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Old Nov 21, 2012 | 3:09 am
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Originally Posted by cardesigner2000
Is Nagoya the Slough of Japan?
Not really. Tachikawa or Ichikawa is probably the Slough of Japan.
Nagoya might be the Birmingham of Japan (that's Birmingham, England - not Alabama). Motown, without Tamla.

I didn't see that episode of The Office. But the poem in question is probably this one?
http://www-cdr.stanford.edu/intuition/Slough.html
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