Basic Instructions by Scott Meyer for March 20, 2023

Joseph’s cardigan should be on Wikipedia, too. It’s very notable.

“Sunnyside? Go to the middle of nowhere, head east, and go a few miles more.”

I was born in Washington, and I’d never heard of Outlook until now. It’s officially a “census-designated place”, and you know what that means.

Scott Meyer’s Wikipedia page needs updating.

i am from Sunnyside,Queens ,New York…next to Woodside

I love that Attractions on Wikipedia includes a combine

“In Washington.”

“Oh, Washington… And where’s that?”

LOL, how may of us went and checked out all 3 on Wikipedia?

I bet Scott edits the Outlook, WA page

I get it. I grew up in and around Trenton, New Jersey, and you’d be surprised at all the tiny townships and “villes” that it’s vomited up.

I live in a tiny town near a famous amusement park. I never bother to mention my town because people just look lost when I say it. They know the landmark, so why not just say I live near it?

Go to the east coast and say you’re from Washington. If they could correctly find the right one on a map, they assume you arrived via Conastoga wagon.

Speaking as one from New Concord, OH (you know, in between Zanesville & Cambridge), I think Scott is on to something there. Though I’m not sure I want to claim either of those towns as my own (despite having – like most everyone from New Concord of my generation and younger – actually been born in the former).

I had trouble parsing the first sentence because I assumed Microsoft Outlook.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outlook,_Washington