What's in a name?

So over at Bullfight, Dan Nguyen-Tan discusses the unofficial city seal for Chico and offers potential nicknames for Chico besides, supposedly, "City of Roses."

I've got to agree with him, "City of Roses" is quite boring and unoriginal and not all that befitting of Chico, (unless you were incorporate the George Petersen Rose Garden and make Chico "City of $50 Fine Roses."

But, here are some nickname suggestions for Chico:

First City to Declare "The Party Is Over" For Cesar Chavez Day

City Where Oct. 31 and March 17 Don't Exist

The Orion City (shamless alumnus plug!)

City Where We Couldn't Possibly Name Anything Else After the Bidwells

City of Martin Luther King, Jr.

The Ammond City (NOTE: If this city does actually incorporate a nickname using the blatent local mispronounciation of "almond," I'll informally secede my apartment back into unincorporated Butte County in protest.)

City of Thinkers and Drinkers