"Farewell to Frisco, say hello to San Fran" (This ought to bring back Jack Rabbit!)

[El Supremo]

We found a curious and furious message on our telephone voice mail the other day. A lady said she had been in the beautiful Art Deco Maritime Museum building and discovered an exhibit titled "Racing on the Bay Frisco Style."

Perhaps she had a complaint about the America's Cup races? But that wasn't it. It was Frisco. "Frisco!" the message said, the woman's voice oozing shock and dismay. "Frisco! In a museum!" She couldn't believe it.

It is true, though. The excellent exhibit about yacht racing on the bay uses that forbidden word several times. To high church San Franciscans, this is blasphemy.

(snip)

A new menace is on the horizon - San Fran. You hear young people talking about San Fran all the time, drawing scowls from old people. "So, you going to San Fran?" an airline agent asked a friend of mine. "Certainly not," he said. "I'm going to San Francisco."

The whole column at: http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/Farewell-to-Frisco-say-hello-to-San-Fran-4759011.php

Hey! San Fran managed to split the series with Pittsburgh!

[NYC_SKP]

1. For those who don't care to use the long form, we prefer they simply say, "The City".

Nobody says Frisco, nobody says San Fran.

Unless, of course, they're not native or live 70 or more miles away and/or are in junior high and/or have never been to the city.

[madinmaryland]

2. Dude! There is only one "The City" and it is sure as shit not Frisco...

Your sn indicates what the name of "The City" is.

Please don't forget that!!

[NYC_SKP]

3. When in Rome, baby!

In all of California, there's only one city thought by natives to actually be a city.

People don't really think of Sacramento as a city, it's to farm-ish, scarcely bigger than Stockton or Modesto.

Oakland and Berkeley aren't cities, they're communities in the stretch of communities collectively known as the East Bay.

As for anything in Southern California, well, not even natives can tell you where Los Angeles begins and ends.

East of the Rockies, however.. it's a whole different story!

[KamaAina]

8. This does get a bit confusing when talking with Mom and Republican Stepdad

who live in The Other City.

[El Supremo]

9. What? Daly City?

[madinmaryland]

10. No. Hartford City, IN.

[trumad]

4. Lived in San Fran---Frisco for 10 years and used those terms all the time..

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Mainly to piss off the snobs.

[Iggo]

5. Frisco.

Always has been.

Always will be.

Signed: El Lay.

[El Supremo]

6. Los AN-guh-leeze

That's how we Texans say it.

Or just:

[Iggo]

7. Those are good ones, too!