One aspect of the “culture shock” experienced by visitors to the United States and a mnemonic for several prominent municipalities in and around Metro Detroit (Macomb Township, Canton, Dearborn, Bloomfield, Troy, Farmington Hills, Southfield, Adrian, Royal Oak, Saint Clair Shores, Pontiac, Novi, Livonia, Lapeer, Highland Park, Warren, Eastpointe, Ann Arbor, Inkster, Clinton Township, Trenton, Taylor, Ferndale).
Non-Essential Mnemonics
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In this space, writer Kent Woodyard shares all the mnemonics
you’ll never really need to remember.
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Most Tourists Can’t Distinguish Between the Famous Hilton Sisters and Random Other Slutty Celebrity Starlets. Paris, Nicky, Lindsay Lohan, Heidi Pratt, Whoever Else—All are Identically Classless to the Typical Foreigner.
BY Kent Woodyard
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