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Subject: Re: Geographical Nicknames Posted on: 1 Sep 2004 11:11:56 -0700

eric h filted:
>
>Seattle's tourist pitch as the emerald city never stuck with me; I always
>called it Jet City, after the product that made it famous after Rainier
>Beer and before Starbucks.

It's also the "King City", after the county it's in...put that next to "Queen
City" (Cincinnati) and "Duke City" (Albuquerque) and you've got 60% of a
Jeopardy category....r