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The Me
- The Sasquatch
- Columbus, Ohio, United States
- I'm a bald man with bad eyesight. I'm 5'11" and I eat chili with reckless abandon. I'm a Cincinnati Reds fan and lover of literature. I once tackled a midget. I work with computers but my computer rarely works. My ears ring, my feet hurt, and most popular music will make my toenails curl if the weather is right. I am hopeless when it comes to understanding women or economics or why the sky is blue instead of some other color. I enjoy the smell of freshly cut grass and the sound of rain in the forest. I believe in God, but I sometimes wonder whether He believes in me. I watch television on Wednesdays and I listen to the radio when I'm in my car. My baseball coach used to tell me that I ran so slow he had to time me with a calendar and my band director once said I could be a professional cornet player if only I'd practice. I am madly in love with my wife and she is madly in love with the original CSI. I wake up each morning with a smile on my face because, even if it's cold and grey and rainy and dreary, the first thing I see in the morning is her face, and it is the most beautiful site in the world; especially after I put on my glasses.
2 comments:
i would point out again that you are talking about baseball, but with the consistent way in which you inssit on doing so - i am beginning to believe that you actually like this "sport".
In more important matters, how in the heck did Cincinnati end up being called "The Queen City"? i mean when i lived in Charlotte, and it was called that, it made sense - having been named for a queen, whose name was Charlotte and all - but Cincinnati? Was there a queen named Cincinnati?
It is called thusly because the city sits in a basin surrounded by hills on all sides. For some reason, people thought this was similar to having a crown, which is where they get the royal bent. At the time, cincinnati was the fourth largest city in the nation (this was a long time ago), and the second largest in what was then "The west." So it was originally called the queen of the west. This was changed when the west continued moving west, but even though Cincy is no longer near the top as far as size goes, it retained the nickname.
Of course, I could be wrong. It could be called the queen city because it has a large contingent of crossdressers.
Not that I would know anything about that.
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