so many people in this town need to get laid. the rage over such banal things is mindblowing.

Technically, by your own logic, it would actually be akin to calling San Francisco "SFO."

Finally, we figured out a way to ditch your whiny ass! Welcome to PDX. PDX, PDX!!!!!

This is a PDXcellent rant!

The Internet, legitimizing useless opinions since 1994.

People have called San Francisco "Frisco" as a nickname for something like 150 years, and (relatively recently) uptight, priggish people there continue to get all bent of shape about it, probably because they have nothing better to talk about. Most of the people with better problems to rant about got pushed to the East Bay quite a while ago.
I'm no fan of "PDX" either, but have fun with your self-righteous boycott.

I don't follow. "Something like 150 years ago" is well before 1902.

Now I get it, @9 was talking about I,A and PDX in 2002, not my comment. Whenever anyone says "sweetie," I tend to think they must be talking to me.

no, calling Portland "PDX" is not like calling San Francisco "Frisco"; it's like calling Frisco "SFO".

like

One of many nicknames for our fair city.... hey, wait! NickCity?! +1, and thank you for your PDXaggerated rant.

The X in PDX typically means international, from airport codes. A city like Portland could use some international flare and/or attention. The only diversity I saw while living there, other than many types of "creative" types milling about downtown, were the tour busses of Asians heading between Seattle and LA

It's called 'short-hand', Nazi. If it really annoys you THAT severely, you can always move to another city.

hmm, 17, I seem to remember a lot of diversity. but well i'm living in Tucson for the time being; so maybe even a lil diversity seems like a lot to me. Anyway, good point 4! And 8, 150 years? that seems like a stretch, but yeah what is with people and their tired rants about what you call a place. People have been mispronouncing a rim here, and a ghost town in N.M. that are named for my last name, and I'm pretty sure they actually have been doing it for over 150 years. If I can get over that, than all you people can get over Frisco and PDX and even SFO if somebody chose to call it that.

"yeah, short hand nazi, and if not, Ill call my mama and tell her all about you while I cry about the idiot friends that I have."

I counter striked and cyber stalked DamosA=DiaRreha=GaddafiA=mimosA, And found out that all of her friends, the ones she hangs out and relates to, are a bunch of Idiots.

This explains IT ALL about her behavior in this blog. She isn't accustomed to cool gifted people or to manners in particular, or to most of the culture liked here. The culture which despises you DamosA=DiaRreha=GaddafiA=mimosA.

GET OUT. is friendship day today?

Hey, there's my NO. 1 FAN, right on que!

@gypsy sojourner: I was curious enough about whether I was right to double check how long "Frisco" has been around, and I was right. See for example Harper's Magazine, vol. 13, 598:
http://books.google.com/books?id=iPsvAAAAM…

#22, yeah, nice acting. hahahaha. Water up to your neck, don't know what to say?

You keep repeating that and another 3 things like some sort of campaign motto. hahahaha.

I also cracked your e-mails and read them. Sue me. Wanna fight? k?

air_drone,if it was up to her, she would have you open, examined, and sent you back here.

#23: cool book. Now am curious why some larger city names don't have abbreviations, like, London for example. (there are 2 Londons that I know of).
Of course you have the 3 or 4 letter abbreviation that comes on the airport terminal boards but none of them official or widely used.

@14: you could have just posted a link to my comment, asshole.

When you talk to a weather briefer from another part of the country, they sometimes think PDX is an abbreviation for Paradise!

This I Anon really chaps my ass.

Since there are 2 Portlands, using PDX is a precise way to differentiate us from PWM (<-Portland, Maine for dipshits).

And all this time I thought PDX was just an emoticon meaning "I'm a happy guy with an eyepatch and bow tie!"

Todd Meck for COTW.

It was me. I'm not trying to be cute or cool or hip. I'm just pretty sure it was me. I moved to PDX, er, Portland in 1999. Before arriving, I studied the city a great deal. I read a number of books. When I got there, I was struck by how nice Portland's airport was compared to most other American airports. It was a great first impression. And I remember thinking how nice PDX rolls off the tongue. It stuck.

When I referred to Portland as PDX back then, friends would look at me weird, shake their heads or correct me. This went on for about a year. Maybe other people were calling the city PDX already, who knows. But I know I didn't start saying it because somebody else was. A couple days after Stumptown first opened on Division, I referred to Portland as PDX while having a conversation with a barista. She said she liked it, and that it was 'catchy'. The rest is history?

I have since moved far away from the City of Roses and Bridges. I love it there but am decidedly not cool or hip enough to live there. I don't own chickens, I am nice to people when I ride my bike and I don't think the world should be subjected to the profile of my legs when I wear jeans. But I am the person who originally dubbed Portland 'PDX'. So there. Sorry.