# Where in the world are you?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-in-the-world-are-you/54380>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [February 13, 2001, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-in-the-world-are-you/54380 "2001-02-13T23:20:54Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
**Page:** 2

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**Author:** ![flikker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8baadc/32.png) [@flikker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flikker)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2001, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-in-the-world-are-you/54380/21 "2001-02-14T13:43:47Z")

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State of Illusion

Brisbane, Queensland

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**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2001, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-in-the-world-are-you/54380/22 "2001-02-14T13:51:19Z")

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Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2001, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-in-the-world-are-you/54380/23 "2001-02-14T14:11:44Z")

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State of Grace (that’s my wife)

St. Paul, Minnesota

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**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2001, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-in-the-world-are-you/54380/24 "2001-02-14T14:30:04Z")

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State of Bizarre (weather patterns)

Stillwater, Oklahoma.

Home of the Oklahoma State Cowboys, 75 miles from Oklahoma City in one direction and Tulsa in the other.

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**Author:** ![Tabithina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f04885/32.png) [@Tabithina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tabithina)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2001, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-in-the-world-are-you/54380/25 "2001-02-14T14:38:04Z")

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State of living in the past.

(A sleepy little town in the Missouri Ozarks)

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**Author:** ![Skelji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@Skelji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skelji)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2001, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-in-the-world-are-you/54380/26 "2001-02-14T14:40:14Z")

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I’m still not sure what kind of English they speak down here in the…

State Of Bad Drivers Who Never Use Turn Signals

Huntsville, AL

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**Author:** ![Earthworm\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f07891/32.png) [@Earthworm\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earthworm_Jim)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2001, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-in-the-world-are-you/54380/27 "2001-02-14T14:56:44Z")

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The Intoxicated State

Massachusetts

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**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2001, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-in-the-world-are-you/54380/28 "2001-02-14T15:01:12Z")

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Crabtown, USA.

Baltimore, Maryland.

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**Author:** ![Morrison\_s\_Lament](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Morrison\_s\_Lament](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morrison_s_Lament)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2001, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-in-the-world-are-you/54380/29 "2001-02-14T15:50:21Z")

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I thought this was gonna be an international thread and almost everyone is from the States 😉

I’m currently living in Beijing, China. I’m an Icelandic citizen though, but just untill I get myself a better passport.

— G. Raven

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**Author:** ![Nimue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d26b3c/32.png) [@Nimue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nimue)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2001, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-in-the-world-are-you/54380/30 "2001-02-14T18:44:26Z")

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Aberdeen, Scotland. (But of Baltimore, MD origin.)

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**Author:** ![Anamorphic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/anamorphic/32/3057_2.png) [@Anamorphic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anamorphic)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2001, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-in-the-world-are-you/54380/31 "2001-02-14T19:00:16Z")

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Los Angeles, CA. (but also of Baltimore, MD origin)

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**Author:** ![Scribble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scribble/32/3317_2.png) [@Scribble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribble)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2001, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-in-the-world-are-you/54380/32 "2001-02-14T19:00:39Z")

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State of exhaustion, penury, and unending ignorance.

(Yes, I’ve been fighting it. And, yes, it’s taking longer than I thought.)

The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA.

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**Author:** ![UncleBill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d26b3c/32.png) [@UncleBill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBill)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2001, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-in-the-world-are-you/54380/33 "2001-02-14T19:00:52Z")

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State of “Hey wait a minute, even though my legally punched and correctly tabulated ballot says Eleanor Roosevelt, I meant to vote for Al Gore!”

And I agree with **spooje** who clearly cannot spell, not to many here in **Miami** speaka de engis too gud

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**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2001, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-in-the-world-are-you/54380/34 "2001-02-14T19:34:24Z")

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Temporarily in the land of non-French - Guelph, Ontario

Originally from the land of “Hey, there ARE English people here too, you know!” - Sherbrooke, Québec.

A note on the non-french thing: My bio teacher gives us a reference to a paper written in the 1800s called “la fixite du mileau interer”. Ummmm…shouldnt that be “milieu intérieur”?? People here can’t even COPY in French!!!

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**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2001, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-in-the-world-are-you/54380/35 "2001-02-14T22:32:34Z")

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State of limbo, otherwise known as Pottstown, PA.

Near the Wal\*Mart (shudder)

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**Author:** ![Vestal\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/5e9695/32.png) [@Vestal\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vestal_Blue)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2001, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-in-the-world-are-you/54380/36 "2001-02-15T00:01:30Z")

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The state of perpetual dust. Southern Idaho.

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**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2001, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-in-the-world-are-you/54380/37 "2001-02-15T00:38:11Z")

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Home of Coca-Cola, the Braves(yuck…Red Sox, all the way!), and some of the worst traffic in the nation…Atlanta, Georgia, USA.  
Though I am currently posting from a small town in South Carolina…one more day, and I’ll be home.

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**Author:** ![Just\_A\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@Just\_A\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_A_Girl)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2001, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-in-the-world-are-you/54380/38 "2001-02-15T03:14:55Z")

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State of reverie…

Snellville, GA  
(That sounds terribly podunk doesn’t it??)

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**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2001, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-in-the-world-are-you/54380/39 "2001-02-15T03:25:34Z")

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I’m in a State of Texas…

And it serves me well…  
(Houston, to be precise)

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**Author:** ![Albert\_Rose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9de053/32.png) [@Albert\_Rose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Albert_Rose)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2001, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-in-the-world-are-you/54380/40 "2001-02-15T03:46:03Z")

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I am in beautiful Mount Dora, FL. I jogged up Mount Dora itself earlier this evening.

I love this place!

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