Comments on: Local graffiti types love Herb Caen

By: Herr Doktor Professor Deth Vegetable

Herr Doktor Professor Deth Vegetable — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 01:59:55 +0000

Donkey. Balls.

By: Herr Doktor Professor Deth Vegetable

Herr Doktor Professor Deth Vegetable — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 01:58:41 +0000

Again, enjoying thhe donkeyballs?

By: scum

scum — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 01:17:38 +0000

After 39 years here I find only the young kids, transplants, and or getto rap fools use Frisco. If you want to “serve” me I will take a shot and a beer fool.

By: Cisco Kidd

Cisco Kidd — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 00:42:37 +0000

Thanks, Herr Doktor Googlebus and his ilk have been served.

By: 49_Giants

49_Giants — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 22:18:57 +0000

I know we all have it in our heads that we’re not supposed to call our fair city “Frisco,” but that’s garbage.

To some natives, “Frisco” is abhorrent. To other natives, “Frisco” sounds about right. It depends on your neighborhood. No one in the southern hoods like Crocker Amazon, Excelsior, HP, Visitacion Valley would flinch. Ask a kid out at Lincoln or Washington H.S. if “Frisco” is an acceptable nickname for SF and 90% will say “duhhhh.”

And anyone who grew up listening to Bay Area hip hop in the 90′s knows that Rappin’ 4Tay, RBL Posse, the GLP, Too Short, Mac Dre, Young Cellski, et al. all called it Frisco.

I personally don’t call it Frisco, I’ll be damned if I see a transplant correcting a native with a “Oh dear, we don’t call it Frisco here!” Bitch, please.

By: Chalkman

Chalkman — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 18:03:48 +0000

“SF” or “The City”…..

Between Dolores and Oakwood on 18th there is a cardboard Herb Caen in the window, people look at it all the time, I’d be 99% of people have no idea who it is, I’ve heard people say, “look, it is Ed Koch!”

By: oh

oh — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 17:09:13 +0000

I call it crying in my diaper.

By: scum

scum — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 15:07:55 +0000

Some Fagdisco?

By: christklippel

christklippel — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 03:24:50 +0000

taking naming advice from a fellow transplant? i think not. call it whatever the fuck you want. i call it spam francesca.

By: Cranky Old Mission Guy

Cranky Old Mission Guy — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 19:46:47 +0000

Well, thank you for locating that quote, if it is, in fact, accurate. It certainly sounds like something ol’ Herb would have said in his sunset years. I’ve been saying “Frisco” in my mind for decades, but, perhaps because of my early Santa Rosa indoctrination, San Francisco, for me, has always been “The City”. That’s what I say, and that’s what it would always be, if the Web hadn’t come along — where I have to explain “The City”. Here in the Bay Area counties, all you have to say is, “The City”.

That said, I would like to add that there is a special place in Hell for people who refer to California as “Cali”.

By: diethylether

diethylether — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 18:18:52 +0000

“Balderdash… the toughest guys on the old SF waterfront, neither rubes nor tourists, called it Frisco, and no effete journalist would have tried to correct them.” – Herb Caen

By: Herr Doktor Professor Deth Vegetable

Herr Doktor Professor Deth Vegetable — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 18:02:05 +0000

How’s them Donkey Balls? Nice and salty?

By: Frisco Choppers

Frisco Choppers — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 17:38:22 +0000

They’ve called it Frisco since the 1800s..why do you think Herb was trying to change that? The real affront to local good taste is “San Fran” -NOBODY says that who isn’t a kook. Frisco is here to stay no matter what Caen tried to do.

By: scum

scum — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 07:05:13 +0000

I was raised here since 72 and not a single person I grew up with calls it frisco.

By: Emperor Norton

Emperor Norton — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 03:55:12 +0000

bullshit