Around the southeast US, LA either stands for Lower Arkansas, or
Lower Alabama. <G>

Really? I grew up in the northwest US, and I've always heard of LA referring to Los Angeles.

It is...but we do things differently down here. <G>

At times, some have referred to Arkansas as "Sasnakra" (Arkansas
spelled backwards), as that's the way stuff was done. Years ago,
before they had "The Arkansas Lottery", they said "gambling was
illegal". Yet, they allowed betting on the horses at Oaklawn Race
Track in Hot Springs, and on the greyhounds at Southland Greyhound
Park in West Memphis. To me, that's a double standard.

Years ago, when I was working in silkscreen printing, one customer
came in for a deer hunting style shirt (hunting is real big here).
But he wanted "muzzle loaders" spelled as "muzzel loders". After I
and the artist corrected it (I did a ton of proofreading of stuff),
the customer said "that's not how he wanted it", and I blew a gasket.

While the owner was right there, I angrily replied "And they wonder
why Arkansas' literacy rate is the lowest in the country!! Stuff like
this makes us look like a bunch of dumb hicks. If there had been
something on the order that 'he wanted it that way', I wouldn't have
said a word!!".

It makes me glad that I'm not a native Arkansan (I'm originally
from Florida).

Daryl

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Re: Re: Changing team names.
By: Nightfox to Daryl Stout on Wed Jul 15 2020 12:38 pm

Re: Re: Changing team names.
By: Daryl Stout to Jon Justvig on Tue Jul 14 2020 09:18 am

was the St. Louis Rams that went to LA.

You might be onto something there.

Around the southeast US, LA either stands for Lower Arkansas, or
Lower Alabama. <G>

Really? I grew up in the northwest US, and I've always heard of LA referring to Los Angeles.

Also Louisiana.

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Re: Re: Changing team names.
By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Sat Jul 18 2020 08:45 pm

Really? I grew up in the northwest US, and I've always heard of LA
referring to Los Angeles.

Also Louisiana.

That's true, I forgot about that.

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As a long-time Oakland resident, I wish the Raiders would change
their name. The "Las Vegas Raiders" doesn't do their history justice.

Las Vegas Mobsters

I always like the story of the Brooklyn Trolley Dodgers moving to LA
and leaving the "trolley" part in NY.

Los Angeles did have trolleys as well. But the red car system was replaced as the highways came along.

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