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Springfield's Location Explained!
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Dmitri G. Brengauz
Jan 5, 1995, 5:37:38 PM1/5/95
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``The Real Origin of Springfield and The Simpsons''
If you watch carefully the episode where Homer gives up beer,
you will notice that the last line of Homer's driver's license reads:
Springfield, NT 49007. Now, it is very well know that there is no state
in the U.S. with the postal abreviation NT, however, NT is the postal
abreviation for the Northern Territory -- the least populous region of
Australia (cap.: Darwin). Unfortunately, I know for a fact that that there
is no town with a population of over 50 people anywhere in the NT with the
name "Springfield." It is possible from this fact to dicern an
interesting hypothesis which would explain not only the location of
the town, but also ALL of the continuity problems in the show.
The very real town of Tennant Creek, NT was said to have been founded
when a road train (a tractor trailer-trailer-trailer another Outback
phenomenon) laden with beer broke down on the road between Darwin and
Alice Springs. The drivers made themselves comfortable to enjoy their
cargo, found some ore deposits, and thereby founded the town.
Now, Homer J. Simpson of Springfield, NT (a town of 0-20 or so people
-- they do exist, look on any large map of Australia and most of the
little towns you will see are approximately that size)
was just such a driver, and the beer combined with the dry desert heat
made him see all sorts of wonderful messages and dreams, the contents of
which he wrote on the backs of over 2,000 empty beer cartons. Matt
Groening, on an Australian holiday, found the truck, the corpulent
corpse, and the empty cartons. He managed to smuggle them out of
Australia by claiming that they were custom made souvenir place mats
for an Italian prime ministers convention which he had to ship to Los
Angeles. He showed them to James H. Brooks, assured the people at Fox
that no law suits (over the normal limit) were possible, and thus the
show was born. The people of Australia may feel cheated of their
cultural heritage, but the rest of the world is grateful.
If you watch carefully the episode where Homer gives up beer,
you will notice that the last line of Homer's driver's license reads:
Springfield, NT 49007. Now, it is very well know that there is no state
in the U.S. with the postal abreviation NT, however, NT is the postal
abreviation for the Northern Territory -- the least populous region of
Australia (cap.: Darwin). Unfortunately, I know for a fact that that there
is no town with a population of over 50 people anywhere in the NT with the
name "Springfield." It is possible from this fact to dicern an
interesting hypothesis which would explain not only the location of
the town, but also ALL of the continuity problems in the show.
The very real town of Tennant Creek, NT was said to have been founded
when a road train (a tractor trailer-trailer-trailer another Outback
phenomenon) laden with beer broke down on the road between Darwin and
Alice Springs. The drivers made themselves comfortable to enjoy their
cargo, found some ore deposits, and thereby founded the town.
Now, Homer J. Simpson of Springfield, NT (a town of 0-20 or so people
-- they do exist, look on any large map of Australia and most of the
little towns you will see are approximately that size)
was just such a driver, and the beer combined with the dry desert heat
made him see all sorts of wonderful messages and dreams, the contents of
which he wrote on the backs of over 2,000 empty beer cartons. Matt
Groening, on an Australian holiday, found the truck, the corpulent
corpse, and the empty cartons. He managed to smuggle them out of
Australia by claiming that they were custom made souvenir place mats
for an Italian prime ministers convention which he had to ship to Los
Angeles. He showed them to James H. Brooks, assured the people at Fox
that no law suits (over the normal limit) were possible, and thus the
show was born. The people of Australia may feel cheated of their
cultural heritage, but the rest of the world is grateful.
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Jeremy Wilson
Jan 8, 1995, 2:06:40 PM1/8/95
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simpson david (dsi...@umbc.edu) wrote:
: (2) In North America, "NT" is the official abbreviation for the
: Canadian Northwest Territories.
: (2) In North America, "NT" is the official abbreviation for the
: Canadian Northwest Territories.
Somehow the two climates just don't match...
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thomas jeffrey vincent
Jan 9, 1995, 3:07:36 PM1/9/95
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Dmitri G. Brengauz (dbr...@freenet3.scri.fsu.edu) wrote:
: ``The Real Origin of Springfield and The Simpsons''
: ``The Real Origin of Springfield and The Simpsons''
I always thought that Homer was just the name of Matt Groening's dad.
Tom Vincent.
"a real cool guy"
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