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PORTLAND - Another city of Springfield is saying it is the model for the same-named town in the animated series "The Simpsons."

Folks in Springfield, Ore., have long thought they inspired Simpsons creator Matt Groening, who an Oregon native.

The people of Springfield, Vermont are now saying their city inspired the animated series. They say it has a bowling alley, a pub, a prison and a nuclear power plant down the road.

Springfield, Illinois says a Shelbyville is nearby and if that isn't enough, the man who runs their nuclear plant looks a lot like Homer Simpson's boss, Montgomery Burns.

At least a dozen Springfields are trying to prove they are the home town of the Simpsons with a three-to-five minute video. The public will choose the winner in a U.S.A Today online poll.

The winner of the contest will host the big-screen premiere of "The Simpsons Movie" July 26.

The people of Springfield are fucking retards.

I thought it was pretty common knowledge that Springfield was a miniature version of Portland...which, oddly enough has a bowling alley(or two, or three...some of which are open 24 hours), a pub(or two...or three...or more per capita than anywhere in the country), a couplefew jails, and had a nuke plant right up the road(until they blew it up recently). Matter of fact, lots of cities have these same features.


Again, I thought this was common knowledge among Simpson fans...except maybe the retarded ones.

Springfield Elementary School is an exact replica of Ainsworth Elementary in the downtown area...where, oddly enough, Matt Groening went to school. It's not too far from Montgomery and Burnside streets. Lovejoy is the next street south of Montgomery. Not too far off Flanders. Not far from Quimby. But it is a little ways from Van Houton, which is on the East Side. Terwilliger is just south of dowtown, and is also the name of a curvy portion of Interstate 5 on the south end of town.

Probably over 90% of all names used on the show are streets in Portland. There's dozens and dozens of examples over the years.

And you'll never guess which area split into two different area codes shortly before the same thing happened in Springfield?

And so on, amd so on, and so on...


Nevermind that bit with the Gorge being adjacent to town.


The name Springfield was chosen because there's so damn many of them, and it's such a generic city name.

Groening claims he's always been a Portlander -- he's just been on "work assignment" in SoCal for about 30 years. Says the day the last episode is in the can, the moving truck will be rolling into town.


But...let some hodunk Springfield have its day in the sun.

Plus they're putting Greg Oden in the movie.

WolverineSteve wrote:Greg Oden

And...could it be?

Maurice Lucas in the backgroud?


Not a bad guy to learn the low-post game from.

I hope the Springfield in my state didn't put in a claim. Besides the Basketball HOF, the town is a total fucking shithole.

Actually, I have heard them talking about it on WHYN. That would be the AM station where we neanderthal xtra chromosome types get our marching orderrrrrr I mean news.

So, yes, springfield, massatwoshits has thrown their hat into the ring.

SO, dins, if your springfield is the model, who are you? I could see you as that burnout busdriver dude with the walkman turned on 24/7.

smackaholic wrote:I could see you as that burnout busdriver dude with the walkman turned on 24/7.

Lisa, at a concert: It smells like Otto's jacket here.

I haven't watched a full episode of The Simpsons in probably about two years. The writing has really gotten stale.

Been probably 8 years since I watched an episode.

I would think Dins really mirrors Smithers more than Otto IMO.

I'd say a cross between Bart and Barney.


Barney's penchant for drinking, combined with Bart's troublemaking ability.

smackaholic wrote:Actually, I have heard them talking about it on WHYN. That would be the AM station where we neanderthal xtra chromosome types get our marching orderrrrrr I mean news.

Good to see you backwards manure-inhaling fucks in Ellington have discovered the transistor radio. I heard they're actually thinking about paving Main St next year. Your horse and buggy will provide you with a much smoother ride on those rare trips into town. Props on that...

Dinsdale wrote: I thought it was pretty common knowledge that Springfield was a miniature version of Portland...which, oddly enough has a bowling alley(or two, or three...some of which are open 24 hours), a pub(or two...or three...or more per capita than anywhere in the country), a couplefew jails, and had a nuke plant right up the road(until they blew it up recently). Matter of fact, lots of cities have these same features.

How many churches and Christian colleges?

Springfield, Missouri most assuredly has BODE in that category over any other Springfield, and probably shouldn't even be competing in this 'contest'. Yet they are. Go figure.

WolverineSteve wrote:Plus they're putting Greg Oden in the movie.

Oden's got to be playing the part of Jebediah Springfield simply beacuse of the age factor.

War Wagon wrote: How many churches

In Portland?

Saw an article about that a few years back. Among major cities, Portland has more churches per captia than any other.

And of major cities, has the lowest rate of church attendance.


I suppose this means that Portlanders who do partake of Sunday morning services rarely have to fight for a decent seat.


A bar on every corner, with a church across the street. There's a joke in there somewhere, but I'm too lazy to find it.

Dinsdale wrote:A bar on every corner, with a church across the street. There's a joke in there somewhere, but I'm too lazy to find it.

Either that or a Public Enemy verse.

RumpleForeskin wrote:

WolverineSteve wrote:Plus they're putting Greg Oden in the movie.

Oden's got to be playing the part of Jebediah Springfield simply beacuse of the age factor.

This dude's a tard, but this is rackable.

Dins,

You worried about Olden retiring in the next coupla years?

Toddowen wrote:Duff Beer cannot possibly be brewed in Oregon.

sincerely,
Marcus Allen

Blitz used to be... right down the street from where Groening grew up.

I'm not sure if there was ever a worse beer than Blitz.


But Weinhard's* Brewing is gone now. But as long as Widmer is around, we won't be shitty-beer-free.


* -- After the move, they tried to pawn off that Oly-in-different-bottle shit on us. That didn't fly, so they subbed it out to Full Sail, who makes it according to the old recipe. That's just the local/Northwest version, though. The rest of you still get the Oly-in-a-Henry's-bottle crap.

Dinsdale wrote:A bar on every corner, with a church across the street.

Sounds like the town where I live. I think we probably even top Portland in those categories on a per capita basis, but then again, there's only about 7,000 people living here.

Assuming my count is correct, there are five bars and ten churches in town. That's after one bar burned down and another closed.

Terry in Crapchester wrote:I think we probably even top Portland in those categories on a per capita basis, but then again, there's only about 7,000 people living here.

On this, you can check different sources, and come up with a different answer every time.

La Crosse, WI

West Haven, CT

There's more names I've heard tossed about, but those are the one suggested on Yahoo Answers.

From what I understand, none of those cities touch Hamburg, though.

Assuming my count is correct, there are five bars

Dang. I can walk to at least 3 times that many in 5 minutes. And I don't even live in a terribly densly populated area, either(though it ain't exactly sparsely populated, either).

I'm willing to bet Portland also has more midwesterners than some midwestern areas have midwesterners.

Just kidding. I'm only trying to make SoCalToeJam's head explode.

I went to high school in a small town in southwestern Wisconsin, and I can remember at least 6 different taverns there. Population back then was roughly 1,800.

MgoBlue-LightSpecial wrote:I'm willing to bet Portland also has more midwesterners than some midwestern areas have midwesterners.

I'm willing to bet you're right. It's become quite a destination for just-out-of-college Midwestern dorks who want to be "hipsters," so don a bunch of really dorky clothes, some really thick framed glasses, and put that liberal arts degree to use making minimum wage in a coffee shop, while saying such insightful things as "gee, there's a lot of trees here... that was a half-caf latte?"

i went to p0rtland for a wedding and it rained all the time and the streets smelled like negro piss.

the beer was expensive and the bitches all wore raincoats.

war greg bowie

Dinsdale wrote:that was a half-caf latte?"

Actually... it was a half double decaffeinated half-caf... with a twist of lemon.

bbqjones wrote:i went to p0rtland for a wedding and it rained all the time and the streets smelled like negro piss.

A lie.

A) There's very few negroes.

B) During the Rainy Season, the bum-piss gets washed away constantly. During the Dry Season, Old Town sure gets to smelling pissy, though. They're talking about building public restrooms in inner-downtown. Over/under on how long it takes to lock the doors for good and say "wow, that was a really bad idea" is about 2 months. Any restroom with public access downtown is known as a "kitchen"...because people cook stuff in there...then pass out behind the door. You don't wanna be walking into an occupied kitchen in the wee-hours.

My stepbro was getting hitched in Eugene so being under 25 at the time, I was unable to rent a car so I thought landing in Portland and then taking a Greyhound to Eugene wouldn't be so bad. Talk about every fucking type of degenerate you could think of on that god awful bus; I was really pissed I didn't spend the extra $120 for a private car. It would have been worth it.

There's degenerates on Greyhound?

Who woulda thunk it?

i dont want to move to portland, and neither do anybodies i know who have been there.




soi no dinsdale., ][ 9ive go a pice of baby dolphin thats been in the freezer cfor almost a month. its thawing now. im going to cook and eat the motherfuckersa it an dl li8ght off fireworks when im done . how is ther greatest bested way to do such a thging. ?

i love your drunken firesowork stories always.

bbqjones wrote:i love your drunken firesowork stories always.

I have a reeeallllly good one from high school that I gave the short version of to someone just last night.


But, it's probably going to be long, even by Dinsdalian standards, and at the moment...


FORE!!!!!!

bbqjones wrote:i dont want to move to portland, and neither do anybodies i know who have been there.




soi no dinsdale., ][ 9ive go a pice of baby dolphin thats been in the freezer cfor almost a month. its thawing now. im going to cook and eat the motherfuckersa it an dl li8ght off fireworks when im done . how is ther greatest bested way to do such a thging. ?

i love your drunken firesowork stories always.

I don't know whether Dins will want to go to "the U&L is the greatest place to live EVAH and anyone who disagrees is either a liar or an iodot" card or the spelling/grammar smack card. Either way, there's plenty of ammo her for a

bbqjones wrote:i love your drunken firesowork stories always.

If it involves MD 20/20, a couple of bottle rockets, and setting an entire park on fire, then I am all ears.

Dinsdale wrote:There's degenerates on Greyhound?

Who woulda thunk it?

They don't call it "The Shame Train" for nothing...

rack paul giamatti

doesnts matter what character hes playing, we all* think of dinsdale.

*or maybe just me because im gay and invented the asterisk and pig vomit visual. im the best.

rack me

RumpleForeskin wrote:If it involves MD 20/20, . . .

Since you brought this up . . .

I had an experience with MD 20/20 one night. I polished off the better part of a bottle. It tasted like grape kool-aid, and I wasn't feeling a thing for awhile. Then I stood up, and it hit me like a ton of bricks.

For some reason, I got the crazy idea to drive myself home. Fortunately, I managed to avoid an accident, but what should have been a 10 mile trip became 70 when I got lost and didn't realize it. I was halfway to St. Augustine from Jacksonville Beach before I realized I had made a wrong turn and turned around.

I've avoided that stuff like the plague ever since then.

OCmike wrote:They don't call it "The Shame Train" for nothing...

When we stopped in Salem the bus driver told everyone that the stop was not a "break" period and everyone needed to remain on the bus unless you were getting off at Salem. This one dirty-handed blue jean jacket wearing putrid SOB said "Fuck this, I'm havin' a god damn cigarette!" Bus driver stood in the aisle and told him to sit the fuck down or dude would be kicked off the bus and not allowed back on. A screaming match ensued between the two and they almost came to fisticuffs until someone stepped in and broke it up. 'Twas nice.

Terry in Crapchester wrote:I've avoided that stuff like the plague ever since then.

Thats why they say you only get drunk on it once. I still remember that hangover today. Worse feeling ever...except for that one time when I posted a pic of my wife on a curtain message board.

RumpleForeskin wrote:

Terry in Crapchester wrote:I've avoided that stuff like the plague ever since then.

Thats why they say you only get drunk on it once. I still remember that hangover today. Worse feeling ever...except for that one time when I posted a pic of my wife on a curtain message board.

You posted her beef curtains? I guess we got off easy.

Uh, “got off easy” might have been a poor choice of words.

Goober McTuber wrote:Uh, “got off easy” might have been a poor choice of words.

I knew you liked her.

So, the Simpsons premire goes to Springfield, Vermont.


In response, Congressman Peter Defazio of Springfield, OR(and a super-lefty lib), has written a letter to AG Alberto Gonzales demanding an investigation into electronic voting fraud.


Defazio is a supreme douche, but that's pretty freaking funny.