# Your location...up there, by your name.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-location-up-there-by-your-name/306546>\
**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")\
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**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 6, 2005, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-location-up-there-by-your-name/306546/121 "2005-06-06T17:04:24Z")

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> [@Northern Piper](#):
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> **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.

Ah, that’s it. That’s worthy of a smack-head smiley.

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**Author:** ![Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spatial_Rift_47)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2005, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-location-up-there-by-your-name/306546/122 "2005-06-06T18:46:53Z")

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Okay, in keeping with the theme of this thread I have changed my Location, this time to reflect my career path, namely one of study and learning. Specifically physics. Also, in the further interests of edification, I set before you the archetypes of location entries:

-The actual location  
-An reference to the actual location  
-An allusion to some fictional work  
-Wordplay (such as **Inigo Montoya** ’s “on the level, if inclined,” of which I am particularly fond, and of course the great “Location: Location: Location:”)  
-Physical position  
-A reference to a state of mind

If anyone can think of any other types, I’d be most interested to see what doesn’t fit into the above categories.

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**Author:** ![ltfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@ltfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ltfire)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2005, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-location-up-there-by-your-name/306546/123 "2005-06-06T18:48:50Z")

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> [@postcards](#):
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> That’s easy, Yankee fan. Of course, My location is a tad more obscure…

Ah…a subway series partner.  
😃

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