So, is "capitol" just misspelled so often that it's considered okay to just spell it however the fuck you want? Even in Olympia there are signs on the freeway directing you to the "Capital".

Ha, sfb. I thought the same thing but actually looked it UP before I posted. Turns out "capital" is a city but "capitol" is a collection of buildings. The more you know...

Yep. And in case you wonder, as I have, why our "Capitol Hill" is capitol-less, here's speculation on the origin of the name from http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=3188:

>>>Naming Capitol Hill

Capitol Hill got its name in the fall of 1901. Before this it was called Broadway Hill. Most descriptions of how the hill got its name turn on one of two stories. By one description – the sentimental one -- James Moore chose the moniker "Capitol Hill" for the quarter section of land he purchased in 1900 primarily because his wife came from another Western city that had its own Capitol Hill: Denver. By the second story, the name was picked in hopes of enticing the state to move its business from Olympia onto Prospect Street. Some sources say that an early version of this scheming began with “city founder” Arthur Denny in the 1860s.

This is probably wrong. Jacqueline Williams (The Hill with a Future) provides evidence from early newspapers that James Moore named “Capitol Hill,” and that he chose the name probably for reasons of both his wife and politics -- or more precisely, promotions.

In the spring of 1901, less than a year after he purchased and began improving the Capitol Hill Addition just south of Volunteer Park, Moore persuaded William H. Lewis, a King County politician then serving in the Washington State House of Representatives, to introduce a bill offering both a site for the capital campus on Capitol Hill and funds to build a Capitol Building. This was not a very serious proposal. It did, however, for a brief while allow locals to imagine the reach of Moore’s ambition and to envision his elevated real estate surmounted by the state capitol. After all, there remained then the old problem in Olympia that while it had the seat of state government it did not have the pants; that is a capitol building worthy of the state.>>>

I can't believe Bogota is the capitAl of anything besides cocaine/murder.

"I can't believe Bogota is the capitAl of anything besides cocaine/murder"

Ha! Yeah MIM, that one leapt off the screen at me too. I just figured if Amsterdam's campaign included a "costume parade", Bogata's probably included some threats, kidnappings and a bombing or 2. whatever works!

Maybe you should get your information about Colombia from someplace other than action movies and Fox News. Bogota is a vibrant international city, known as the "Athens of South America".

Umm, fine FNARF, but the joke is funnier if we focus on the coke cartel part and not the vibrant Athensy part. Thanks for setting the ignorent masses straight though.

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