# 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:** 6
**Author:** ![JimSox5](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b5a626/32.png) [@JimSox5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JimSox5)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2005, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-location-up-there-by-your-name/306546/101 "2005-06-05T01:20:33Z")
I think your location is clever enough, **Dazz**. 😉 As for mine, it was Indiana, but I changed it once I started college. If somebody wants to come look for me, I can’t say I’d be too upset, unless it was to kill me or otherwise violate me. That just always leads to upsetting situations and I’m running out of places to stash the bodies. ---
**Author:** ![JimSox5](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b5a626/32.png) [@JimSox5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JimSox5)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2005, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-location-up-there-by-your-name/306546/102 "2005-06-05T01:26:31Z")
D’oh! :smack: I meant to quote **Dazzling White Diamonds** from the first page. And “wants” should have been past tense, though I really wouldn’t mind if a doper came to visit. ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2005, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-location-up-there-by-your-name/306546/103 "2005-06-05T01:47:06Z")
Road trip, everybody! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![dare\_devil007](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@dare\_devil007](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dare_devil007)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2005, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-location-up-there-by-your-name/306546/104 "2005-06-05T04:23:54Z")
I have recently changed mine because of this thread. I hope you’re all happy now. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2005, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-location-up-there-by-your-name/306546/105 "2005-06-05T05:26:53Z")
right, I’ve changed my boring latitude / longitude location to something a bit more spicy :eek:, to gratify our location-checking overlords. hope you like it. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2005, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-location-up-there-by-your-name/306546/106 "2005-06-05T05:33:32Z")
> [@Northern Piper](#): > > right, I’ve changed my boring latitude / longitude location to something a bit more spicy :eek:, to gratify our location-checking overlords. hope you like it. You’re in Mulva? ---
**Author:** ![mcott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@mcott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mcott)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2005, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-location-up-there-by-your-name/306546/107 "2005-06-05T05:44:16Z")
> [@Northern Piper](#): > > Location: rhymes with vagina Well, sir, that’s where I lived when I was 5, and when we moved there, I told all of my friends in swimming class that I was going to live in Vagina. We also lived right down the street from (as it was called then), the Dyke. Do the swans still chase people in Wascanna Park? > [@jayjay](#): > > You’re in Mulva? Actually, he’s in Delores. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2005, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-location-up-there-by-your-name/306546/108 "2005-06-05T05:52:28Z")
Still called the Dyke - and there are the Dyke-Walkers who walk on the path on it. I’m a couple of blocks away from the Dyke. But it’s geese, not swans, and yes, they chase you along the shores of the Mighty Wascana if you get too close to their goslings. ---
**Author:** ![Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bambi_Hassenpfeffer)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2005, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-location-up-there-by-your-name/306546/109 "2005-06-05T05:56:19Z")
> [@watsonwil](#): > > Shamed by some of the clever examples, I spiced mine up a bit. psst
 “Mexico’s Northern Neighbor” = El Vecino Norteño de MĂ©xico, but I don’t know if that’ll fit. What you have right now doesn’t make sense. It translates as “Mexico’s North (noun, not adjective) Neighbor.”[/aside] My is simply where I live. The city of [Largo](http://maps.google.com/maps?q=largo,+fl&spn=0.384277,0.414482&hl=en), which is indeed unfabulous. ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2005, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-location-up-there-by-your-name/306546/110 "2005-06-05T07:24:24Z")
> [@mcott](#): > > Actually, he’s in Delores. I hope Dolores knows about this and has given her approval. ---
**Author:** ![Dazzling\_White\_Diamonds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/41988e/32.png) [@Dazzling\_White\_Diamonds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dazzling_White_Diamonds)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2005, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-location-up-there-by-your-name/306546/111 "2005-06-05T13:37:21Z")
> [@JimSox5](#): > > I think your location is clever enough, **Dazz**. 😉 Where’s that blushing smiley when you need it? 😉 I’m over your way quite a bit, y’know, and just about every time I am, I wonder if that’ll be the one day I run into you. If you ever see a middle-aged woman approach you and ask “You like pie?”
 you’ll know it’s me. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2005, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-location-up-there-by-your-name/306546/112 "2005-06-05T23:59:46Z")
**Northern Piper** , I thought you were in Saskatoon for some reason. Or am I getting you confused with another SK Doper? ---
**Author:** ![Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laughing_Lagomorph)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2005, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-location-up-there-by-your-name/306546/113 "2005-06-06T00:54:00Z")
Mine used to say “Suburb of Boston” but I changed it recently to “Banks of the Assabet” for the [mighty river](http://www.assabetriver.org/map.html) that runs through these parts. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2005, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-location-up-there-by-your-name/306546/114 "2005-06-06T01:25:13Z")
> [@featherlou](#): > > **Northern Piper** , I thought you were in Saskatoon for some reason. Or am I getting you confused with another SK Doper? **Northern Dancer** , maybe? I get them confused all the time. ---
**Author:** ![postcards](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8e8cbc/32.png) [@postcards](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/postcards)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2005, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-location-up-there-by-your-name/306546/115 "2005-06-06T01:33:37Z")
> [@ltfire](#): > > I had a funny exchange with another Doper last week. He had asked if we might be homeboys, as he had grown up a few blocks north of my ‘location’. I told him to think about it, and get back to me. He came back and gave himself a smacky. > > Any ‘other than New Yorkers’ care to hazard a guess? That’s easy, Yankee fan. Of course, My location is a tad more obscure
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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:** [June 6, 2005, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-location-up-there-by-your-name/306546/116 "2005-06-06T01:37:57Z")
OK, the discussion here has influenced me to change mine. Not that anyone ever noticed the previous ones anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2005, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-location-up-there-by-your-name/306546/117 "2005-06-06T02:41:55Z")
I used to have San Diego, CA up there (and then Tucson, AZ when I lived there, and then San Diego, CA again when I moved back). I saw **Troy McClure** ’s location tag reading “San Francisco, NL West” one day and decided to remind him which team owns that division. And which team of old, addicted hacks doesn’t anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2005, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-location-up-there-by-your-name/306546/118 "2005-06-06T02:43:14Z")
BTW, nothing personal, **Troy**. Just inspired by your location tag. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2005, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-location-up-there-by-your-name/306546/119 "2005-06-06T03:11:58Z")
**featherlou** , I think you’re thinking of **Gorsnak** , who gives his location as “toontown” if I remember correctly. We both tend to contribute to Canadian political threads, so the confusion is understandable. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2005, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-location-up-there-by-your-name/306546/120 "2005-06-06T04:05:17Z")
Personally, my favorites were “/dev/tty1” and “127.0.0.1”. Computer references, both of them: /dev/tty1 is what Unix calls the primary input device, which is typically the keyboard hooked directly to the box, and 127.0.0.1 is an IP address which always maps to the computer one’s on. And user **Achernar** , a buddy of mine from college, used to use “RA 01:37:42.9 DEC -57[sup]o[/sup] 14’ 12” ", which is the coordinates of the star Achernar, from which he got his name. Myself, I wanted to do something witty and clever, but I couldn’t think of anything, so I decided to just be straightforward. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-location-up-there-by-your-name/306546.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-location-up-there-by-your-name/306546.md?page=7)