# Who is the doper who has the furthest location from me? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 23, 2002, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-doper-who-has-the-furthest-location-from-me/129223 "2002-09-23T03:19:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2002, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-doper-who-has-the-furthest-location-from-me/129223/1 "2002-09-23T03:19:55Z")
I’ll let someone else play around with all of the latitude/longitude stuff… Let’s just say 100 miles south of Montreal. ---
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2002, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-doper-who-has-the-furthest-location-from-me/129223/2 "2002-09-23T03:36:27Z")
My Dad bought me a star when I was a kid, and that’s a few gazillion miles away. I hereby declare that star as my vacation home, and that should be enough to qualify me as most distant. ---
**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2002, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-doper-who-has-the-furthest-location-from-me/129223/3 "2002-09-23T03:42:10Z")
Oh, and that should be “I am about a hundred miles south of Montreal” for anyone who thought I was saying that the furthest doper would be there… ---
**Author:** ![Caught\_Work](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/919ad9/32.png) [@Caught\_Work](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caught_Work)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2002, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-doper-who-has-the-furthest-location-from-me/129223/4 "2002-09-23T03:44:21Z")
Melbourne. Victoria. Australia. Around 15,000 kilometers. ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2002, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-doper-who-has-the-furthest-location-from-me/129223/5 "2002-09-23T05:33:05Z")
I would’ve guessed one of our Ozzies. If we’ve got no one in Perth, **Caught@Work** might be your man. ---
**Author:** ![robinc308](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@robinc308](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robinc308)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2002, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-doper-who-has-the-furthest-location-from-me/129223/6 "2002-09-23T05:51:26Z")
**LeeJam** I think is in Perth (I could be wrong). I’m another one in Melbourne. ---
**Author:** ![Ell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e47774/32.png) [@Ell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ell)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2002, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-doper-who-has-the-furthest-location-from-me/129223/7 "2002-09-23T05:56:57Z")
I believe **Narrad** hails from Perth. According to my globe the exact opposite of 100 miles south of Montreal would be somewhere off the coast of Western Australia. So, someone in Perth would be the farthest away from our esteemed colleague **clayton\_e**. ---
**Author:** ![lel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8797f3/32.png) [@lel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lel)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2002, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-doper-who-has-the-furthest-location-from-me/129223/8 "2002-09-23T06:22:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Scylla \* > \*\*My Dad bought me a star when I was a kid, and that’s a few gazillion miles away. I hereby declare that star as my vacation home, and that should be enough to qualify me as most distant. \*\* Small hijack, but I just want to err on the side of caution… Sorry, **Scylla** , but even if you could get to the star and vacation there, the star naming thing appears to be all a [hoax](http://www.badastronomy.com/book/index.html). (Yes, the URL points to the latest book by **The Bad Astronomer** , but that’s where I read about the star naming hoax and I couldn’t seem to find any better treatment of it online. My apologies if this is not acceptable.) Unfortunately, I can lay no claim at all to living extremely far from **clayton\_e**. While not close, I’m nowhere near Perth. ---
**Author:** ![AlteredState](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eada6e/32.png) [@AlteredState](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlteredState)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2002, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-doper-who-has-the-furthest-location-from-me/129223/9 "2002-09-23T06:29:26Z")
Tasmanian here (south of Melbourne, Australia for all the non-aussies) ---
**Author:** ![LeeJam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ee7513/32.png) [@LeeJam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LeeJam)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2002, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-doper-who-has-the-furthest-location-from-me/129223/10 "2002-09-23T11:20:25Z")
I’m from Perth, Western Australia. Do I get anything??? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2002, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-doper-who-has-the-furthest-location-from-me/129223/11 "2002-09-23T11:35:18Z")
I reckon Perth’d be th’ winner here – 11335 miles away from Montreal. As th’ crow flies, o’course. 🙂 Tasmania’s only a tad over the 10000 mile mark, sorry. What do they get? Chocolate? Fluffy dice? ---
**Author:** ![tritone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8e7dd6/32.png) [@tritone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tritone)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2002, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-doper-who-has-the-furthest-location-from-me/129223/12 "2002-09-23T12:03:37Z")
I’m from Perth, too. **LeeJam** , I’m in Claremont, and I believe **Narrad** lives somewhere south of the river. Why don’t you do the maths, and figure out which of us is actually furthest from **clayton**? 🙂 And chocolate is good 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![LeeJam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ee7513/32.png) [@LeeJam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LeeJam)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2002, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-doper-who-has-the-furthest-location-from-me/129223/13 "2002-09-23T12:12:03Z")
I’m from Midland… you both win… Oh well 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2002, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-doper-who-has-the-furthest-location-from-me/129223/14 "2002-09-23T13:28:40Z")
lel: When you say it was a hoax, what do you mean? I remember getting a certificate, and directions to finding where my star was . ---
**Author:** ![hawthorne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@hawthorne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawthorne)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2002, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-doper-who-has-the-furthest-location-from-me/129223/15 "2002-09-23T15:09:28Z")
> [@](#): > > _Sycalla_ > When you say it was a hoax, what do you mean? Scam. Quoth the Master: > [@](#): > > [[…] naming stars is one of those scams you know in your heart will never really die.](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_385.html) Nice to see the no doubt uni-craniumed **AlteredState** here. Anything you say can only enhance the reputation of Taswegians on these Boards - we had a nutbag passing herself off as Tasmanian a while back. You look like the prize-winner so far.