nadin in Poway

[DumbAss Tanker]

DUmmie nadinletters is writing a book on the history of labor?  Likely it will be like many of her posts on DU, nothing but cut and paste from sources she agrees with.

Well, if she could write English in a literate way, and footnote her C&Ps, she could produce history every bit up to the standard of established modern academic historians then.  She's got the judgmentalism nailed already.

[Tucker]

Well, damn it, I had to nadin it.

It's a town in southern California, population circa 48,000.

nadin's no good as a writer--a good writer writes so that the reader doesn't have to look things up.

For example, franksolich would never simply say "Ainsworth."

I'd say "Ainsworth, Nebraska, at the top of the Sandhills on the roof of Nebraska."

Then nobody has to go nadin Ainsworth.

Not required when posting at the DUmp. All DUmmies know everything.

[franksolich]

Not required when posting at the DUmp. All DUmmies know everything.

That drives me nuts.

The Massachusetts and Florida primitives are notorious for that, too, automatically assuming "well, everybody knows where this place is."

Talk about provincialism.

Myself, I'd ban my own self for being so discourteous if I dared identify a city in Nebraska (other than Omaha and Lincoln, which are commonly known), without noting it's a city in Nebraska.  I'm not about to say "Callaway," because the city of Callaway (population circa 600) is not widely-known.  I'll always be careful to say "Callaway, Nebraska," so the reader doesn't have nadin it.

When it comes to California, for example, only San Francisco, Sacramento, Los Angeles, and San Diego shouldn't need the ", California" tag, as the location of those cities is commonly known.  All other places in California however need that geographic identification.

And as for Massachusetts, only Boston; there's for example a "Springfield" in just about every state in the union, all but one of them not in Massachusetts.

If anyone ever has to nadin something franksolich's written, then franksolich is a piss-poor writer.

[GOBUCKS]

Myself, I'd ban my own self for being so discourteous if I dared identify a city in Nebraska (other than Omaha and Lincoln, which are commonly known), without noting it's a city in Nebraska.

I think Kearney may be better known than Lincoln. I've never sent money to Lincoln.

[franksolich]

I think Kearney may be better known than Lincoln. I've never sent money to Lincoln.

Well, I dunno.  Kearney's like the fifth-largest (or so) city in Nebraska, with 20,000 (I'm not going to nadin it), and home of the University of Nebraska-Kearney Antelopes football team, but I really doubt readers of average sophistication would know Kearney without the ", Nebraska" appended at the end.

As for your state, Memphis, Nashville, Knoxville, and Chattanooga are probably the only places that need no further identification; all others should have the ", Tennessee" to identify them.

Again, if anyone ever has to nadin something franksolich's written, then I'll feel compelled to resign my membership here and hanging my head like a beaten dog with the tail between the legs, join the primitives on Skins's island.

[GOBUCKS]

Well, I dunno.  Kearney's like the fifth-largest (or so) city in Nebraska, with 20,000 (I'm not going to nadin it), and home of the University of Nebraska-Kearney Antelopes football team, but I really doubt readers of average sophistication would know Kearney without the ", Nebraska" appended at the end.

But Kearney has Cabela's. Along with the Cornhuskers and Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom, they're Nebraska's face to the world.

[FlippyDoo]

That drives me nuts.

The Massachusetts and Florida primitives are notorious for that, too, automatically assuming "well, everybody knows where this place is."

Talk about provincialism.

Myself, I'd ban my own self for being so discourteous if I dared identify a city in Nebraska (other than Omaha and Lincoln, which are commonly known), without noting it's a city in Nebraska.  I'm not about to say "Callaway," because the city of Callaway (population circa 600) is not widely-known.  I'll always be careful to say "Callaway, Nebraska," so the reader doesn't have nadin it.

When it comes to California, for example, only San Francisco, Sacramento, Los Angeles, and San Diego shouldn't need the ", California" tag, as the location of those cities is commonly known.  All other places in California however need that geographic identification.

And as for Massachusetts, only Boston; there's for example a "Springfield" in just about every state in the union, all but one of them not in Massachusetts.

If anyone ever has to nadin something franksolich's written, then franksolich is a piss-poor writer.

I agree completely. It's just like in Georgia. If I were going to Atlanta I would have no problem just saying, "I'm going to Atlanta." Even Savannah and possibly even Macon I'd leave the "Georgia" out. The other places I'd be sure to include "Georgia" in the sentence.

For instance, if I were to say "I'm going to Climax" and left the "Georgia" out of the statement, it's apt to take on a whole new meaning.

[franksolich]

But Kearney has Cabela's. Along with the Cornhuskers and Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom, they're Nebraska's face to the world.

Actually, Cabela's--the first and major Cabela's--is in Sidney, way over on the western end of the state.  The one in Kearney's just another branch location.

Sidney's like the twelfth-largest town in Nebraska, maybe circa 6,000, and of course Cabela's gives them prominence, but I wouldn't dare just write "Sidney;" I'd write "Sidney, Nebraska."

[RWKindaGuy]

I agree completely. It's just like in Georgia. If I were going to Atlanta I would have no problem just saying, "I'm going to Atlanta." Even Savannah and possibly even Macon I'd leave the "Georgia" out. The other places I'd be sure to include "Georgia" in the sentence.

For instance, if I were to say "I'm going to Climax" and left the "Georgia" out of the statement, it's apt to take on a whole new meaning.

Or Nahunta   

[FlippyDoo]

Or Nahunta   

Sounds like you know Georgia.

[beefeater]

I agree completely. It's just like in Georgia. If I were going to Atlanta I would have no problem just saying, "I'm going to Atlanta." Even Savannah and possibly even Macon I'd leave the "Georgia" out. The other places I'd be sure to include "Georgia" in the sentence.

For instance, if I were to say "I'm going to Climax" and left the "Georgia" out of the statement, it's apt to take on a whole new meaning.

Reminds me of a post one of my moles did at the DUmp in 2007. Not to worry, he got the TS for something else a little later. Only had about 2500 posts too, the good die young.

Fertile Climax linky

ben_meyers (1000+ posts)           Sun Aug-26-07 09:45 PM
Response to Reply #10
15. Fertile Woman Dies in Climax
   
The town of Fertile, population 853, sits about 19 miles southeast of Crookston on state highway 32; Climax, with 273 listed residents, sits to the west of there on US 75, some thirty miles away. An elderly lady from the former small town expired in the latter, leading to an obituary caption in the paper that read, in bold letters: "Fertile Woman Dies in Climax." Probably the longest-lived journalistic gaffe in the entire state, and one that must have brought at least mortification to its author. You'd hope so anyway.

http://www.publicradio.org/columns/prairiehome/russ/200...

I see the link no longer works, but the story is true.

I forget why I got the granite, I may have dissed the UN or something

[RWKindaGuy]

Sounds like you know Georgia.

Yeppers

[franksolich]

Yeppers

Well, I dunno about "Macon," without the identifying state.

Atlanta and Savannah could stand on their own.

Maybe Millidgeville too, given that it's such an unusual name, and surely there's no Millidgeville other than in Georgia.

[RWKindaGuy]

Well, I dunno about "Macon," without the identifying state.

Atlanta and Savannah could stand on their own.

Maybe Millidgeville too, given that it's such an unusual name, and surely there's no Millidgeville other than in Georgia.

If Nadin lived in Georgia, she'd live in Millidgeville for sure.  That's where the state mental hospital is located.

[thundley4]

Well, I dunno about "Macon," without the identifying state.

Atlanta and Savannah could stand on their own.

Maybe Millidgeville too, given that it's such an unusual name, and surely there's no Millidgeville other than in Georgia.

Millidgeville, New Brunswick.   

[FlippyDoo]

Yeppers

At one time or the other I've been through Hortense, Hoboken and Browntown. I think those are all in the same county with Nahunta.

Which, considering the politically correct state of things these days, they may have forced Browntown to change its name.

[Skul]

Actually, Cabela's--the first and major Cabela's--is in Sidney, way over on the western end of the state.  The one in Kearney's just another branch location.

Sidney's like the twelfth-largest town in Nebraska, maybe circa 6,000, and of course Cabela's gives them prominence, but I wouldn't dare just write "Sidney;" I'd write "Sidney, Nebraska."

Only if they count the tourists.

[Delmar]

At one time or the other I've been through Hortense, Hoboken and Browntown. I think those are all in the same county with Nahunta.

Which, considering the politically correct state of things these days, they may have forced Browntown to change its name.

Sorta like the way they had to change the name of the Virgin Islands after I went there.

[RWKindaGuy]

Sorta like the way they had to change the name of the Virgin Islands after I went there.

 

[NHSparky]

I agree completely. It's just like in Georgia. If I were going to Atlanta I would have no problem just saying, "I'm going to Atlanta." Even Savannah and possibly even Macon I'd leave the "Georgia" out. The other places I'd be sure to include "Georgia" in the sentence.

For instance, if I were to say "I'm going to Climax" and left the "Georgia" out of the statement, it's apt to take on a whole new meaning.

Plus the fact there's a Climax, Colorado.  Not to mention the obvious double entendre.

Then again, there's a town in Colorado called Beaver.  Three guesses what they call the liquor store there.

One thing I've done--the further away I get from a place, the more generic I have to be when people ask me where I'm from.

[jukin]

Becoming a government worker should not make you a millionaire. We just can't afford it.

[HACKSAW]

Then again, there's a town in Colorado called Beaver.  Three guesses what they call the liquor store there.

Sounds a bit like the liquor store in Eaton, Indiana

[Texacon]

Well, if we're going there;



http://www.halfway-inn.com/

KC