I'm off to the Queen City next week. If only that meant I could see a few drag queens. Or even be a Queen. But no. Apparently that nickname for Cincinnati is self-selected. This is already bad since choosing your own nickname is one of the lamest things you can do.
Also, Wikipedia tells us that Cincinnati wasn't even the real original name for the city. That was a portmanteau (love that word!) Losantiville, cobbled together from French, Greek, Latin and English to mean "opposite the mouth of the Licking River." Strike 2, Cincinnati, pretentious name one gives way to pretentious name two in honor of obscure Roman dictator, Cincinnatus. Also, did you not notice that giant river just to the south of the city? It's not the Licking. Maybe you should pay more attention.
Cincinnati is also home of the Cincinnati Reds baseball team and the Bengals football team. The Copperhead movement began here seeking reconciliation with the South during the Civil War at the cost of allowing slavery to continue. (Bad idea.) One of the worst riots in American history took place in Cincinnati in 1884 when thousands set the court house on fire.
But strike 3, Cincinnati, is that you're all Republicans.
ha!
Also, if anyone has any tourist tips, I'll take 'em.
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