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What's nickname for Washington, D.C.?
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| July 30, 2010
Posted on 07/30/2010 10:02:26 AM PDT by JoeProBono
WASHINGTON, - New York's the "Big Apple" but what's the nickname for Washington, D.C.?
That's the quandary some folks ponder, wondering why there's nothing better or cleverer than "the nation's capital" for their metropolitan center.
A new nickname for Washington could be "DMV," for District, Maryland, and Virginia, The Washington Post said Friday.
A Post column noted New York's moniker and mentioned Chicago as the "Windy City" but lamented the somewhat blase term "nation's capital."
DMV has turned up in some publications, has frequently been heard on local radio stations and perhaps is now gaining respectability with mainstream officialdom, the newspaper reported.
Not everyone is hip to the DMV autograph.
"I prefer 'the Washington Metropolitan Area, but I realize that doesn't quite ring well as a lyric, e-mail or text message," Sandy Bellamy, executive director of the Historical Society of Washington, told the Post.
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To: JoeProBono
I've got a motto: Abandon hope all ye who enter here.
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posted on
07/30/2010 10:11:00 AM PDT
by
mewzilla
(Still voteless in NY-29. Over 370 roll call votes missed and counting...)
To: BlueLancer
The Trough, D.C...The Pork Palaces...The Bank of Frank...
I don’t know...they just keep bubbling up...
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posted on
07/30/2010 10:11:26 AM PDT
by
randomwalk
(Liberalism is a psychosis...)
To: JoeProBono
"DC : THE TOWN THAT COMBINED DIVERSITY AND INTEGRITY TO GIVE US DISINTERY"
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posted on
07/30/2010 10:11:38 AM PDT
by
Deb
(Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
To: JoeProBono
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posted on
07/30/2010 10:11:42 AM PDT
by
Hoodat
(.For the weapons of our warfare are mighty in God for pulling down strongholds.)
To: wku man
hemroids are us
To: JoeProBono
Red Rome. (As in communist red, not this red state, blue state, propaganda makeover.)
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posted on
07/30/2010 10:12:51 AM PDT
by
Nateman
(If liberals are not screaming you are doing it wrong!)
To: JoeProBono
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posted on
07/30/2010 10:13:30 AM PDT
by
Mere Survival
(The time to fight was yesterday but now will have to do.)
To: ScottinSacto
Didn’t Pelosi say, “Drain the swamp?”
Swamp sounds appropriate.
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posted on
07/30/2010 10:13:59 AM PDT
by
aimhigh
To: JoeProBono
Washington D.C. = Wackington Double Commu nist
To: wku man
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posted on
07/30/2010 10:14:11 AM PDT
by
al_c
(http://www.blowoutcongress.com)
To: Nateman
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posted on
07/30/2010 10:14:28 AM PDT
by
Nateman
(If liberals are not screaming you are doing it wrong!)
To: roaddog727
See my post #27.
We really need to get a beer sometime.
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posted on
07/30/2010 10:14:33 AM PDT
by
Mere Survival
(The time to fight was yesterday but now will have to do.)
To: JoeProBono
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posted on
07/30/2010 10:15:19 AM PDT
by
isom35
To: whence911
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posted on
07/30/2010 10:15:30 AM PDT
by
roaddog727
(It's the Constitution, Stupid!)
To: Nateman
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posted on
07/30/2010 10:15:50 AM PDT
by
Nateman
(If liberals are not screaming you are doing it wrong!)
To: JoeProBono
To: JoeProBono
The Belly of the Beast, The Black Hole, The Sinkhole and The Money Pit are a few that I have heard.
To: JoeProBono
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posted on
07/30/2010 10:17:33 AM PDT
by
Psycho_Bunny
(Hail To The Fail-In-Chief)
To: JoeProBono
Don’t some news types call it “Foggy Bottom”?
To: JoeProBono
With apologies to America’s Finest City (San Diego), here’s my input:
America’s FUBAR City
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