SFist: Bye-Bye, Cosco Busan!

Brock Keeling

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 18:13:02 -0800

It should really be renamed "Costco Busan."

fax

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:50:19 -0800

I too thought we were holding onto that damaged metal football field until whoever owns it pays up? What up Gav? Arnold? Why are you letting the collateral get away? Now I certainly don't know everything about nautical law, so if I've missed something, someone educate me.

Rah

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:32:03 -0800

Just never call it San Fran. That's one that's not up for discussion.

Plug1

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:26:04 -0800

other offenders include: "The Sco", "The 415", or "Fo One Feva". I do sometimes call it "Baghdad by The Bay", tho.

bluecanary

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:11:43 -0800

As a transplant, I am offended. I would never, EVER call it Frisco.

Rah

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:20:22 -0800

^hey, i am too, but I wasn't even aware of the "no frisco" thing until I was maybe 15...

Plug1

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:15:59 -0800

"...the San Franciscan is hopelessly sentimental and I am hopelessly San Franciscan..."

sangfroid826

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:04:23 -0800

You realize what you're doing, right Plug? You're placing the word under taboo — a sure way to make it cool.

Rah

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:02:38 -0800

C'mon...I've lived in SF my entire life, and I've grown up around people who call it frisco, and I do too, though of course I usually just say "the city" or San Francisco. In my opinion, if a native wants to call it frisco, fine. It's when an outsider says it when it can get annoying. This whole "don't call it frisco" thing does not describe the whole native population of SF. Far from it in fact...maybe it's more of a class thing? Who knows...

Plug1

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 13:59:43 -0800

"San Francisco to me is like a house of cards: postcards in glowing colors stacked against the hills that march from The Bay on one side to The Pacific Ocean on the other. The real magic of The City lies in the way these snapshots remain in the mind, no one impressed more sharply on the consciousness than the next. And when I am far away, The Citys myriad details come floating back to me as tho they were unwinding endlessly on the movie screen of my memory. Each picture is sharp and complete, glamorized a little by a wisp of fog in one corner and a pennant streaming in the wind atop a skyscraper. Its a sentimental, perhaps corny way to look at a city, but the San Franciscan is hopelessly sentimental and I am hopelessly San Franciscan." -- from The Late, Great Herb Caen

Plug1

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 13:44:29 -0800

Herb Caen, RIP. The Greatest Who Ever Did It. Frisco is for folks who werent born in The City. Transplants and wanna be's from Oakland.

sangfroid826

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 13:37:17 -0800

It's kind of a slight to the actual Frisco, but what the hell. Herb Caen is dead, and he can't tell us what do any more.

Brock Keeling

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 13:19:46 -0800

Actually, now the young kids (from South SF) sometimes call it "Frisco."

jwb

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 13:14:53 -0800

I thought they were going to impound it pending litigation?

Plug1

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 12:44:19 -0800

Dont call it Frisco. Never, ever, ever, ever do that. Call it The City, or even San Francisco (pronounced no other way than San Frihn-CIS-co). Let the Great Debate begin!!

Isletyke

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 12:39:35 -0800

Why not have an insurance policy in place for this kind of thing? Hillary Clinton wants to force us all to have medical insurance, even if we can't afford it. Notice how there are state and local suits against Regal Stone, but no federal suit. I think of all the current candidates for president, none of them would try anything of that kind to protect our coastlines. Dennis Kucinich likely would, but he's trailing so much, I am hoping he'll get pushed onto the ballot with Unity08. The more we get the status quo in poliltics, the more this will contrinue to happen.

Isletyke

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 12:39:06 -0800