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RE: Extra Credit Questions - Liz Rosenthal - 07-18-2013
Eva:
Before I attempt to answer - are you sure you don't mean a city of "northern efficiency and southern charm"? I think "efficiency" was probably associated with the North, and "charm" with the South - generally.
(07-18-2013, 03:54 AM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote: Good morning! This is a four-in-one question:
Which description
1. a city of southern efficiency and northern charm
2. a city combining the meanness of the North with the barbarism of the South
was given by
a) whom
of
b) which place?
Of course you also may just guess one subquestion (e.g. 2b=Timbuktu).
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Wild Bill - 07-18-2013
The quote is correct--made about WashingDc by JFK
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Liz Rosenthal - 07-18-2013
(07-18-2013, 03:13 PM)Wild Bill Wrote: The quote is correct--made about WashingDc by JFK
In that case, he was making a quip, which he was often known to do.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Eva Elisabeth - 07-18-2013
Indeed correct, very good.
The other quote refers, of course, to another city you all know well. And was made by a person who had lived there as well as in Washington.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - L Verge - 07-18-2013
Judging strictly as a Marylander, my first guess on the second quote would be the City of Baltimore. I have no idea who would have said it, however.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Eva Elisabeth - 07-18-2013
Laurie, it's not Baltimore, it's much easier. It's a capital, too, but wasn't always.
The person lived in the White House during the CW.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - L Verge - 07-18-2013
OK, I'll say Washington, D.C. by Mary Lincoln (or Hay or Nicolay)...
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Eva Elisabeth - 07-18-2013
It was Hay, very good, but the city is a state capital.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - J. Beckert - 07-18-2013
Springfield?
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Eva Elisabeth - 07-18-2013
Well done, Herr Beckert.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - J. Beckert - 07-18-2013
Danke meine Heidelbeere!
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Eva Elisabeth - 07-18-2013
Wow, that's what I would call a creative term of endearment (or an unusual nickname).
(I hope Google refuses to translate words like "pumpkin".)
RE: Extra Credit Questions - L Verge - 07-18-2013
Whew! I thought he had called you a bottle of beer...
RE: Extra Credit Questions - Eva Elisabeth - 07-18-2013
No, a blueberry. HIS blueberry.
RE: Extra Credit Questions - J. Beckert - 07-19-2013
It was supposed to be "Huckleberry". Dang it.