Saturday, February 24, 2007

She's watching Batman Begins...

And all I want to know is why New York City is called Gotham. Here's the Wikipedia definition, brought to courtesty of Pedro. No, no. You can thank me later, obvs.

I am assuming, of course, that you steakheads can actully read. But whatever. Let's get to the quote:
Gotham is known to be architecturally modeled after New York City, but with exaggerated elements of the styles and derives its name from a sobriquet for that real world city, first popularized by the author Washington Irving in his satirical work Salmagundi (1807). Prior to that the term "Gotham" had been used to refer to places with foolish inhabitants since as early as the mid-15th century.

Foolish inhabitants? Pshah!! What do they know?!?! Oviously none of these peeps lived in NYC during the early 90's. And by the way, click here to learn what Sobriquet means.



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