Do you live in a holy city? Which one?

[jberryhill]

I can't figure out why every third city is "The Holy City of (city)"

Whether it is Qum, Bethlehem, or Exit 34 on the Syria turnpike, it they all seem to be holy cities.

So why can't I say I grew up near the holy city of Philadelphia?

[Chan790]

1. No, I live in a swamp.

[jberryhill]

2. I was there for the rain the other day...

I thought places were going to float away.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

3. No, I live in a valley.

[jberryhill]

6. Do you get along with the Hill People in this Valley?

[Tuesday Afternoon]

7. lol

yeah, pretty much, I do

[geardaddy]

4. I live in the holy city of Water

Minneapolis.

[jberryhill]

5. That the only "Holy Twin Cities"

Hmmmm... That title kinda makes you wonder about whether we are getting the whole Christmas story....

[geardaddy]

9. Well, the other Twin City is named after a saint, so I guess they think they're holy.

[jberryhill]

16. Which saint is Saint Paul named after anyway?

I've always wondered about that.

[geardaddy]

30. St. Pig's Eye.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Parrant

[hlthe2b]

8. well, since Tim Tebow has appropriated "GOD" for HIMSELF (and the Broncos)....

Apparently, I do.

[jberryhill]

13. No, I've been to Denver and there is nothing holy on E. Colfax Ave

[hlthe2b]

34. There's a lot of "oh, Gawd, Oh, GAWD!" going on up and down Colfax, though if you listen...

[TheCentepedeShoes]

10. Not a city

but I definitely live in the House of Dog
Who was just awakened from his afternoon nap by a robo call from The Newt
He is not amused

[jberryhill]

14. Which bothered the dog more?

The phone ringing or the fact that it was Gingrich?

[TheCentepedeShoes]

24. He stuck his head around the corner

of the dining room so he could see me in the front bedroom where the computer is
I told him it was The Newt and he snorted and went back to the living room

[jberryhill]

25. Mine barks when Michele Bachmann is on TV

And then goes behind the couch.

[RZM]

11. Apparently Guatemala City is 'Holey'

[UnrepentantLiberal]

12. My city is named after a cow.

[jberryhill]

15. That's the one that laughs, right?

[UnrepentantLiberal]

31. Cows don't have a sense of humor

as far as I know.

[hlthe2b]

35. Ahh, Jersey cows-- the prettiest darned cows you ever saw...

LOVE EM!

[MiddleFingerMom]

51. Damn right!!! That sMOOkie is really dairylicious. n/t

[madinmaryland]

17. LynneSin lives off of Exit 3/4 of the Delaware Turnpike.

Does that count??

[jberryhill]

18. That is the Holy City Of Wilmington

And she gets bonus points for being near St. Anthony of Padua.

[KamaAina]

19. No, but I'm just a few miles away

[jberryhill]

20. Thread win

How much do they want?

We could pool all our money and buy it for the DU2 purists to live in.

[KamaAina]

21. Last I heard it was $11 million.

Wonder if they'd give a discount for cash?

[jberryhill]

22. Great! We only need another million!

[hunter]

82. Holy Crap, Holy City!

"Holy City was founded in 1919 by cult-leader William E. Riker and about thirty of his followers. Calling his ideology "The Perfect Christian Divine Way", Riker preached celibacy, temperance, white supremacy, and segregation of the races and sexes."

"Riker himself was arrested in 1942 for supporting Adolf Hitler, though he was later acquitted. The town disincorporated in 1959, and Riker lost control of the property. Several of the buildings mysteriously burned down shortly afterwards."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_City,_California

[XemaSab]

23. I live in the holy city of Redding

There is some CRAZY theology here.

Crazy I tell ya.

[OriginalGeek]

26. I live about 15 minutes from the Holy Land Experience

but If I go about 25 minutes the other direction I can get to Saint Disney's World.


Which is a lot more fun.

I sometimes wonder of the Holy Land people (The Trinity Broadcasting Network) put their park NORTH of Disney on purpose to make statement re: the north and south juxtaposition of going up or going down...

[Lady Freedom Returns]

29. I don't think they count

I think you have to have at least 1 bombing a week to be declared a" Holy City.

[jberryhill]

39. Seriously, that must be it

It's not a Holy City unless someone wants to nuke it.

[OriginalGeek]

47. well i'm not trying to get classified as a domestic terrorist

but I'd be happy to swing by a couple times a week and lob some snap-n-pops at the Holy Land amusement park

[jberryhill]

64. Or crash into it with a Tonka truck loaded with them

[La Lioness Priyanka]

27. holy city of nyc

[jberryhill]

41. That's not holy

Maybe the boroughs are

[Chan790]

78. Allen Ginsberg disagrees.

So very absolutely NSFH. Beautiful, profane, mind-altering; Ginsberg at his very best. There is no better way to spend a half-hour. Fucking is even inferior to reading Howl[ aloud. This is what I did for my poetry performance piece junior year of college. I was hoarse for a week because my interpretation rose in places to a loud manic scream.

[Ptah]

28. I drove through St. Louis once.

[jberryhill]

65. Did you see the site of the St Louis Space Needle tragedy?

[Kali]

32. don't live in or near a city of any kind but...

there is a little burg about 15 miles away by the name of St. David (and it was founded by saints - of the latter day variety)

[pokerfan]

33. Yeah, very much so

There are a few gravel pits around and I don't know how many wells so I would say that's it's fairly holey as towns go but nothing compared to Butte, Montana: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Pit

[ohiosmith]

36. I live in the un-holiest of cities.

[Bucky]

37. If you worship Enron or Mark Rothko, I live in your holy city.

[dimbear]

38. Many years in the Mormon Mecca, but now escaped.

Salt Lake City has lost a lot of its appeal. Something about overcrowding and pollution.

[jberryhill]

40. Ah, you got up to Logan, then?

Lol.

I spent a year in Logan one month.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

42. Well, I live in a suburb of the city of the angels...

Does that count?

[jberryhill]

43. Isn't a "suburb of LA" redundant?

What's a suburb there? Glendale? Pasadena? Burbank?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

44. Well, I suppose any town that lies around LA could be called a suburb...

I dunno!

[jberryhill]

45. Then how do you know when you are in one?

Like, at what point do you say - Here! I'm in a suburb of LA? San Bernardino?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

46. Damned if I know!

[jberryhill]

48. But you are in one, right?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

49. You are certainly the persistent one!

This is where we started.

I think that my town is a suburb of LA.

[jberryhill]

56. Lol, whatever you think it is, is what counts

People do seem to each be living in the world of their personal imaginations there, despite whatever objective reality might indicate.

[MiddleFingerMom]

52. I lived in West Chester, PA -- which is considered a "suburb" of Philly...

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... even though its, what... 20 miles away?
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[jberryhill]

54. You'd rather be a suburb of Chester? Lol

[MiddleFingerMom]

50. Because "The City of Brotherly Love" is already cool enough. Don't be greedy!!! n/t

[jberryhill]

55. That's what we say whenever there is a fight

But people are so nice, they even adopt stray bullets all of the time.

[Rowdyboy]

53. Hell yes! There are holes in the street, holes in the sidewalks, holes where businesses used to be

and holes in the heads of most city elected officials.

Canton Mississippi is one wholly holey city.

[jberryhill]

58. If Canton had tourists, you'd have a heck of a T-shirt

Welcome to the Holey City of Canton.

In Singapore, the tourist t-shirts say "Singapore is a fine city", and they list the fines for littering, chewing gum, smoking, jaywalking, spitting, and on and on.

[Rowdyboy]

73. Sounds like people here would fit in just fine....if you catch my drift....

I know its cheap but its late

[akbacchus_BC]

57. Vancouver, BC. Just for the weather. Forget the rioting when we lose a Hockey Game to the US!

[jberryhill]

61. That would be "the hockey city" not "the holy city"

This is the night before they put the fence around the steps. (from the seventh floor of the Georgia Hotel)

[akbacchus_BC]

66. Gimme a break, I was being sarcastic!

It blew my mind what happened that evening.

To be honest, I was at work and wanted to go downtown to mingle with the crowd and a friend called to let me know that the Canuks were losing big time, get the fuck out of there. Glad I didd not go!

[LeftyMom]

59. I live in the City of the Sacrament.

But it's California, so most every place was named by Spanish missionaries and thus every damned thing is named after a saint or a theological concept or the contents of Jesus' pajama drawer or something. Except Manteca, which is named after lard.

[jberryhill]

62. Here's something really cool

If you get on US 50 just near there, the sign states the mileage to Ocean City, MD. At the Ocean City end, there is a mileage sign for Sacramento.

But it can't get any holier than that I suppose.

[LeftyMom]

68. Yep.

I drive by it all the time.

Back in the nineties one of the weekly news magazines, I can't remember if it was Time or Newsweek did a story on Highway 50, profiling towns along the way. Only they messed up a teeny bit and did the western end article on San Francisco, which is wrong by ninety miles.

[fizzgig]

60. i live in a holy beer city

that count?

[jberryhill]

63. Did the beer make the city holy, or famous?

"That's the beer that made Milfamey walk us!"

The holy city of beer is Latrobe, Pennsylvania (and the glass lined tanks thereof)

[akbacchus_BC]

69. I think you came in and messed up

the dialogue! Now run along and try to mess up something else!

[fizzgig]

70. we are very well known for our beer

but i still say fat tire, our best known beer, sucks

[jberryhill]

71. Yes, but you always know the exact time there

[fizzgig]

72. truth

and plenty of other tasty brews

[Solly Mack]

67. Anywhere my ass sits is holy.

[REP]

74. No, but I live right next to Holy City, CA

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_City,_California

[Amaril]

75. Welllllll, it's prolly more "saintly" than "holy"

......but it is the oldest city -- we'll be celebrating it's 450th anniversary in 2015...........assuming, of course, that the world doesn't end in 2012............

Saint Augustine.

[jberryhill]

76. "Believe it or not!"

[LeftishBrit]

77. I live in Oxford, England

Don't know about the town being holy, but most of the local schools seem to be named after saints: St Ebbes; St Francis: St Mary and St John: St Philip and St James; St Augustines; ...Cheney. Yes, really. Among all the saints, there is a school called Cheney School!

[jberryhill]

79. The pagan British needed a lot of reminders

[pink-o]

80. I live in the City of "Holy Shit, there's guys walking around naked in the Castro!"

Yes, I have pix, but I don't know if I can post 'em. I'm not ready for a jury trial.

That being said, we are also named after a Saint. A pretty cool one, too.

[kwassa]

88. The city of Saint Francis, of course.

[Taverner]

81. To me, all of California is holy

And I am an Atheist!

[jberryhill]

83. Even Fresno?

[pink-o]

86. Me too!!!

[kwassa]

89. with cities named after Saint Francis, Saint Didacus, Saint Joseph, Saint Louis bishop, Saint Claire

Saint Anne, Saint Barbara, Saint Mark, Saint Bernadine,

and Our Lady Queen of Angels of Porzuincola, better known these days as Los Angeles.

[Taverner]

90. Bonny Doon is Holy

!

!

[Wait Wut]

84. I live in the "Christmas City"

They're doing it wrong, but refuse to listen to all the atheists that tell them that Christians are supposed to be giving and compassionate. Our local paper is a blast this time of year!

[Bolo Boffin]

85. I live in Dallas, and if they don't fix the potholes in the street, I'll tell you what.

It's like all those jobs Rick Perry created were in the tire alignment industry around here.

[slutticus]

87. The holy city of Oakland.

Bullet holes that is!