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A Complete Map To Springfield
neelm writes "If you even needed to know the names of the roads Homer Simpson takes to work, you can find out at
Guide to Springfield, USA. On the site you'll find a complete map and guide to all springfield location. The map was put together mostly by watching (and rewatching) Simpson's episodes. The map is even listed in Harvard Map Collection!"
I love the Simpsons (of course), but the whole Simpsons marketing industry makes Krusty the Clown look sensible. You can buy dozens of 'guides' to the Simpsons, every kind of toy, about a million computer games, and now a map of the damn town. There are hundreds of episodes of the Simpsons. Isn't that enough?
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then i doubt the entire town is going to be layed out the same in every episode.
Isn't the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant parking lot next door neighbours to The Simpson House?
The detail of that map is just frightening. I wouldn't be surprised if the shows animators use it as a reference now. Then again, maybe they have their own map, in which case, the dudes that reverse engineered it really wasted their friggin time.
Very detailed, but I don't see "The only bridge out of town" (recall the meteor episode)
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So are there many instances of inconsistency?
While The Simpson's try to make the show as friendly to the whole country as possible (and they enjoy keeping people guessing...) Matt Groening got his start writing Life is hell for the Oregonian newspaper. He went to The evergreen State College in Olympia. A bunch of the Streets in Northwest Portland's Alphabet district share names with Characters (Lovejoy, Flanders etc), The founder of Eugene (shares the freeway with Springfield) is named Eugene Skinner, There's a power plant Just north of the Oregon Border...There's a super Cheesy Theme park in between Springfield and Salem. None of these things really come up in the comparisons I read, mostly because those trying to find Springfield are too busy studying physical geography instead of the mental imagery floating around in the creator's head. Granted, to say that the Northwest is the soul influence not only carries that type of Statehood Narcissism that is usually reserved for SEC football college towns, it'd be downright stupid. He got inspirations all over the place. But to tell me that Groening didn't get the lion share of his ideas from the Northwest would be looking over what I think is the obvious. Springfield sits in Oregon.
Smith with an apostrophe s is possessive, just like any other noun. We could say I am Mr. Smith's neighbor. That is the normal rule for making possessives. There is nothing different about it because it is a name. If Smith is plural and possessive, we would follow the same pattern that we use for any other nouns: I am the Smiths' neighbor.
If the name ends with an s, the same possessive and plural rules apply to the name as to any other noun. So we say Mr. Smith is Mr. Jones' neighbor, or Mr. Smith is Mr. Jones's neighbor, depending on how we pronounce it. Be consistent, whichever way you choose. If Jones is plural, add an apostrophe after the plural form, since we never pronounce a word "Joneseses." We would write Mr. Smith is the Joneses' neighbor.
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I think that's sort of what he said. Your own link, <are>, proves him right, except for that "proper noun" bit.