There’s A New Sister in Town

Posted by Vanillavy on September 3rd, 2008 39 Comments

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Mayor Norris is in the middle of formalizing a third sister city for Charlottesville, this time in Africa. Currently we are bonded via the powers of the local government’s international relations and Sister Cities International with:

  • Besancon, Franche-Comte, France
  • Pleven, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
  • Poggio a Caiano, Toscana, Italy

Our new sister city is Winneba in Ghana. Winneba is not only a collegiate town a la cville, boasting West Africa’s three best institutions (called the Oxford of Ghana), it is also an amazing tourist destination:

Go there for some nice walks through town and on the beach. Very relaxing if you are stuck in Accra for a while.You will be happy to meet friendly people who are ready to help you do what ever you want to do. You may roam through the town to the beach, one of the best in the country. Winneba has a big stretch of beach that makes it comfortable for tourists to enjoy the environment. It is one of the leading towns in the country and it is blessed with learned people that have contributed a lot to the welfare of Ghana. Winneba was also the second to receive electricity in Ghana after Akosombo.

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39 Responses to “There’s A New Sister in Town”

  1. 03 Sep 2008 at 1:25 pm1Ethan said:

    Oh great, a shitty shanty town in Africa. We should work on sister cities in Asia and South America next so we can be more multicultural.

  2. 03 Sep 2008 at 1:35 pm2shenanigans said:

    I just read @1 and spit Earl Grey all over my computer screen. Nice, Ethan.

  3. 03 Sep 2008 at 1:38 pm3dieter said:

    @3 so how long have you been dating this Earl Grey? Impressive multitasking nonetheless.

  4. 03 Sep 2008 at 1:50 pm4shenanigans said:

    Don’t tell otterdung. He’ll kick Earl’s ass.

  5. 03 Sep 2008 at 1:51 pm5echo said:

    Maybe Earl Grey is otterdung’s real name…

  6. 03 Sep 2008 at 1:57 pm6shenanigans said:

    THE CODE echo the gawddamned code you fuckerrrr

  7. 03 Sep 2008 at 2:01 pm7otterdung said:

    @3–5

    hey-hey-hey now… a slice off a cut loaf is never missed, as they say.

    @1
    i love our shitty shanty-african-town sister already.

    should we start a Cvillain-Only care-package monthly mailing to them, of expensive tequila, cigars, cvillain mugs and teeshirts and swizzle-sticks–Shen could send those espadrilles BACK to them, etc.? we could trade for mail-order brides and, like, sticks or driftwood and palm-fronds.

    do you think thay have a CARGO-CULT there?

  8. 03 Sep 2008 at 2:05 pm8otterdung said:

    how cool is this:

    “The University of Education is in Winnaba”

  9. 03 Sep 2008 at 2:08 pm9dieter said:

    @7 Are you saying that Shen is a cut loaf- you’re so toast.

  10. 03 Sep 2008 at 2:09 pm10ThisSideUp said:

    @9 I think he said he wants her to slice his loaf - which is weirrrd.

  11. 03 Sep 2008 at 2:18 pm11otterdung said:

    @9, 10

    i’d bury my head in the sand, but that would leave me rather vulnerable to, ummmm, indiscretions…

  12. 03 Sep 2008 at 2:18 pm12shenanigans said:

    I just looked it up and it’s DIRTY!

  13. 03 Sep 2008 at 2:22 pm13ThisSideUp said:

    @12 His loaf is dirty? Eww.

  14. 03 Sep 2008 at 2:26 pm14dieter said:

    I bet it’s a loaf of rye!

  15. 03 Sep 2008 at 2:29 pm15otterdung said:

    @14

    there’s a joke here with ‘pump-her-nickel’, but i don’t have the mind for it today.

  16. 03 Sep 2008 at 2:33 pm16otterdung said:

    @ POST

    could anyone dig up a general address for our sister city in Africa? Do they speak french, Shen?

    i think i WOULD like to send them a few care-packages of amusing stuff… i assume they have a sense of humor in the third world… my packages HERE have been received with some dubiety by the lurkers, and perhaps OVER THERE might be better appreciated?

  17. 03 Sep 2008 at 3:05 pm17shenanigans said:

    They do not. Which is weird because Ghana is surrounded on three sides by Francophone countries. FAIL.

  18. 03 Sep 2008 at 3:47 pm18otterdung said:

    i bet they have bigass great-white sharks in the water right behind that little boat.

  19. 03 Sep 2008 at 3:49 pm19echo said:

    @17: Are you FAILing them for speaking English instead of French? If that is indeed the case, I believe I have to redirect the Fail towards you.

  20. 03 Sep 2008 at 3:51 pm20shenanigans said:

    I’m failing them for being surrounded by French on all land sides and not speaking it. Go look at a map, it’s bizarre.

  21. 03 Sep 2008 at 3:54 pm21echo said:

    Do you fail Brazil for speaking Portugese?

  22. 03 Sep 2008 at 3:56 pm22Stanley said:

    @20: Yeah. They totally shoulda chosen their colonizing imperialist invaders more better, so’s they could talk all fancy-like.

  23. 03 Sep 2008 at 4:08 pm23shenanigans said:

    @21: Go look at a map already. They are literally in a French stranglehold. it’s not lik e Brazil at all.

  24. 03 Sep 2008 at 4:11 pm24echo said:

    @21: I looked at a map, and you’re right, but how is being the only country in Central and South America that doesn’t speak Spanish not the same?

  25. 03 Sep 2008 at 4:12 pm25shenanigans said:

    Um, cuz it’s fucking huge for one?

  26. 03 Sep 2008 at 4:14 pm26echo said:

    Size matters?

  27. 03 Sep 2008 at 4:16 pm27scoriole said:

    @23:
    why, because there are ll those other portuguese speaking countries in the entire americas?

    and otterdung- what’s with you and your sending of your package?

    and as i understand it, cargo cults mostly happened on islands. and in the south pacific.
    even if ghana is an island among french speaking countries.

  28. 03 Sep 2008 at 4:16 pm28shenanigans said:

    DUH

  29. 03 Sep 2008 at 4:42 pm29Stanley said:

    being the only country in Central and South America that doesn’t speak Spanish not the same

    That’s not true. Wikipedia:

    . Dutch is the official language of Suriname; English is the official language of Guyana, although there are at least twelve other languages spoken in the country such as Hindi, Arabic, and various indigenous dialects. English is also spoken in the Falkland Islands. French is the official language of French Guiana.

    Indigenous languages of South America include Quechua in Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia; Guaraní in Paraguay and, to a much less extent, in Bolivia; Aymara in Bolivia, Peru, and less often in Chile; and Mapudungun is spoken in certain pockets of southern Chile and, more rarely, Argentina. At least three South American indigenous languages (Quechua in Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia - Aymara also in Bolivia - and Guarani in Paraguay) are recognized along with Spanish as national languages.

    Other languages found in South America include Hindi and Indonesian in Suriname; Italian in Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Venezuela, and Chile; and German in certain pockets of Argentina, Chile, Venezuela and Paraguay. German is also spoken in many regions of the southern states of Brazil, Riograndenser Hunsrückisch being the most widely spoken German dialect in the country; among other Germanic dialects, a Brazilian form of Pomeranian is also well represented and is experiencing a revival. Welsh remains spoken and written in the historic towns of Trelew and Rawson in the Argentinean Patagonia. There are also small clusters of Japanese-speakers in Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Paraguay, Peru, and Ecuador. Arabic speakers, often of Lebanese, Syrian, or Palestinian descent, can be found in Arab communities in Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Argentina, and less frequently in Colombia and Paraguay.

    In most of the continent’s countries, the upper classes and well-educated people regularly study English, French, German, or Italian. In those areas where tourism is a significant industry, English and some other European languages are often spoken. There are small Spanish speaking areas in Southernmost Brazil due to the proximity of Uruguay.

    But I think shen’s being difficult just to be difficult, so whatever.

  30. 03 Sep 2008 at 4:45 pm30otterdung said:

    @27
    what’d i do?

  31. 03 Sep 2008 at 4:52 pm31shenanigans said:

    @29: What? Echo’s just wrong.

  32. 03 Sep 2008 at 5:04 pm32echo said:

    No, I’m infallible. Wikipedia is wrong.

  33. 03 Sep 2008 at 6:17 pm33Ethan said:

    Is Dave Norris just doing this because he wants more of the black vote?

  34. 03 Sep 2008 at 9:01 pm34Taliesin said:

    I want to write a letter to our sister’s mother.

  35. 05 Sep 2008 at 7:12 am35Kevin Cox said:

    I want a sister city on every continent, including Antarctica.

  36. 05 Sep 2008 at 9:20 am36oy said:

    I’ve already got a sister.

    where’s our FWB city?

  37. 05 Sep 2008 at 10:02 am37echo said:

    @36: I call it Richmond.

  38. 05 Sep 2008 at 10:09 am38shenanigans said:

    Ugh. Do not F people from Rva. STDs yo.

  39. 09 Sep 2008 at 11:52 pm39backup planet said:

    hey, don’t be dissing our capitol/confederate capitol - it’s just a little bigger, little edgier c-ville

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