How easy is it to make fun of your home city?

I live in the city that is home to the 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.

Welcome to Tokyo. Come for the hello kitty, stay for the tentacles.

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.

I’m from Schenectady.

Nothing more needs to be said to be said.

And why do you think I named my company “Flaming River Art”?

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

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What’s so hard 'bout that, Willis?

:stuck_out_tongue: :smiley:

I’m a resident of Topeka, Kansas. Fred Phelps calls Topeka home as well.

I think that makes me a winner here.

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…

Ames, Iowa. A nice place to live, but you wouldn’t wanna visit there. Home of Cow College, 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).

The first legal tattoo parlor opened in March. Er, it wasn’t illegal to have one, just to get one.

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…

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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. :frowning:

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.

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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. :stuck_out_tongue:

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 … :slight_smile:

How mockworthy is London? We have cockneys. And rain.

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

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.

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.

I am from Flint, Michigan. I think Michael Moore made a whole movie on that one. Do I win?

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.