If Apolyton was a city, which would it be

[Dauphin]

So I go to Paris for a long weekend, and for some reason, I feel that Apolyton just follows me around.....

I was intrigued by this to start

Then there was the graffiti....



Then I started noticing my username everywhere.....

Finally I observed an inordinate number of what appeared to be homeless people, talking crazy, funny and incomprehensible gibberish.

Is Apolyton a metaphor for Paris? Surely there are other contenders?

[Uncle Sparky]

Dauphin, it could be Dauphin...

I see Apolyton being Springfield, the same one the Simpsons live in.

[SlowwHand]

[Aeson]

"Guynemer" seems to have been written by the same hand as www dot sexpennet dot nl ?

Poly isn't Paris. People who aren't already in Paris sometimes go to Paris.

Poly is one of those towns up in the mountains. There's some college educated anti-social types who've gotten fed up with acadamia and have moved away to focus on their non-academic pursuits (often terrorism of one sort or another)... there's the local inbred child spouting nonsense and laughing when someone deems fit to kick them in the head. There's the sheriff who thinks he's got big britches, but the town doesn't even have a jail. If anyone ever gets in trouble they're just told off and then left to go home. Then every once in a great while some poor traveler has their car break down while passing through. They sit uncomfortably in the bar waiting for the tow truck to arrive. For one brief moment all the family feuds are forgotten as this outsider becomes the focus of all the hate within the community. Glares are plentiful, sarcastic inside joke laden questions are asked, people chuckle. Then the tow truck arrives, the visitor leaves, and a bar brawl breaks out between the pasty nerds who are left behind about who ran the new guy out of town.

The analogy works until you get to the "pasty nerd" part...

[Al B. Sure!]

Mogadishu

[giblets]

I'm not a pasty nerd.

Uhh... what? Was aeson's post about pasty nerds or something?

[Al B. Sure!]

He said something about pasty nerds. I'm assuming he's being sarcastic with his last sentence.

[Cort Haus]

Poly is one of those towns up in the mountains.

South Park?

[Aeson]

Pretty much, yah. Except pastier and whiter. (Al can be our Chef, since he's not as pasty white. Especially since it will piss off Drake.)

[Zoetstofzoetje]

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[MrFun]

Apolyton would be Detroit.

[MikeH]

Brighton or San Francisco.

[Egbert]

Mogadishu

Yes

[Ben Kenobi]

Actually, given that Poly's demographics would be close to Amherst, MA.

[Uncle Sparky]

Definately not Amityville. Amityville is a Long Island bedroom community with really nice expensive big old houses (one or two may be haunted...). Unless you see most of us as NE liberals types with the odd conservative ghost haunting and trying to terrorize us...