# Who lists the best "location" under their user name? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 21, 2002, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-lists-the-best-location-under-their-user-name/138056 "2002-11-21T23:59:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Blackeyes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f6c823/32.png) [@Blackeyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackeyes)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-lists-the-best-location-under-their-user-name/138056/81 "2002-11-27T16:57:31Z")
Okay, so I was wrong. You don’t live near here. But the Republic of Freedonia is an interesting but small bit of Texas history. Mine used to say “The Bubble”. But was later changed to “The Bubble, Texas” in hopes of having a sense of comaraderie with fellow Texas on the Board. Soon as College comes I’m leaving though ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-lists-the-best-location-under-their-user-name/138056/82 "2002-11-27T16:58:25Z")
Freedonia is the name of the country Rufus T. Firefly is the president of in… Oh, crap, which one was it… Duck Soup? (Marx Brothers, that is.) ---
**Author:** ![Gartog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/22d042/32.png) [@Gartog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gartog)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-lists-the-best-location-under-their-user-name/138056/83 "2002-11-27T17:09:51Z")
I like mine, but I was upset when the field was shortened. I proably don’t post enough for people to notice it though. ---
**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-lists-the-best-location-under-their-user-name/138056/84 "2002-11-27T17:36:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by The Mermaid \* > \*\*I agree. And could you furnish us with a recent picture showing a clear shot of your face along with the addresses of your home and work? Oooh and phone numbers- both home and cell. And if it’s not too much trouble please include SS# and credit card numbers. > > That oughta do it. \*\* Ya know, I’ve been on one motorcycle board where they got annoyed if you didn’t have most of that info. Every second post I made was followed with some yutz saying “Hey, what do you look like, where are you, what do you ride, yada, yada.” I don’t go there anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-lists-the-best-location-under-their-user-name/138056/85 "2002-11-27T22:02:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by iampunha \* > \*\*SPOOFE’s closet, \ \*\* YAY! Someone once asked me if SPOOFE is my SO because of it, though. I think “Taxachusetts” is somewhat amusing. (erislover, I do believe) ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-lists-the-best-location-under-their-user-name/138056/86 "2002-11-27T22:30:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by donkeyoatey \* > \*\*Yeah, what **Surreal** said. Why is location so often left blank?😉 \*\* Perhaps some of the people don’t know how to edit their profiles? ---
**Author:** ![Interrobang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/interrobang/32/17463_2.png) [@Interrobang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Interrobang)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-lists-the-best-location-under-their-user-name/138056/87 "2002-11-27T23:44:27Z")
Heck. I didn’t realize that I wasn’t the only person with “location, location” as my Location:, so I was all excited that people remembered it despite my measly post count. Now I’ll have to come up with something original… ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2002, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-lists-the-best-location-under-their-user-name/138056/88 "2002-11-28T01:03:52Z")
I wonder if some Genesis fan out there has “of Confusion” … ---
**Author:** ![donkeyoatey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47c2d/32.png) [@donkeyoatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/donkeyoatey)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2002, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-lists-the-best-location-under-their-user-name/138056/89 "2002-11-28T02:18:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by World Eater \* > \*\*Perhaps some of the people don’t know how to edit their profiles? \*\* Look up , there’s a plane full of them flying over your head.😛 ---
**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:** [November 29, 2002, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-lists-the-best-location-under-their-user-name/138056/90 "2002-11-29T20:24:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally spoken by blink178 \* > \*\*And Tripler, i dont know what the hell you are talking about… \*\* Oh. I was down in Wichita for a few weeks. Their local college’s football team were “The Shockers”. I too shrugged my shoulders and said, “Oh. Whatever. . .” Tripler This isn’t the first time someone said my name and “hell” in the same sentence. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2002, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-lists-the-best-location-under-their-user-name/138056/91 "2002-11-29T20:29:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Silver Fire \* > \*\*YAY! > > Someone once asked me if SPOOFE is my SO because of it, though. > \*\* Is he? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Fatwater\_Fewl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/4491bb/32.png) [@Fatwater\_Fewl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fatwater_Fewl)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2002, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-lists-the-best-location-under-their-user-name/138056/92 "2002-11-29T22:22:43Z")
\*\*Who lists the best “location” under their user name?"[/bold] I guess I would be Who. I better be getting back on first, now. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2002, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-lists-the-best-location-under-their-user-name/138056/93 "2002-11-29T22:34:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by masonite \* > \*\*Minus half a yay for me. > > I just figured you liked the Cubs and hung out there a lot. \*\* **Masonite** watch _The Blues Brothers_. (the original one) You’ll get it. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2002, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-lists-the-best-location-under-their-user-name/138056/94 "2002-11-30T00:54:04Z")
**Quonk** , yes! Kentucky it is. Eskippakithiki was a Shawnee town in Clark County, Kentucky, that was abandoned about the time European settlers came into the area in the late 1700s. Disputes between tribes led to the exodus, moreso than the encroaching settlers. It was the relative lack of habitation in the area at this time gave rise to the idea that Kentucky was a “Happy Hunting Ground” that all Indian tribes, by agreement, used only for hunting. Not true. It was inhabited, until the time of the pioneers. Mississippian tribes flourished in the Western part of the state, too, but disease transmitted to Native peoples preceded the invaders themselves and by the time they arrived, these people too had been mostly wiped out. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2002, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-lists-the-best-location-under-their-user-name/138056/95 "2002-11-30T01:57:22Z")
Any **John Lennon** fans here? _We’re playing those MIND GAMES forever…_ ---
**Author:** ![Blackeyes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f6c823/32.png) [@Blackeyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackeyes)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2002, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-lists-the-best-location-under-their-user-name/138056/96 "2002-11-30T02:22:25Z")
Hm. Sea of Green. ---
**Author:** ![andygirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@andygirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andygirl)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2002, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-lists-the-best-location-under-their-user-name/138056/97 "2002-11-30T03:35:05Z")
I’m fond of mine, even if it is a bit simplistic. The N.G.C. stands for “Nonexistant Governmental Conspiracy”, as we all know that Delaware doesn’t exist. 'Course I spend all of my time in NH these days, but one shouldn’t forget the fictional motherland. ---
**Author:** ![DAVEW0071](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e19b73/32.png) [@DAVEW0071](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DAVEW0071)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2002, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-lists-the-best-location-under-their-user-name/138056/98 "2002-11-30T13:10:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Zette \* > \*\*I love my family, the Munsters! \*\* Yes, I noticed your location before, and smiled when I got the reference. Mine is based on the fact that weather forecasters in NYC always give the weather for Central Park and the airports, then give a slightly different one for “north and west of the city,” as in “Accumulations of 2 to 4 inches, possibly as much as 6 inches north and west of the city.” It’s always amused me, since they could be referring to Buffalo or even Green Bay, Wisconsin. Hey, it’s north and west of the city! But Pearl River, where I live, truly is northwest of New York City. My sister, **SparrowHawk** , has “Paradise” listed in her location. Heh. Too bad you can’t use the “rolleyes” smiley in the biographical info fields. Don’t worry, sis, I understand the irony of it. ---
**Author:** ![SparrowHawk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac8455/32.png) [@SparrowHawk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SparrowHawk)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2002, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-lists-the-best-location-under-their-user-name/138056/99 "2002-11-30T22:19:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by DAVEW0071 \* > \*\*My sister, **SparrowHawk** , has “Paradise” listed in her location. Heh. Too bad you can’t use the “rolleyes” smiley in the biographical info fields. Don’t worry, sis, I understand the irony of it. \*\* What irony? **Anyplace _I_** am located **automatically** qualifies for the designation. 😃 But yeah, Hawaii’s wonderful, but one can’t really get comfortable when one constantly feels like a visitor; so - not my idea of Paradise. Which is my own problem and no fault of the place. ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2002, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-lists-the-best-location-under-their-user-name/138056/100 "2002-11-30T22:26:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by dantheman \* > \*\*Is he? 🙂 \*\* No. But if I weren’t engaged and knocked up and all that… WOO! Watch out, SPOOFE! 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-lists-the-best-location-under-their-user-name/138056.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-lists-the-best-location-under-their-user-name/138056.md?page=6)