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Well, do it.

I personally love how it smells in good ol' Porkopolis. And you can't beat the weather because it'll beat you first. Sunday for example was snow, to sun, to snow, to blizzard, to sun all day long.

Plus Cincinnati is made out of rainbows and every family has a newborn puppy.

And we all keep dead grannies in our attics for years and years.

^anything to keep the welfare flowing....

Cincinnati - we like things just the way they are, would be happier if things were like they were 10 years ago.  (Just ask Twain.)
Cincinnati - we have hills. (Just ask Churchill.)
Cincinnati - we have a bitch city. (Just ask Dayton.)
Cincinnati - we be the queen. (Just ask Longfellow.)

Cincinnati - We have a subway system that no one has ever used. (Just ask anyone)
Cincinnati - Sure we are the second largest Metropolis in Ohio, but 1/3 of the home county is still undeveloped! (Just ask the Census)
Cincinnati - We had the first Professional Sports team in the US, and somehow with all that stature they still suck. (Just ask anyone)
Cincinnati - Where you can be 30 seconds from downtown and refuse to acknowledge that you are part of the region. (Just ask Northern Kentucky)
Cincinnati - You think our city is some backwater outpost, but secretly our corporations control your life. (Just ask P&G, Federated, Kroger, Cintas, Ashland, Chiquita, AK Steel, and Convergys)
Cincinnati - Sure their building is ugly, but does your company get multi-billion dollar orders? (Just ask GE Air Craft Engines)
Cincinnati - Without our Suspension bridge your Suspension bridge may never have been built New York. (Just ask John Roebling)
Cincinnati - Our hills really rule. (Just ask Hydrobond)

No

The hills do, in fact, rule.
Seriously, they dictate where roads and houses are built.  They are more influential than the county planner.

Do parks/reserves count as undeveloped land? If so, then a major part of that 1/3 would be city and county parks.

Not everyone can live in a city as crappy as Phoenix.

I found this somewhere:

Cincinnati

When the swollen Ohio River floods again, and the
Rats are making lifeboats of aluminum siding,
I'll watch it on TV and say to my friends
I lived there once, in Cincinnati, and it was not so bad.
Gets a lot of bad press, Cincinnati,
What with the censorship and the grandmother busted for feeding parking meters and
The retarded man with the brick shot down and Marge Schott praising
The Nazis and the burning crosses at the unfinished Underground Railroad
Museum and the birthplace of the KKK right down the street,
In addition to that of President Taft, and who's to say
What is art but the people who have to live near it anyway?
Some people call it a cesspool, others the most livable of cities.
I say appreciate it for what it is, there
They wear white, gingham dresses, and spit politely, and sell soaps
Which make everything clean.
Fuck the animals anyway. Inject them, proctor and gamble them,
Radiate them, like the indigent people at University Hospital,
Massive doses of radiation, fuck them,
They were poor anyway, the doctors
Knew what would happen,
But they tested anyway and
Why yes, they do die.
Fuck them, go ahead now,
Test all the new drugs on them, at Phoenix Labs, it always rises
To the top, you need to spit to breathe there, yes we have
Chiquita bananas. Fuck Honduras anyway. I'll never let them say that
You were not my friend, Cincinnati, let me count the ways
Scratch that. It's all relative and the flies, surprisingly,
Are not so bad in Cincinnati, they respect the scents of
Rotten yogurt peach schnapps moist pork and pollen, they
Respect those smells, and they've learned to stay away
It's not like shit, Cincinnati.
Look, to everyone around I'll say, look, it's better than LA
The cops won't shoot you there, if you're white
And the Rainman was filmed there and they've
Got good ice cream at a place called Graeters and
I don't understand but
Some people like the Chili, which is made with Chocolate, and I spent
Three years of my life there and it was not so bad there
Three years of my life there
It was not so bad there
Are hills there and there and there and there is a river and
Aisles and aisles of good cheap bourbon across the bridge there and there is
Nothing wrong with preserving an island if you are an islander there
Is nothing wrong with judging if you are a judge
It's not your home, Cincinnati, so you don't understand it.
People born and died there
People died and born there
Just leave it alone to grow, the mold count is high but
You can live there, if you need to,
It's most livable, if you live there.
I lived there once, in Cincinnati, and it was not so bad.

You guys are hilarious. The weather was beautiful this past weekend. I'd rather suffer through snows and sunshines than hot & humid to more humid & unbearably hot that we aren't allowed outdoors (heat + pollution = health disasters). I am delighted by the old buildings, history of the town, and various park/rec areas. Houston is all skyscrapers and people living in what used to be low-income housing districts bulldozed down by the demand of loft-loving yuppies. I support the rebuilding of inner city areas so long as a Texan isn't involved. On a side note my Dad wanted to eat Skyline everyday for every meal while in Cincy. I agreed to every other day, once a day and I am still gagging at the thought of it. The apetite for it must be in the air in because I haven't wanted it since.

We sure got our humid snow and rainy sunshine. Yesterday 60 degrees and sunny, today raining and 35 mph winds, monday lots of snow predicted.

God I can't wait for midnight.

Bring in the storms!!!!!

You Know You're From Cincinnati When...
Your idea of a three-way is chilli over spaghetti topped with cheddar

You know what goetta is - and you've eaten it

You hate Cleveland, but you don't know why, and you've never been there

You think Pete Rose and Marge Schott were railroaded

You say "Please?" instead of "Excuse me?"

You think Northern Kentucky is part of Ohio

You've been to California, Wyoming, Coney Island, and Over-the-Rhine in one day

There are less than 100 murders a year, and you still think you're in Detroit

You think Dayton is a Third World country

What groundhog? It's the St. Patrick's Day parade leprechaun that forecasts how much longer winter will last.

Losing football teams draw more fans than winning baseball teams.

Indiana is about 20 miles away, but it takes about four hours to get there.

It's too cold in the winter, and too hot and humid in the summer, to ever stay outside for very long.

You drive to Columbus or Louisville to avoid the prices at the Cincinnati airport.

City council members hold debates on whether or not they should debate in the first place.

Tourists still flock downtown to catch a glimpse of cast members from "WKRP," even though the show hasn't aired on network television since 1984, and the show was filmed in LA anyway.

You ask lifetime residents where the President Taft house is, but they don't know either.

If you do something -- anything -- in public long enough, sooner or later it will be banned.

Your low-fat diet is never low enough to exclude Graeter's ice cream.

You get through winter listening to Marty and Joe's broadcasts from the grapefruit leagues.

Big Red Smokies are a ballpark treat, not cause to dial 9-1-1.

If necessary, the city could easily be sliced into two new cities: East and West, and it would take 20 years for anyone to notice something happened.

Chocolate and cinnamon, not peppers and beans, are in your chili.

You can drive 30 minutes in any direction to hear a different accent than your own.

You can accurately judge people's social status by which Kroger's store they frequent.

You can go to any church festival in any neighborhood on any weekend and see at least five people you either work with, went to school with, or dated.

Even the slightest mention of former baseball commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti makes your blood boil and your ears steam.

If the temperature hits 45 degrees, and the sun comes out in any month between November and April, people walk around downtown wearing shades and no jackets.

The top stories on the local 6 o'clock evening news look suspiciously like the articles you read in the newspaper that very morning -- and even use the same quotes.

Any carbonated beverage is a "coke."

Your favorite convenient store sounds like a labor union.

You can't hear the words "Mike Brown" without getting angry.

You honestly believe that Pete Rose should be in the Baseball Hall Fame.

You have more stadiums, coliseums, and arenas than you know what to do with.

It doesn't seem weird to you that everyone has an Uncle Al.

Your favorite Coney Island isn't in New York.

You like Nick Clooney better than George Clooney.

You know how Jerry Springer got his start.

You know what a pony keg is.

You have friends and neighbors with names like Machenheimer, Guckenberger, Schlottman, Schoenling, and Schweitering.

You know that cars (like eggs) are cheaper in the country.

An all-boys or all-girls school doesn't seem that odd to you

You think a mixed marriage is when an East Sider marries a West Sider.

You know the difference between Hudy and "Who Dey."

You know what cream ale is, and you think that cream soda should be bright red.

You think Kentucky is only slightly more civilized than Afghanistan.

You know in which state the Greater Cincinnati Airport is located.

You actually understand the word, "CRAVE" and white castle burgers.

You can almost name the seven "hills" minus one or two.

You actually get these jokes and pass them on to other friends from Cincinnati.

http://www.blogthings.com/wherefrom.html

Hmm...
The Mounts

Mt. Adams
Mt. Auburn
Mt. Echo
Mt. Washington
Mt. Healthy
Mt. Lookout
Mt. Airy
Mt. Nebo
Mt. Storm

The Hills
Price Hill
Walnut Hills
Prospect Hill
Western Hills
Oak Hills
Seven Hills
Bond Hill
Greenhills
Roll Hill (Good luck figuring out where that is)

BTW, this is Ohio Only

Here is a picture of Cincinnati that Mike took when we were on a night tour of the city.

You guys are forgetting about the best part of Cincinnati. Newport on the Levi is right across the river.

Kentucky Sucks.  Newport on the 'levi' failed in one of its primary purposes- to be a retail center.

By the way, 'Levi' is really spelled "Levee." Look it up.

Down with Kanuckit!!!! I hate the levee and I hate Levi's even more!!!!

It was a joke... except for the Levee part, I'm just stupid.

I've been told that a lot of people who live one the Kentucky side of the river are afraid to come across the river.  North of the Mason-Dixon line is just too scary.

Plus, we have Chuck Norris defending Cincinnati from the redneck invasion.

Amen to that!

It was 79 degrees and foggy today in Houston, people complained because it was cold and dreary.

I wish I were in Cincinnati.

My Mother and Brother wore the plastic bibs from Skyline for our very own Texas Style Chili. Skiyline is better.

I wish I were in Cincinnati.

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Cincinnati Music Hall:
(http://www.cincinnatiarts.org/press/images/MHSpringer.jpg)
large (http://www.cincinnatiarts.org/press/images/MHSpringer.jpg)

It's smaller in real life.

If it is smaller in real life that guy better watch out or tom thumb and thumbileena might crush him under their mighty footsteps.

That is a cool picture.