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Post Number: 58
Registered: 02-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - 1:38 pm: |    |
No, it starts there.
Don't you know California is the end of the world? |
Chuckjav
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Post Number: 766
Registered: 09-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - 1:39 pm: | |
Cycledetroit...I was afraid of that.
Take Dixie Highway (south) to the 80-90 toll road; head west to Route-66? |
Chuckjav
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Post Number: 767
Registered: 09-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - 1:45 pm: | |
"You don't know what SMART or DDOT stands for? GTFOH. Seriously"
Damnit...cannot you see - it is not about me.
It is about that poor frightened 5th grader who cries out in the night - - - "WTF is MOCAD...how can I be smart, if I don't know what SMART is"? |
Youngprofessionaldetroiter
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Post Number: 344
Registered: 07-2008
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - 1:47 pm: | |
quote:Hipsters are the new yuppies. Both hated on at different times by 'true' urban dwellers for the same reasons.
Yeah, as a yuppie, I struggle to understand what those reasons are. Can someone enlighten me? The City of Detroit is unfriendly to outsiders in its bureaucracy, its politics, its street signage, even to its future business owners, residents, and developers. It's almost as if it's ingrained into the culture.
I lived in the city. I'm moving back into the city. I dunno what the hell MOCAD or SMART actually stand for. I mean, I'll take the trouble to look it up and all. But I'm challenging people to see that the status quo needs a little shake up.
How about, Detroit: Welcoming Outsiders With Its Arms Wide Open.
Kinda goes back to something I said in another thread...."Detroit: Where Beggars Can Be Choosy" |
Cycledetroit
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Post Number: 9
Registered: 09-2008
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - 1:49 pm: | |
Chuck,
After living in LA for 4 years, I am very happy to be back in Detroit. I dont plan on leaving again.
Sorry to tell you, but there will probably be more and more hipsters with their acronyms moving into the city soon. TTYL BFF KIT
maybe we can talk in "pager code" 143*
(Message edited by cycledetroit on September 17, 2008) |
Youngprofessionaldetroiter
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Post Number: 345
Registered: 07-2008
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - 1:55 pm: | |
^idk, my bff rose? lol. "143" is so 1999. Holler at yer boy...YPD |
Cycledetroit
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Username: Cycledetroit
Post Number: 10
Registered: 09-2008
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - 1:58 pm: | |
what about 58008 upside down? Do they still make pagers? |
Youngprofessionaldetroiter
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Post Number: 346
Registered: 07-2008
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - 2:01 pm: | |
I'm sure they do, but I haven't actually seen one it several years. btw...the point I'm making isn't that acronyms are good or bad...just that maybe we could all be a little kinder to each other when we're not sure what they mean.
Detroit....so much....anger...I sense...the force...very weak...here is.
YPD |
Kahnman
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Post Number: 59
Registered: 02-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - 2:03 pm: | |
I prefer a nice rebus: STA4NCE |
Zulu_warrior
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Post Number: 3451
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - 2:03 pm: | |
ROTFLMZAO! |
Gumby
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Post Number: 1818
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - 2:09 pm: | |
Cycledetroit
Havn't you been paying attention you can't use LA here without first spelling it out to us first. |
Cycledetroit
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Username: Cycledetroit
Post Number: 12
Registered: 09-2008
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - 2:17 pm: | |
I know. I have to be very clear. I work with children, I am a professional at translating to Laymans terms.
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Norwalk
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Username: Norwalk
Post Number: 361
Registered: 11-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - 2:23 pm: | |
I-75? WTF? |
Chuckjav
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Post Number: 771
Registered: 09-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - 2:25 pm: | |
Cycledetroit...Thanks for the affirmation.
Personally, I love to see so many people rankled by my (attempt at a) humorous post.
BTW...Seems that the Citadel Folk are the ones most rankled. |
Downtown_lady
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Username: Downtown_lady
Post Number: 251
Registered: 08-2008
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - 2:45 pm: | |
quote:How about, Detroit: Welcoming Outsiders With Its Arms Wide Open.
That would be a great slogan -- the signs could read Detroit: WOWAWO. |
Youngprofessionaldetroiter
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Post Number: 347
Registered: 07-2008
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - 3:27 pm: | |
^Now THAT'S a t-shirt I'd buy |
Long_in_the_tooth
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Username: Long_in_the_tooth
Post Number: 127
Registered: 01-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - 3:32 pm: | |
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Bobl
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Post Number: 65
Registered: 07-2008
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - 3:44 pm: | |
Students are no longer taught paragraph structure, syntax, spelling, etc. Look at what one famous former teacher recently said, in public: "You done set me up for a comeback".
Also, text messaging has led to the further eroding of the English language.
Now, allow me to check and distribute my carbon copies of this contribution, so that more readers can be informed. |
Youngprofessionaldetroiter
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Username: Youngprofessionaldetroiter
Post Number: 348
Registered: 07-2008
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - 3:50 pm: | |
Bobl, I believe that your "ditto machine" be useful for that. (Note use of the subjunctive.)
ROTFLMAO |
Detroiterbychoice
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Username: Detroiterbychoice
Post Number: 105
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - 4:02 pm: | |
What is BoHo? The only think I can think of is "Bohemian Home" which is really close to meaning Indian Village. Or is that too much of a stretch. 1 @m a 707@1 n00b. |
Detroitnerd
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Username: Detroitnerd
Post Number: 3254
Registered: 07-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - 4:05 pm: | |
I don't mind shortening things a little. Bohemian National Home (8 syllables) to BoHo (2) is fair enough.
But I draw the line at calling North Corktown "NoCo". C'mon, people! We don't have the TIME to say North Corktown? Or what's with trying to call the north end of Hamtramck "NoHam"? That doesn't even have zip! (Sounds like some boring Middle Earth name. The Sword of Noham!)
Must we give these fucking neighborhoods cutesy little names? Shit. Call them all the precious abbreviated monikers you want; that won't make it SoHo, you fools! |
Detroitrise
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Username: Detroitrise
Post Number: 3590
Registered: 09-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - 4:08 pm: | |
Fine! How about we just call everything in Detroit "crap!"? I'm sure everyone can agree there! |
Jimaz
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Username: Jimaz
Post Number: 6404
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - 4:16 pm: | |
quote:i fail to see what anacronyms have to do with detroit's hipsterdom. if i start talking about the CDC, DEA, or the FBI, does that make me a hipster? Am I the first to notice that word? That was very creative. I love that word. May I use it? |
Downtown_lady
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Post Number: 252
Registered: 08-2008
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - 4:17 pm: | |
Detroitrise, only if CRAP is an acronym for something.
(Message edited by Downtown_lady on September 17, 2008) |
Detroitrise
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Post Number: 3591
Registered: 09-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - 4:23 pm: | |
Sorry Downtown_lady, no acronym. |
Downtown_lady
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Post Number: 253
Registered: 08-2008
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - 4:23 pm: | |
Detroit: Cultured, Refined and Proud |
Downtown_lady
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Post Number: 254
Registered: 08-2008
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - 4:24 pm: | |
^^ in opposite world |
Greatlakes
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Post Number: 242
Registered: 07-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - 4:25 pm: | |
City of Really Angry People. |
Detroitnerd
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Post Number: 3255
Registered: 07-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - 4:31 pm: | |
What would an anacronym be? Would that be like when somebody calls NASA "Need Another Seven Astronauts"? |
Detroiterbychoice
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Post Number: 106
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - 4:32 pm: | |
CRAP: Corridor Residing Amputated Prostitues
Detroit Nerd: I will destroy the sword of Noham with the enchanted forty of Casscorr! That is, if I can make the trek through the dangerous land of Mid(dle Earth)Town. |
Detroitnerd
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Post Number: 3256
Registered: 07-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - 4:33 pm: | |
DBC: I SO want to read that as a choose-your-own crackventure book. |
Detroiterbychoice
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Post Number: 107
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - 4:41 pm: | |
You must take the enchanted items to be destroyed in the incinerator of 1000 garbage fires, but beware the eye of Coleman Young, whos spirit rests among the rubble.
Do you
A) Travel under the over pass and fight the CHUB's (Cannibilistic Humanoid Underground Bums)
or
B) Take your chance and wait for a SMART Bus
Choose wisely..... |
Detroitnerd
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Post Number: 3258
Registered: 07-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - 4:48 pm: | |
Oh, I am so choosing A! Die, ghastly CHUB-men! |
Youngprofessionaldetroiter
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Post Number: 349
Registered: 07-2008
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - 4:54 pm: | |
CHUBS...Pwned by DYes! |
Digitalvision
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Post Number: 1292
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - 5:09 pm: | |
Can there be mystical bottles of fortified wine? |
Sean_of_detroit
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Username: Sean_of_detroit
Post Number: 1802
Registered: 03-2008
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - 5:46 pm: | |
There was pager code? People used to actually talk on those things? Wow!
Thanks for making me feel young. I am a post pager generation... I think (or was just behind).
I did have a HUGE Motorola cell phone though. It had no battery life, and was the size of a brick. I remember when everyone thought it was just hilarious to call you, saying they were coming over. Then it would turn out they were calling from your front porch. "Ahh.. haha.. you got me".
All the time you would just be bothered by the bizarre pop-over. Plus, it was only even possibly funny the first time it was done to you. It's all so fun to be a part of something like that though. I wonder what silly little pranks people did with the first cars, or television, or radio, or telephone. I wonder who made the first prank phone call. Oh, and you just know tons of people who were the first to own a freezer, saved some snowballs to throw at the neighbors in the Summer. |
Youngprofessionaldetroiter
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Post Number: 350
Registered: 07-2008
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - 5:57 pm: | |
I nominate this thread for the HOF hahaha |
Downtown_lady
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Post Number: 255
Registered: 08-2008
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - 6:25 pm: | |
quote:There was pager code? People used to actually talk on those things? Wow!
Sean, 07734 |
Gistok
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Post Number: 7291
Registered: 08-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - 6:27 pm: | |
quote:Will people stop with the whole "midtown is the cass corridor" shit. The cass corridor is part of midtown. midtown is a combination of several neighborhoods Cass corridor, Brush Park, New Center, and I think Milwaukee Junction.
Sorry Gumby, but you're including too wide of an area into Midtown... surprised no one else caught this...
The Midtown "label" consists of 6 distinct districts.... Cass Park (formerly "Corridor"), Wayne State, Cultural Center (they also use a new name "Museum District"), Detroit Medical Center (DMC), Brush Park, and Orchestra Place.
Midtown's boundaries are the 4 freeways... Lodge, Ford, Chrysler, Fisher.
New Center is entirely north of I94, and IIRC it also includes Milwaukee Junction and even though it's across the Lodge Freeway... Henry Ford Hospital. |
Hybridy
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Username: Hybridy
Post Number: 263
Registered: 08-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - 6:33 pm: | |
how bout HFCS?
its in everything you love |
Jimaz
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Post Number: 6407
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - 7:11 pm: | |
Anacronym is a portmanteau combining anachronism and acronym.
Some examples
(Message edited by jimaz on September 17, 2008) |
Duke_sims
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Post Number: 61
Registered: 05-2008
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - 8:35 pm: | |
Gumby, the problem is, people made a concerted effort 10 years ago or so to start calling the Cass Corridor "Midtown." It was very contrived, which is why I refuse to use the word "Midtown" -- it was dreamed up in an office somewhere.
They did the same thing Downriver, where the Chamber of Commerce types tried to change "Downriver" to "Metro Shores."
The Corridor is the Corridor. And Downriver is Downriver. |
Youngprofessionaldetroiter
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Username: Youngprofessionaldetroiter
Post Number: 352
Registered: 07-2008
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - 9:38 pm: | |
quote:It was very contrived, which is why I refuse to use the word "Midtown" -- it was dreamed up in an office somewhere
I respectfully disagree. Changing the name can help change the perception, culture, and even the identity and social norms of the area. I mean, to get biblical...Saul to Paul, for example. As someone who wants to see continued revival, it's a lot easier to sell people on living in "Midtown" than the Cass Corridor.
Of course, I can see it being hard to agree if:
(1) You are happy with Cass Corridor looking the way it did in 1990
(2) You are happy with Cass Corridor attracting the same kinds of people it did to get its bad reputation.
Putting lipstick on a pig is not a solution, but if there's one thing Detroit is way behind the curve on, it's marketing and sex appeal. I swear, there's like this sentiment that unless it's gritty and dirty, it's not really "Detroit".
Well, hell, I thought we were tired of gritty and dirty... |
Retroit
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Username: Retroit
Post Number: 386
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - 9:45 pm: | |
This is why I love DetroitYES!
Oops, TIWILDY! |
Gumby
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Post Number: 1821
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, September 18, 2008 - 2:01 am: | |
quote:Sorry Gumby, but you're including too wide of an area into Midtown... surprised no one else caught this...
Which is why I said "I think" |
Detroitrise
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Username: Detroitrise
Post Number: 3592
Registered: 09-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, September 18, 2008 - 6:34 am: | |
Duke_sims, I agree (somewhat).
In extreme cases, I just simply call it "downtown". |
Detroiterbychoice
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Username: Detroiterbychoice
Post Number: 108
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Thursday, September 18, 2008 - 9:09 am: | |
Detroitnerd, back to business:
While pwning n00b CHUB's under the I-75 overpass with your mystical motown machete, you are attacked by a grizzly bear sized retro rat riding a fixie, wearing clothes from salvation army, and drunk with power after drinking fortified PBR at the majik stick while watching a mediocore garage rock band with their thumbnails painted black. The retro rat steals your wallet, iPhone, and bridge card.
Do you
A) Follow the Rat to its mystical dumpster hideout
B) Continue Up I-75 towards the incinerator of 1000 garbage fires
C) Go up the off ramp to a gas station to cash a check and get your pager activated. |
Detroitnerd
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Post Number: 3260
Registered: 07-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, September 18, 2008 - 10:26 am: | |
DBC: No rat pwns my ass! Sword of Noham, lead on into the dumpster hideout! |
Hamtragedy
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Username: Hamtragedy
Post Number: 305
Registered: 10-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, September 18, 2008 - 4:44 pm: | |
True Detroit pager code:
375137739206
Upside down reads: gO 2 bELLE ISLE |
Ravine
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Username: Ravine
Post Number: 2749
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, September 18, 2008 - 9:43 pm: | |
Gumby: Regarding your earlier, frustrated post, I sympathize with your anguish, but I can tell you right now, if I have to open up a second tab and hop over to Google in order to understand your post, your post had better be a lot more interesting than most of mine are, or I'm going to elect to not bother with Google OR your post.
I hope you realize that I'm toying with you, although I actually did mean what I wrote. |
Gumby
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Post Number: 1825
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, September 21, 2008 - 10:09 pm: | |
Well that is your perogative. But it isn't my fault you are too damn lazy or stupid (you decide) to check a couple of things out. I'm sorry if your time is so damn precious that you decide to ignore my post. I don't care but please stop with the bull shit.
quote:I hope you realize that I'm toying with you, although I actually did mean what I wrote.
WTF is that even supposed to mean, "No offense, but I think you suck" or something along those lines? You've got to be shitting me. |
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