A
concept and/or joke about
Baltimore, MD. As in, "Welcome to Smalltimore!" or "Well that's Smalltimore for ya!"
It
pokes
fun at the
fact that you are
never more than one or two
degrees of separation from anyone else in town.
Some
examples:
1) A friend of mine puts a
personal ad online. Out of the three local people who
respond, one is his
best friend's
ex. One is her best friend. One is someone he already dated.
2) I drive
downtown for a
class in
meditation and see someone I know
going for a walk with her
dog in a
completely
different part of town from where she lives.
3) A
drunken friend pokes fun at this
random guy at a
concert who later turns out to be another friend's
girlfriend's best friend's
fiance.
Whoops!
4) Two friends from the
410 bbs scene suddenly
realize they hung out with a
strange Wiccan woman during the same
time period, around
1994 or so, but hadn't known each other back then.
These sorts of
situations happen in other places, but it just doesn't seem to happen as
often as in "Smalltimore."