h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Before I get into this, I just want to get off my chest, again, that I wish it wasn't so darn HUMID around here! Gah!
It was raining this morning, and then it was a sunny high-twentys degree day, and at no point did the humidity drop below about 85%, at a guess.
It makes my legs So. Damn. ITCHY!

It's so humid that you can actually tell the difference in the air when you cross a road or a bit of grass as you walk. Really; the air feels different. With a bit of practice, I might be able to navigate the city blindfolded, in the same way that Vimes from Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels can tell where in the city he is by the type of cobbles under his thin-cardboard-sole boots.

Anyway, the point I was getting to was that Hamilton is a city with an identity crisis at the moment. Well okay it has been for a while, but I was thinking about it this morning for some reason, which is why you get to hear about it.

Originally (or at least as far back as I can remember) Hamilton had the logo "Hamilton - Fountain city", which seemed okay until someone pointed out that most residents of Hamilton were only aware of two fountains in the city, and they both sucked. (Aparrantly there are more somewhere, but I haven't found them yet.)
So they changed the logo, after much humming and hawing and mild debate... to: "Hamilton - Where it's happening!"
Until someone pointed out that nothing ever happens in Hamilton. Ever.
So then they thought about changing it to: "Hamilton - rose city," but the residents of Te Awamutu (rose town) complained, saying that they have more right to use the name since a) they were there first, and b) they actually have more roses than just one garden like we do in Hamilton.
So instead they changed it to: "Hamilton - More than you expect," which just made people laugh heartily.

Aparrantly there's a city website forum thing somewhere where people have been putting forward suggestions for the new logo.
Currently running with the highest number of votes is: "Hamilton - meh," closely followed by: "Hamilton - it's easier to pronounce than Ngaruawahia."
I'm still putting my vote towards: "Hamilton - City of swamp."

Melbourne's had a million of them, to the extent that I don't even know what it is any more...

...the problem is that all they *want* to write is "Melbourne is better than Sydney"...but no one wants to make the war official

(I myself don't really care about the Melbourne/Sydney rivalry, I just like watching people get into petty mudslinging contests )

tanzen
(a great place to visit)

...oh... i'm sorry... i shouldnt laugh about your itchy legs...but for some reason it sounds funny to me.
its never hot enough here.... well maybe a few days in summer. but we never get any heat waves or anything. hopefully it'll soon be warm enough outside that i dont have to layer up so much.

i liked the first two...
"Hamilton - meh,"
"Hamilton - it's easier to pronounce than Ngaruawahia."
but i'm sure that the one about its being a swamp is better if you actually live there, or have even been there.

-Arisz
(comming to you from oh well.... i cant tell you can i? sunny ____ by the sea. no, really, thats our slogan...)

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.................Sea.................*Always wanted to see the sunset at sea.*

actually i dont see how that works. technically its the ocean

Sea, ocean, Magical Lake, it's all good.

Queensland's was "Beautiful one day. Perfect the next"

I always thought Melbourne's should have been "beautiful one minute, P**sing down rain the next"

I don't know if it would fit on a license plate though

oooh.... magical lake.... i like that one better....

I have the best one.

'That place where you live (I read the name 30 seconds ago and I can't remember Im SOOO SORRY!)- Origional as it's the city with no description following its name.... oh crap!'

Anyway it beats:
Mold- 'historic market town'.

Which is what I have.

or

'Rhydymwyn'

oh job, you're so funny.

historic market town you say? well now i /have/ to come and see it. i'm sorry, but i'm just so much more interested in historic market towns than i am in you...
no, just kidding.

i think our slogan is some attempt in vain to attract tourists, i'm not sure it works... its a tiny little town, for "the newly weds, or the nearly deads" personally i seem to see way more of the 'nearly deads'...but maybe thats just me... if i was planning a vaccation, i'm not sure i'd pick here. its beautiful, but there isnt a whole heck of a lot to do.

Are there any hotels? That would be perfect for newly weds.

yep....sure are..... lets see.... i think we have about 4...that i know of, and thats not including bed and breakfasts. and two of them are newly bulit.

Scary thought.

it is?.......i didnt think so......

but my question is how on earth do they all make their money!? they're all closely packed together......and who wants to stay in my little town? theres nothing to do......

for the suggestions. At least it sounds like residents aren't in denial.

I get that leg itching thing too, the first couple months of summer. I hate it.

I used to get it when I had a hot bath and a couple of times in summer. I dont have baths that hot any more and I dont go out in summer/

You stay inside all summer? That's no fun. Is it hot and humid there too? I got itch thing when I lived in Minnesota. I think it was an allergy combined with the humidity cause it would go away later in the summer even though it was often hotter and more humid. So far I don't have it here in California. It's been humid here a couple days since I moved here but not very hot. I don't think it gets hot AND humid here at the same time very often. Anyway I won't miss the leg itching thing if I don't get it. I couldn't stand to stay inside all the time. And the wouldn't put up with that either.

I used to do fine in hot weather until 2-3 years ago (although I didn't like it), just got tanned really easily because I'm quite dark, but now I always get prickly heat

No it's Britain.

I just don't like the sun at all.

for the most part i am in agreement....... the sun is evil....

long live the night