Members Jeff da Weasel Posted August 24, 2006 Author Members Share Posted August 24, 2006 Originally posted by elsongs True natives know that "Los Angeles" is the actual abbreviation. Fun fact: the abbreviation "LA" is only 3.63% of the full name. Okay, it was more "mildly interesting fact" than "fun fact", but still... - Jeff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members gearmike Posted August 24, 2006 Members Share Posted August 24, 2006 I think you need to be wearing a pocket protector fot that to be a "fun-fact." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members blue2blue Posted August 24, 2006 Members Share Posted August 24, 2006 Originally posted by gearmike Hey, from the South-County (Southern Orange County) perspective, LA is North of the 605... And... ya know... as someone who grew up behind "The Orange Curtain" (sounds quaint, now, huh?) I have to say that that skewed perspective explains SO much about South County... BTW, did you know that San Diego calls the area just below South County "North County"? Talk about yer weird perspective, huh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jeff da Weasel Posted August 24, 2006 Author Members Share Posted August 24, 2006 Originally posted by blue2blue BTW, did you know that San Diego calls the area just below South County "North County"? It is indeed odd. I went to San Diego State for a short while, and while driving back to LA would snicker at passing from North County into South County heading north on the 5. - Jeff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members gearmike Posted August 24, 2006 Members Share Posted August 24, 2006 I'm just happy not be in the Inland Empire. Now those people have a skewed perspective. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mr. Botch Posted August 25, 2006 Members Share Posted August 25, 2006 OK, you "coasters" are hogging this thread, time for some central humor. The capitol of South Dakota is Pierre. It's pronounced "peer" In Ohio they pronounce it "Pee-Air" In NY they pronounce it "Bismarck" I also can't figure out (having lived in Albuquerque) why all the Spanish names that end in "-illo" are pronounced "-iyo", except for a lil town in Texas called "AmariLLo". Ever been to Sinai, Iowa? It's pronounced "Sigh-knee-eye". (and yes, I realize I'm the only person in the Free World who's been to Sinai). We now return you to your regularly-scheduled liberal coasty stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MorePaul Posted August 25, 2006 Members Share Posted August 25, 2006 Most folks don't realize it, but I actually founded San Francisco, California Frisco, Cali was my original name for it (it fell out of fashion as being antiquated, which is what the noobs now despise it) -- however While it is spelled Frisco, Cali it's pronounced "Sha - Day" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Geoff Grace Posted August 25, 2006 Members Share Posted August 25, 2006 Originally posted by gearmike:Hey, from the South-County (Southern Orange County) perspective, LA is North of the 605... Mike, I understood what you meant. Best, Geoff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Geoff Grace Posted August 25, 2006 Members Share Posted August 25, 2006 Originally posted by Mr. Botch: I also can't figure out (having lived in Albuquerque) why all the Spanish names that end in "-illo" are pronounced "-iyo", except for a lil town in Texas called "AmariLLo". My family moved to Houston for a semester back in 1977. (I stayed behind in Arizona, because I was a student at ASU.) When they asked the locals why Texans anglicized the Spanish names of the towns there, they were told, "We won the war; we can call it what we want!" It sounds like your Albuquerque neighbors were more concerned with pronouncing Spanish names properly. Best, Geoff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Raymar Posted August 25, 2006 Members Share Posted August 25, 2006 Eventually you'll wind up in Surf City! Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members GroovepusherSly Posted August 25, 2006 Members Share Posted August 25, 2006 You ain't from 'round here if you say "CHEE-cago" (hard C), or "Illi-NOISE". Sly Jokes, puns and put downs if you want, we've heard 'em all before, and we don't care. Oh yeah, I've never said "Cali". Sounds to wanna be juvenile hip hopish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members boosh Posted August 25, 2006 Members Share Posted August 25, 2006 You Americans Are Strange. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members gearmike Posted August 25, 2006 Members Share Posted August 25, 2006 Originally posted by boosh You Americans Are Strange. This coming from boosh!? Ouch! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Hard Truth Posted August 25, 2006 Members Share Posted August 25, 2006 Speaking of such things, I always get a chuckle from talking to New Yorkers from NYC. "Upstate" is anything in NYS above the city and in many of their minds its all one small town. For example:"Where you from?" "Albany." "Ahh, Upstate. I have a friend in Buffalo named Joe Smith. Do you know him?" (Buffalo is almost 300 hundred miles away from Albany) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MorePaul Posted August 25, 2006 Members Share Posted August 25, 2006 Originally posted by Hard Truth Speaking of such things, I always get a chuckle from talking to New Yorkers from NYC. I guess it's cliche' now (but as they say...it's cliche' b/c...) but that old "manhattener's map of the world" cartoon is so friggin clever it makes me sick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members elsongs Posted August 25, 2006 Members Share Posted August 25, 2006 Originally posted by MorePaul I guess it's cliche' now (but as they say...it's cliche' b/c...) but that old "manhattener's map of the world" cartoon is so friggin clever it makes me sick Which reminds me of this joke: One day while traveling I was walking down the street and saw someone causing a commotion, he was obviously very irate and flailing his hands all over the place. I went closer to hear what was going on. It was a man in a thick New York accent yelling, "WHY CAN'T I FIND A DECENT PASTWAMI SANDWICH OUT HEAH?!?" It was at that moment I rushed over to him and said, "Hey, hey, calm down.... You're in Beijing." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members MDLMUSIC Posted August 25, 2006 Members Share Posted August 25, 2006 Originally posted by Raymar Eventually you'll wind up in Surf City! Steve Isn't that the place where there are two girls for every boy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members elsongs Posted August 25, 2006 Members Share Posted August 25, 2006 Originally posted by MDLMUSIC Isn't that the place where there are two girls for every boy? Actually, it's more like two gulls for every buoy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Tedster Posted August 26, 2006 Members Share Posted August 26, 2006 Originally posted by Jeff da Weasel You don't qualify anymore. You've had all of the LA-ness taken out of you, and you never liked it here in the first place. I hereby sentence you to refer to your former hometown by its full name from now on: El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Poriuncula. - Jeff Senora Porncula? I think I saw a movie about Count Porncula once. Had a lot of senoritas in it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jeff da Weasel Posted August 26, 2006 Author Members Share Posted August 26, 2006 Originally posted by Tedster Senora Porncula? I think I saw a movie about Count Porncula once. Had a lot of senoritas in it. The full name of our fair city translates as "Town of Our Lady the Queen of Angels of the Porcincula River". Porcincula means "little portion". I'm not sure what kind of little portions they were getting out of what's now known as the LA River, but today it's not a body of water in which you'd do much fishing. - Jeff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kylen Posted August 26, 2006 Members Share Posted August 26, 2006 Originally posted by Jeff da Weasel - In that same vein, never call San Francisco "Frisco" unless you're doing it with deadpan irony. Don't even call it "San Fran". If you really want to be cool, call it "The City", or just bite the bullet and call it San Francisco. Trust me on this. - Jeff Just an fyi you guys - I left a trail of bread crumbs across America so I can find my way back someday...don't touch 'em - I'll clean 'em up on the way back...don't worry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members HCarlH Posted August 28, 2006 Members Share Posted August 28, 2006 Originally posted by blue2blue BTW, apropos of proper names... here in Poundtown (so named for the "LB" or perhaps its reputation as a city where the scourge of evil weed was not entirely unknown) we have a street named Junipero. You know, as in Jun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jeff da Weasel Posted August 28, 2006 Author Members Share Posted August 28, 2006 Originally posted by HCarlH Joo-nih-pair-o Ser-raAccent on first sylable of both. I know people who pronounce it like that. Sounds like a Zappa song. She had that Joo-ni-pair-oh Ser-ro,Flamin out along her head,I mean her mendocino bean-oBy where some bugs had made it red - Jeff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members elsongs Posted August 28, 2006 Members Share Posted August 28, 2006 Originally posted by Jeff da Weasel I know people who pronounce it like that. Sounds like a Zappa song.She had that Joo-ni-pair-oh Ser-ro,Flamin out along her head,I mean her mendocino bean-oBy where some bugs had made it red- Jeff Didn't Starship write a song about the founder of the California Missions? SerraSerraStorms are brew-in' in your eyes... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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