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1. Will the last person leaving Seattle please turn out the lights: Was posted on a billboard in the 70's (I think). Initially referred to all of the layoffs from Boeing in the 60's a...  
2. Space Needle: Designed for the 1962 World's Fair, the Space Needle is a 605 foot tall tower in Seattle, Washington. The well-reco...
3. Public Market Center: Started in 1907, the Public Market in Seattle is one of the oldest farmer's markets in the United States.
4. SLUT: So it's officially the South Lake Union Streetcar but what fun is that? The SLUT is short for the South Lake Union...
5. F dub, The: A slang term that some use for Federal Way, a south suburb of Seattle.  
6. Homely Dames: Derogatory term for Holy Names Academy, an all-girls' school in Seattle. Can also refer to Holy Names students.  
7. Loser Cruiser: A nickname for the 174 bus between Seattle and Federal Way.  
8. Mountain Is Out, The: Since Seattleites live for gloriously sunny weather, this phrase typically is used to emphasize just HOW nice the w...  
9. Meet at the Troll: Refers to a well-known Seattle landmark. Located in the neighborhood of Fremont, the troll lives under the Aurora b...  
10. My oh my: Wrong not coined by him. He is credited for saying it a lot. His coined phrase was/is fly away.  
11. Ride the SLUT: SLUT stands for South Lake Union Transit. It was added at part of mass transit in Seattle a couple of years ago but...
12. Filthy: Filthy is a Seattle term that means 'cool'.  
13. Soviet Republic of Washington: James Farley, Postmaster under FDR, said in 1936, "There are 47 states in the Union, and the Soviet of Washington."...  
14. Coffee Crawl: A coffee crawl is like a bar crawl, but for coffeehouses. A local tour company, Seattle By Foot, stages these crawl...  
15. Ban roll-on building: The Second and Seneca Building is often referred to as the Ban roll-on building because its blue dome at the top re...  
 
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Around the world people call them Buffalo wings. In Buffalo they're just "wings."

Brew/movie, relating to any number of theaters that serve beer. Popular ones are Kennedy School, Laurelhurst, Baghdad.

A supermarket shopping cart.

A common question in Saint Louis upon meeting someone. It is thought that meaningful stereotypes can be made of a person once knowing where he went to high school. This is perhaps a testament to the intense segregation that has plagued the city.

Watertown is the birthplace of variety retailing, known in other parts of the country as dollar stores, but known in Watertown as "five and dime".