Seriously, what is DU's obsession with FRISCO these days?

[KamaAina]

Could it be this?

[TZ]

1. Awww you are in big trouble buddy

Apparantly its not proper to call SF Frisco! I DARE you to post something with Frisco in the name in the Sports forum! You ask Creekdog about that..he'll tell you...:rofl:

[KamaAina]

3. The City 's proper name "San Francisco" would have made an awful copycat.

:-)

[sakabatou]

2. Outsiders call it "Frisco"

Actual people from SF NEVER call it that.

[NewJeffCT]

4. It was raining hard in Frisco

I needed one more fare to make my night...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AkrldanUuA

[Yavin4]

5. Everyone Step Away from KamaAina

You're about to get hammered by SF DUers.

[KamaAina]

7. See #3 above.

I am a Bay Area DUer, fer crissakes!

[Taverner]

6. Frisco is a ski resort in CO. San Francisco, SF or just 'The City' is a city in CA

[KamaAina]

8. It is not which you cannot prove so stop saying that!

Frisco is an exurb of Dallas, where MLS' FC Dallas plays and disgraced NOLA ex-mayor Ray Nagin lives in self-imposed exile. :-)

[taterguy]

16. Oh FFS

Frisco is a village on Hatteras Island.

The landing strip there is where Billy Mitchell took off to prove that airplanes could sink battleships which altered the course of history forever.

[Arugula Latte]

9. Herb Caen is going to come back from the dead and beat you senseless for saying "Frisco."

:P

[pink-o]

13. I sooooo miss that man!

Here's a good Herb Caen anecdote from the 80s:

Some out-of-towner dude flew into Oakland and checked into his hotel near the Oakland airport. He asked the concierge how to get around the city, and she gave him a map. "What's this?" he demanded. "I want to explore Oakland, and you gave me a map of San Francisco."

The concierge just looked blankly at him and replied: "You asked for a map of The City, didn't you?"

:toast: :rofl:

[Arugula Latte]

19. And remember how he used to quote Gertrude Stein in regard to Sacramento?

(Well, Gertrude had been talking about her childhood house, not Sacto) ... "There is no there, there."

[mulsh]

10. So many "auslanders" in Frisco these days it doesn't

matter what you call it. BTW "auslanders" is what Herb Caen used to call them, although being from Sacramento he probably wouldn't like people calling it Frisco. But I'm from Oakland, I don't care what you call that city.

[KamaAina]

12. He also used to call them "Elsewhereans"

see, I know my SF/Bay Area stuff. I would never call it "Frisco" if not for the copycat factor.

[meegbear]

11. Because it's a FAB-U-LUUUUS place!

[pink-o]

14. Hey, Kama, maybe it's this deluge of freakin' RAIN that's obsessing everyone!

I hope my fellow Bay Area-ites are on dry ground these days!!!

[old mark]

15. I lived near there-they HATE IT when you call it that...but it was pretty much of a shithole

anyway...
Now Berkeley, on the other hand...


mark

[pink-o]

20. Oh, yeah what an ugly place to live!

[jobycom]

17. I don't know, but his kid was a friend of mine

He drink whiskey, Poncho drink the wine.

[Forkboy]

18. Hey, everyone loves my cat Frisco, what can we say?