What are these?

David Redszus · Post by **David Redszus** » Wed Oct 14, 2009 11:28 am

What do the following have in common with each other?

Lagos
Tianjin
Hyderabad
Essen
Lahore
Harbin
Kinshasa
Yangon
Mumbai
Dhaka
Karachi
Porto Alegre
Katowice
Pune
Abidjan
Recife
Adis Abeba
Maputo

No fair using Google until you’ve given it a little thought.

machine shop tom · Post by **machine shop tom** » Wed Oct 14, 2009 11:35 am

Names of cities that have been changed to reflect local, rather than outer (Western) variations or pronunciations?

Except, of course, the European examples. They were just changed because.

tom

sprint car · Post by **sprint car** » Wed Oct 14, 2009 11:38 am

"Places I dont need to see..."

Unkl Ian · Post by **Unkl Ian** » Wed Oct 14, 2009 12:30 pm

sprint car wrote:"Places I dont need to see..."

Places I have no intention of visiting.

machine shop tom · Post by **machine shop tom** » Wed Oct 14, 2009 12:39 pm

Places bombed by terrorists?

tom

Post by **Dave Koehler** » Wed Oct 14, 2009 12:48 pm

Where all tech centers are located?

Flash32 · Post by **Flash32** » Wed Oct 14, 2009 12:50 pm

Unkl Ian wrote:
sprint car wrote:"Places I dont need to see..."

Places I have no intention of visiting.

Or really care to see!!!!

Flash

Post by **CamKing** » Wed Oct 14, 2009 12:52 pm

Dave Koehler wrote:Where all tech centers are located?

You beat me to it.
I was going to say they were all AT&T call centers.

machine shop tom · Post by **machine shop tom** » Wed Oct 14, 2009 2:22 pm

THAT would explain why some nutjob was having problems telling my wife how to program the "Tee-Ree"......

That would also explain why many of these places have been bombed.

tom

Masher Manufacturing · Wed Oct 14, 2009 5:08 pm

Lagos
Tianjin
Hyderabad
Essen
Lahore " a French rental. . ."
Harbin ". . ger "
Kinshasa
Yangon " A type of food at a ( Americanized ) Chinese Buffet "
Mumbai " a new fur coat "
Dhaka
Karachi
Porto Alegre " Where the Love Boat docks during a cruise "
Katowice " when he see cost of new fur coat "
Pune " Official drink of Oak Village retirement community "
Abidjan
Recife " Do you want your reciept? "
Adis Abeba " Good Bye "
Maputo " Do you want a map too? " ( Because such as some people in other countries don't have maps. )

Post by **CamKing** » Wed Oct 14, 2009 7:02 pm

Lagos: Those plastic snap-together building blocks
Tianjin: A popular drink in Hong Kong, made from Tea & Gin
Hyderabad: A Kentucky version of a girl's trundle bed
Essen: Urban for "Guessing"
Lahore: Heidi Fleiss
Harbin: Where they put the cut off hair at an Alabama Supercuts.
Kinshasa: Apalachian for "My cousin shawn saw"
Yangon: A West Virginian child
Mumbai: An British mother that swings both ways
Dhaka:
Karachi: What Arnold from Happy Days taught Ralph Macchio
Porto Alegre: Allergy medicine for head porters
Katowice: Eating two helpings of a Vietnamese dinner
Pune: A word from the 70's where the more you used it, the less you got
Abidjan: A Louisiana Pigeon
Recife:
Adis Abeba: An Italian Hotel fee for putting an extra bed in the room.
Maputo

Ron E · Post by **Ron E** » Wed Oct 14, 2009 7:13 pm

ingredients in vienna sausage?

Keith Morganstein · Post by **Keith Morganstein** » Wed Oct 14, 2009 7:44 pm

CamKing wrote:Lagos: Those plastic snap-together building blocks
Tianjin: A popular drink in Hong Kong, made from Tea & Gin
Hyderabad: A Kentucky version of a girl's trundle bed
Essen: Urban for "Guessing"
Lahore: Heidi Fleiss
Harbin: Where they put the cut off hair at an Alabama Supercuts.
Kinshasa: Apalachian for "My cousin shawn saw"
Yangon: A West Virginian child
Mumbai: An British mother that swings both ways
Dhaka:
Karachi: What Arnold from Happy Days taught Ralph Macchio
Porto Alegre: Allergy medicine for head porters
Katowice: Eating two helpings of a Vietnamese dinner
Pune: A word from the 70's where the more you used it, the less you got.
Abidjan: A Louisiana Pigeon.
Recife:
Adis Abeba: An Italian Hotel fee for putting an extra bed in the room.
Maputo

Dhaka: How we might order coffee in Boston

David Redszus · Post by **David Redszus** » Thu Oct 15, 2009 12:27 am

Very, very interesting responses. In all probability, each of the answers could be correct. And probably are.

All of the cities listed have populations in excess of 3 million. And we have never heard of most of them.

It is estimated that almost half of the worlds population now lives in urban areas leaving the rural areas increasingly vacant. The projections are that more than half of the world will live in cities in the near future.

If the Greenheads want something to worry about instead of Global Warming (now called Climate Change since it is cooling, not warming) they might consider: water supply and waste water treatment, sewage, traffic density, building materials, spread of infectious disease due to population density, and a host of other urban problems.

JCR · Post by **JCR** » Thu Oct 15, 2009 3:07 am

David Redszus wrote: It is estimated that almost half of the worlds population now lives in urban areas leaving the rural areas increasingly vacant. The projections are that more than half of the world will live in cities in the near future.

Thank you for the post David. Most do not understand. But the rest of the world is following our model (USA). 100 years ago we were a rural nation. We are now an urban/suburban nation. The world is following.

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