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JoelWe have a feature here called Ask a Tampan wherein you - the reader - ask one of us (usually Tommy) - a Tampan - a question. We’ve been known to answer them from time to time.
I’d like to turn the tables a bit, only I’m having trouble coming up with a title for this likely one-time event.
For the last two years I’ve been a New Tampan. Though I’ve made efforts to love my neighborhood, it’s hard to look past the lack of neighborliness and Bruce B. Downs, the four-lane, eternally congested elephant in the room that is New Tampa.
Fortunately thanks in large part to the generosity of my in-laws, the wife and I will soon be moving away from South Wesley Chapel. We’ll be living in Temple Terrace, which makes my wife and I…
What does that make us? Contrary to any conclusions you may now be making, it does not make us eighty. Actually I’ll be the fourth person from my 1998 high school graduating class of 40 people to have moved to this “city for living” in the last year. There goes the neighborhood.
But back to the task at hand - the first installment of Ask a Temple Terrace Resident: what are you? There’s got to be a way to make that title a little less awkward.
Temple Terracite isn’t terribly flattering. Temple Terracist is far worse. We could play on initials and call you Teeters.
Either way I’ll soon be one of you, so I’d like an answer soon. If any non-T.T. residents have any suggestions, please comment. But be nice - after all, Tampan isn’t exactly flattering either.
Tags: ask a tampan, moving, tampa, temple terrace
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October 18th, 2006 at 3:09 pm
Temple Terrorist?
Templarian?
Tempters?
October 18th, 2006 at 3:29 pm
You’re just a Temple Terrace resident. Just watch out for councilwomen who invade salons!
October 18th, 2006 at 4:29 pm
Piggyback on the popularity of DaVinci Code and be the Terrace Templars.
There’s already a city in Texas called Temple, but I don’t know what the residents there call themselves. But you could be Terrations. Terracions? Terraces. Terraceers. That’s the one, Terraceer. Sort of tacky, like a Mouseketeer, but appropriate for a city with a city hall on top of the supermarket.
October 18th, 2006 at 4:31 pm
Knights of the Terrace Templars…
nope, I got nothin.’
(couldn’t even come up with any more bad ones) Good luck with the move.
October 18th, 2006 at 4:32 pm
Hey! There were only two comments when I posted mine, I swear! I’m no copycat. Great minds think alike, though.
October 18th, 2006 at 5:59 pm
As soon as I spot a self-flagellating albino (in a salon?), I’ll consider the Templars.
In the meantime I think Smitty’s got it with Terraceers. Now I just have to design the hats.
October 18th, 2006 at 7:12 pm
Terraceers? S-T-I-C-K-S O-F-I-R-E…what’s it spell?
October 18th, 2006 at 8:38 pm
I live in Temple Terrace and I am a 40 something person living in the midst of a really cool up and coming neighborhood. This place is great!!
We don’t call ourselves anything, but we all say we live ‘In the Terrace’ in a snobby way like south Tampans (ugh) all say they never go ‘North of Kennedy’ or hang with SOGS (those who live south of Gandy).
October 18th, 2006 at 11:11 pm
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I’m glad to see a resident making an apperance. And I’m glad to see you like your neighborhood - that someone would bother to speak up gives me some optimism that I might finally be living in an actual neighborhood rather than a conglomeration of houses.
See you in the Terrace!
October 19th, 2006 at 2:09 am
Terranosaurus’ (Terranosaurs?)
Roaaarrrrrr!!!!
http://sunniebunniezz.com/shoppingcart/mm25064dino.htm
October 22nd, 2006 at 9:01 am
Temple Terrapins?
January 6th, 2007 at 6:19 pm
Joel:
We call ourselves Temple Terraceans.
Coridially,
Grant Rimbey