# Resolved: Delaware Does not Exist **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 22, 2000, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-delaware-does-not-exist/30358 "2000-08-22T21:33:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2001, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-delaware-does-not-exist/30358/101 "2001-04-24T13:52:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by JosephFinn \* > \*\*That and I want to see where they stuck Gotham. \*\* Actually, the Gotham flag that was shown in the “Batman” movie (with Michael Keaton) was the Indiana state flag. So now we know. Metropolis is in Delaware, Gotham is in Indiana (actually, that may not be far off. Given Gotham’s high crime rate, it could very easily be Gary, IN). ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2001, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-delaware-does-not-exist/30358/102 "2001-08-24T02:03:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Superdude \* > Actually, the Gotham flag that was shown in the “Batman” movie (with Michael Keaton) was the Indiana state flag. So now we know. Metropolis is in Delaware, Gotham is in Indiana (actually, that may not be far off. Given Gotham’s high crime rate, it could very easily be Gary, IN). What makes this even more surreal is that in the comics since the late 1980’s, Metropolis is on the Great Lakes & Gotham is in the Mid-Atlantic seaboard. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2012, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-delaware-does-not-exist/30358/103 "2012-03-14T00:13:09Z")
Shit, there is this one guy from Delaware I can’t seem to shake. Everytime the news comes on, be it CNN, The Daily Show, or The Onion, there is Joe Biden, sticking his foot in his mouth. ---
**Author:** ![ataraxy22](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ataraxy22/32/307_2.png) [@ataraxy22](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ataraxy22)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2012, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-delaware-does-not-exist/30358/104 "2012-03-14T01:16:30Z")
The stretch of I-90 in Delaware is also know as “Toll road of the living dead” ---
**Author:** ![Mongo\_Ponton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Mongo\_Ponton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mongo_Ponton)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2012, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-delaware-does-not-exist/30358/105 "2012-03-14T02:25:36Z")
> [@](#): > > Shit, there is this one guy from Delaware I can’t seem to shake. Everytime the news comes on, be it CNN, The Daily Show, or The Onion, there is Joe Biden, sticking his foot in his mouth. Biden’s from PA. He’s not really one of us. Whereas [Elena Delle Donne](http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=us&tbm=nws&q=delle+donne&oq=delle+donne&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=12&gs_upl=0l0l0l2372l0l0l0l0l0l0l0l0ll0l0) is. ---
**Author:** ![OldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3bc359/32.png) [@OldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldGuy)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2012, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-delaware-does-not-exist/30358/106 "2012-03-14T02:30:46Z")
> [@MysterEcks](#): > > Delaware was originally part of Pennsylvania. They broke off when the Penns weren’t paying attention, and nobody even noticed until approximately 1857. Delaware has the distinction of being the northernmost slave state, not abolishing slavery until the 13th Amendment. Well yes and no. Virginia extended north of Delaware until WV separated from it. After that it was. ---
**Author:** ![Alan\_Smithee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/2acd7d/32.png) [@Alan\_Smithee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alan_Smithee)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2012, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-delaware-does-not-exist/30358/107 "2012-03-16T07:03:04Z")
What the hell, **Second Stone**? I was happily reading along, and then I got to a post by **Satan**. Talk about a zombie! ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2012, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-delaware-does-not-exist/30358/108 "2012-03-16T07:47:44Z")
Yep, Delaware gave us Joe Biden-a man from another dimension (demention). This is the guy who spoke passionately about his grandfather-toiling away in the coal mines of Delaware. A man who spent $100,000 on hair transplants-who laments how "politicians can’t undertand the “little guys”-while eating truffles and filet mignon. He is the kind of professional politician who is a curse-like the “old man of the sea”-he’ll ride on your back till you drop. ---
**Author:** ![Ms\_Boods](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Ms\_Boods](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms_Boods)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2012, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-delaware-does-not-exist/30358/109 "2012-03-16T12:34:04Z")
> [@ataraxy22](#): > > The stretch of I-90 in Delaware is also know as “Toll road of the living dead” I-95; not only is it the interstate number, it’s the speed limit (unless, like yesterday just to the south of Wilmington, they’ve closed off the right lane SB, and everyone is waiting until the last possible second to merge and arrggghh.) –ms boods, born in DE, and moved back to DE (UD '87 and now they let me corrupt other young minds there) ---
**Author:** ![robert\_columbia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@robert\_columbia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robert_columbia)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2012, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-delaware-does-not-exist/30358/110 "2012-03-16T12:49:01Z")
Out of curiosity, do other countries have a “Delaware” type place, i.e. a small, arguably out of the way place that everyone knows about but nobody has been too? I’d guess that Canada’s Delaware would be PEI. Btw: _I_ have been to both. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-delaware-does-not-exist/30358.md?page=5)