What city has two names twice?
Wilson Gray
hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Thu Oct 26 01:39:24 UTC 2006
A variant of Jon's version:
New York, New York: the town so nice that they named it twice.
-Wilson
On 10/25/06, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> New York, New York.
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> "A city so nice, they named it twice." (Many thousands of Googlits.)
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> "James A. Landau" <JJJRLandau at NETSCAPE.COM> wrote:
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> According to http://gc.kls2.com/airport/VHHH, it is Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
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> - Jim Landau (18 KY, 4 MI, 17 DC, 20 SJ)
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