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

Holy mother of god. I’ll just stick with 20005, thanks.

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.

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.

Mine used to say, “The American Hegemony”, but I changed it to read simply Toronto.

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. :slight_smile:

Weren’t the location fields longer once upon a time?

Have you been wookin’ pa nub? :slight_smile:

As always!

“Right where I need to be” is from a song, too, but I’d wager it’s a less recognizable one.

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. :smiley:

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.

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.

Well, mine’s city accurate twice. Plane and Rail. It will decode better if you include the space, as in YOW XDS.

I strive for acuracy. I also added to my siggy!

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.

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

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

Oh, and I want to put a vote in for liking “yes” very rightly. Something innately funny about it I suppose.

Yeti has to keep it real and go back to his hometown and visit his Yeeps.

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…

Mine goes like this:

Where I live now/Where I’m actually from, and where I’m comfortable.

:slight_smile:

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… :slight_smile:

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.