Extra Credit Questions

[Liz Rosenthal]

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).

[Wild Bill]

The quote is correct--made about WashingDc by JFK

[Liz Rosenthal]

(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.

[Eva Elisabeth]

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.

[L Verge]

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.

[Eva Elisabeth]

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.

[L Verge]

OK, I'll say Washington, D.C. by Mary Lincoln (or Hay or Nicolay)...

[Eva Elisabeth]

It was Hay, very good, but the city is a state capital.

[J. Beckert]

Springfield?

[Eva Elisabeth]

Well done, Herr Beckert.

[J. Beckert]

Danke meine Heidelbeere!

[Eva Elisabeth]

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".)

[L Verge]

Whew! I thought he had called you a bottle of beer...

[Eva Elisabeth]

No, a blueberry. HIS blueberry.

[J. Beckert]

It was supposed to be "Huckleberry". Dang it.