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February 13, 2009 16 Comments

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.

Facebook groups:

I ♥ Spokane, WA

Spokane is the Sh*t

From Spokompton and Proud (ish)

People who wish Spokane didn’t close at 9

Radical Spokane: A people’s history of our town

spoKANE we get a Trader Joe’s???

Carpooling between Seattle/Pullman/Spokane

Spokane Trash Goat Homage

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16 Responses to “Spokanisms”

  1. Jonathan February 14, 2009 at 8:50 am

    where did the photo come from?

  2. .*. February 14, 2009 at 12:49 pm

    Spokane: Striving for mediocrity

  3. Kitty Klitzke February 15, 2009 at 1:12 pm

    Spokamsterdam

  4. The Spovangelist February 15, 2009 at 9:14 pm

    Photo credit to the design genius behind http://www.maryannhume.com/Spokane.htm.

  5. Vi February 16, 2009 at 1:27 pm

    Snowkane
    Spocaine
    :)

  6. crystal February 16, 2009 at 10:51 pm

    I’ve always like the line from the Trailer Parks Girls’ “Spokane Song”: We keep our culture in the yogurt at Rosauer’s

  7. Mariah February 25, 2009 at 1:46 am

    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!”

  8. CMoore March 20, 2009 at 6:11 pm

    Spokane – We’ve never heard of you either.

  9. CMoore March 20, 2009 at 6:11 pm

    oh, and of course Spokorn.

  10. Bob March 21, 2009 at 9:14 pm

    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

  11. The Spovangelist March 28, 2009 at 10:17 am

    Last night a resident of West Central told me that “Felony Flats” has now graduated to “Misdemeanor Meadows”.

  12. pat April 22, 2009 at 9:45 am

    Spokane – random Capitalization country

    Spokane – a grammar-free zone

  13. The Spovangelist April 22, 2009 at 11:02 am

    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.

  14. The Spovangelist May 15, 2009 at 2:25 am

    A fresh faced young real estate agent told me her friends joke about Spokane being chalk full of “newly weds and nearly deads.”

  15. The Spovangelist May 17, 2009 at 4:15 pm

    Another joke:

    “When the world ends, Spokane will exist for another ten years just to catch up.”

  16. The Spovangelist May 19, 2009 at 10:40 pm

    Now we have Children of the Scams and Spokane – Scam Capital of America thanks to Forbes.com.