[UFO Chicago] Re: More about OSS "Chicago"

[d.w. harks]

With carefully-arranged electrons, SqrFolkDnc at aol.com wrote:
> I am proud to be an effete intellectual snob (how I date myself!), but I bow to the master.
> 
> When I am in Tennesee, talking to "iggorant hillbilly southerners", I identify myself as from Chicago.  When I am in Oak Park or Hyde Park, I identify myself as from Des Plaines, and often apologize for the incorrect pronounciation, which I am not responsible for.  For many intermediate audiences, I will say I am from the "Chicago area".  I would say the error of the original notice was in carelessness about who their audience was.  It's been a while, but wasn't this a road show travelling the country, hitting a few major metropolitan areas?  Wasn't this the show for the "Chicago area market"?  Yes, it would have been better to use the phrase rather than just the one word, but haven't spent enough bandwith on a discussion of "genuine places" as opposed to what, "fake places"?  Can we go on to something more constructive?
> 

Ahem.

A man
drives a plane
into the
Chrysler building

Saskatoon is in the room
Poulsbo is in the room
Bennetsville is in the room
Palmyra is in the room

Is Chicago!
Is not Chicago!
Is Chicago!
Is not Chicago!

A man
cuts in half
just like he
snaps a pencil

Khartoum is in the room
Phnom Penh is in the room
Pyongyang is in the room
Cairo is in the room

Is Chicago!
Is not Chicago!
Is Chicago!
Is not Chicago!

--Soul Coughing

-- 
David W. Harks <dave at psys.org>  http://dwblog.psys.org