# How easy is it to make fun of your home city? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 6, 2006, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-easy-is-it-to-make-fun-of-your-home-city/355624 "2006-05-06T00:57:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Queen\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2006, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-easy-is-it-to-make-fun-of-your-home-city/355624/41 "2006-05-06T17:11:11Z")
I live in the city that is home to the [Flat Earth Society](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_earth_society). I don’t think I even need to bring up its even _worse_ points. On the other hand though, the visibility is awesome, and it’s warm outside and the wildflowers are blooming. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2006, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-easy-is-it-to-make-fun-of-your-home-city/355624/42 "2006-05-06T18:04:12Z")
Welcome to Tokyo. Come for the hello kitty, stay for the tentacles. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2006, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-easy-is-it-to-make-fun-of-your-home-city/355624/43 "2006-05-06T19:21:59Z")
[QUOTE=Sublight] Welcome to Tokyo. Come for the hello kitty, stay for the tentacles. [/QUOTE] Don’t forget the giant lizards and moths. Alas, since this is a message board, I can’t do a badly-dubbed ‘we must flee!’ thing here. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2006, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-easy-is-it-to-make-fun-of-your-home-city/355624/44 "2006-05-06T20:23:52Z")
I’m from Schenectady. Nothing more needs to be said to be said. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2006, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-easy-is-it-to-make-fun-of-your-home-city/355624/45 "2006-05-06T20:58:37Z")
[QUOTE=zamboniracer] Nobody makes fun of my hometown of Cleveland Ohio. Except for people from Buffalo, and Akron, and Detroit, and … 😃 [/QUOTE] And why do you think I named my company “Flaming River Art”? ---
**Author:** ![a\_10\_u\_us](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/858c86/32.png) [@a\_10\_u\_us](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a_10_u_us)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2006, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-easy-is-it-to-make-fun-of-your-home-city/355624/46 "2006-05-06T21:03:49Z")
Detroit - I lived in the nice part, so Motor City jokes are okay but “tough town” jokes hurt. Minneapolis - cold jokes are all true. “Minnesota accent” jokes don’t work because they only apply in the farming areas. The cities have no twang. Kalamazoo - Jokes write themselves and are taken well by the locals. Tulsa - cow town jokes and oil rig jokes are too true to be funny ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2006, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-easy-is-it-to-make-fun-of-your-home-city/355624/47 "2006-05-06T21:17:47Z")
[QUOTE=Marley23] Don’t forget the giant lizards and moths. Alas, since this is a message board, I can’t do a badly-dubbed ‘we must flee!’ thing here. [/QUOTE] :dubious: \WE MUST FLEE!\ What’s so hard 'bout _that_, Willis? 😛😃 ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2006, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-easy-is-it-to-make-fun-of-your-home-city/355624/48 "2006-05-06T21:35:53Z")
I’m a resident of Topeka, Kansas. Fred Phelps calls Topeka home as well. I think that makes me a winner here. ---
**Author:** ![Noone\_Special](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noone_special/32/2863_2.png) [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2006, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-easy-is-it-to-make-fun-of-your-home-city/355624/49 "2006-05-06T22:31:30Z")
[QUOTE=Linty Fresh] Boston … **Shagnasty** is right about the driving. If it weren’t for South Korea, we’d be the worst on earth. [/QUOTE] Um… You have **not** ever been to Tel-Aviv, have you? :eek: (no, we don’t **really** ride camels to get around. We only drive _ **as if** _ we did) And before anybody gets started, yes, I \*\*have \*\*driven in Boston. Took the pains to make sure my driving test would be out in marlboro, too… ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2006, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-easy-is-it-to-make-fun-of-your-home-city/355624/50 "2006-05-06T22:49:04Z")
Ames, Iowa. A nice place to live, but you wouldn’t wanna visit there. Home of [Cow College](http://www.iastate.edu), which nobody has called that for generations, bike paths, churches, nuclear families, parks, fair-to-middlin’ Big 12 sports, mosquitoes and snow (and no, we usually don’t get the latter 2 at the same time). ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2006, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-easy-is-it-to-make-fun-of-your-home-city/355624/51 "2006-05-07T01:39:30Z")
The first legal tattoo parlor opened in March. Er, it wasn’t illegal to _have_ one, just to get one. ---
**Author:** ![Daffyd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daffyd/32/8923_2.png) [@Daffyd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daffyd)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2006, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-easy-is-it-to-make-fun-of-your-home-city/355624/52 "2006-05-07T04:22:56Z")
[QUOTE=Antigen] Nobody makes fun of Montreal. [/QUOTE] Funny, every time I hear a French guy with a Montreal accent, I think of male strippers… but it could be a Gay thing… And of course no-one makes fun of Montreal - there’s no-one left to make fun of… They all moved to Toronto after the PQ was elected in the 70’s… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2006, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-easy-is-it-to-make-fun-of-your-home-city/355624/53 "2006-05-07T11:20:22Z")
If you like, think of **Melbourne** as the second child of a torrid romance that created Australia. **Sydney** is the eldest kid…brash, smarmy, and shit-full of her own importance. She’s the slut of the family, and brings disgrace to the Australian name. ☹ Melbourne is the classically beautiful second kid. She is more reserved and more thoughtful than her older trailer-trash sister. She doesn’t need to build Harbour bridges or crass Opera Houses, because she embodies true culture in the form of Australian Rules Footy and Sovereign Hill. Melbourne prides herself on not making a spectacle (just ignore the Grand Prix and the Comm Games for the moment will ya) and just goes about her day-to-day life with grace and decorum…and with her nose stuck **firmly** in the air. 😃 Oh, and you can forget about all those other _supposed_ capitals of Australia like Brisbane and Adelaide and Perth and Darwin and Hobart and,oh, of course, Canberra…they don’t matter one whit. It’s Sydney and Melbourne. And Melbourne wins because Melbourne says so. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2006, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-easy-is-it-to-make-fun-of-your-home-city/355624/54 "2006-05-07T11:50:21Z")
There’s a lot to make fun of in Auckland. The traffic, the rain, the yuppies, the rain, the Westies (I’m in that area), the rain, the Skytower, the rain … 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Clam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3bc359/32.png) [@Happy\_Clam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Clam)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2006, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-easy-is-it-to-make-fun-of-your-home-city/355624/55 "2006-05-07T12:16:05Z")
How mockworthy is London? We have cockneys. And rain. ---
**Author:** ![gardentraveler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gardentraveler/32/3576_2.png) [@gardentraveler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gardentraveler)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2006, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-easy-is-it-to-make-fun-of-your-home-city/355624/56 "2006-05-07T12:48:36Z")
Cow-lumbus, Ohio. In real life, not bad at all, but we’re always afraid people are making fun of us. Although I don’t know that anyone says anything at all… GT ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2006, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-easy-is-it-to-make-fun-of-your-home-city/355624/57 "2006-05-07T13:49:16Z")
The slogan of the city I live in is: The Factory Tour capital of the world. And of all the tours listed, only two are actually in this city. That’s a pretty easy target. ---
**Author:** ![NinjaChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@NinjaChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinjaChick)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2006, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-easy-is-it-to-make-fun-of-your-home-city/355624/58 "2006-05-07T18:09:12Z")
The government of the city I was born in has recently attracted quite a bit of attention from the FBI but really isn’t that comical (Philly). I was raised in New Jersey, though, which basically is one big giant suburb and…yeah, make your own jokes here. ---
**Author:** ![ASAKMOTSD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/919ad9/32.png) [@ASAKMOTSD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASAKMOTSD)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2006, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-easy-is-it-to-make-fun-of-your-home-city/355624/59 "2006-05-07T18:29:52Z")
I am from Flint, Michigan. I think Michael Moore made a whole movie on that one. Do I win? ---
**Author:** ![Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e56c9b/32.png) [@Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mirror_Image_egamI_rorriM)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2006, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-easy-is-it-to-make-fun-of-your-home-city/355624/60 "2006-05-07T18:44:37Z")
[QUOTE=kunilou] Across the state, Kansas Citians deal with the stockyards, the Royals and Chiefs, Hallmark, that the largest city in Kansas is located in Missouri, that restaurants now call the “Kansas City strip steak” a “New York strip steak” and that their biggest claim to fame is a song from a 60 year old Rogers and Hammerstein musical. [/QUOTE] Also, people who aren’t from the bi-state area thinking I live in Kansas, on a farm, or that Missouri is “the South”. NO. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-easy-is-it-to-make-fun-of-your-home-city/355624.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-easy-is-it-to-make-fun-of-your-home-city/355624.md?page=4)