What city has two names twice?

[Jonathan Lighter]

Another near-miss is "J'onn J'onzz," the "Manhunter from Mars."

  He was a cool and bald even before Mr. Clean.

  Green, though.

  JL



Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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The name, Sirhan Sirhan, was parodied as "Saran Saranwrap" in the
'60's flick, _Putney Swope_.

-Wilson

On 10/26/06, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC 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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> > 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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Everybody says, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange
complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is knows how deep
a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our
race. He brought death into the world.

--Sam Clemens

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