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A city situated on the eastern bank of Puget Sound in the [[The Other Rainforest|state of Washington]], and its surrounding metro area. Named for a 19th century Duwamish tribal chief from the region, who [[Newer Than They Think|did not give an environmental speech often attributed to him.]] Home base of (or at least origin-point for) Microsoft, [[Nintendo]] of America, Starbucks, Boeing, Amazon and several other companies of note, and the birthplace of [[Grunge]] music ([[Nirvana]] in particular, despite not being from here). Its landmarks include Pike Place Market,<ref>widely considered the ''real'' main tourist attraction, the Space Needle being little more than a giant tourist trap</ref>, Pioneer Square (which pre-gentrification was the ''original'' [[Skid Row]]), [[Alien Geometries|The Experience Music Project]], a half-mile Monorail constructed for the 1962 World's Fair which exemplifies [[Zeerust]] to a tee, the [[Beneath the Earth|Seattle Underground]] which was a partial inspiration for [[Discworld|Ankh-Morpork]], and the Space Needle, also constructed for the World's Fair .<ref>which looks a lot bigger on TV than in [[Real Life]], due to the fact that it's usually photographed from Queen Anne Hill, from an angle that makes it look taller than anything in downtown. Oh, and by the way, the Space Needle itself is around a mile north of the rest of downtown.</ref>.

Trails only [[Cleveland]] as the [[Butt Monkey]] of the U.S. sports world due to their spotty track record in regards to major league sports. (Three, count 'em, three, championships in the entire city's history.<ref> Two by the women's basketball team, the Seattle Storm, and one by the NBA team that moved. The University of Washington Football team won between two and four national titles depending on how one recons such things. And waaay back in the day, the Rainiers baseball team won a few Pacific Coast League pennants.</ref>. Many local football fans, however, will tell you that the Seahawks were the rightful winners of Superbowl XL, but were cheated out of it by one-sided officiating. This is a subject you should broach carefully, if at all.) In recent years, the situation has been particularly grim, with even the once-powerful University of Washington Huskies NCAA football team [[Seasonal Rot|having the worst single season record in history]], and the Seattle Supersonics NBA team being spirited away to ''Oklahoma City''. Not helping matters is the fact that the city is famous for coffee, computers, grunge music, liberal politics, and rain,<ref> though the rain, to be honest, isn't much worse in the city itself than it is on most the Eastern seaboard on average; the Olympic Peninsula on the other hand, right next door to the west of Seattle, is probably the wettest place in the continental United States</ref>, which are decidedly at odds with the interests of the typical sports fan. The sports fans who ''do'' call the area home responded to the aforementioned pirating of their NBA franchise by latching onto Seattle Sounders FC, the newest [[The Beautiful Game|MLS]] expansion team, and making it one of the few teams in the league to regularly sell out the stadium. Qwest (now [[Century Link]]) Field, the home stadium to the Sounders and Seahawks, was from 2007 to 2010 true to the city's rebellious spirit by being the only stadium in the NFL to serve neither Pepsi ''nor'' Coca-Cola beverages on its grounds, [[Take a Third Option|having instead]] awarded its concession to the locally-based Jones Soda company. The rights have since been granted to Coca-Cola, which definitely makes going to Sounders games a lot less fun.

Is also the hometown of [[Sir Mix-a-Lot]],<ref> Actually, Tacoma is</ref>, whose song "Posse on Broadway" was based on Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood.

=== Fiction set in or near Seattle: ===

* [[Wikipedia]] has [[wikipedia:Category:Television shows set in Seattle|a category]] for television shows set in [[Seattle]]. Some of these include:

* [[Jimi Hendrix]]-- born—born in Seattle, got famous in [[Germans Love David Hasselhoff|Britain first]], buried in Renton.

* Neko Case(Tacoma-- herTacoma—her song "Thrice All American' is about how lovably awful Tacoma is)