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Zito??? (Original Post) El Supremo Oct 2012 OP
You've been duly warned Brother Buzz Oct 2012 #1
Frisco, aprropriately enough, is a suburb of Dallas Jack Rabbit Oct 2012 #2
Frisco has that Triple A ball team that hired Shrub Brother Buzz Oct 2012 #3
So do you. El Supremo Oct 2012 #5
Urban dictionary definitions: El Supremo Oct 2012 #4

Brother Buzz

(36,444 posts)
1. You've been duly warned
Wed Oct 24, 2012, 10:44 PM
Oct 2012
"Whoever after due and proper warning shall be heard to utter the abominable word "Frisco," which has no linguistic or other warrant, shall be deemed guilty of a High Misdemeanor, and shall pay into the Imperial Treasury as penalty the sum of twenty-five dollars. - NORTON I, Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico. (1872)

Brother Buzz

(36,444 posts)
3. Frisco has that Triple A ball team that hired Shrub
Thu Oct 25, 2012, 12:47 AM
Oct 2012

I hear he's as happy as a pig in shit after he landed his dream job as their ball dude. "Free hot dogs and beer. Woohoo!"

El Supremo

(20,365 posts)
4. Urban dictionary definitions:
Thu Oct 25, 2012, 11:51 AM
Oct 2012

1) Californiese slang for San Francisco, the place where no one can afford to both work and live. It's one of those few Californiese slangs that people from other places learn to say, thinking it will make them sound like they've actually been to California, and the one that San Franciscans refuse to say, because they resent being Californiese. As foggy as Frisco is, they still haven't the foggiest idea what to be; they're simply sure that Californiese isn't it.

"Frisco" originated during the California Gold Rush, when people were too busy trying to make their fortunes to pronounce all the syllables that the Spanish missionaries had thought place names needed. The Spanish originally named it San Francisco de Asís, but that was just impractical.
Only people who can afford not to work can afford to live in Frisco. Anyone who works there lives some place like San Jose or Santa Rosa. In turn, those displace so many people in San Jose and Santa Rosa that anyone working in those cities can't afford to live there, and live some place like Ukiah or Modesto instead, making sure that California's prime agriculture land gets paved over with tracts of homes that sit empty all day long until the owners come back at night, after one hella miserable one or two hour commute, and pretend to live there.


2) The proper term to use for "San Francisco" when you want to annoy uptight "Friscans".
Me: I'm going to a club in Frisco tonight.
Uptight Friscan: Frisco? Nobody from here calls it that! Please use San Francisco
Me: Yah, I love living in Frisco.
Uptight Friscan: Please don't disrespect the city by using that term.
Me: Wow, Frisco sure has great night life - and a lot of anal retentive idiots


And another I grew up with:

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