No woo?
An interesting post just popped up on the WoMag Daily Worcesteria blog. Turns out that someone has taken issue with news editor Scott Zoback and his use of “the Woo” as a nickname for Worcester and since I’m referenced in the post I figure that gives me the right to chime in. An interesting call-out, for sure, I for one always felt ‘wormtown’ was by far the silliest nickname for Worcester (No offense Jeff), but this “PSD” character claims:
I keep seeing this “Woo” reference in WoMag…no one from Boston calls it “Beantown”…no one from Worcester calls it “The Woo”…in fact the only usage (verbal or written) I have EVER encountered in 34+ years is in Womag (recently)..I know blogs are opinion and all, but this term just seems half-baked.
“PSD” must live in a hole. I’ve been hearing this term used as long as I can remember. And mostly by people who can only be described as real Worcester, you know, people such as myself who were born here to parents who were born here…
For me “the Woo” always had a special ring since I proved, using rather advance trigonometry, that Joe vs The Volcano was the last movie in which Tom Hanks showed any sort of talent and of course the Volcano in said movie was called the Big Woo and referred to as such by Abe Vigoda who played the Waponi chief (Abe Vigoda is still alive for those of you keeping score). Anything Abe Vigoda says is inherently right and just, so “the Woo” is an inherently right and just name for my city.
Personally, I’m giving “PSD” a fail on this one.
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I’m with you, Buck. Even I have heard the term “Woo” used frequently.
I thought I actually coined the name. I also thought I invented the internet and that the Earth was melting.
If calling out Womag for using “woo” is this guys biggest problem or even something he feels compelled to write about, he obviously does not live in the “woo” or as I am now officially calling it ” The Ster”. Yeah, suck on that Zoback!
No offense taken. Here’s an apology
for my choice in using that silly name for the blog.
Shit, now I’m going to have to start fitting “The Ster” into headlines? How about just Cester? Or “The Ces?”
With “The Ces”, you’re only a textile “spool” away from “Cesspool”. Its all connected in the Heart of the Commonwealth.
One Woo World Forever!
How long before a city marketing group decides “Wooing U to The Woo” is a FANTASTIC slogan, and we see it plastered on a vinyl sign across City Hall?
I put the over under at 9 months.
The Woo is a damn good nickname, even a real Meriden guy(you know, dudes like me who were born in Meriden to parents who were born in Meriden) like me knows that.
As a lifelong Massachusetts resident but a new Worcester resident of just over the past year I will admit that my girlfriend and I used “the Woo” all the time, but never once have used the term “wormtown”
I feel since I was not around in the “wormtown” era I shouldn’t be able to use it as my own, plus I think “the Woo” sounds much cooler.
Since joining Facebook, I’ve become aware that some local high school students call it “The 508,” perhaps ironically. That’s where I got the name for the podcast, BTW.