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Place nicknames
I think this been done before but anyone have any fun nicknames for where you live or places you like to visit? Let's not get too nasty, just a little mid-week humor.<BR><BR>I live in Milwaukee - the Brew City -Appropriately nicknamed as I can smell the beer being brewed in the Miller Valley on my daily commute. (Actually, I think it's the hops and/or barley being roasted.)
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Atlanta=Hell (particularly in the summer)
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Las Vegas = "Lost Wages"
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Indianapolis = Naptown. <BR><BR>Though this is from my youth 30 years ago and seems to be fading in usage. Maybe because Indy isn't such a sleepy, little town anymore.
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El Segundo CA: "Where the Sewer Meets the Sea" (the Hyperion water treatment plant is nearby)-- rather mean name for a sweet li'l bedroom community<BR><BR>Long Beach CA: "Iowa by the Sea" (a huge number of Iowans have settled there since WWII)-- makes it sound rather bucolic (and for the record, LB is actually a good place to live, IF you know where to settle)
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Baltimore = Charm City (if you can hear this said with a Balmer accent, you've died and gone to heaven!)
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<BR>NYC=Fun City used during the Lindsay Era of grime, crime and apathy<BR><BR>NYC=Big Apple I have heard various reports on this one, anyone have the real reason?
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Seattle = The Emerald City
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Pittsburgh<BR><BR>Steel Town, Iron City.....The Burgh<BR><BR>the first 2 don't really apply anymore<BR><BR><BR><BR>
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San Jose = The Capital of Silicon Valley<BR>
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San Francisco - Whatever you call us, don't call us FRISCO!<BR><BR>
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I don't know about a nickname for the town, outside of Beantown, but people from Massachusetts are often nicknamed Massholes.
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Atlanta = Hot Altanta<BR>Berkeley = Bezerekley<BR>
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Detroix
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Chattanooga - Scenic City
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And San Diego is America's Finest City.
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San Francisco = Baghdad by the Bay
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Worcester, MA - Wormtown<BR>about 15 miles east of Podunk
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hell-a!!! It truly is....(except for the nice weather and beaches).
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Los Angeles - La La Land<BR><BR>SFer, shades of Herb Caen. I was going to say Bagdad By The Bay too, but because of recent events.... ;-)
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