People: It's PITTSBURGH not Pittsburg

[LynneSin]

UGH!

[Debi]

1. Is that in Pencilvania? n/t

[SallyMander]

2. Unless you're in Ohio

Then it's Pitsburg. :)

[LynneSin]

3. No one cares about Ohio, we should just merge that state into Indiana & PA....

and give parts of it to Canada.

[SallyMander]

4. I care about Ohio!

There are many people i love here. And we're a blue state now! x(

[LynneSin]

7. Someone call the WHAMBULANCE!!!!!

When you've voted Blue for just about everything since forever, like us folks in Delaware THEN you can call yourself a blue state. Ohio is still a shade of purple.

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[KansDem]

5. In Kansas , it's "Pittsburg" (nt)

Pittsburg is a city in Crawford County, in Southeast Kansas, United States. It lies 90 miles west of Springfield, Missouri, and 137 miles northeast of Tulsa, Oklahoma. It is the most populous city in Crawford County and in Southeastern Kansas. The population was 19,243 at the 2000 census.

It was founded on May 20, 1876 and named after and in honor of the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Franklin Playter is credited with being the city's founder, establishing a government from its earlier incarnation as a coal mining camp in the 1870s.

Pittsburg is the home to Pittsburg State University, founded as a normal training institution. It has always had a strong manual and industrial arts program and has trained many of the area's public and private school teachers.

A relic of the city's coal mining days was the Pittsburg & Midway Coal Company, founded in 1885, and one of the oldest continuously running coal companies in the United States (even though its headquarters moved several years ago to Denver, Colorado after the Kansas mines closed). In September 2007, Chevron which owned the company merged it with its Molycorp Inc. coal mining division to form Chevron Mining thus ending the Pittsburg corporate name.<3> Midway referred to a coal camp in eastern Crawford County, Kansas that was "midway" between Baxter Springs, Kansas and Fort Scott, Kansas.<4> Kenneth A. Spencer whose father was among the founders of the company was to play an important role in Kansas and Missouri philanthropy.

Wikipedia

[SallyMander]

8. Hubby grew up near Pitsburg, OH

He always says "one T no H! It's phonetic!" :D

[LynneSin]

9. Do you think anyone gives a rat's ass about some nowhere town in Kansas???

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[KansDem]

10. !

:cry:

[LynneSin]

12. Don't make me call the Whambulance for you too

George Michaels will make it all better for you!

[SallyMander]

13. Psst... don't worry about it

[LynneSin]

15. HEY!!! You have to be nice to me - Joe Biden is from Delaware

we get a free pass for the next couple of years

:woohoo:

[SallyMander]

18. ,,,

"I come from Scranton, Pennsylvania, and that's as hard-scrabble a place as you're going to find. I'll show you around sometime and you'll see -- it's a hell hole. An absolute jerkwater of a town. You couldn't stand to spend a weekend there. It's just an awful, awful sad place, filled with sad, desperate people with no ambition. Nobody, I mean nobody, but me, has ever come out of that place. It's a genetic cesspool. So don't be telling me that I'm part of the Washington elite, because I come from the absolute worst place on earth -- Scranton, Pennsylvania. And Wilmington, Delaware, is not much better."


:rofl:

[LynneSin]

19. We're better than Scranton WOOHOO

I mean that place is a real shithole!

[SallyMander]

21. LOL!

My car broke down in Scranton on the way from Columbus to Boston, so i have a grudge against that city. ;)

[JVS]

27. They have a cooler song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZZqnVYB4UA&feature=related

[jobycom]

6. Who cares? It will be Arizona on Sunday. nt

[hedgehog]

11. My brother in his younger days had a bit of a speech impediment, hence:

Pissburg

[JVS]

14. Learn to spell, Morans!

[madinmaryland]

16. Heh! This coming from someone from Delewere!!1!!

[LynneSin]

17. Why are you still on DU - i thought I got Earlg convinced to ban your butt

Perhaps I didn't buy him enough shots!

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[madinmaryland]

20. EarlG was told he could not tutch my but!

[Gormy Cuss]

22. It's Pittsburg in New Hampshire. In California it's also Pittsburg

and you can buy a house there now for half the price it was five years ago.

[LynneSin]

23. who really cares about those loser towns - do they have a team in the Super Bowl

seriesly!

[Gormy Cuss]

25. Nice moving the goalpost,

so to speak.
:D

[Bucky]

29. There's LOTS of Pittsburgs, but only one Pittsburgh

The original pronunciation was "Peet-sburf" according to local legend.

[Left Is Write]

24. Oh, and I suppose it's not Filadelfia either!

[Bake]

26. Really, who gives a fat rat's patoot?

Pittsburgh. Pittsburg. Sucksburgh.

Who cares?

Bake

[PittPoliSci]

28. certainly not "Picksburgh"

One of my biggest pet peeves are the shit-for-brains cretins who pronounce Pittsburgh the way I have it spelled in the subject thread.

[crimsonblue]

30. Around these parts, it's Pittsburg...

then again, it's also in Kansas. :P

[LynneSin]

31. When we want your opinion we'll give you the one you should express

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[crimsonblue]

32. I'm going to go cry now.

:(

[LynneSin]

33. Then my job is done today

:woohoo:

[crimsonblue]

34. You'll be hearing from my lawyer...

:grr: