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[apocalypsos]

Dear God,

Thanks for making the phone calls and the email messages die down to a trickle at work so that I can try and finish the ficathon entry of dooooooom. You're a peach. :)

Sincerely,

Me

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Dear geographically challenged people,

Hi. I'm kind of annoyed. Here's why.

When you ask where I'm from, and I say I'm from Pennsylvania, I'd appreciate it if you'd refer to this map before you say, "Oh, you're from Philly?" --

Thanks bunches.

Sincerely,

Me

Comments

[cacklebang.livejournal.com]

I don't think you're anywhere near either, but I'm also from Allentown so I've got home team advantage.

[apiphile.livejournal.com]

Pssh, it's all "America" to me. *is English*

[miggy.livejournal.com]

Sometimes I want to do the same thing, except the teeny tiny black section would show what part of the state is actually involved in growing potatoes.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

You know, I could probably do the same thing for coal and Amish people.

[elessar.livejournal.com]

People are stupid, every time I went to Pennsylvania, I never even stepped foot anywhere near Philly.

[joyfulgirl41.livejournal.com]

*laughs* Uhh, yeah. I know what you mean. *is from Washington* You get either, "DC?" (*whispers* No! It's a state, too!) or "Ohhhhh, Seattle!"

*headdesk*

[gypsyjr.livejournal.com]

I sometimes want to point out to people that there's an Eastern Washington and a Western Washington, and they're almost nothing like each other.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's especially annoying because you see that point waaaaaay up in the right-hand corner as far as freakin' possible from both cities where those three counties intersect? That's exactly where my hometown is.

[joyfulgirl41.livejournal.com]

Ugh! Yes! There's, like, mountains between them and everything!

[joyfulgirl41.livejournal.com]

*nods* I live pretty much across the state from Seattle. Over the mountains and through the woods, and so on and so forth.

People are dumb.

[ex-zombieham605.livejournal.com]

*is from Philly, and thus has never had this problem*

[idadebeautreux.livejournal.com]

Y'know, when I clicked on that link, I really was expecting a picture of an Amish farm to show up.

But I know what it's like, having grown up in UPSTATE New York. Yes, there really is a state north of Manhattan.

[idadebeautreux.livejournal.com]

It's no use. Whenever I hear "Allentown, Pennsylvania," I can't think of anything but "42nd Street."

[kimera.livejournal.com]

*facepalms* Isn't geography fun?

I love trying to explain where I live to people who don't know anything about Canadian geography.

"I live on Vancouver Island."
"Oh, you live in Vancouver?"
"No, that's on the mainland. I'm in Victoria. On Vancouver Island."
"So... Victoria Island?"
"No, that would be in the Arctic."

[florahart]

Ditto Oregon. Really, both states should get together and reallocate. One long skinny state east of the cascades and one west. :D

[anxietygrrl.livejournal.com]

Or, as James Carville once said, "Philadelphia on one side, Pittsburgh on the other, and Alabama in the middle."

[rebbyrebs.livejournal.com]

Them: "where do you live?"
Me: OK
Them: "com'on answer my question. Where?!"
Me: OK as in Oklahoma!!

[gypsyjr.livejournal.com]

Let's not forget the people who think Seattle is our state capital.

[spyderqueen.livejournal.com]

Technically, "everything that could remotely be construed as Philly" would also include about half of NJ and part of Delaware. Philly's omnivorous like that.


Shame you're not near Philly though, you'd be fun to meet :)

[xerne.livejournal.com]

Ahahahaha. I know that feeling so, so well.

[celestialfairi.livejournal.com]

Oooh I get the DC thing, but Seattle doesn't bother me so much cuz that's where I live now. Nobody even knew what Olympia was before. That poor, poor capital :P

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

Oh god, Pgh channel eleven is the "home team advantage." I just got homesick.

[cacklebang.livejournal.com]

I just about died when I finally saw that musical. Also, the Billy Joel song.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

*snerk* Ain't that the truth.

[magarettt.livejournal.com]

I'm from Michigan, and I go to school in Philly. People say to me, "Oh, so you're from Detroit?" NO. The totally opposite side from Detroit -- by the lake. And people are like, "Erie?" NO. The opposite side from Detroit. Lake Michigan. "Is that near Detroit?"

So, sympathy. :)

[dragonsinger.livejournal.com]

Hey, at least they recognize your state. I get, "North Carolina? What's that?"

[magnoona.livejournal.com]

Hahaha. Yet another poor soul who's current home state's existence isn't realized by a good deal of the population. I tell people I live in West Virginia, and I get, "Oh! Do you know [insert name] in Richmond?"

[imperfect_tense]

*is homesick too*

Damn.

[idadebeautreux.livejournal.com]

Which Billy Joel song? I'm rusty on my Piano Man lore.

[ciara-belle.livejournal.com]

"Oh, you're from Philly?"

*stabbystabbystabby*

There are other cities, people!

Also, the next person who tells me that Philadelphia really isn't all that far from Pittsburgh, I may have to hurt them. My roommate (from Jersey!) somehow failed to realize that my coming to visit her entails at least 7 to 8 hours of driving. That's kind of far.

Although I did enjoy the arguments in my freshman dorm over who was and was not from Philly.

[ciara-belle.livejournal.com]

That is still probably the most accurate description of our state EVER.

[cacklebang.livejournal.com]

Strangely enoughthe song doesn't tend to get played on the radio there much.

[dragonsinger.livejournal.com]

Oh, dear. (((HUGS))) If we're not from Richmond or Atlanta or Charleston, then nobody knows where we Southerners are from.

[ex-zombieham605.livejournal.com]

Heh, yeah. People from Reading told people they were from the Philly-area. We mocked them.

[ciara-belle.livejournal.com]

Technically, I live in the suburbs of Pittsburgh. But my town/borough is also a town in NY, so I can't say where I'm really from 'cause people get confused. Besides, when I get mail it says Pittsburgh, so I just say I'm from the city.

Reading? That's so not even Philly. One of the boys in my freshman dorm was from Wissahickon and my roommate yelled at him whenever he said he was from Philly. ;D

[franticgoddess.livejournal.com]

My cousin lives in Chestnut Hill, outside of the city. We say Philly for the whole place in our own family, but know the difference when talking to other people :)OR at least, I hope we do as my uncle ran for Attorney General and my aunt works for the Gov., and it would be very sad if we didn't

Also, I find that hardly anyone knows that Harrisburgh (the hoppin town that it is) is the capitol of PA. Silly people.

When I say I'm from NY, people assume the city. That's the problem with things like that. And then I say I'm from Albany, and they say, what? And I say, the very un-cool capitol of the state of NY.

[lezopez.livejournal.com]

Well you know, us Pittsburghers are just dumb alcohol drinking ketcup obsessed football addicts, so we really tend to fly under the radar eh?

Fucktards.

[polaris-starz.livejournal.com]

Although it really should be.

But then, I think the people who say Eastern and Western Washington should be separate states have a very good point.

[havenward.livejournal.com]

That's sort of how I say I'm from New Jersey and everyone asks me if that's a part of New York City. Like the rest of NY or NJ as a state don't exist... yeesh...

At least Wissahickon is _somewhat_ close.

[redhawk.livejournal.com]

I lived in Norristown for a while, and my folks are in North Wales.

And I went to school for a year in Indiana.

PA.

Yup.

IUP.

What a waste of a school.

Redhawk

Re: At least Wissahickon is _somewhat_ close.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Dude, I went to IUP for three years, and all I have to show for it is a severe need to avoid that town for the rest of my life and a pathological hatred for Jimmy Stewart.

Re: At least Wissahickon is _somewhat_ close.

[redhawk.livejournal.com]

Word.

I had the mad hate for Jimmy before I went to IUP, but after that - oy.

What gets me is when people in _Quakertown_ self-ID as "from Philly".

Or worse yet, folks from Lehigh.

Redhawk

Well, I can relate...

[jazzminarino.livejournal.com]

If it is any consolation, before I started going to college in Allentown, Pennsylvania was a blob to me. I knew there were two cities, and had no idea how far Pittsburgh and Philly were from each other. [Now, in order to tell folks where Allentown is, I give it relation to Philly. "Like an hour and a half from Philly?" "Oh, so you're closer to Pittsburgh then?" *headdesk*] Hell, I just realized Harrisburg, the city that I drive through MANY times a year, is the capital...

... then again, I am from Jacksonville, Florida, where our only saving grace is the Superbowl this past year.

[hellloitslate.livejournal.com]

at least they've got the right part of the country and the right county; you would not believe the amount of otherwise intelligent people who believe alaska is either it's own country or part of a make-believe one..