Hey, Dallas: Look who's upscale now

Houston Chronicle ^ | Aug. 13, 2005 | DAVID KAPLAN

[Shawndell Green]

We be cool.

[Tax-chick]

Today, Houston is more likely to be included among the list of chichi towns.

If I ever find myself living in a "chichi town," I'll move!

[starfish923]

I have another shocker.
Are you ready?
Here goes.

San Francisco is now the NINTH most liberal city in the country, not the first or second. Harhar. Money always trumps everything else. That and now San Francisco is 1/3 Chinese and they aren't liberal.

Detroit is numbah one liberal city. Berkeley is numbah two. No shock there, except that they really should be nunbah one.

[Txslady]

LOL - that one got me too

[Allegra]

A "Hey look, we can go around with our noses in the air acting all snooty and stuff now" PING.

[starfish923]

We be cool.

Yep, you be cool.

[starfish923]

"Chichi" simply means that your downtown stores are outrageously expensive with stuff only millionaires can afford and only idiots buy (doesn't count big sales).

Waikiki's Kalakauwa (sp?) Avenue has more and more chichi stores.
I stroll in there to look-see at Tiffany's. The only people I can talk with are the help. Everyone else is Japanese.

[Shawndell Green]

"chichi town"

I like to visit chichi towns, but I would not want to live in one.

[Tax-chick]

We're getting a new Super Wal-mart!

[Tribune7]

Detroit is numbah one liberal city.

Detroit is Starnesville come to life

[TexasNative2000]

We be cool.

You be humid. (And you smell like a refinery.)

[Tijeras_Slim]

New Mexico sez...

HA HA!

[Smartaleck]

Will they be interviewing Humblegunner about his high-heeled tennis shoes?

Can a career at Victoria Secret be far behind? LOL

[hopespringseternal]

You be humid. (And you smell like a refinery.)

Ah, Houston, where you can die of heat exhaustion when it is 80 degrees.

On the plus side, the humidity keeps skin looking younger longer.

[Shawndell Green]

"You be humid."

True, I was sweating like a pig whilst mowing the lawn yesterday. I got started a little too late in the morning, since it rained overnight and I waited for the sun to come out and dry the grass.

But I lived in Sanger, north of Dallas, for more than five years, and even though it was not as humid, it was still plenty hot in all summer and not only is Dallas hotter than heck all summer, when the fronts move through in the winter and that wind kicks up, it can get darn cold in the winter, at least cold enough to have one or two ice storms every year.


"And you smell like a refinery."

Only in the morning, after the refineries do their thing in the middle of the night and before the odor dissipates. All that money has to come from somewhere.

[nhoward14]

"Today, Houston is more likely to be included among the list of chichi towns."

I do believe the silicone implant was invented in Houston, so this idea that Houston is just now being known as a chichi town is a surprise.

[Shawndell Green]

"I do believe the silicone implant was invented in Houston, so this idea that Houston is just now being known as a chichi town is a surprise."

Apparently, that was not enough to include us among the other chichi towns. It took the increasingly international character of the city to vault us among the universally admired chichi towns, although I suppose we will have to do something about our billboards if we really want to made to the top tier of chichi towns.

[starfish923]

You be humid. (And you smell like a refinery.)

I thought that would be YEW-ston that had the eau d'refinery.

[starfish923]

We're getting a new Super Wal-mart!

Now THAT is cool.

[humblegunner]

(And you smell like a refinery.)

Smells like money.