# Your location...up there, by your name. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 2, 2005, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-location-up-there-by-your-name/306546 "2005-06-02T13:36:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-location-up-there-by-your-name/306546/41 "2005-06-03T00:47:51Z")
> [@UncleBeer](#): > > [NAC: 8104J PWQ7X explained](http://www.nacgeo.com/nacsite/). Holy mother of god. I’ll just stick with 20005, thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-location-up-there-by-your-name/306546/42 "2005-06-03T01:00:49Z")
Mine’s been accurate lately due to a bit of a semi-permanent funk, and also an homage to a song. One of these days I’ll be able to change it to “right where I need to be,” if that fits. I should check. ---
**Author:** ![ZebraShaSha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/eada6e/32.png) [@ZebraShaSha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZebraShaSha)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-location-up-there-by-your-name/306546/43 "2005-06-03T02:28:26Z")
Well, I had 10^7 metres for awhile, but I do not believe anyone got it. (Any guesses?) So, I changed it to this which is boring and only slightly accurate. I am thinking of changing to something really accurate, which would be Pleasant Garden, NC, but haven’t made up my mind as of yet. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-location-up-there-by-your-name/306546/44 "2005-06-03T02:53:27Z")
Mine used to say, “The American Hegemony”, but I changed it to read simply Toronto. > [@betenoir](#): > > I’ve always found listing a location to be very helpful (particularly for the damn furriners. We have to keep tabs on the subversive element around here). Hey! I’m not a furriner! I live right here at home! **Derleth** , I’ve been through Havre. We were driving back from Edmonton, and we stopped for supplies. 🙂 Weren’t the location fields longer once upon a time? ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-location-up-there-by-your-name/306546/45 "2005-06-03T02:55:27Z")
> [@Harimad-sol](#): > > Mine’s been accurate lately due to a bit of a semi-permanent funk, and **also an homage to a song**. Have you been [wookin’ pa nub?](http://snltranscripts.jt.org/81/81bbuckwheat.phtml)🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-location-up-there-by-your-name/306546/46 "2005-06-03T02:59:23Z")
> [@Antigen](#): > > Have you been [wookin’ pa nub?](http://snltranscripts.jt.org/81/81bbuckwheat.phtml)🙂 As always! “Right where I need to be” is from a song, too, but I’d wager it’s a less recognizable one. ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-location-up-there-by-your-name/306546/47 "2005-06-03T03:27:54Z")
With a “location” similar to a great many Dopers in this thread, I felt obligated to post here. My reason for the non-specific location is not anonymity. (After all, I link to my website quite often and so that severely limits anonymity right there). I just like to show other Dopers, that I’ve got a sense of humor and try not to take things too seriously. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Salem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8c91f0/32.png) [@Salem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Salem)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-location-up-there-by-your-name/306546/48 "2005-06-03T03:40:48Z")
I’m a location checker, too. Often prompted, like others have said, by remarks that make me wonder where someone lives, but sometimes, just to read them. I didn’t have one for a long time and then for some reason decided to put one in. My user name is confusing because although I do live in MA, I don’t live in Salem, MA. I live west of Boston (probably more like west northwest if ya want to get all technical and accurate). And the wicked came in because it’s apparently a “Boston” word and I still use it fairly frequently and then there’s the whole wicked witch - Salem connection and somehow that all turned into ‘wicked west of Boston’. It made some kind of sense at the time. Now, maybe not so. ---
**Author:** ![manx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/65b543/32.png) [@manx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manx)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-location-up-there-by-your-name/306546/49 "2005-06-03T04:05:40Z")
Mine is country-accurate, but there’s not many Kiwis around, so it’s as accurate as I need to be. It used to say ‘nu zilun’, which I’m assured is an close representation of my accent, but I got bored. Land of the Long White Cloud doesn’t fit, and besides, I like the sound of Aotearoa better. ---
**Author:** ![mcott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@mcott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mcott)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-location-up-there-by-your-name/306546/50 "2005-06-03T04:21:29Z")
Well, mine’s city accurate twice. Plane and Rail. It will decode better if you include the space, as in YOW XDS. ---
**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-location-up-there-by-your-name/306546/51 "2005-06-03T04:35:33Z")
I strive for acuracy. I also added to my siggy! ---
**Author:** ![Rhubarb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/59ef9b/32.png) [@Rhubarb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhubarb)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-location-up-there-by-your-name/306546/52 "2005-06-03T04:52:11Z")
I’m a location checker. too. In addition to getting a feel for attitudes in other parts, there’s a sense of wonder (for us old geezers, anyway) in having conversations with people from all over the world. My locator has changed a few times over the years from the specific (Arlington, Texas Ya’ll!) to the [sub]pathetically[/sub] humorous (In front of my monitor) to my current semi-specific/semi-humorous (The Dallas - Fort Worth area is locally known as the D/FW Metroplex, but given the nature of traffic here, my appellation is rather more accurate). Another thing I like about knowing a poster’s location is when I have some knowledge of that area and there’s a little shock of recognition - Hey!, I’ve been there before! And then there’s the small world phenomenon, when someone lists some place that I have a connection with. For example, the poster **The Gaspode** lists Malmö, Sweden in the Location: field. That is the location of my employer’s world headquarters, and a number of people working in my building are from there. I keep meaning to send him an e-mail to see if he knows of my company, but haven’t yet. Of course “Everyone says it’s a small world, but nobody wants to paint it” ~ Steven Wright. Also, another vote for the Location: Location: Location: thing as being brilliant. ---
**Author:** ![Mississippienne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d2c977/32.png) [@Mississippienne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mississippienne)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-location-up-there-by-your-name/306546/53 "2005-06-03T05:06:38Z")
I used to use my coordinates, and I thought I was the first to come up with the idea, but I guess not. Mine’s sort of a double-entendre: I’m a Mid-Atlantic Doper, but the traffic around the D.C. Metro Area is quite mad, indeed. And yes, I also look at everyone’s locations. Adam ---
**Author:** ![Agent\_Foxtrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Agent\_Foxtrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent_Foxtrot)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-location-up-there-by-your-name/306546/54 "2005-06-03T05:07:57Z")
Please note that the above post was written by me, and not **Mississippienne**. Two dopers on one computer kinda has its downsides sometimes. :rolleyes: Adam ---
**Author:** ![ZebraShaSha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/eada6e/32.png) [@ZebraShaSha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZebraShaSha)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-location-up-there-by-your-name/306546/55 "2005-06-03T05:31:00Z")
Oh, and I want to put a vote in for liking “yes” very rightly. Something innately funny about it I suppose. ---
**Author:** ![Yeticus\_Rex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a698b9/32.png) [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-location-up-there-by-your-name/306546/56 "2005-06-03T05:52:23Z")
Yeti has to keep it real and go back to his hometown and visit his Yeeps. ---
**Author:** ![Rich\_Mann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ce73a5/32.png) [@Rich\_Mann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rich_Mann)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-location-up-there-by-your-name/306546/57 "2005-06-03T06:10:36Z")
> [@Lsura](#): > > I’ve been meaning to change mine as well, so it’s done now. > And it’s now accurate. Some people will get it, some people won’t, but that’s fine too. I’ll take a **stab** at it. Is it Oakland, CA? As for mine; it’s the answer to the question “Where’s the ambiguity?” of course. Now, if I could just remember who asked… ---
**Author:** ![rinni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f6c823/32.png) [@rinni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rinni)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-location-up-there-by-your-name/306546/58 "2005-06-03T06:53:51Z")
Mine goes like this: Where I live now/Where I’m actually from, and where I’m comfortable. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![DrMemory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@DrMemory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrMemory)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-location-up-there-by-your-name/306546/59 "2005-06-03T12:28:50Z")
Back to the Shadows, again. Back where an Injun’s your friend. Where the vegetables are green, And you can pee right in the stream. (And That’s Important)… Back to the Shadows, again… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![caveman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/caveman/32/7242_2.png) [@caveman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caveman)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-location-up-there-by-your-name/306546/60 "2005-06-03T12:41:22Z")
Being a geographer by training, I usually like to know where someone is coming from (spatially). My own location is a literary nickname for the bustling metropolis in which I reside. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-location-up-there-by-your-name/306546.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-location-up-there-by-your-name/306546.md?page=4)