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Comments on Department of Hideous Similes

Is that some sort of heroin reference? Poor taste. Boo.

Posted by hey | May 9, 2007 11:13 AM

I love City Confidential, but it's hard to watch in the company of others due to its shameless employment of awful, awful similes and dunderheaded geographic generalizations. Georgia: Ice tea simile. Rhode Island: yacht club simile. LA: surfboard simile. And now, apparently, Seattle. Moshing.

Posted by sniggles | May 9, 2007 11:48 AM

Georgia is associated with iced tea? How about associating it with peaches or Scarlett O'Hara or insufferable humidity?

Posted by keshmeshi | May 9, 2007 12:32 PM

@3: Or Deliverance.

Posted by Sweeney Agonistes | May 9, 2007 12:50 PM

Deliverence was West Virginia.

I love the camp of City Confidential, I think they should take that aspect of it even further.

Posted by Dougsf | May 9, 2007 1:13 PM

I beg to differ.

James Dickey was a Georgia writer, and boy did he ever show off the very best of our state.

Posted by Sweeney Agonistes | May 9, 2007 1:22 PM

Ahhh... I stand corrected. THE FILM was shot in West Virginia, and assumed it also took place there.

Posted by Dougsf | May 9, 2007 2:57 PM

The film was actually made in northern Georgia, near the Chattahoochie? not sure of the spelling?

Posted by right turn ahead | May 9, 2007 7:44 PM

Listen people, you're killimg me here. WEST VIRGINIA IS FAMOUS FOR DELIVERNCE..OK? Why is that so? I don't know, it just is! Are the people of West Virginia so starved for landmarks they falsely brag about being home to raping banjo-ists? It sounds like that is the case.

Posted by Dougsf | May 10, 2007 1:43 PM

1. Deliverance is set along the Chattahoochie River in Northern Georgia. Where the AT runs through.
2.Weird. I also flew JetBlue this weekend and saw that same special on the missing girl.

Posted by southerner | May 10, 2007 2:16 PM

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