Alright, I couldn’t resist this any longer.
If you’re living in Spokane and working to improve it, you earn the right to poke fun of its eccentricities. Better subscribe to the comments feed on this one, it will get updated as we think of new ones.
Nicknames:
Power City, Spoklahoma, Spokandyland, Methlehem, Spotucky, The 509, Spovegas, Lilac City, Spokanistan, Spokompton, The “Heart” (of the Inland Empire), The Can, Little Russia, Spocan’t, AKA Dick’s Hamburgers on I-90, Spoville, Spomonie, etc.
Slogans:
- Spokane – Near Nature, Near Perfect
- Spokane – More than meets the eye…
- Spokane – Flashing Yellow After 2am
- Spokane – “F” Seattle!
- Spokane – The city you can hold in the palm of your hand.
- Spokane – Sounds like church bells and trains.
- Spokane – The red-headed stepchild of Washington State.
- Spokane – Culture so thick you can’t see through it!
- Spokane – More pot holes than landmines in Bosnia.
- Spokane – The little metropolis who could.
From Spokompton and Proud (ish)
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spoKANE we get a Trader Joe’s???
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where did the photo come from?
Spokane: Striving for mediocrity
Spokamsterdam
Photo credit to the design genius behind http://www.maryannhume.com/Spokane.htm.
Snowkane
Spocaine
I’ve always like the line from the Trailer Parks Girls’ “Spokane Song”: We keep our culture in the yogurt at Rosauer’s
Recently I heard “Slowkane”.
In regards to the Main Market I was telling a friend how I thought the project would turn this Spowasteland into a Spoparadise.
My friend looked at me and said “Spo-my-god!”
Spokane – We’ve never heard of you either.
oh, and of course Spokorn.
Spokane – More than a transition zone between channeled scabland and mixed cedar-hemlock dominant forests!
Spokane – Bakersfield of the Inland Northwest
Spokane – Two Newspapers and a Shelly Monahan
Spokane – LIke the best yard sale on Craigslist with half off on XL Used Carharts!
Spokane – Marmots, Methamphetamines, Minivans
Last night a resident of West Central told me that “Felony Flats” has now graduated to “Misdemeanor Meadows”.
Spokane – random Capitalization country
Spokane – a grammar-free zone
An Eastern student informed me that Spokane is sometimes referred to as the “Appalachia of the Northwest”. Googling this phrase reveals that many other northwest regions have claimed the moniker for themselves.
A fresh faced young real estate agent told me her friends joke about Spokane being chalk full of “newly weds and nearly deads.”
Another joke:
“When the world ends, Spokane will exist for another ten years just to catch up.”
Now we have Children of the Scams and Spokane – Scam Capital of America thanks to Forbes.com.