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March 22, 2015 at 6:05 pm #817033
2 Much WhineParticipantOK, perhaps the title is a little misleading. I’d love to hear about how the West Seattle Blog is an important part of your life but what I really meant, though, was the various use (misuse?) of the acronym WSB. I have seen it here in the blog to mean:
West Seattle Blog
West Seattle Bridge
West Seattle Brewery
I do a double take and have to start thinking about context when it is used as anything but the West Seattle Blog. Is this an intentional approach to getting us readers to think outside the box or are there really a lot of people that refer to the bridge as the WSB?
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Also along these same lines. . . . I have seen a number of people refer to Metropolitan Market as The Metro. To me this means a public transportation system. There is also “The Met” which I think of as the Metropolitan Grill or Metropolitan Opera and has nothing to do with Met Market (my nickname of choice for said supermarket). Am I the odd man out? Do most people refer to Met Market as The Metro or The Met?
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I’m not sure I can change if it turns out I’m just plain wrong.
March 22, 2015 at 6:27 pm #823013
WSBKeymasterEven before our publication existed, it was short for WestSide Baby (which uses the acronym extensively) and West Seattle Bowl (the same). SDOT uses WSB for West Seattle Bridge in its traffic tweets (as you probably know, tweets are 140 characters max, so acronyms are of high value).
-Tracy
March 22, 2015 at 7:24 pm #823014
miwsParticipantAh, dang you 2MW!
Yes, the title IS misleading, and I was all ready to get mushy and say; “In one word; Community”. ;-)
But, I *do* agree with you, that it throws me for a loop when I hear it in other contexts. :-)
Mike
March 22, 2015 at 7:25 pm #823015
JanSParticipantIt’s always been met Market to me. Metro? Nope… The Met? that’s a place in NY where people sing. It’s “The Bridge” to me. What other bridge would West Seattleites talk about? And WSB, to me, means West Seattle Blog. The bowling alley is “the bowling alley”. Westside Baby is just that. And I don’t think West Seattle Brewery even crosses my mind.
March 22, 2015 at 10:07 pm #823016
waynsterParticipanthave to agree with Jan except the bridge was just Spokane street then when they built the new one it became the bridge always been the bowling alley and the other was known as roxbury… wsb well its been west seattle blog just that…as for the metro the market or the met or west seattle brewery thats just recent yrs when the imports started showing up and moving in…..lol
March 22, 2015 at 10:25 pm #823017
KatherineLParticipantWSB is this blog to me (AKA: The Blog.) The grocery store is Met Market. Metro is buses, and the Met is Saturday opera. It’s just the bridge, or Spokane Street bridge as it was when I moved here.
March 22, 2015 at 11:14 pm #823018
SmittyParticipantNow I’m REALLY curious! Commenting on this thread, but not the “WSB not responding to emails thread”? What’s the REAL scoop WSB? Come on!
March 22, 2015 at 11:25 pm #823019
CMParticipantI’m just pleasantly surprised at how many locals I hear referring simply to “The Blog”. “I read on The Blog the other day that…..” Pretty cool.
Anyway, it’s the Jeanette Williams Memorial Bridge. Let’s keep the facts straight! ;)
March 23, 2015 at 4:09 am #823020
seaopgalParticipantWSB = West Seattle Blog (aka The Blog)
Metropolitan Market = Metropolitan Market (aka Metropolitan)
Now, can we please stop saying “the 90” “the 405” “the 5” and “the 520”?
March 23, 2015 at 4:42 am #823021
SueParticipantWSB always means The Blog to me. I abbreviate the bridge as WSBridge. I also call the store Met Market, never the Met. Funny that Jan said that the Met is a place in NY where people sing; I’m from NYC and when I heat The Met, I think the Metropolitan Museum of Art, never the Metropolitan Opera.
March 23, 2015 at 6:56 am #823022
RagsParticipantLiike Smitty, I’m also curious why the editors were much too busy to respond to Homer but were readily available to jump on this one. Please respond WSB.
March 23, 2015 at 10:07 am #823023
JanSParticipantRags…give it a break. The editors are under no obligation to respond to anyone on here. But for the record, I suggested numerous times that Homer contact the person who handles advertising. But Homer wanted someone else to do the work fr him, it seems. The email to the editor is different than the email to the advertising person. Maybe that’s why the editor didn’t answer. But I guess we’ll never know….but you will follow your name and rag on them any chance you get?
March 23, 2015 at 10:07 am #823024
JanSParticipantI’m with Seaopgal…this is not SoCal…
March 23, 2015 at 1:56 pm #823025
miwsParticipantNow I’m REALLY curious! Commenting on this thread, but not the “WSB not responding to emails thread”? What’s the REAL scoop WSB? Come on!
Liike (sic) Smitty, I’m also curious why the editors were much too busy to respond to Homer but were readily available to jump on this one. Please respond WSB.
You know I, too, am beginning to wonder if Homer even tried the ad dept e-mail addy. I don’t recall him/her mentioning that they did.
(Sorry, 2MW)
Mike
March 23, 2015 at 3:55 pm #823026
pattileaParticipantWSB = West Seattle Blog, I never once thought of the brewery. I have always called metropolitan market the Met Market. Actually I don’t ever think of it as the Metro, it just sounds wrong. One last thing is, its weird for me to hear people call WS a peninsula. I am a native West Seattle lady and never heard it called that until someone brought it up on “The Blog”.
March 23, 2015 at 4:14 pm #823027
KBearParticipantWSB may be many things to many people, but it is definitely NOT an acronym. It’s an abbreviation, or more specifically, an initialism.
March 23, 2015 at 11:29 pm #823028
acemotelParticipantFor me, and my many family members in West Seattle, the Metropolitan Market has always (at least, after it was Thriftway) been “The Met” Maybe I travel in the wrong circles, but I don’t know anyone who routinely discusses the NY Metropolitan Opera or Museum, in their daily conversations…..:-) but we love NYC nonetheless.
March 24, 2015 at 12:55 am #823029
justadumbguyParticipantFor us WSB is West Seattle Blog aka ‘the blog’
We get on ‘the bridge’ to get downtown unless we go by way of the ‘low bridge’
In our house Metropolitan Market is known as ‘met’ as in “I’m heading up to met do we need anything?”
(Never ever ‘The Met’ which as others have indicated above is in NYC in my head)
March 24, 2015 at 12:59 am #823030
JanSParticipantPattilea…I call it “the peninsula”, and even, at times, “the island”. As in, “that would give me a good excuse to leave the island” or “with 99 shut down this weekend, might as well stay on the island”. :D
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