We're in the national news again

I didn't even know about the Santa Maria replica. I'm going.

(Fwiw my suggestion would be "Dayton on steroids.")

St Helens: Just Give Up

Cirencester: Capital of the Cotswolds

Tralee's crest has the motto "Vis Unita Fortior", which bafflingly means United Strength is Stronger?

Pro tanto quid retribuamus ('how can we repay so much').

The word slogan is itself Irish, I think. Red Devil will know.

Bellshill.....You'll never leave.

Duncan Gardner wrote:
Pro tanto quid retribuamus ('how can we repay so much').

The word slogan is itself Irish, I think. Red Devil will know.

Didn't sound familiar, and turns out that rather than Irish, it's from Scots Gaelic "the cry made by Highland clans before battle".

Lakewood, a suburb next to Long Beach (not as famous as Levittown, but it was the first city that was designed with a shopping center at the center of the city) is where I grew up. It's slogan: "Tomorrow's City Today."

London. Out the facking way.

For the last month or so it's been:

"Vancouver: Green Capital"

For the previous decade or so it was:

"Proud to Be Nuclear Free"

Both have the all imagination you'd expect from committees of civic employees fuelled by burnt coffee in airless, windowless rooms.

A better suggestion would be: "You can't afford to live here and we do, ha ha!"

Baltimore: The City That Reads.

(Wire connoisseurs will understand the humor)

irishreddevil wrote:
Duncan Gardner wrote:
Pro tanto quid retribuamus ('how can we repay so much').

The word slogan is itself Irish, I think. Red Devil will know.

Didn't sound familiar, and turns out that rather than Irish, it's from Scots Gaelic "the cry made by Highland clans before battle".

So they would all shout "SLOGAN!!!" before the charge. Interesting.

Yes, and it's mentioned in the Columbus article: "Austin, Live Music Capital of the World." And it's true, it's often very difficult to avoid live music here, no matter how desperately I try. My wife and I once tried to eat brunch at a little cafe near our old apartment after a late night (we were a bit hung over) and were horror-struck as an amateur jazz band with a tap-dancing singer began "jamming" five feet away from us shortly after our eggs had arrived.

The unofficial slogan of Austin is "Keep Austin Weird," which I prefer.

The motto of my native city, San Francisco, is "Oro en Paz, Fierro en Guerra" (Gold in peace, iron in war"), which sounds pretty bad-ass.

Cheltenham- salubritas et erudito
("health and scholarship")

The health bit is the spa waters, the scholarship bit is its public schools. That my school is included in this is laughable.

Renart will appreciate this
www.theonion.com/articles/bar-patrons-di...nd-setting-up,17804/


Where I live is sometimes called Happy Valley, but never by anyone who lives here. That was invented by college football announcers. It is in the name of a few businesses and on t-shirts and there's a rugby club called Happy Valley Barbarians.

The downtown business associationis going with "Find your OWN state of mind." What?

I think at one point State College claimed to be see "Tree City USA" but wasn't the only one with that claim, as I recall.

Reed John wrote:
Where I live is sometimes called Happy Valley

I can see marinading a chicken in that...

Swindon's is, apparently, "Health and Industry", presumably it's German equivalent, with a penchant for naturism, would be "Health and Efficiency"?

Road signs used to proclaim "Southampton: Home of Ocean Racing", but that stopped when we lost the Round the World race to Portsmouth.

I think "Southampton: Not Portsmouth" would sum up the local attitude as a replacement.

St. Joseph MO - "But we've always done it like that!"

Missouri - "Like Mississippi with worse roads." (With nod to Molly Ivins).

Let Glasgow Flourish

is the more ecumenical version of St Mungo's Prayer "Let Glasgow Flourish by the preaching of Thy word and the praising of Thy name"