If your hometown was a verb, what would it mean?

[wickerwoman]

I got the idea for this from the hometown travesty thread.

I live in Shanghai. As a verb it means "To induce or compel (someone) to do something, especially by fraud or force."

So if your hometown was turned into a verb, what would it mean.

My old home town?

seattle v. To be stuck in traffic for more than two hours in the pouring rain.

e.g. "I was seattled until 8:00 last night and I forgot to put the roof back on my jeep!"

[Guy Fawkes]

1. Janesville (v.) To be given a black eye at a KKK rally while

on national Tv.

e.g. "Heraldo Rivera was Janesville back in the late 80's/early 90's."

[Magrittes Pipe]

4. I was at Beloit College when the Geraldo shit went down.

Sometimes I still slip up and call it "KKKnesville."

No offense. ;)

[DS1]

2. Taking hams and putting them in frames

:shrug:

[Cheswick2.0]

3. Dumas Tx

To Dumas means to breath dust.
It is not good to dumas when you are prone to asthma.

[miss_kitty]

5. i am on my first cuppa, and when i saw this thread i thought hmmmm

to be seattled...what would that be? then i read yours. you also took an element from 'the worst drivers' thread as well.

i think you got it in one, mate

[Mara Steele]

6. Wow, you live in Shanghai?? Damn, how cool is that??

Very cool, I must say.

Hi, from the other side of the world!

:hi:

[wickerwoman]

35. Thanks.

Most days it feels like living in New York (except for the guys on motorcycles doing 60 on the sidewalks) but every now and then I look up and think "Damn, I can't believe I'm living here."

[JVS]

7. I was Seattled for an hour yesterday outside of Dayton

Why can't these morons learn to drive carefully in the rain? Instead they go 70 and then wonder why they lose control of the vehicle. I swear, when they bring out the flatbed to tow the wreck they ought to put a couple bullets in the surviving driver to make an example out of him/her and to avenge the 5 miles of traffic backup that the person created.

edited by the department of redundancy department department

[JM]

8. Pittsburghed - to be permanently lost despite...

being able to see where you want to go.

JM

[JVS]

10. Ohh, that is a good one

[JM]

13. Actually, Pittsburgh could have multiples

Pittsburghed - To be stuck in tunnel traffic while people inside admire the fine tilework

Pittsburghed - To be unable to get anywhere in the city since all roads are simultaneously shut down or reduced to one lane

JM

[JVS]

14. Don't forget the positive meaning.

To be allowed to complete a left hand turn despite not having the right of way

[JM]

27. Also known as...

...the Obligatory First Left

You know you are dealing with a native Pittsburgher if you are the first at the light trying to make a left and you get waved through. It is some bizarre etiquette thing. Everyone making a left behind you is screwed, but the first left is given special dispensation.

Hilarious!

JM

[JVS]

32. With our strange traffic pattern it is the only way to keep from gridlock

[tigereye]

24. Pittsburgh

you can't get there from here... just like your number 2. Weird, huh.

:hi: from the East End

[JM]

28. Greetings to you...

From the inbound side of the Squirrel Hill Tunnel

:hi:

JM

[ScreamingMeemie]

9. Detroited-to receive two flat tires simultaneously while driving over

potholes bigger than a large storage shed.

[JM]

12. That applies to Pennsylvania as well

I almost broke a wrist when I hit a rim-breaking pothole on the Turnpike doing 70.

JM

[MrScorpio]

18. On The Ford Freeway

Of course Gratiot could work just as well

[JM]

11. [Insert Chicago North Shore Suburb Here]-ing

Driving while on the phone AND drying nailpolish

I was on my way to work and saw this woman Wilmetting on the Edens

JM

[bo44]

15. Stockton=the act of polishing a turd

Hey dude I'm gonna Stockton my 74 pinto and put some 20 inch wheels, curb feelers, 6 inch exhaust and 5 gazillion watt stereo in it. This is pretty much what our political leaders are doing to our city's downtown while many live in shit ass poverty, go to unsafe schools, and live in fear of gun violence every time they venture outside.

[wickerwoman]

34. LOL!

Not at the shit-ass poverty though.

[asthmaticeog]

16. To Cleveland:

1) To maintain a facade of positivity and progress in the hopes that no-one will notice you're gradually turning into a less-glamorous simulacrum of Detroit.

2) To change lanes or make a turn without signaling ever in your entire life.

3) To hold to the delusional and perversely self-flattering idea that your hometown is to blame for your own lack of success.

4) To exhibit symptoms of a bipolar-like disorder (as yet unnamed, but "Cleveland Syndrome" is available) wherein the sufferer simultaneously exhibits rabid civic pride and appallingly low self-esteem. Corrolated syndrome: "Browns Fandom."

[mdmc]

17. wildtown

[Viking12]

19. Coverted into a whacko fundie

as in to be "St. Pauled" (MN, my hometown even though I currently reside in WI).

[patdem]

20. Norfolk, we are the girls from norfolk, we don't smoke, nor drink, norfolk

It is a verb!!!!

[Krasnaya Lastochka]

21. my boring OK town

Bartlesville v. to dumb down, slow down and stagnate. I hate this town.

P.S. I hope you aren't really "bezdomny"...or have I mistranslated something?

[wickerwoman]

33. No, I'm not literally homeless.

But I'm an ex-pat and I love Bulgakov. :-)

[SarahB]

22. It would mean "to become comfortable with mediocrity".

[Touchdown]

23. Denvering is to drive an expensive SUV...

While choking in the smog and ozone as your driving to an anti-smoking rally, in a city that gets more sunshine than San Diego.

EDIT: I forgot to use in a sentence.

"Oh' my GAWD! So, okay, I was like denvering the other day, you know? And this stupid whore tried to cross the street when I was on my way! The light was like, just turned red a couple of seconds ago. What Everrrr! I mean, can you believe the nerve of some people? Who does she thing she is, little miss "I don't need an SUV when I have legs" or something? As if!"

[Dastard Stepchild]

25. "to drink a beer, eat potato salad and a brat in one big gulp" is...

Friend One says: I was totally "Milwaukeeing" this other day when I saw this hot chick drive past us in her used Toyota Corolla. It was sweet.

Freind Two says: Sweet.

[11 Bravo]

26. To Chincoteague:

To explain as politely as possible to questioners that no, you have never seen either one of those two fucking horses! (Misty and Sea Star for the lucky uninitiated).

[BringEmOn]

29. Spokane-ing

1. Being the third of 4th car to drive through after the left turn light has turned red.

2. Grandma and Grandpa out for a Sunday drive on the freeway.

3. Old blue haired lady driving a Cadillac the wrong way on a one-way street.

4. Making wide right turns, as if you're pulling the hay wagon back on the farm.

5. Entering the freeway at 35 m.p.h.

6. Driving a rusted out rolling dent with right-wing bumper stickers and tattered flags.

[TroubleMan]

30. To West Palm Beach:

Take your pick:

1. To parade around in huge sunglasses and really expensive clothes that look like you bought them at Walmart, except for the desinger label, acting like you're better than everybody else (like your shit don't stink). This action is usually performed in an SUV or convertable - or walking down Worth Avenue.

Usage: I hate Fran - everytime she sees a guy in a nice car, she starts West Palm Beaching in front of him.


2. To obfuscate a ballot in order to cause confusion.

Usage: Theresa Lepore really West Palm Beached the butterfly ballot.

[SmileyBoy]

31. To Fargo someone means...

To serve a customer bland, tasteless food at an over-inflated price.