WE'RE NUMBER 42, BUT WE ARE JUST TOO DAMNED MASCULINE TO WORRY ABOUT IT

America's Manliest Cities

(Thanks to Patrick)

Comments

[Horace LaBadie]

Do you honestly think that those shoes go with that shirt?

Combos obviously has a different definition of hunting than Miami and all those California cities have.

[MartiniShark]

Orlando and Salt Lake City are in the top-20? They don't even have hockey teams!

[Siouxie]

Manly?? WHERE? WHERE??

[Scott]

Woooo, go Cleveland! #19! (yet ANOTHER thing where we finish middle of the pack)

[nursecindy]

I don't believe it. Aren't guys in Florida always wrestling alligators, lizards, and giant cockroaches? What about the hurricanes?

[The Dread Pirate Chris]

Did the mice tell you that, you hoopy frood.

[Shortkut]

Coors did a study as well...Colorado has the best sky slopes in a study conducted by Coors, drink ice cold Coors. Out of 48 states tested, the great tasting Coors beer Company decided Colorado did...Drink Coors now!

[Shortkut]

lol ski*

[rickh]

WOW! oHIo must be either a lousy or great place to be a chick.(or not depending on what she's looking for, huh?) all 5 of the major cities (tho' most people count Dayton and Cinncinatti as one) made the list.

Columbus, #7. i s'pose it's because of the Buckeyes because the hockey team sure isn't anything to brag about.

or maybe the homicide rate. tho' most of the victims seem to be male so i doubt that is the reason.

fishing is probably good here i haven't had time to find out even after 8 years but there are two rivers. i don't know if you can actually eat the fish you might catch out of either river but you can fish here. as for hunting, well, it is a city. oHIo is a big deer hunting state tho' and Columbus is centrally located.

i didn't see any towns in my home state of Iowa listed. with less than 3 million people living in the whole state maybe there wasn't a town bug enough to make the list. well, that and NO major pro sports.

but the hunting and fishing are great there (tho' you can't eat the fish from many rivers).

[Annie Where-but-here]

This must be the list of manliest cities for women.

[Steve Haller]

Sounds like House and Wilson might want to come visit Grand Rapids...

[mudstuffin]

"Columbus, #7. i s'pose it's because of the Buckeyes because the hockey team sure isn't anything to brag about."

the buckeyes do play hockey. who are you talking about?

[nursecindy]

I looked up hoopy frood Chris. That wasn't a very nice thing to call me.

[Cheesewiz]

I wonder why New Orleans has the highest concentration of hardware stores?

katrina has made them manly?

[The Dread Pirate Chris]

Is your dictionary different from mine?

[nursecindy]

Mine defined it as a moron.

[Ford79]

Wow, my adopted home (Richmond, VA) is the 12th manliest city in the country! I think I'll go have a wine cooler to celebrate.

[NTTAWWT]

HURRAY!!! HURRAY!!! FABULOUS San Francisco made the list! I could just SQUEAL!!!!

[oneblankspace]

Having men run in women's clothing makes a city manly? Or do they mean sth else by "drag racing"?

Also, there is a top-25 metro area that didn't even make this list. I speak type of none other than San Juan, P.R.

St Louis, Mo., also has (or at least did 10 years ago) the second largest Mardi Gras celebration in the US.

[padraig]

Looks more like the butchiest cities to me. That is, the "overcompensating for something or another and I wouldn't dream of suggesting what steroid-shrunken body part or parts they're feeling inadequate about" cities.

[Siouxie]

Ford, are you having that with quiche?

[Meanie the Blue]

Thank you, Mars Snackfoods of Hackettstown, NJ.

[Jeff Meyerson]

Right, San Francisco is manlier than New York?

In what bizarro world was that decided?

[Slartibartfast]

I TOLD you so.

*pines for the fjords*

[Diva]

2. Charlotte, N.C.

Exmatt would be proud.

[Tarzan]

Me no like cities.

[Annie Where-but-here]

Grrrreat. LA ranks below SF. No argument from me, just...praise the boxed wine and pass the batteries.

Sigh.

[SpecialNobodie]

What exactly qualifies Combos as "manly"? Just 'cause they added "manly" to their slogan, don't make it so. Though, it would be funny to see how closely their ranking matches their sales figures.

[Punkin]

The person who made this list has definitely NOT been to South Boston. (Go Southie!)

Now, wheyah did I pahk my cah??

[MartinisharkRobRoyStingray]

Rickh, Mud The Blue Jackets are actually decent this year, primed for the playoffs in fact. They realized what a good goalie could do.

[marfie]

Personally, I'm quite stunned that San Francisco even made the list and I live (near) there.

[Ralph]

I assume New York is dead last because of the lack of monster truck rallies.
It doesn't need monster trucks; they're too wimpy for city driving. It has yellow taxis instead.

[padraig the cheesehead]

I am still agog that they think being manly is a metropolitan thing. When they needed a name for guys who wear expensive clothes, get facials, and have weekly manicures and pedicures, nobody called them "Mayberrysexuals."

[Clankazoid]

New York is probably last because it's closer to France.

[WayneHere]

We here in Philly are in the midst of Beer Week. How can we be #30? We have hockey (hell, we have the Flyers), monster truck shows, and two rivers to fish in. We have hunting nearby, and, just look at our murder rate, one per day most years.

[Annie Where-but-here]

I think 'Combos' means something completely different in San Francisco.

[Mitch]

Nashville most certainly wouldn't be number one if they knew about my naughty appreciation for antique ventilated nipple armor.

[BA]

They only ranked 50, so at 42 break out the pink man-thong and head out to South Beach!

[marfie]

You're right, AWBH: In SF, a combo is an usually small jazz or dance band.

[Annie Where-but-here]

kilts-optional, marfie?

[nursecindy]

Kilts??? I LOVE a man in a kilt. (Thinking Mel Gibson) Must be my Scottish heritage.

[Martinishark]

Cindy, you should have Siouxie send you some of the pics from our night at The London Pub, all the blokes were were toddlin' around in tartan. Made me want to drink.

[Siouxie]

Those boys made ya hot,huh Sharkie?? hehe

[whitebeach]

In Baton Rouge, we laugh on all these girly categorizations. Our name speaks for itself. Hah!

[WriterDude]

We're Number 5. But the NASCAR track is in Colorado Springs, it hosted only Busch series races and has been closed three years.

Okay, sounds about right.

[Wes S.]

Kansas City made the list as the eigth "manliest" city.

I'd like to apologize for our relatively low ranking; it would have been higher, but I was a bit off my typical performance. You see, I'm now just recovering after spending the afternoon curled up in the corner, clutching myself and whimpering after reading the Skilsaw Sex Toy posting a short scroll down the page...

(*gulp*)

We'd probably have been Number Five or so except for that.

[Mare Imbrium]

Miami's low ranking is merely evidence that the survey did not account for per capita handgun ownership.

Or perhaps that the survey takers did not speak Spanish very well.

[Loudmouth]

That's the problem with 24. Jack is holed up in girly LA or fem DC. If they moved the action to Nashville or Charlotte he could beat the hell out of the bad guys for the fun of it and the cops would take him out for a 25th hour beer and some cheese filled snacks after.

[mudstuffin]

"Rickh, Mud The Blue Jackets are actually decent this year, primed for the playoffs in fact. They realized what a good goalie could do."

martinishark: yeah, i hear about the blue jackets every day on the radio (who names their hockey team after a garment? "the butte boot-straps" "the nashville neckties" "the san fransisco accessories" - just a bad idea) i was attempting to point out that i don't give a rats ass about them or their alleged "playoff run". forgive the surliness, i pretty much dislike all professional sports.

[Richard the Weasel-Hearted]

They didn't factor in strip clubs and sports bars? Sorry, fatally flawed.