Dear ~club:
Just to give myself some breathing room, I'm going to reduce these workshops to one ever two weeks. I hope at least some of you are enjoying them. They're moderately fun to write, in any case.
I have a different sort of idea for this workshop. Rather than all going off and doing our own thing on our own pages, let's use this mailing list to work collaboratively on something.
Yesterday's xkcd[0] was about putting some effort into a response to a pun or similarly repellent joke by forming a sentence out of place names and linking them together with driving directions. (And if you think that was easy to explain in text, then you're wrong.) I think this is a great idea, but I don't happen to have a list of word-to-place-names ready at hand. How am I supposed to make witty comebacks without a list?
(Incidentally, you might call this list that links words to place names a... map.)
My first thought was to try to come up with this list myself, but that's a lot of work. Then I thought that lots of other readers of xkcd might want a list, too. Why not distribute the work amongst us so that we all may benefit? I'm sure there are already groups out there who are doing this exact thing, but I say we give it a shot anyway.
~club, your challenge this bi-week is to reply to this message with some common words or phrases expressed as place names. I'll start:
friend ---> Friend, Nebraska[1]
I'll keep track of the mappings we come up with---feel free to do the same---and I'll post them on my tilde.club page. Also: bonus points if you've been to any of the places you reply with or know something neat about them!
If you're looking for ideas on what words to use, consider drawing from the most common English words[2]. They'll be the most useful.
Good luck, ~club, and happy mapping,
Bradley
[0]: https://xkcd.com/2260/ [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friend,_Nebraska [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_common_words_in_English
On 1/28/20 6:25 PM, Bradley Gannon wrote:
friend ---> Friend, Nebraska[1]
deal ---> Deal, NJ
I'd say Brick, NJ but apparently GMaps calls it "Brick Township."
Ditto Wall Township, but there's always
wall ---> Wall, ND
Oh, I guess they balance Brick and Wall by calling Chews Landing just Chews, so
chews/choose ---> Chews, NJ
you'd all ---> Udall, KS
peck ---> Peck, KS
burden ---> Burden, KS
anus ---> Anness, KS
(look, you said repellent...) It's pronounced Ann S. because it's named after Ann S. Something, the founder's wife.
maze ---> Maize, KS
(MHS class of '83!)
greasy ---> Greasy, OK
which is near
bunch ---> Bunch, OK
And my personal favorite:
okay, okay ---> Okay, OK
On 29/1/20 9:25 am, Bradley Gannon wrote:
~club, your challenge this bi-week is to reply to this message with some common words or phrases expressed as place names. I'll start:
friend ---> Friend, Nebraska[1]
I have two:
intercourse --> Intercourse, Pennsylvania. The only reason I know of this one is because IIRC it's where tomasino used to live.
english --> English, West Virginia.
Hey ~club,
Havent written before, but have been causally following along.
I'm ~Monk (yes with a capital M, no thanks to me not totally understanding what Mr. Ford was creating when he set it up and my general youngness).
I have a few I would like to add!
- Dinosaur, Colorado (a beautiful place you should visit)
- Marble, Colorado
- Parachute, CO
- Superior, CO (there also might be a Superior, Illinois, but I dont remember)
Cheers!
~Monk (Marcus)
On Fri, Jan 31, 2020, 5:10 PM fosslinux fosslinux@aussies.space wrote:
On 29/1/20 9:25 am, Bradley Gannon wrote:
~club, your challenge this bi-week is to reply to this message with some common words or phrases expressed as place names. I'll start:
friend ---> Friend, Nebraska[1]
I have two:
intercourse --> Intercourse, Pennsylvania. The only reason I know of this one is because IIRC it's where tomasino used to live.
english --> English, West Virginia.
On 1/28/20 4:25 PM, Bradley Gannon wrote:
~club, your challenge this bi-week is to reply to this message with some common words or phrases expressed as place names.
from the state I'm in:
buffalo ---> Buffalo, WY [0] mills ---> Mills, WY [1] basin ---> Basin, WY [2]
Nothing too exciting, Greg
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo,_Wyoming [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mills,_Wyoming [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basin,_Wyoming
Climax. - Climax, Saskatchewan, Canada Swastika - Swastika Ontario, Canada Entrance - Entrance, Alberta, Canada Stoner - Stoner, BC, Canada
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On Jan 28, 2020, at 4:27 PM, Bradley Gannon bradley@tilde.club wrote:
Dear ~club:
Just to give myself some breathing room, I'm going to reduce these workshops to one ever two weeks. I hope at least some of you are enjoying them. They're moderately fun to write, in any case.
I have a different sort of idea for this workshop. Rather than all going off and doing our own thing on our own pages, let's use this mailing list to work collaboratively on something.
Yesterday's xkcd[0] was about putting some effort into a response to a pun or similarly repellent joke by forming a sentence out of place names and linking them together with driving directions. (And if you think that was easy to explain in text, then you're wrong.) I think this is a great idea, but I don't happen to have a list of word-to-place-names ready at hand. How am I supposed to make witty comebacks without a list?
(Incidentally, you might call this list that links words to place names a... map.)
My first thought was to try to come up with this list myself, but that's a lot of work. Then I thought that lots of other readers of xkcd might want a list, too. Why not distribute the work amongst us so that we all may benefit? I'm sure there are already groups out there who are doing this exact thing, but I say we give it a shot anyway.
~club, your challenge this bi-week is to reply to this message with some common words or phrases expressed as place names. I'll start:
friend ---> Friend, Nebraska[1]
I'll keep track of the mappings we come up with---feel free to do the same---and I'll post them on my tilde.club page. Also: bonus points if you've been to any of the places you reply with or know something neat about them!
If you're looking for ideas on what words to use, consider drawing from the most common English words[2]. They'll be the most useful.
Good luck, ~club, and happy mapping,
Bradley
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