A while back Minneapolis was Murderopolis. It has a suburb commonly referred to as No Hope (New Hope).
Las Cruces, NM is often called “Lost Causes”.
NMSU (New Mexico State University) is often pronounced “enema zoo”.
Joe Bob Briggs used to refer to Los Angeles as “El Lay”.
Don’t forget their cross-lake rival Detroit = “De toilet”.
And Philly’s sure-kill expressway.
Dreary Erie, the mistake by the lake.
Fayette County, PA, known locally as “Fayette Nam.” It is, shall we say, very rural. An episode of My Big Redneck Wedding was filmed there.
Round here we have two towns close to each other and are noted for being somewhat run down.
Castleford - Cas vegas
Pontefract - Ponte carlo
These are entirely ironic, as both these places are about as far apart as you can get from the excitement or sophistication if the names they ape.
Somerville MA = Slummerville
San Diegans call LA Hell-A, especially those of us who used to live there.
L.A. = Hell-A
Sacramento = Scrotumento
Seminole, FL = Semen Hole
Sanibell, FL = Tidy Bowl
Butte, MT = Butt
Needles, CA = Needless
Bakersfield = Gateway to Fresno
When I lived in San Diego, we called LA “Smell-A.”
I was just about to post this. Great minds think alike.
Wilmington, DE., is called Killmington and Kill-more-ton by some of the local wits.
Or Detritus.
I once refered to Los Cruces (NM) as Los Feces, which just about made my dad pass out from laughing so damn hard.
I’ve known some of the locals of Wilmington. You’d need to put a couple of them together to come up with a whole wit in the first place.
A friend of mine used to live in Baltimore. His experience was such he started calling it “Stalingrad on the Patapsco”. I laughed for about 2 hours straight when I first heard it.
Des Moines = Dead Moines or Death Moines. Groucho coined that in the '20s because it was one of the few places the Marx Bros. couldn’t get a crowd, let alone a laugh.
I think DSM started the “airport code for the city” fad, probably because the airport is nicer than most of the city.
As someone born there (but grew up in Newark!) and now works there, I’d have to agree :).
Limerick is known as Stab City.
I have several friends who live in Deadmonton and strongly object to it being called that. But I know no one who objects to Scarborough, near Toronto, being called “Scarlem.”
And many, many, many people who have passed through New Brunswick know it better as “No Funswick.”
Many of the better known ones are posted. I think Slimy Pebble may more refer to the school than the town of Slippery Rock. Naptown for Indianapolis. I though I could think of some more.