Please don't refer to "Kansas City" and let it go at that.

[raccoon]

There's Kansas City, MO and Kansas City, KS. Now, if you don't specify which, how is anyone supposed
to know which one you are referring to?

Or is the difference in size that great? I mean, is KC MO so much bigger that it couldn't possibly be mistaken for KC KS?

[Lady Freedom Returns]

1. For me there is only one KC.

Ah, the music, the BBQ, the Renaissance festival! And the NASCAR!

How I do miss taking trips up state to party KC style!

[Ptah]

2. Well, everything is up to date there.

[Aristus]

7. Awful lot of mountains in that scene.

It's almost as if they filmed it in California insteaad of Oklahoma...

[Ptah]

8. Nogales, Arizona!

[Aristus]

9. Hey! I've been there!

Used to live in Arizona...

Now, why the heck didn't they film it in Oklahoma? Someplace flat and dull and boring?...

[Kali]

18. Naco, tambien.

[Art_from_Ark]

22. Just like that Clint Eastwood movie, "Hang 'Em High"

It's supposed to be set in southwest Oklahoma (territory), but the terrain in the movie is way too rugged.

[trof]

21. They've gone about as fur as they can go.

yep

[Ptah]

30. They built a skyscraper seven stories high

About as high as a buildin' orta grow.

[TrogL]

3. Damn you now you've got me hearing the song

[RebelOne]

16. I loved that song. It has been years and years since I last heard it.

Now I am going to have an ear worm all day.

[ohiosmith]

4. Which has the crazy little women? That's the one I want!

[Lady Freedom Returns]

6. I moved to Tucson AZ.

[MADem]

37. You might take a train, you might take a plane, but if you have to walk, you're going there just the

same, is that it?

[MiddleFingerMom]

5. But... but... but... what about my "happy endings"?

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They're just not gonna happen for me without this trigger.
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Kansas City... Kansas City here I come.
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Frankly, which one is very personal and none of your damn bidness.
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[Wounded Bear]

10. Actually, it should re-name itself to ease the confusion..

Missouri City, Kansas sounds about right, eh?

[Iggo]

15. That would be perfect.

[LWolf]

11. I was born in KC.

Lived on both sides of the river; never heard anyone distinguish KS or MO. It was just KC.

Of course, I was just a kid.

[El Supremo]

20. Me too.

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It is all the same except for politics. And there are so many suburb cities it gets confusing when you want to be specific. For instance my mailing address was Shawnee Mission, Kansas, but I lived in Mission Hills and went to the Prairie (Village) school district. Missouri was only one long block away.

And I forgot: I was born in Missouri (the hospital was there) but I never lived in Missouri.

I just say Kansas City.

[pipi_k]

12. Peru...

MA

Florida, MA


London, ON, Canada


Springfield...wherever

[GObamaGO]

24. Madison, Any State.

[lastlib]

13. Wanna know why Missourians are so lousy at geography?

Mexico, California, Nevada, Cuba, Cabool (Kabul), Versailles, Paris, Moscow--are ALL in Missouri! Ain't that Peculiar? (Peculiar is also a Missouri town...)

And Cairo is just across the river in Illinois.

[Art_from_Ark]

23. There's also "Bolivar" (pronounced BAH-li-ver)

And "Nevada" is pronounced "Ne-VAY-da"
And "Cairo" is pronounced "KAY-ro" (like the corn syrup)

[Gidney N Cloyd]

25. I did radio news at SIU in the late 70's and once "mis"pronounced Cairo as 'KI-ro.'

Caught hell for it, too.

[lastlib]

26. Don't say "ver-SIGH," either--it's "ver-SAILS"

"Moscow" is "MOSS-ko" (rhymes w/ hoe)

[REP]

29. Tightwad is in Missouri, too

The Marais des Cygnes ("swan swamp&quot runs into Missouri, where it's called "mary de zene."

[lastlib]

33. My company bought the bank in Tightwad, just so they could say they

had a Tightwad bank....

They also have "Toad Suck", "Lickskillet" and "Frogwater".

[REP]

35. Boone's Lick, New MADrid ...

And to me, it's "we," even though I hightailed it out to better weather 15 years ago

[Iggo]

14. If you don't specify which KC it is, it's assumed to be KC MO.

[barbtries]

17. please forgive me if i am unbearably ignorant,

but aren't they one city in two states?

[raccoon]

19. I guess they are together geographically, but two political entities. nt

[REP]

28. FUCK NO.

Sorry. Fuck no, I meant. KCK is newer, in another state/county, has its own government, etc.

[barbtries]

31. i realize that

but i meant geographically. i thought they were right there together even though in different states. thank you for correcting me.

[REP]

34. KCK is across the river; Overland Park, Mission, etc in Johnson Co is actually "right next to"

and are considered suburbs of KCMO. Even though they, too, are in a different state/county.

KCK is in Wyandotte Co.

[barbtries]

38. thanks rep

[REP]

27. Pretty much, there is only one KC. Just like there's really just one St Louis.

If people mean KCK, they say KCK and add "good luck with that."

Same thing with St Louis (in Missouri) and E St Louis (in Illinois).

[LynneSin]

32. Same thing with Wilmington

DE or NC?

[Throd]

36. The only Wilmington that matters is in California.

[barbtries]

39. or CA?

probably others as well. years ago before there was internet, i sent a letter to my sister and forgot to add the state on the envelope. she got it two or three weeks later after it had been to about every other Harrison in the country. when she got it she saw written on the envelope by the post office, "Try Idaho."