... is the greatest city in the United States. Fact.
Posted by Vogon Poet (Member # 393) on :
Well, granted Homicide: Life on the Street was set there. . . But I feel that while I'm not qualified to argue the point (having never been there myself), I do think that you should hold off on such a claim until you've visited Rio, Paris, Brussels. . . places I have been. I'm sure there are loads of others I haven't. 8)
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
I would counter your argument by saying that Houston is the greatest city in the United States, but I can't say it without giggling. Posted by Dukhat (Member # 341) on :
I wouldn't go so far as to say that Baltimore is the greatest city ever, but I do know which city is the dirtiest ever: New Orleans.
Posted by CaptainMike (Member # 709) on :
Ooh.. remember what happened to the Simpsons when they dissed New Orleans...
Posted by Vogon Poet (Member # 393) on :
"Take that, East St. Louis!"
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
I feel I should point out that Jeff did say "in the United States", not "in the world" or "ever"...
BTW, you don't want to go to East St. Louis. You really don't. Especially at night. And unarmed. And white. :-)
Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :
quote:claim until you've visited Rio, Paris, Brussels. . .
Lee,
I didn't realize those cities were in the United States.
Posted by Tahna Los (Member # 33) on :
Paris is in Texas. Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
Well, it's not really here in Texas. We just have a cheap knock-off of the real Paris. It's true. They have a Eiffel Tower, but it's built with beer cans and belt buckles. Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :
Paris, Texas sounds like my kind of place.
Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
Bah. Baltimore is a pale shadow of The City. You can't even get anything to eat on a Saturday night after 2000. About the only things going for it are Constellation, the aquarium, Atomic Books, that giant porn clearinghouse on Rt. 40 east, John Waters, the occasional Otakon, & a certain cute Asian girl whose brains I really want to ball out.
Oh yah. And Super PDG up there. Werd.
Posted by Dukhat (Member # 341) on :
quote:that giant porn clearinghouse on Rt. 40 east
I used to live right by that place...ah, the memories...
Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :
I essentially started this thread because of Stingray's comments in the Flameboard. Anyway, part of what makes Baltimore the best city in the U.S. (or at least, until I move away from Baltimore...):
We've got the Ravens, and the Orioles ... and the National Aquarium, and Johns Hopkins University, as well as Towson University, Loyola University, Women's College of Notre Dame, Morgan State, UMBC, and the USS Constellation. We've also got the best crabs (as in, you know, the food) in the nation. We're rated #1 in the U.S. for meeting singles -- although we probably owe that a lot to our proximity to Washington, D.C. (half an hour away). We're the birthplace of Babe Ruth, and in 1939, it was here that the Jewish community protested the shore leave of a German warship. We've been seen in The X-Files, featured proudly in Homicide, and immortalized in films like "Diner." We're famous as the place where people say "hon." Tom Clancy has not only set scenes of books in Baltimore, but even in my own neighborhood.
Posted by USS Vanguard (Member # 130) on :
Johns Hopkins eh? I had a friend who went there. he said people were always sabotaging him.
Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :
Oh, was that him?
Actually, a friend of mine is in charge of IT there. Makes some good cash.
Posted by Stingray (Member # 621) on :
Um...what did I say?
Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :
Something about Americans not having any pride.
Posted by Vogon Poet (Member # 393) on :
In my defence, there's been so many Yanks going on recently about "the world," as in "the threat of terrorism to the world" when they really mean "the threat of terrorism to us," it seemed fair to assume that when one of them goes on about the United States he actually means the whole world. . .
Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :
Look, when I say specificly, the best city in the U.S., I mean the best city in the U.S. I do not mean the best city in Europe, or Asia, or Africa, or Australia, or South America, and I certainly don't mean the best city in the whole damn world. And we're not talking about terrorists at all!
Posted by Vogon Poet (Member # 393) on :
That'd make a nice change. . .
Posted by Stingray (Member # 621) on :
Wait wait...what did I say?
Posted by Kosh (Member # 167) on :
quote: Ravens
Hardly what I'd call a plus.
I spent a week in port deposit Maryland, back in the seventies. We were in a trailer court, setting on top of the only hill for miles around. Port Deposit flooded during that week, and my brother-in-law's navy buddies startd calling it Port Demolished. Closest I've been to Baltimore.
Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :
Yes, they only won the Super Bowl last year.
Posted by Kosh (Member # 167) on :
paradoy is hell, in the NFL. A team with a bad Quarterback wins the big game. What do they do the following season, dump the quarterback, and pick up one with a better record, only to have him blow chuncks this year, and last years QB now is with Washington, and will be starting on Sunday. If the Skins win with Banks at the helm, I think I'll stop watching the pros.
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
"We've got the Ravens, and the Orioles"
Don't know who they are. Don't care.
"and the National Aquarium"
Ooh, an aquarium. I must book my holiday now!
" and Johns Hopkins University, as well as Towson University, Loyola University,"
I am suspicious of places that have multiple universities. Liverpool has 3. One is a real university. One is where the people too stupid to go to the real one go. The other is basically there to provide spare human organs incase we go to war.
"Women's College of Notre Dame, Morgan State, UMBC,"
There's a college, for women, dedicated to studying a French Building? Woo.
"and the USS Constellation."
The USS CONsteLIATion HAS tHe QuAnTum TOrPZ! And The BoRg fukEr PhaZoRZ!
"We've also got the best crabs (as in, you know, the food) in the nation."
You anticipated my joke. Bastard.
Still, wow. You have the best crabs. LOOK AT MY EXCITED FACE!
"We're rated #1 in the U.S. for meeting singles -- although we probably owe that a lot to our proximity to Washington, D.C. (half an hour away)."
So you have a city full of prositutes and people who can't commit to a relationship? That's good.
"We're the birthplace of Babe Ruth,"
OMG! I've just discovered I can scratch my chin with my foot!
"and in 1939, it was here that the Jewish community protested the shore leave of a German warship."
Possibly the single biggest thing that ever happened in World War II. Ever.
"We've been seen in The X-Files,"
So has an awful lot of shit.
"featured proudly in Homicide,"
You've been featured proudly in a show about murder? Again, that really sells the place to me.
"and immortalized in films like "Diner.""
And who here hasn't seen that classic movie?
"We're famous as the place where people say "hon.""
No, you're not.
"Tom Clancy has not only set scenes of books in Baltimore, but even in my own neighborhood."
My dear god, I'm so jealous! London never appears in anything.
So, to sum up, you live in a scity overrun by prostitutes and murderers, where everyone has mutiple STD's, and you're full of students?
