002 [video] first flood

[batmanschmatman]

So I'm guessing this is what you guys would call a "flood"?

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[tatty-bye.livejournal.com]

This is the part in the conversation where I would ask for information from you in kind. Since I cannot, you will have to anticipate me.

[batmanschmatman]

I'm from Gotham City, New Jersey. It's pretty much one of the most crime ridden cities in America.

[tatty-bye.livejournal.com]

I cannot say I have heard of America. Or New Jersey.

It makes one wonder on the existence of an Old Jersey, however.

[batmanschmatman]

How much of a history lesson do you want?

[tatty-bye.livejournal.com]

I have nothing better to do.

[batmanschmatman]

America was originally a bunch of colonies that belonged to a bunch of countries in Europe, which is across the ocean. Jersey is the name of an island in one of those countries - England - and when the English got control of the specific colony from the Dutch, they named it New Jersey.

Doesn't make a whole lot of sense, since they're nothing alike, but hey.

[tatty-bye.livejournal.com]

I suppose that's one way to colonize. You would think they might come up with more creative names.

[batmanschmatman]

I don't pretend to get the logic of it. But we've got a lot of places like that. New York, New England, New Mexico... A lot of towns have the same names too for the same reasons.