What's nickname for Washington, D.C.?

upi. ^ | July 30, 2010

[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.

[RegulatorCountry]

Pyongyang on the Potomac.

[Wyatt's Torch]

ROME

Yep. That would be my suggestion as well.

[butterdezillion]

I call it Corruption City, but in keeping with the “DC” anachronym, it could also be called Washington, Depraved City.

[tflabo]

Mordor Central HQ.

[backwoods-engineer]

Mordor? Sheol? Sodom? Gomorrah?

[tflabo]

DC= Despicable Criminals!

[JoeProBono]

[Cyber Liberty]

Someday it may become known as “Obamagrad.”

[tflabo]

DC—Home of the Worlds Biggest Casino!

[DustyMoment]

What's nickname for Washington, D.C.?

Black Hole or Giant Sucking Sound work well for me. There's also Hot Air Capital, LoserLand and Waste of Space to consider!!

[tflabo]

W, D.C.= Wealth Distribution Center

[tflabo]

PS. This thread can go on for a long, long time.

[Katya]

“Chocolate City” very popular self nicknamed moniker...popular while Marion Barry was Mayor.

[satan]

A few years ago “The Beltway” was known as “The Ring Around the Congo.”

[meowmeow]

A lot of us in NVA call DC and MD “The Other Side of the River.” And most of us try never to go there.

[mass55th]

Armpit of the World

The National Lunatic Asylum

Defecation Central

Putrescent District of Decay

[Slings and Arrows]

The Big Chancre.

[mass55th]

"Didn’t Pelosi say, “Drain the swamp?” Swamp sounds appropriate."

The new nation's Capital was built on swampland which had to be drained before any building could take place. Swamp is definitely an appropriate name for it.

[Rodamala]

Here in new jersey "DMV" stands for "Department of Motor Vehicles" and it's used as a synonym for long lines...

I wonder how much money it cost us when they decided to change the name to "New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission". There is NO REASON for it to have changed, everyone still calls it "The DMV".

DMV

[Publius6961]

For the immediate future, there is only one appropriate name. History will confirm it :

Racism Central; Washington, RC.