What city has two names twice?

[Laurence Horn]

At 11:09 AM -0700 10/26/06, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>Or Humbert Humbert.
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>   Or MAJ Major (Major) Major.
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>   JL
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>"Mullins, Bill AMRDEC" <Bill.Mullins at US.ARMY.MIL> wrote:
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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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On the other hand it--or more correctly its slightly fictionalized
stand-in "Isola" of Ed McCain's 87th Precinct novels--*was* the home
of the bald Jewish detective Meyer Meyer.

LH



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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.)
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>>  > JL
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>>  > "James A. Landau" 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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