What's nickname for Washington, D.C.?

upi. ^ | July 30, 2010

[JoeProBono]

WASHINGTON, - New York's the "Big Apple" but what's the nickname for Washington, D.C.?

That's the quandary some folks ponder, wondering why there's nothing better or cleverer than "the nation's capital" for their metropolitan center.

A new nickname for Washington could be "DMV," for District, Maryland, and Virginia, The Washington Post said Friday.

A Post column noted New York's moniker and mentioned Chicago as the "Windy City" but lamented the somewhat blase term "nation's capital."

DMV has turned up in some publications, has frequently been heard on local radio stations and perhaps is now gaining respectability with mainstream officialdom, the newspaper reported.

Not everyone is hip to the DMV autograph.

"I prefer 'the Washington Metropolitan Area, but I realize that doesn't quite ring well as a lyric, e-mail or text message," Sandy Bellamy, executive director of the Historical Society of Washington, told the Post.

[Fiji Hill]

Home of Ben's Chili Bowl!

[Nateman]

Fubartown.

[Nateman]

Bohicaville.

[JPG]

Anusville?

[Secret Agent Man]

The Pit.

The Swamp.

The Hole.

Entitlement City.

The Earmark Capital of the world.

Porkulus, USA

Center of the Universe (only to those that work there)

[ArrogantBustard]

Foggy Bottom is a DC neighborhood on the Potomac, famous currently for being home to the United States Department of State.

[COBOL2Java]

[Fair Paul]

How about “The Middle Finger?” Rename the Washington Monument, it would be a great symbol of how DC insiders view those outside of it.

[mom.mom]

sixty-eight square miles surrounded by reality.

[Nateman]

The Corrupt , Communist , Islamic loving den of thieves and liars formally known as Washington DC.

[drangundsturm]

Here in new jersey "DMV" stands for "Department of Motor Vehicles" and it's used as a synonym for long lines, arbitrary and confusing rules, and government red tape run amok.

So yeah, DMV works for me as a nickname for DC.

[allmendream]

My father, who lives there, calls it “The New Rome”.

[MozarkDawg]

Yes, it’s always been The Swamp, as far back as I can remember — does this journo not know this, unaware?

[ArrogantBustard]

Normal folks around here (that I talk to, any way) refer to it as “Washington”, “DC”, or “The District”.

[BlueLancer]

Mos Eisley Spaceport ...

[Fiji Hill]

Don’t some news types call it “Foggy Bottom”?

The State Department is often referred to as Foggy Bottom because of its location in the Northwest DC neighborhood which bears that name. Foggy Bottom was once a swamp near the Potomac but became a fashionable residential community in the nineteenth century.

[ArrogantBustard]

Does he use the term “The New Rome” in casual conversation?

[JoeProBono]

Ping to "The Big Sleazy"

[Nateman]

Spin City (In honor of what George Washington is doing in his grave because of the city named after him plus the adeptness of lying by the liars lying around spending other peoples money)

[longtermmemmory]

District of Corruption

Democrat Country