Fleet Week ’06
A hearty welcome and Thank You to the service folks here in NY:
NEW YORK – Flying a huge American flag from its mast, the guided missile cruiser USS Anzio led nearly a dozen Navy ships and Coast Guard craft up New York Harbor on Wednesday to open the city’s 19th annual Fleet Week observance. Some 4,000 sailors and Marines were expected to spend time — and money — taking in Gotham’s sights and sounds over the next week.
Well, as always, they won’t be spending any money if I’m around. I’ll hit what bars I can and buy as many drinks as I can as a “thank you” to these wonderful Americans.
Military Thingies | Mr. Bingley | 
May 25, 2006 8:58 am
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taking in Gotham’s sights and sounds over the next week
WTF???
Gotham is Chicago, not NYC.
What? I’ve never heard “gotham’ applied to Chicago.
I mean, I don’t get out much, though…
Uh, Cullen…
Bah. Batman creator Bob Kane had said he based Gotham on Chicago.
He lied to you, Cullen.
The bat rastard.
See, now you’re gonna have me diggin’ out my history of DC book outta my box of packed away books in my storage shed. I shall find this reference.
However, I concede my misconception. Dammit.
Well, Chicago certainly has had more colorful criminal elements, so he may have based the foes on some of Chicago’s finest.
I hear the Joker was based on Richard Daley. Mr. Freeze, of course, was based on Joan Crawford.
I thought Two-face was one of the Daleys.
Where’s Helen O’Connell?
I see Cullen’s point, especially if you consider Metropolis, but Gotham has always been a coastal city. (Not to be confused with Coast City itself, which was the LA equivalent in DC’s world.) They could conceivably mean a lake, not the big water, but where’s the fun in that?