# Describe a city using only one-syllable words, try to guess other posters' cities **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [January 22, 2025, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-city-using-only-one-syllable-words-try-to-guess-other-posters-cities/1013256 "2025-01-22T15:39:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2025, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-city-using-only-one-syllable-words-try-to-guess-other-posters-cities/1013256/161 "2025-03-01T15:17:34Z")
Green Bay. ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2025, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-city-using-only-one-syllable-words-try-to-guess-other-posters-cities/1013256/162 "2025-03-01T17:50:35Z")
This town is in the Lone Star State. Its on the Gulf of … let’s not go there. The name is the same words as what the priest would say to you when he gives you the Host, IF he spoke in the old old tongue of old old Rome. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2025, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-city-using-only-one-syllable-words-try-to-guess-other-posters-cities/1013256/163 "2025-03-01T19:10:34Z")
Corpus Christi I suppose. ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2025, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-city-using-only-one-syllable-words-try-to-guess-other-posters-cities/1013256/164 "2025-06-30T23:19:14Z")
beans cod tea T ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2025, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-city-using-only-one-syllable-words-try-to-guess-other-posters-cities/1013256/165 "2025-07-01T00:05:20Z")
Boston ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2025, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-city-using-only-one-syllable-words-try-to-guess-other-posters-cities/1013256/166 "2025-07-01T00:24:02Z")
Right! Witch ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2025, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-city-using-only-one-syllable-words-try-to-guess-other-posters-cities/1013256/167 "2025-07-01T02:04:07Z")
Salem? ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2025, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-city-using-only-one-syllable-words-try-to-guess-other-posters-cities/1013256/168 "2025-07-02T00:42:20Z")
Right! ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2025, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-city-using-only-one-syllable-words-try-to-guess-other-posters-cities/1013256/169 "2025-07-02T01:21:36Z")
Bruce wrote a song where the town went down when the mills closed, and now no one can find work, ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2025, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-city-using-only-one-syllable-words-try-to-guess-other-posters-cities/1013256/170 "2025-07-02T01:48:08Z")
Abilene? ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2025, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-city-using-only-one-syllable-words-try-to-guess-other-posters-cities/1013256/171 "2025-07-02T02:14:08Z")
Well, I screwed this up mightily. Bruce did write a similar song, but it didn’t mention a particular city. So don’t waste your time trying to figure it out. > [@Kent\_Clark](#): > > Bruce wrote a song where the town went down when the mills closed, and now no one can find work, ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2025, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-city-using-only-one-syllable-words-try-to-guess-other-posters-cities/1013256/172 "2025-07-02T03:27:11Z")
OK, whatever the Bruce song may be, it reminds me of another: Bill Joel has an old song on life in this steel town when the plants closed and then no one had work, they wait in line and fill out forms. Now the town gets folks moving from New York and is in lists of good towns to live. ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2025, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-city-using-only-one-syllable-words-try-to-guess-other-posters-cities/1013256/173 "2025-07-02T12:37:39Z")
Allentown. And “moving”’is two syllables. ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2025, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-city-using-only-one-syllable-words-try-to-guess-other-posters-cities/1013256/174 "2025-07-03T14:43:28Z")
OK, correcting then: > [@gkster](#): > > Now the town gets folks moving from New York to “Now the town gets folks who move from New York” Back to post 155, > [@gkster](#): > > And this one is intriguingly still unsolved: > > > [@chela](#): > > > > There’s this gal who’s from there, there’s a boast she’s the toast of which town? > > A new one from me: > A big stone cat with a mane, dead, famed in this town up in the Alps. ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2025, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-city-using-only-one-syllable-words-try-to-guess-other-posters-cities/1013256/175 "2025-07-03T22:16:07Z")
Luzerne! There’s a zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo in my town 👯‍♀️🎤🎶 ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2025, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-city-using-only-one-syllable-words-try-to-guess-other-posters-cities/1013256/176 "2025-07-03T23:26:10Z")
Is the town named for St. James, in the tongue of Spain? That’s the zoo that’s known best. ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2025, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-city-using-only-one-syllable-words-try-to-guess-other-posters-cities/1013256/177 "2025-07-04T12:35:15Z")
> [@chela](#): > > There’s this gal who’s from there, there’s a boast she’s the toast of which town? Ipanema? ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2025, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-city-using-only-one-syllable-words-try-to-guess-other-posters-cities/1013256/178 "2025-07-04T15:51:32Z")
> [@chela](#): > > There’s a zoo zoo zoo zoo zoo in my town 👯‍♀️🎤🎶 Kalamazoo? ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2025, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-city-using-only-one-syllable-words-try-to-guess-other-posters-cities/1013256/179 "2025-07-04T16:52:40Z")
Yes!🙌 Clues I was about to give fcs. [Glen Miller](https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&sca_esv=8c582dbeba8eac0c&hl=en-us&udm=7&fbs=AIIjpHz30rPMyW-0vSP0k1VTNmO_kCOARpjPjQRkBWH2HwUIz5XUSIJvSK0oms7XOxizDlnXRxDkC5NVfwgEyz_SjO-irbGga0VIZ0iyTZvl54NwtrLxP7B4GlSlZqLtE3VqYdQW0QwJf_nQjw2V8EPqHtoD3OqNqC2Co-LDLdSZRtNDHWtUZNTG_UfL30ygnMkLMfu3IbtYb-b_g9hQjbuthg6-v44hiKzn-ZdlUdEIae2KpmEi9wA&q=glenn+miller+kalamazoo&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwin2LiEhaOOAxVh_8kDHVTZLD0QtKgLegQIDRAB&biw=390&bih=660&dpr=3#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:91586a16,vid:fFv_PoZ2iP0,st:0) made a song about it, also called celery city back in the mucky days, River of the same name runs through it. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2025, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-city-using-only-one-syllable-words-try-to-guess-other-posters-cities/1013256/180 "2025-07-11T01:34:45Z")
A couple of easy ones: My home town, two big bombs were built there. I left my blood pump there. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-city-using-only-one-syllable-words-try-to-guess-other-posters-cities/1013256.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-city-using-only-one-syllable-words-try-to-guess-other-posters-cities/1013256.md?page=10)