On: For Brilliant Color: Packaging the First LSD Blotter

[krylon]

It's funny to me that there are two cities in New York named Troy and Ithaca.

[smolder → krylon]

I have always enjoyed all the little towns named identically to other places. Maine, New York; London, Ontario; Mexico, Maine. There are a lot of others.

"Where are you from?" "We came from London." "Oh, all the way from the UK? You don't seem to have an accent at all!" "No, it's about 30 miles from here."

[krylon → smolder]

In Germany, we have cities with identical names, too (Frankfurt, Halle, most likely others I am unaware of). But being a much smaller country, it doesn't lead to much confusion.

[ChrisMarshallNY → krylon]

Reminds me of this story: https://www.dw.com/en/austrian-village-of-fucking-decides-to...

[borbulon → smolder]

Maine is full of them. There’s a China, Maine as well as Palermo, Belfast, Belgrade, Poland, Peru, Denmark, Dresden, South Korea, Stockholm,Calais…

[fbdab103 → smolder]

Not all fun and games. My buddy lost his luggage for three weeks because the airline routed it to the "real" city.

[temp0826 → smolder]

There's an xkcd for that!

https://xkcd.com/2480/

[scns → smolder]

Bagdad, Arizona;

[viciousvoxel → krylon]

Way back when I did an internship in Rome, NY. The "NY" part was very important to say to avoid confusion.

[palad1n → krylon]

Ha. Yeah, there's PA weirdness, too. Once dated a girl from Mars. And of course you can't forget about Intercourse.