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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-09-06 02:14 PM
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Cities and towns should be named for their personalities
Here's where I live:

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Joe Fields Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-09-06 02:16 PM
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1. Welcome to Independence: Home of Democrats!
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Writer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-09-06 02:19 PM
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2. Welcome to Dallas, er Superficia: Leave Any Sense of Reality Behind
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jobycom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-09-06 03:58 PM
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21. It hasn't changed since I lived there, then. nt
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Mutley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-09-06 02:20 PM
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3. ...
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Call Me Wesley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-09-06 02:25 PM
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4. I don't live there:
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-09-06 02:27 PM
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5. Bwuhahahahaha!
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Blue-Jay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-09-06 02:52 PM
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9. You have an unhealthy obsession with Chicago.
Did Mike Ditka beat you up or something?
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RandomKoolzip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-09-06 02:55 PM
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11. Hey! Uncool.
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Susang Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-09-06 03:16 PM
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14. What is your fucking problem?
Seriously, this is getting old and tired. We all know you hate Chicago, you remind us often enough. Some of us live here, do you really mean to insult us like that?
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greatauntoftriplets Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-09-06 03:29 PM
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17. Carl Sandburg would disagree with you...
CHICAGO
HOG Butcher for the World,
Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat,
Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler;
Stormy, husky, brawling,
City of the Big Shoulders:

They tell me you are wicked and I believe them, for I
have seen your painted women under the gas lamps
luring the farm boys.
And they tell me you are crooked and I answer: Yes, it
is true I have seen the gunman kill and go free to
kill again.
And they tell me you are brutal and my reply is: On the
faces of women and children I have seen the marks
of wanton hunger.
And having answered so I turn once more to those who
sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer
and say to them:
Come and show me another city with lifted head singing
so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning.
Flinging magnetic curses amid the toil of piling job on
job, here is a tall bold slugger set vivid against the
little soft cities;

Fierce as a dog with tongue lapping for action, cunning
as a savage pitted against the wilderness,
Bareheaded,
Shoveling,
Wrecking,
Planning,
Building, breaking, rebuilding,
Under the smoke, dust all over his mouth, laughing with
white teeth,
Under the terrible burden of destiny laughing as a young
man laughs,
Laughing even as an ignorant fighter laughs who has
never lost a battle,
Bragging and laughing that under his wrist is the pulse.
and under his ribs the heart of the people,
Laughing!
Laughing the stormy, husky, brawling laughter of
Youth, half-naked, sweating, proud to be Hog
Butcher, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with
Railroads and Freight Handler to the Nation.
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HarukaTheTrophyWife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-09-06 02:28 PM
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6. Here be Dragons & Llamas...
Edited on Wed Aug-09-06 02:30 PM by haruka3_2000


It fits in nicely with this sign that was really up in Rockaway, albeit briefly.
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-09-06 02:38 PM
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8. Here be llamas, too
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Ariana Celeste Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-09-06 02:37 PM
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7. Mine is.
"Plainfield."

This town has nothing interesting about it whatsoever. At all.
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idgiehkt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-09-06 02:54 PM
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10. mine would be
welcome to Bumfuck NC, more religious hypocrites than you can shake a stick at.
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skygazer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-09-06 02:56 PM
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12. Welcome to Superficial
Where if you don't drive at least a Lexus, you do not exist for us.
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-09-06 03:00 PM
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13. Yeah, I've been in your area
All of that south and west of SJ is Pole-Up-The-Assville.
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maxsolomon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-09-06 03:21 PM
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15. they are
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reyd reid reed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-09-06 03:25 PM
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16. Freeper Springs
Edited on Wed Aug-09-06 03:27 PM by reyd reid reed
Home, home of the strange,
Where the fundies and the right-wingers rage
Where seldom is heard
An encouraging word
And the skies rain churchbells all day...

:eyes:



edited because I'm a moron. They're rubbing off...HELP!!!

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Patiod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-09-06 03:46 PM
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18. So Belligerent, PA would be the home of the Liberty Bell?
I don't think so.
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tinfoil tiaras Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-09-06 03:48 PM
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19. Welcome to Jackson, Miss. the city formerly known as
"The Best of the New South". But Frank wants to change the motto from that to like "The City of Compassion" or some bullshit...:rofl:
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ceile Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-09-06 03:55 PM
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20. Here's mine:
Edited on Wed Aug-09-06 04:01 PM by ceile
Welcome! Wilkommen! Bienvenedes!
All liberals are invited to stay as long as you like.
Unless you're from CA, then get the eff out!

edit: Austin
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rug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-09-06 05:40 PM
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22. Welcome to Milford! Now go home.
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