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Old 05-05-2008, 03:16 PM
Status: "Pickleball-Free American" (set 1 day ago)
 
Location: St Simons Island, GA
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I still like Terminus....
Terminus always sounded to me like some place you go to die
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Old 05-05-2008, 03:25 PM
 
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The end of your journey - Atlanta!

Terminate your search for work/live/play at the old Terminus - Atlanta!

This is why I'm not in marketing...
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Old 05-05-2008, 05:54 PM
 
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Terminus always sounded to me like some place you go to die
You read my mind, and verbatim at that.

Anyway, "The ATL" is following one of the historical paths of American fads (slang, dress, other cultural touchstones). The crucible is, in fact, the ghetto. Then it rises the income ladder among AA youth, then cool suburban kids run with it, then the wannabe-cool suburban kids (of all races) repeat it ad nauseum, then their parents hear it, think it's cute/silly, and suddenly it's in the workplace. By this point, it has been stripped of all cool currency or any original nefarious meaning.

Nowadays, all of this happens instantaneously through hip hop videos aired on MTV, so the suburban cool kids get skipped entirely, and it goes straight to the wannabe-cool ("OMG") crowd and shortly thereafter to their parents.

So the next time you're ridin' dirty on 22's and a hottie hits you up on the celly and asks you to fall through the spot, thank the hood.
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Old 05-05-2008, 06:22 PM
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Location: Mableton, GA
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You read my mind, and verbatim at that.

Anyway, "The ATL" is following one of the historical paths of American fads (slang, dress, other cultural touchstones). The crucible is, in fact, the ghetto. Then it rises the income ladder among AA youth, then cool suburban kids run with it, then the wannabe-cool suburban kids (of all races) repeat it ad nauseum, then their parents hear it, think it's cute/silly, and suddenly it's in the workplace. By this point, it has been stripped of all cool currency or any original nefarious meaning.

Nowadays, all of this happens instantaneously through hip hop videos aired on MTV, so the suburban cool kids get skipped entirely, and it goes straight to the wannabe-cool ("OMG") crowd and shortly thereafter to their parents.

So the next time you're ridin' dirty on 22's and a hottie hits you up on the celly and asks you to fall through the spot, thank the hood.
Wish I had said that, boo.

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Old 05-05-2008, 07:39 PM
 
Location: East Cobb
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Default Terminus

Terminus makes me think of the planet in the classic science fiction trilogy by Arthur C. Clarke. Trying to check it out to see if I was misremembering the name of the planet in "Foundation", I found this cute page. Terminus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Old 05-06-2008, 06:46 AM
 
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Wish I had said that, boo.

<Windu said: 'Then it rises the income ladder among AA youth, then cool suburban kids run with it, then the wannabe-cool suburban kids (of all races) repeat it ad nauseum, then their parents hear it, think it's cute/silly, and suddenly it's in the workplace. By this point, it has been stripped of all cool currency or any original nefarious meaning.'

I know I would contribute to the stripping of coolness. LOL.
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Old 05-06-2008, 08:36 AM
 
Location: ATL by way of Los Angeles
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I don't see the issue with saying "ATL" myself. Hell, I'd rather hear that than "Hotlanta", "A-Town", or some of the other stuff that I have heard it called in the past.
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Old 05-06-2008, 12:45 PM
 
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Funny that it is pacific northwesterners who get up in arms about it. Don't they occasionally refer to the Seattle-Tacoma metroplex as Sea-Tac per the airport. And I know Portlanders often refer to Portland as PDX, based on the airport code.
Sea-Tac is the name of the airport, but it is also an incorporated city (which, you guessed it, includes the airport). When locals say Sea-Tac, they are actually referring to the city of SeaTac (the hyphen is dropped when referring to the city), not the entire metro. Typically when referring to the entire metro area, we will say the Puget Sound area or just the Seattle area. I have never heard anyone use the term Sea-Tac to describe the entire area. Now, Portland is a different story. Portlanders regularly use PDX in place of Portland. It kind of rolls of the tongue.

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Old 05-06-2008, 01:00 PM
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...Now, Portland is a different story. Portlanders regularly use PDX in place of Portland. It kind of rolls of the tongue.
I fly out to The PDX every summer.
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Old 05-06-2008, 01:20 PM
 
Location: Mableton, GA USA (NW Atlanta suburb, 4 miles OTP)
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I fly out to The PDX every summer.
Man, it's a good thing you don't fly to Fukuoka Airport.
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