In the city...

I had a friend from Sf refer to his place of residence as "The City."

What is this crap? Seriously, what kind of arrogant crap reduces the world to YOUR hometown, The city, and everything else to .... welll. I guess, everything else? This is the same kind of sophist nonsense that has people calling the Atlantic Ocean "the Pond." Lemme tell ya, NOBODY who's actually crossed the ocean (rather than fly over greenland) calls it the pond. You want the right to call it the pond, swim it!

So, SF want's to be called "The City," despite being the second largest city in California, hmmm? And of course, New York wants to be called "The City" as a short form of "The city that never sleeps" (no wonder they're all cranky). When in actuality, the only city that doesn't sleep is Las Vegas...

Lemme tell ya something... if you want other countries to stop hating us and flinging planes at our buildings, you gots ta have a global view. And we can start here. "The City" is, and has been for some time, Hong Kong. Not only is it the largest city in the world (roughly the size of NY and LA combined), but it's been focal point for International trade, smuggling, culture for most of the world.

Every other city in the world is a secondary point. So, if you want to name your town, you got to get on the same wavelength as ... say Detroit: "Mo-Town" ... or Chicago: "the Loop". Now, I'm not saying that I'm all that good at making up names, but here's a few suggestions for today's losers ... LA can stay...LA, but if we need a "the" in our title, it can be "the Reel", and SF can be "the Gold", NY could be "the Apple", "the Grouch", or based on 911, "The Target". Annd if anycity doesn't like it they can be "The Whine"