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Originally Posted by Layton is my Homeboy

Life's tough for a socialist in London.... le sigh.

There's been some great names suggested already, but here's a few ideas about London:

• It's on the fork of the Thames River, so anything to do with rivers
• It's known as the "Forest City", so anything to do with forrests/trees
• It's major employers are the Labbatt Brewery, London Life (insurance,) GM's Electro-Motive Deisels (locomotives,) General Land Dynamics (military vehicles,) 3M (Canadian HQ,) and the biotech and life sciences industries
• It has a military reserve base and many war memorials
• Sports teams from London include:
  • London Monarchs of the now defunct Canadian Baseball League played at Labatt Park.
  • London Werewolves (1999-2002; moved to Canton, Ohio as the Coyotes) of the Frontier League, who played at Labatt Park and were league Champions in 1999.
  • London Tigers (1989-1993; moved to Trenton, New Jersey) of the AA Eastern League, who played at Labatt Park and were league Champions in 1989-1990.
  • London City of the Canadian Professional Soccer League
  • London Magpies in the Ontario Australian Football League
  • London Silverbacks of the North American Football League
  • London Beefeaters of the Ontario Football Conference
  • The Forest City Thunderbirds of the Central Ontario Minor Football League
  • London Falcons of the Ontario Varsity Football League
  • London Falcons Home Page
  • London Gryphons women's soccer team
  • Forest City Volleyball Club (youth volleyball club part of Ontario Volleyball ***ociation run out of Fanshawe College)
  • London Tecumsehs, 1877 champs of the International ***ociation
• It is the home of such notable people as Dr. David Suzuki, Eric Lindros, and Rachel McAdams
• Sun Media holds a monopoly on news media, so we get to see the world through the eyes of Americans

To add a little more. London unfortunately is also the birthplace of former talk show host Jenny Jones.

London was the last city in Canada to have a public hanging.

Someone mentioned Tecumseth's and you were close, they were and are called the Tecumseh's (no T) and are Canada's best under 17 development team (by terms of players drafted to the MLB).

The top baseball in the city right now is the London Majors. They play in the Inter-County League agaist the Toronto Maple Leafs (as someone mentioned before as a past tense). In the last couple years former major leaguers have found this league and decided to play here. Most (of the former MLB'ers), like Paul Spoljaric and Rob Butler played for the Jays or had some connection to the Jays.

On a side note I plyed Senior ball (210 and over) up until a couple years ago when my completely torn rotator and frayed labrum finally gave up on me) and we would play the Tecumseh's in exhibition games before our season's. Every year was the same, these kids were playing grown men and were intimidated for the first couple innings. We would somehow manufacture a run or two, then these kids would realize that they are better ball players than we could ever dream of and we'd lose 7-2 or 8-2 or something along those lines. It was exhibition and it was fun to start against them because usually two innings was all you'd get, so the first time I started I pitched two innings, gave up 1 hit and struck out for. The next year I started and they let me go three innings. The first two were like the last year, the next inning they rocked me for 5 runs and I got yanked with two outs and two on.