Post #121687 by Gigantalope on Mon, Oct 25, 2004 7:51 PM

Tar heel, Buck Eye, Cheese head...those are fun. Some Carolina School is the Game Cocks, which is quite racy. I've read that the term Badger is from the people who mined coal in Wisconsin, not from the pissed off weasle animal. is that tru?

Seattleite is one I've never heard. That's clever and elegant. (being a space age theme town)

In one of those Kilgore Trout books, there are rants about Hoosiers that are side splitting. "All the best people are Hoosiers, don't you think?"

"Victorians"...odd that a place so breathataking has names refferencing somplace else. I've heard it called the "California of Canada" to the point of nausia by travelers trying to give the impression of hipness, I hope that one dried up...On the topic of Victoria, once on a Dublin tour I asked the coach driver why so many of the older houses had wildly colored porches and doors when the rest of the homes are white with grey or black trim.

Apparently when Queen Victoria died, the English insisted everyone in the Empire publicly showed thier feeling of mourining.

Nothing like a little 100 year old jab to tickle the funnybone