[WhiteSandsYucca]

I recently was coming up with nicknames for Omaha & Lincoln as a merging metro, and I came up with pushing together two seperate titles I had read for Omaha & Lincoln in separate books before: "The Corn Metropolis & Prairie Capitol."

Isn't that a perfect marketing slogan for Omaha & Lincoln?! It recognizes their close proximity to each other, yet separate distance. I also feel it describes Nebraska's two largest perfectly. I wonder if anybody happened to want to use that, if they would have to buy the rights to those titles, since they are both listed in separate books? Plagiarism is very wrong -- of course. (Yet, I can't even find both books on Amazon nowadays, though.) How does that all work? Can somebody even claim the rights to a simple, two-worded title using common words, like "prairie" and "capitol" and "corn" and "metropolis?" I want to use that, but I'm not sure I can.

It actually was such a great, perfect idea I shared on a board, one that I was very proud of, that somebody actually strangely DELETED it. (This person is always very insecure around me. I mean, I visit NYC, then he has to go. I come up with a fiercely perfect idea, and he deletes it off this board. I even compliment his stuff; I mean, although I think his photography is just sorta basic, practical, conventional and mediocre, and not really creative, I still try to say nice things -- and, he deletes it. Very insecure. Very strange. I don't get him. Whatever.)

Anyways, thoughts on that slogan for Omaha-Lincoln? Like it?! Don't like it?!

[Walter 123]

I like the corn hole twin cities

[Radical347]

I think "Prairie Capitol" is actually quite fitting for Lincoln because it's a small town that thinks it's bigger than it really is. But I don't like the "Corn Metropolis" for Omaha, sorry.

[Omahahonors]

Lmao

[WhiteSandsYucca]

Originally Posted by Radical347

I think "Prairie Capitol" is actually quite fitting for Lincoln because it's a small town that thinks it's bigger than it really is. But I don't like the "Corn Metropolis" for Omaha, sorry.

I agree with you. I've kinda changed my mindset on this, as time has gone by... It's like "Prairie Capitol" works for Lincoln well -- no question. "Corn Metropolis" (which, again, is a title I saw in a book, like I saw "Prairie Capitol" on) is too risky and corny (pardon the pun) to tag a city with. It works well on some things and publications, but is too risky as a general nickname.

Don't get me wrong; I can picture a book titled "Corn Metropolis & Prairie Capitol: The Merging Nebraska Cities of Omaha and Lincoln." (Or something like that. I literally can't think of a more apt, creative title if a title is talking about, and describing, Omaha and Lincoln, Nebraska, which are only around 45-50 miles apart from each other.)

But, ultimately, nobody wants to call Omaha "The Corn Metropolis", like Chicagoans call their city "The Windy City." It's not flattering. It sounds like it would cause jokes, and more jokes.

Walter: lol. Nice.

OmahaHonors: Glad you got a good laugh. Laughing with you. Not offended.