What city has two names twice?

[Jonathan Lighter]

If you allow Jerome K. Jerome and Ford Madox Ford, you cannot draw the line at the translator of Gogol and Dostoevsky, Andrew MacAndrew,

  JL

Charles Doyle <cdoyle at UGA.EDU> wrote:
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There's an epigram by William Cole:

Said Jerome K. Jerome to Ford Madox Ford,
"There's something, old boy, that I've always abhorred:
When people address me and call me 'Jerome,'
Are they being too formal, or too much at home?"
Said Ford, "I agree;
It's the same thing with me.

--Charlie
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>Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 09:57:19 -0500
>From: "Mullins, Bill AMRDEC"
>Subject: Re: What city has two names twice?
>To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
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>New York was _not_ home, however, to Sirhan Sirhan, the assassin so nice they named him twice.
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>> A variant of Jon's version:
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>> New York, New York: the town so nice that they named it twice.
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>> -Wilson
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>> On 10/25/06, Jonathan Lighter 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.)
>> >
>> > JL

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