.E.D]

@bbs2k

Where’s my joke?

I made you a joke but I eated it.

[bbs2k]

Ladies and gentleman, I have been humored!

[EddyTeddyFreddy]

@bbs2k

Ladies and gentleman, I have been humored!

Not quite; the correct idiom would be more like:

Laideez an genelmun, I haz been humerd!

Better practice your lol vocabulary and grammar before the midterm test.

[Small_Clanger]

Joke location?

Well I guess it depends on who you ask.