First prize for Republicans is a week in Cleveland.

[MineralMan]

Second prize is two weeks in Cleveland.

Third prize lets you move to Cleveland.

[PJMcK]

1. You're a cruel man, MineralMan! (wink, n/t)

[liberal N proud]

2. I have been living that 3rd prize for 16 years

We have found the great things in Cleveland but will leave once the job is no longer here.

[Botany]

3. Cleveland and its people are wonderful

Cleveland helped to build America.



One of the greastest collections of art in the world is in the Cleveland Museum of Art.

[First Speaker]

7. I visited Cleveland for the first time two years ago...

...a ballpark trip...and was amazed by how beautiful so much of the city is. That museum was a highlight of my visit--loved it! Apart from DC, of course, and maybe Philly, Cleveland has the best public architecture of any city in America. I could easily spend the rest of my life just living in its library. It's got lots of terrific neighborhoods--as well, of course, as some less-than-terrific ones. But I was very pleasantly surprised by the city, think it's wildly underrated, has terrific potential...if I was told I had to spend the rest of my life there, I'd be more than content. I'm certainly coming back one of these days...

[Botany]

9. Cleveland has had and still has some real problems and its winters can be long Oct. to April ....

.... but the history of the City and County's libraries go back to the history of the emigrants
who moved there because although they were working blue collar jobs they knew that education
was important so they built a world class library system for their children.

The loss of a tax base and jobs in the city itself has really hurt the city. And when crack hit the city
in the 1980s it was brutal to the region.

[1StrongBlackMan]

12. It amazes me ...

I've noticed that the only people that don't like Cleveland are people who have never been there (beyond the airport concourse) and people been there, that have never been anywhere else (and that is about 80% of the population).

I was born and raised there and really didn't appreciate it until 6 months after I had left. I have childhood friends that 40+ years later, still live within a 5 mile radius of the house they were born into ... and all of them hate Cleveland. Go figure.

[rbrnmw]

18. I use to live off of Detroit Ave

I love Cleveland

[1StrongBlackMan]

19. I grew up in the Lee-Harvard area, and ...

after college, bought a home in the Central area. I lived there until 1996. I was there during the height of the Crack epidemic ... so you know I have stories to tell!

My Mom spent the last of her days at St. Augustine's on 73rd Street. I remember a day, when I wouldn't have been caught dead in that area ... and if I was found there, I probably would have been dead.

[rbrnmw]

20. Me too I lived there in 88 -93

I got stopped once and accused prostitution, I was wearing my Burger King uniform. I had just gotten off the bus. Assholes made me late for work.

[SwankyXomb]

13. One of the best things to ever come from Cleveland

[ChickenGuru]

4. Awe, Cleveland's OK.

But, have you ever seen her little sister Akron? Now there's a prize.

[MineralMan]

5. I have seen Akron.

Yes. A wonderful city it is, too.

[Botany]

10. I lived next to Akron and it was ranked 132 out of 150 American Cities and I ....

.... don't know how it got that high. Although LeBron James and his foundation had put up
42 million $s to the University of Akron to provide 1,100 full rides for local people of need and
that will make a real difference.

[ChickenGuru]

11. I know, but

SWENSON'S...

I throw a fit every time we go there and it's not on the itinerary.
Now I'm trying to get a road trip for this weekend.

[MineralMan]

6. Just a note: I really don't have a problem with Cleveland.

The joke originated with W. C. Fields, and the city was originally Philadelphia, but it has been used for all sorts of cities over the years. This time, it was Cleveland.

Feel free to use it for St. Paul, MN, if you like.

[whistler162]

16. So you are from Minneapolis?

[MineralMan]

17. No. I'm from California.

But I have lived in St. Paul for 12 years now. I don't mind jokes about any place I live or have lived, though. I make them myself.

Even after 12 years in its sister city, I still get lost every time I go to Minneapolis. That city's street system is totally messed up, if you ask me.

What kind of city has numbered streets and avenues that cross each other? Downtown, it's really, really easy to get the Ave. and St. system wrong. If you do, you never know where you'll end up.

It's on the corner of 3rd and 7th. What? There are two of those corners. Which one am I looking for?

I try not to go to Minneapolis unless my wife is with me. She knows the city. I just get lost in it.

[mythology]

25. Having had to call for help on the corner of Tremont and Tremont here in Boston

Not to mention the corner of Dorchester and Dorchester, I can understand your pain.

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[Sunlei]

8. Be great for the local economy. trump will have to pay cash for the 50,000 pizzas

[FSogol]

22. The hotel rooms aren't filling up. Too many GOPers are staying home, I suspect.

[Sunlei]

23. All Republican 'leaders' stayed away, not even a shrub will attend their own Republican convention.

[Ohioblue22]

14. Well now that the RNC is coming they're spit shinning the curbs.

[TeamPooka]

15. Cleveland is lovely except for all the Republicans there this week. nt

[FSogol]

21. Fixed it for you: GOP - Weak in Cleveland.

[MerryBlooms]

24. You should have thought this through a little more. :/

[Lance Bass esquire]

26. Last Time in Cleveland was in 2011

Was on tour.

Played a place called Beechland Ballroom I believe.

Was November..cold and snowing..thought that was bad till we played Saginaw Michigan the next 2 nights.

Seemed like a cool place...no pun intended.