'Simpsons' Springfield revealed to be based in Oregon

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  1. Run BJM

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    http://tv.yahoo.com/news/-simpsons--springfield-location-revealed.html

    lol
     
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    We've known this for 20 years though. When we have streets here called Flanders..... LoveJoy and Simpson and the creator is from here it's kind of obvious.
     
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    I think you underestimate how little the rest of the world knows (and by 'knows' I mostly mean 'cares') about Oregon.

    While google searching Springfield, Oregon I'm loling at Florence, Oregon, Oakland, Oregon, Dallas, Oregon, and most of all at "Coos Bay" Oregon.
     
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    On a serious note, I think the city should do what Minneapolis did for the creator of Charlie Brown:

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    'The Fields' park going up in the Pearl Dist. would be a great spot.

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    No better location, yes?
     
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    Springfield's real claim to fame is Eric Millegan, who apparently is from there.
     
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    Who is that?

    And I thought their real claim to fame was the Thurston High School shooting... too soon?

    Anyone who knows anything about The Simpsons should have known it was based in Oregon. So many current events that were happening in Oregon are story lines that show up in The Simpsons months later.

    I remember watching the area codes one (where people across the street have a different area code) with some family members from out of town. They were like, "This makes no sense. Why would the system be set up like that? This is unrealistic and just plain dumb." Of course, when I explained the (at the time) recent change to our phone system here in Oregon.....
     
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    One of the best actors of his generation
     
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    So which town is the backwater, cousin-loving Shelbyville?
     
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    Is he from the old days?
     
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    good question!

    i briefly lived on 117 acres in boring, oregon, and went to boring upper grade school (bugs), would have been a decent guess
     
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    You ought to love Wanker's Corner, Oregon, then.

    Another favorite: Whorehouse Meadow. At some point a bureaucrat decided the name was too racy and renamed it "Naughty Girl Meadow".

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    Which town is Capital City? The obvious answer is Salem, but it looks nothing like Capital City in the show. I would argue it's Portland.
     
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    Did you guys know there is actually an Idiotville, OR? Kid you not. It's out along Hwy. 6 on the way to the coast when cutting from the 26 to Tillamook.

    (Now, let the jokes start as to whom on this board is actually from there.)
     
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    no lol, it's Kingspeed. I saw his name on the wikipedia page for Springfield.
     
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    Idiotville is like Airforce One.....You know, whatever plane the Pres is on, that plane is considered AF1. Any town MIXUM is currently in is considered Idiotville! HCP is out!
     
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