Archive / April Fools Day 2013

Randomized locations:

(Please note: all of these are references to something. Many of the somethings are things we do not have pages for. Some of the somethings relate to a specific someone. Some are very general. Some are Real Life somethings or someones. Pothole if you want to, or add the reference in parentheses after the location.)

(Please also note that apparently the list is best numbered rather than bulleted.)

1. 1000 feet up. ...900. ...800.
2. 10 Downing Street [official residence of the United Kingdom Prime Minister]
3. 1965 [In the utopian otherworld of Zot!, it was eternally 1965]
4. the 20th Century On Board The Twentieth Century, a Broadway musical.
5. Abbey of Thelema ["anti-monastery" in Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel/spiritual centre founded by Aleister Crowley]
6. aboard the Heart of Gold
7. ACME Products Testing
8. Alice's Restaurant
9. Alpha Centauri [real life star system]
10. Another Castle
11. Area 51
12. Arkham, Massachusetts
13. asleep in a Tomb World
14. Atlantis
15. the Axiom
16. the back of the bomb. YAAAAAAHOOOOOOOO!
17. the ballet Broadway musical A Chorus Line; the song "At the Ballet"
18. the Barricade
19. the Bastille [real life place in France]
20. the Batcave
21. Bates Motel [original ID was on the right track; corrected to point to the intended actual reference]
22. the Bazaar on Deva
23. behind blue eyes
24. behind the Fourth Wall
25. behind the green door [1956 Jim Lowe song]
26. being chased by a Purple People Eater [classic song "The Purple People Eater"]
27. the belly of the beast Anthrax; also a 1981 book by Jack Abbot.
28. the Bermuda Triangle [where things are known to disappear]
29. Beverly Hills [real life place in California]
30. Beyond Thunderdome
31. the Bradbury Building [Los Angeles edifice frequently used for location shooting for films, notably Blade Runner]
32. breakfasting at Tiffany's
33. the bridge of the Event Horizon Liberate tutame ex infernis. [Protection payments from the Hells]
34. Callahan's Place
35. the Canyon of the Crescent Moon
36. the car: Meme: "Jesus Christ, it's a lion, get in the car!"
37. Castle Rock, ME
38. CBGB's [massive music/film/media venue]
39. the Center Of The Universe, Tokyo
40. the Chamber of Secrets
41. chasing the Southern Cross [Crosby, Stills and Nash song "Southern Cross"]
42. chasing windmills in my mind: also 1960's song "The Windmills of Your Mind" written by Michel Legrand, performed by numerous artists, chiefly Noel Harrison and Dusty Springfield
43. the Collective Unconscious
44. CHAOS HEADQUARTERS
45. Chez Lui [French for "at home"]
46. The Corner Pocket
47. Cowboy Feng's Bar and Grille
48. Crosstime Saloon
49. Cybertron
50. the Dagobah System
51. the Damocles Gulf
52. the dancefloor, doing the Tennessee Waltz [classic song, "Tennessee Waltz"]
53. the dark, about to be eaten by a grue
54. darkest Commorragh
55. the Department of Mysteries
56. the depths of Moria
57. a desert, on a horse with no name
58. Detention block AA-23
59. the director's chair
60. Disneyland ["the most magical place on earth"]
61. down at the crossroads
62. down at the Sunset Grill [Don Henley song "Sunset Grill"]
63. down by the bayou
64. down in Kokomo
65. down in the boondocks [song by Billy Joe Royal]
66. down the Seven Bridges Road [Steve Young song made famous by the Eagles]
67. down the up staircase [inversion of Up the Down Staircase?]
68. Dunsinane Wood
69. eating pomegranates with Persephone
70. El Dorado [mythical place of gold]
71. the Elephant of the Bastille [old monument in Paris, mentioned in Les Misérables]
72. the Epic, in the Rue St. Denis
73. Eavesdown Docks, Persephone
74. ebriated [reference to blackcat and possibly the other COBbies (see here)]
75. Equestria
76. the Eye of Terror
77. Fair Verona
78. Final Destination [possibly the stage from the Super Smash Bros. series]
79. on the flipside
80. Forks, Washington
81. the Fortress Of Solitude
82. the garden [Joni Mitchell's song "Woodstock"]
83. the gates of Hell [after a ride in a handbasket]
84. the Good Ship Lollipop
85. the Great Pacific Garbage Patch [large patch of litter in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, theorized to be permanently polluted]
86. Green Gables, PEI
87. Greystone Mansion [Beverly Hills mansion frequently used for location shooting for various films]
88. the gym
89. halfway up the Big Rock Candy Mountain [folk song]
90. the halls of Ulthwe
91. Hatfield House [English stately home frequently used for location shooting for film and television]
92. having dinner with Hannibal. Oh good, fava beans!
93. Hernando's Hideaway
94. Hickey Brothers [a cigar and hookah lounge]
95. the high dive
96. Hotel California
97. the hot springs
98. The House on the Rocks; The House On The Rock is also a tourist destination near Spring Green, in central Wisconsin
99. Howl's Moving Castle
100. Hunting the Most Dangerous Game
101. Idyll, in the Rue Plumet
102. in a box with a fox
103. in Absent People
104. in a cruel, crazy, beautiful world [album by Johnny Clegg/Savuka]
105. in a little red corvette
106. in da club
107. in Edit Banned
108. in MacArthur Park, in the rain, with a cake ["MacArthur Park", a song written by Jimmy Webb]
109. in my beautiful balloon ["Up, Up and Away", another song written by Jimmy Webb]
110. inside a Pokeball
111. inside Mr. Wonka's TV
112. inside the Kit Kat Club
113. inside the magic lamp [or more generally: genies. Genies everywhere]
114. Inside the Snarl
115. the Internet
116. the Intestines of The Leviathan
117. the island of Dr. Moreau
118. the island of Pianosa [also a real island in Italy]
119. Jake's Place: location of Spider Robinson's sequels/continuations of the Callahans Crosstime Salloon stories.
120. Karakura Town
121. Krakatoa, East of Java
122. Lahaina [place in Hawai'i]; also a song by Loggins And Messina
123. a land far, far away [standard fairytale opener]
124. the land of Oz
125. Las Vegas Crime Lab
126. LARP'ing shimaspawn
127. Leaf Village
128. the left turn at Albequerque
129. the Library of Alexandria [real life ancient place]
130. Lonely Mountain
131. ...look up: opening of children's TV show, The Friendly Giant
132. lost in time and space
133. the Love Shack
134. LV-426
135. Maggie's Farm
136. the Magic Bus
137. the Magic School Bus
138. Margaritaville, wasting away
139. the Marianas Trench [in the Pacific Ocean, contains the deepest point of any ocean on earth]
140. The Matrix
141. a maze of twisty passages, all alike
142. [[v the middle of the WAAAAGH]]
143. the Midnight Meat Train
144. the Mile High State [Colorado]
145. the Ministry of Magic
146. Miskatonic University
147. Montego Bay [Jamaican city]; also a song by Bobby "Blue" Bland
148. Monument Valley [valley in Utah used for location shooting for dozens of westerns]
149. Moon River [old song]
150. Mordor
151. near the Gazebo
152. Neverland
153. nowhere
154. the oldest established permanent floating crap game in New York
155. on board Naglfar [the Ship of Fingernails, ew]
156. onboard the "Enterprise"
157. in a bathtub, with a horse [a situation prohibited by an obscure law in the American state of South Carolina]
158. on the Ark
159. on the dock of the bay ["(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay" by Otis Redding]
160. on the front lines of the Sabbat Worlds Crusade
161. on the Orient Express
162. on top of spaghetti [reference to an old song]
163. Outer Heaven
164. out flying on wax wings
165. out walking the dogs
166. the Oval Office
167. the Paris Hilton
168. perched on a rooftop
169. petting kitties
170. Peyton Place
171. a pineapple under the sea
172. The Pit, making the climb. Deshi basara!
173. Platform 9-3/4
174. Pompeii, 1934 years ago [in other words, just before everyone dies]
175. Pooh Corner
176. the pool hall racking up
177. posing for Pickman
178. Pripyat, Ukraine [hometown of the workforce of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, evacuated following 1986 meltdown]
179. Purgatory, with Jesus, Jesus, and little Jesus.
180. Quality Cafe [Los Angeles diner now used exclusively as a filming location]
181. Radiant Gardens
182. [REDACTED]
183. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
184. Rick's Café Américain
185. riding with Bobby McGee [Kris Kristofferson-penned song "Me and Bobby McGee", made famous by Janis Joplin]
186. right behind you
187. a rocket to the Moon [1902 film A Trip to the Moon?]
188. Rocky Top, Tennessee [song "Rocky Top" by the Osborne Brothers]
189. Room 101
190. the Ruins of Tolaria
191. Russia, with love
192. Saint Mary Mead
193. Salem, MA [also the location of other witch-hunt works — 'tis a real place]
194. the second star to the right
195. a secret base inside Mt. Rushmore [mountain/monument in South Dakota often hosting secret government bases in fiction]
196. the secret headquarters behind the dry cleaners; Intended to be the location of the secret location of Special Unit Two; was not entirely correct for either of these. The location in Man from Uncle was under DelTorio's Tailor shop, Special Unit 2's was under a Chinese laundry.
197. Serenity
198. The Shades, Ankh-Morpork
199. Shadow Moses Island
200. Shambala [the classic song of the same name, though it also is the name of various real life concepts]
201. Shangri-La
202. Ship of Fools
203. the Sistine Chapel, preparing for Conclave
204. the Sliding Scale War
205. snowed in [yes, in March, stupid crazy weather this year]
206. Stepford, Connecticut
207. Strolling across Abbey Road
208. the superunknown
209. a surfin' safari
210. the table eating green eggs and ham
211. taking Fenrir for walkies
212. the TARDIS
213. a tendril of a Hive Fleet
214. Theory — and everything works here!; also a reference to Tropers/Madrugada's first sig line.
215. Third Earth [probably Thunder Cats reference]
216. Through the Looking Glass
217. Thule [classical literary term for far northern Europe]
218. the Titanic (1997) [also, the historical ship]
219. Tony Stark's hot tub
220. touring with Dingos Ate My Baby
221. traffic on the 405 [I-405 outside Seattle]
222. Transsexual, Transylvania
223. Treasure Planet
224. Trivia
225. U.N.C.L.E.
226. under a Blood Red Sky [title of a live U2 mini-LP]
227. under Milkwood
228. underneath your space bar...with a headache
229. under the bed [where monsters and dust bunnies lurk]
230. under the Boardwalk [another song by the Drifters]
231. under the sea
232. under the dryer, searching for socks
233. an undisclosed location: Real Life — where top US politicos are to be taken in case of a national Emergency or attack.
234. up on the roof [song by the Drifters written by Carole King]
235. Up the Down Staircase [title of a novel by Bel Kaufman, filmed in 1967]
236. Vasquez Rocks
237. a VHS tape [the primary video storage medium before DVDs]
238. the War Room
239. the way to Saint Ives [references a nursery rhyme]
240. wearing a raspberry beret
241. the Well of Souls
242. where there be Tygers
243. where the streets have no name
244. the White Cliffs of Dover, watching birds
245. The White Hart
246. the White Tower
247. with a fox in a box
248. with a girl, a gold watch, and everything [a book by John D. Macdonald]
249. with Hades
250. with Lola at the Copacabana
251. with the sweet cream icing flowing dowwwwwwwwwwwwn [another reference to the Jimmy Webb song "MacArthur Park"]
252. Woodstock [a famous outdoor concert festival in the 1960s]
253. a wretched hive of scum and villainy
254. Xanadu [also Charles Foster Kane's mansion and the site of Kubla Khan's decreed stately pleasure dome]
255. Yasgur's Farm [location of Woodstock]
256. your AC vent
257. April Fools Day Websites Section

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