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Houston goes from H-Town to Bayou City to Magnolia City to Space City to screwston
Dallas goes from Big D to Triple D
Fort Worth goes from Cowtown to Funkytown
Austin goes to Live Music Capital of the World to ATX
San Antonio goes from Alamo City to River City to The Tone to San Antone.
You forgot MIA and Magic City
I posted that two up from yours. I guess you missed it.
Yep - the Big Easy and the Crescent City. Also, "Nawlins" and NOLA.
This isn't a nickname but it still always cracks me up. This is a football chant from Norfolk, VA. Think about it:
WE DON'T DRINK.
WE DON'T SMOKE.
NORFOLK! NORFOLK!
Sorry if some of these have already been named:
Dallas - The Big D ("I'm going to the Big D this weekend.") What's that country song?
Quote:
I'm goin' through the big D
And don't mean Dallas
I can't believe what the judge had to tell us
I got the Jeep she got the palace
I'm goin' through the big D
And don't mean Dallas
With its shootings and violent crime Chicago is called -- controversially -- Chiraq.
And during a particularly arctic winter there some years back, my relatives began calling it Chiberia.
Back during the 70s, NYC's moniker was Fun City, after a particularly inept comment about how great the place was during a crime wave under then mayor John Lindsay.
And who can forget Jesse Jackson's foot-in-mouth description of DC as Chocolate City?
Portland OR, I know is called Stumptown, though I don't know the reason.
Just guessing but since Portland is in the Pacific Northwest, the name Stumptown may have something to do with trees being logged and the stumps left in the ground. Simple as that.
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