Your home town could end up being twinned with one of these silly places (I don't know if they go in for the Twinning in the US although I'm sure I heard that Basingstoke had been twinned with Hollywood).
It must be a joke. But it follows on neatly from our parallel universe diatribe and, in France, I did once once find myself on opposite sides of a duel carriageway to my dad (he was on the wrong side!)
The smoke wafted gently in the breeze across the poop deck and all seemed right in the world.