From now on---In the sports forum of DU--- San Francisco will be called "FRISCO".

[trumad]

Who is with me?

[madinmaryland]

1. Did you get permission from the Frisco Kids??

[cboy4]

2. Wow, look at all of the people agreeing with you.

:sarcasm:

[trumad]

3. Hey thanks for the kick...

[inthebrain]

8. I agree with em, Frisco Kid!!!!

[cboy4]

11. What a surprise, but then you have a lot of free time on your hands

now that you know the Chokers won't be making the playoffs again.

[Forkboy]

4. I'm already in.

:)

[trotsky]

5. I think it's a great nickname that all TRUE sports fans of Frisco will support. n/t

[cboy4]

6. Just so you know, the FReepers use that word to describe The City.

Welcome aboard! :patriot:

[trotsky]

7. Even old Herb Caen admitted his error.

http://www.journalism.sfsu.edu/www/pubs/gater/fall97/sept11/Frisco.html

And even the man most responsible for the Frisco aversion may have had a change of heart toward the end. The day after the two men were arrested after telling the police they were from Frisco, a reporter covering the story in the Examiner wrote that Frisco is "the one sure word to identify them as tourists or rubes."

The next day, Herb Caen, of all people, perhaps thinking it had all gone too far, wrote in response: "Balderdash... the toughest guys on the old SF waterfront, neither rubes nor tourists, called it Frisco, and no effete journalist would have tried to correct them."

[cboy4]

10. ...

[trotsky]

12. Wasn't that invented in Frisco?

Awesome!

[madinmaryland]

14. "no effete journalist would have tried to correct them."

:wtf:

[Upton]

21. Herb Caen was delusional at the end

over 80 years old, dying of cancer...this is what the real Herb Caen was about:

[El Supremo]

9. I don't know. That would really demean Frisco Colorado.

[KamaAina]

20. And Frisco, Texas

where New Orleans* Mayor Ray Nagin's family actually lives, sends their kids to school, etc. Also home to MLS' FC Dallas.

[SteelPenguin]

13. Frisco it is

Seems kinda tame to me given the names people have slung at my city, but meh. It obviously bothers them so I'm in.

[Auggie]

15. Don't do this, children. Grow up.

[Forkboy]

16. That'll convince everyone.

[Auggie]

19. Yeah -- but I'm tired of the SOS

[Iggo]

17. I call 'em that anyway.

But I'm a Doyer fan. It's our way, guey.

[LisaM]

18. I'm in

I had never noticed it before, but ever since Cboy asked why whomever it was called San Francisco "Frisco", I haven't been able to think of the Giants as anything else! 1gobluedem is with me.

[Capt. America]

22. How about we call the city San Fransico, but we call cboyupton "Frisco kids", they

really seem to love it.

[madinmaryland]

23. Uhmmm. Where is "San Fransico". Stop making fun of the Frisco Kids!

:hi:

[Capt. America]

31. Oops! Good catch. Tired, so tired.

[Auggie]

24. I'm okay with that

[LisaM]

25. Of course, but I want to call the Giants "Frisco", too

Since they a stolen team anyway, who really cares?

[cboy4]

28. This coming from the fan of the team holding Thanksgiving and all of

America hostage.

[CreekDog]

26. I'll go along if you can provide the phonetic spelling of San Francisco

...as pronounced by people from here.

that would give you authority to weigh in on this.

like i said, tell us all how SF is pronounced here and we'll see how much insight you have.

:D

[cboy4]

27. "SAN-FRAN-CIS-CO"

All drawn out in four hard syllables. :eyes:

[CreekDog]

you should know better than that

are you trying to trick the OP? :rofl:

[El Supremo]

29. LOS-ANGLE-LEES

[cboy4]

30. I bet that's how you pronounce it.

:eyes:

[Onceuponalife]

33. Are you harrassing a Rockies fan now

that they are close to passing your boys up in the standings?

[cboy4]

34. They're not far behind, as part of the best division in the National League

[Jack Rabbit]

32. That's

lohs AN he lays with a slightly regurgitated h.

And no, that's not how we pronounce San Francisco.