In Kansas, "The City" is Emerald City.
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Discussion of the Mutant Enemy series, Firefly, the ensuing movie Serenity, and other projects in that universe. Like the other show threads, anything broadcast in the US is fine; spoilers are verboten and will be deleted if found.
tommyrot - May 27, 2005 1:54:02 pm PDT #2584 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Mikey - May 27, 2005 1:55:36 pm PDT #2585 of 10001
All this time, I thought Hunter was a bitch. Turns out she was just hungry.
It's like Immortals: There can be only one "The City."
JZ - May 27, 2005 1:57:59 pm PDT #2586 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Mikey, I'm not arguing that the South Bay is less populous. I am arguing that most of the people I've known locally (all over the Bay Area, not just SF) know where SF is and know where the towns immediately surrounding them are, and don't know much beyond that.
I'm not saying that SF is the biggest, or the very best, or that the South Bay is shite. I'm saying that SF is immediately recognizable and possibly more easily findable to a larger number of locals than many other locations.
tommyrot - May 27, 2005 1:59:33 pm PDT #2587 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
SF is also the easiest city to find when playing Microsoft Flight Simulator.
Mr. Broom - May 27, 2005 2:01:56 pm PDT #2588 of 10001
"When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie." ~Trent Reznor
In Kansas, "The City" is Emerald City.We don't have a The City. We have Town, which is Kansas City, or maybe Wichita if you live in south central Kansas.
Somehow I don't think that people in San Francisco talking about the City are talking about New York. Sorry, folks. I like New York and all, but I'm not believing it's got the rights to the term.
Betsy HP - May 27, 2005 2:02:05 pm PDT #2589 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
"The City" is San Francisco, as is clearly demonstrated by "Tales of The City".
To Sherlock Holmes, it is always The City.
[edit:] For what it's worth, I live halfway down the Peninsula in San Carlos, and I travel up to the city much, much more often than down to San Jose or across the Bay to Berkeley and Oakland.
Deena - May 27, 2005 2:02:29 pm PDT #2590 of 10001
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
No Cleveland screening. Sigh.
Topic!Cindy - May 27, 2005 2:06:12 pm PDT #2591 of 10001
What is even happening?
Is Rice-A-Roni still the San Francisco treat?
Mikey - May 27, 2005 2:08:19 pm PDT #2592 of 10001
All this time, I thought Hunter was a bitch. Turns out she was just hungry.
For what it's worth, I live halfway down the Peninsula in San Carlos, and I travel up to the city much, much more often than down to San Jose or across the Bay to Berkeley and Oakland.
That's because San Jose is such a wasteland. (Actually, Redwood City has a great concert venue: the Little Fox Theatre.) There's less to distract people from going to see Serenity.
Oh, Sex and the ____?
Betsy HP - May 27, 2005 2:08:55 pm PDT #2593 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Actually, I go down to San Jose for theater a couple of times a year.