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Couching Knoxville, Hidden Nickname
Posted By katie allison granju
So Jack Lail, Michael Silence and I are all in agreement: Knoxville ex-pat and writer Alison Glock’s claim in her NYT piece today that people regularly refer to Knoxville as “the couch” is kind of out in left field.
But maybe we three are just out of the loop on this one. So take the poll and let’s figure this Knoxville couch mystery out together.
Jun 6th, 2008
I think it’s the most accurate nickname for a city that I have ever come across.
I have lived here my entire life and never heard that Knoxville was ever called “the couch”. I think that those with allergies, asthma and lung problems might beg to differ. Knoxville ranked #9 in “Metropolitan Areas with the Worst Ozone Air Pollution” by the American Lung Association. Little has been done to clean it up. Comfortable like a couch? Maybe if you like sitting by the air filter all day.
I love my hometown and the people but just ask around about how comfortable your friends and neighbors are on “The Couch”.
No one calls Knoxville “the couch”.
I never heard it, but it’s kind of an apt description. I think my brother fell down between the seat cushions.
I moved to the area 2 years ago. Since then I have heard it called K-town, K-ville, Knoxpatch, KnoxVegas, but never NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER ‘The Couch’.
It’s a name Glock came up with because she needed an opening line for her piece.
“Journalists” do it all the time.
I was born in Knoxville and have lived in the Knoxville area all my life. I’ve heard Knoxville called K Town and Big Orange Country. I’ve even heard it referred to it as Road Work Ahead a few times. However, I have never heard anyone refer to it as The Couch. No local calls it that. Thats just something made up by someone who needed some material.