About "The O.C." -- and a question: what about YOUR hometown?

[bertha katzenengel]

A friend at work can get my goat anytime he wants to by telling others, "oh, yeah, Kim's FROM the O.C. - aren't ya, Kim? ;)"

Grr.

I wasn't born in Orange County, but I grew up there, from about age 10 months. Now, I do not like what's been done to downtown Huntington Beach, and I don't like much of what's happened elsewhere in my hometown. But it's still my hometown, and it's part of Orange County.

Know this: Not once, in my 35+ years of living in H.B. and other places in Orange County, did anyone ever refer to the county as "The O.C." The moniker is a bastard of some asshole's imagination.

Residents of The City detest hearing their town called "Frisco." (Unless that's changed - someone tell me it has not.) What other city & town nicknames are loathed by the natives?

What about your hometown?

"The O.C." Sweet crispy Jesus. :eyes:

Shout to DUer Ava for planting this rant's seed . . . thanks, Ava :hi:

[ghostsofgiants]

1. All I know is it's a lame-ass show.

Albeit with some decent music, haha.

[Ava]

2. it's not just lame

It SUCKS! :grr:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x5170660

[Ava]

3. you're quite welcome bertha katzenengel!

i never thought my little rant would make such and impression! :rofl:

:P

[XemaSab]

4. I dunno about derogatory nicknames

But I really can't stand it when people assume Oakland is a giant ghetto.

There are ghetto areas of Oakland, and there are nice areas of Oakland.

Why is this such a difficult concept to understand?

[bertha katzenengel]

5. I had a joke about the Raiders but I don't want to offend.

I've driven through Oakland a couple of times. Never seemed all ghetto to me. It IS offensive.

[XemaSab]

6. Bring it on!

:D

[bertha katzenengel]

11. Why is it so hard to understand that Oakland is not 100% ghetto?

Hello? Raiders?

(that was it - it would've been funnier off the cuff)

:hi:

(But honestly, the well-dressed thug EVERYWHERE either wears Yankees', Iverson, or Raiders' stuff.)

[XemaSab]

12. .

:banghead:

[bertha katzenengel]

15. See?

I offended! I am sorry. Often stuff pops into my mind and the "don't say this" filter doesn't work.

[XemaSab]

17. It's funny because there is a grain of truth to it.

:D

[Oeditpus Rex]

7. Far as I know, saying 'Frisco' in San Francisco

is still an easy way to get eye daggers shot at you... unless you're among bikers.

I hardly ever hear "The City" anymore, though. The Warriors should've kept it on their uniforms, along with the cable car logo. That was seriously cool.

(Sudden thought: In baseball, road uniforms traditionally have the name of the city. What do the Angels' roadies say? "Los Angeles of Anaheim"?)

[bertha katzenengel]

14. Angels' away unis: "Angels."

:eyes:

Maybe Moreno loses his *ahem* cojones when forced to think of taking his lame little marketing ploy THAT far. :eyes:

[Oeditpus Rex]

18. I don't see how he can consider that 'marketing'

Is anybody happy about it? :shrug:

[greatauntoftriplets]

8. I live in Chicago...

I regularly get asked about Al Capone (he died years before I was born) and Indians (er. Native Americans, the elite have ruled this town for years.)

[Ariana Celeste]

9. I noticed on Myspace,

that apparently a lot of people refer to Tacoma (WA), as "Tac-town," and "T-Town". And neighboring Puyallup as "P-Town". I think that's really dumb, and gave my brother shit for it when he did it. But, he ignored me.

:eyes:

[Blue_In_AK]

10. When somebody wants to insult Anchorage

they call it "Los Anchorage," as in ugly urban sprawl, geared more to automobiles than pedestrians.

[XemaSab]

13. My mom said it reminded her of Fresno

[bertha katzenengel]

16. Now that IS an insult.

;)

[Blue_In_AK]

19. It's definitely NOT Fresno....

How long ago was your mom here? It's changed quite a bit in the past few years. We've got a "beautification" thing going on. More parks, more flowers, stuff like that.

[XemaSab]

22. 1981

[Blue_In_AK]

30. Oh, yeah, that was definitely back in the "Fresno" era. :-)

[Maat]

20. Oh, you guys are cracking me up.

Born in 1958 in Newport Beach, Ca., which was the closest hospital at the time. We lived in San Clemente (thus I grew up there); I split my time between the grandparents house in Laguna Beach and San Clemente. Lived in either Orange County, San Bernardino County, or Riverside County (frequently visiting San Diego County - hanging around in that square-ish Southern California area for all of my nearly 48 years). I have NEVER heard Orange County referred to as "the O.C." Even though my grandparents owned quite a bit of property, I lived a middle-class life, and it was nothing like what I see in commercials for the show.

Although .... remember I have bored you guys with tales of growing up in a conservative household, telling you that conservatives tend to lead two lives - a 'pretend life' for the community, and a soap opera at home (but I think that's a different story). I spent most of the time with my paternal grandparents - my folks tended to imbibe alcohol pretty consistently.

[Robeson]

21. Music City, USA! Yee haw!....

...I live in Nashville, and the only time you see a cowboy hat, or cowboy boots, is when a tourist is wearing them. Yet, that's the perception.

[Left Is Write]

26. Thank goodness that when I was in Nashville...

I wore neither hat nor boots. :D

I worked in country radio. I wore jeans to work in the winter and shorts in the summer, but I tried to avoid "Western wear" at all times. I never wanted to be a stereotype.

I took a sort of working vacation to Nashville one summer, and I had a lot of interaction with folks from Music Row. None of them wore the so-called Western gear either. None. (As an aside, I was music director, so I'd had a lot of phone interaction with the record promoters anyway, but it was great to see them in action, especially on "chart night.")

[kwassa]

23. No Californian calls the state "Cali", only outsiders do that.

of course here we call Maryland "Murlin" sometimes to imitate a local accent.

and there is a move to get people to stop refering to Prince Georges County in Maryland as "P.G.", which virtually everyone does. Maybe that could be a new series: "The P.G.".

[Kashka-Kat]

24. What? The O.C. doesnt really exist?

Next thing you'll be telling me is Marissa didn't really die last night! There goes my reality.

[anarch]

25. I can't believe they made a whole show about Ocean City, MD

:eyes:

Actually, at first I thought it was a show about the ravages of oxycontin addiction.

[northzax]

27. 'The City' is New York

not San Francisco.

but maybe that's the new england bias showing-

and everyone knows that OC stands for the Orange Curtain.

[Radio_Guy]

28. Folks around where I live call Birmingham "Bammerham"

Stupid people are everywhere, it seems.

[slide to the left]

29. Waco

not that it is a nick name, but the compound is like an hour away from Waco. No Branch Dividians in Waco. Oh, and people in Texas call it Wacko. I must comfess, I am not even from Waco, but my husband is.

[puerco-bellies]

31. I remember HB just north of the pier during the early 70's.

Those funky-cool bungalows, total old school surf culture. On the flip side I was living in La Harbra and got in to a lot of fights with the locals trying to learn to surf between 17th and Golden West. Even then there was a kind of skin-head attitude from some of the locals, and especially the cops.

[martymar64]

32. Some people in Austin call it "A.T.X."

Personally, I hate that term. Sounds too much like KFC. I think it just dumbs things down. I blame those that use internet and text messaging shorthand. Lazy bastard.

OK, I'm done.

[dubyaD40web]

33. Kansas City

is always "K.C."