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| MistyRing 2003-06-19, 7:06 am |
| What is the crappiest thing your town/city/region is famous for?
Mine invented the deep fried Mars bar.
Pathetic. | |
| jackiechan 2003-06-19, 7:24 am |
| Mine invented the toilet paper . | |
| Supertech 2003-06-19, 7:50 am |
| My town is the home of the "World's Largest Rattlesnake Round-up". Over 3,000 lbs. caught every year. Tha'ts live, of course. Apparently the Japanese are crazy for snake meat. | |
| oddduck 2003-06-19, 8:06 am |
| Not to many crappy things my hometown is famous for, This is something i've found a little odd, at this one drive in, speaking of deepfried food, their are deep friend pickles, which actually are really good. And he have the Ontario Pork Congress their every year. I guess I live in a relative uncrappy town.
Marianne/oddduck | |
| jkhnwspec 2003-06-19, 8:35 am |
| The city I live in was the home of the Etch-A-Sketch.... until the company that makes it, moved production to China. I believe it was a couple weeks before Christmas one year when they pink slipped the local folks in favor of the lower wages paid in China. | |
| yanqui 2003-06-19, 8:41 am |
| I'm in Alabama--need I say more?
Actually, I live in the county seat (now THERE's a loaded phrase!), and it wasn't always the county seat. Early in the state's history, the people from this town went to the then-county seat and stole the county records and established the county seat here. Two hundred years later nobody's bothered to switch it back. | |
| thecomeons 2003-06-19, 8:47 am |
| we had malachi out of fame academy. he's turned into daniel friggin o'donnell. funny to think, when i taught him guitar, i was teaching him oasis and stuff like that.
and darren clarke. the hampster who plays golf. | |
| HOOLIGAN 2003-06-19, 9:27 am |
| Well, Orlando is quite well known.
But supposedly during the Iceage, East Finchley was the furthest south the Glaciers got . also before the Chunnel the longest tunnel ( northern line ) ended in East Finchley.
I would not move back there. | |
| Tennman 2003-06-19, 9:28 am |
| quote:
Originally posted by Supertech
My town is the home of the "World's Largest Rattlesnake Round-up". Over 3,000 lbs. caught every year. Tha'ts live, of course. Apparently the Japanese are crazy for snake meat.
If you don't mind,I will pass that up. | |
| bearing 2003-06-19, 9:46 am |
| quote:
Originally posted by thecomeons
we had malachi out of fame academy. he's turned into daniel friggin o'donnell. funny to think, when i taught him guitar, i was teaching him oasis and stuff like that.
You seriously taught him the Guitar? Couldn't you have belted him round the back of the head with it when you had the chance.
My home town is famous for:
Izaac Walton - Author of 'The Compleat Angler' supposed father of modern angling.
The largest Timber framed Town House in England.
I'll try and think of some more. | |
| ruscorp 2003-06-19, 10:06 am |
| The garbage dump so big it can be seen from space. | |
| yanqui 2003-06-19, 10:09 am |
| quote:
Originally posted by ruscorp
The garbage dump so big it can be seen from space.
We must be neighbors--There's a house a couple of miles away that pretty much qualifies for that description! | |
| jonhiker 2003-06-19, 10:17 am |
| For being lampooned in "Doonesbury" regarding the public school budget problems. | |
| enforcer 2003-06-19, 2:50 pm |
| Eh? Wembley Stadium, before they knocked the damn thing down. | |
| ruscorp 2003-06-19, 2:55 pm |
| quote:
Originally posted by enforcer
Eh? Wembley Stadium, before they knocked the damn thing down.
Not where SummerSlam '93 was held! The Bulldog won there. | |
| DaPunisher 2003-06-19, 3:01 pm |
| Guitar fame Les Paul was born in my city (Waukesha, WI) Though, I'm originally from Milwaukee. You know...Lavern and Shirley , Happy Days, Miller, Pabst, Ice House, Sprecher and other beer. (sing the do,re,me beer song in my head) | |
| yanqui 2003-06-19, 3:06 pm |
| quote:
Originally posted by DaPunisher
Guitar fame Les Paul was born in my city (Waukesha, WI) Though, I'm originally from Milwaukee. You know...Lavern and Shirley , Happy Days, Miller, Pabst, Ice House, Sprecher and other beer. (sing the do,re,me beer song in my head)
I grew up in OHio, where PBR was king and BUD was for queens (way back when dinosaurs roamed the earth). Blatz (don't know where that was brewed) and PBR were my dad's favorites, but Busch was what he drank because it was cheaper, I guess. When he moved down here I took him out to a comedy club and he tried to order a Pabst and then a Blatz, and finally got a Busch, at least something he was familiar with. Southern life has been something of a culture shock--and he lives in the home of the Peanut Festival! | |
| midnightprophet 2003-06-19, 3:50 pm |
| College Station, TX, where Texas A&M had a long tradition of building huge bonfires...before one fell down and killed a few aggies... | |
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| fish,volcanoes and a strange sulpher smell | |
| prezbedard 2003-06-19, 8:34 pm |
| Nothing Crappy about Beverly, MA
Birth Place of the American Navy | |
| HOOLIGAN 2003-06-19, 8:47 pm |
| quote:
Originally posted by foggy
fish,volcanoes and a strange sulpher smell
And you forgot about discovering that land mass to the west of you ( and I dont mean Greenland ) | |
| Boulware5 2003-06-19, 8:48 pm |
| LOL, I live near Baltimore and that has the highest rate of STDs and/or syphilis I believe. Also is famous for its crabs (no not those kind - the kind you eat!) | |
| prezbedard 2003-06-19, 9:26 pm |
| quote:
Originally posted by oddduck
Not to many crappy things my hometown is famous for, This is something i've found a little odd, at this one drive in, speaking of deepfried food, their are deep friend pickles, which actually are really good. And he have the Ontario Pork Congress their every year. I guess I live in a relative uncrappy town.
Marianne/oddduck
Fried pickles are awesome! They have them at a resturant in Lynn, MA called the Port Hole Pub. I get them everytime I eat there. | |
| peterd 2003-06-20, 2:59 am |
| hi guys,
hometown is Grimsby...
we have the biggest fish docks in Europe and possibly in the world...
unfortunately we have no fishing fleets anymore due to our crappy governments caving in over a number of years to the Icelandic scrobs and then to the EU.
Also, our football team (soccer, that is!) have never played a match at home in well over 100 years of existence...their ground is in the neighbouring town of Cleethorpes!
Regards
Peter | |
| bearing 2003-06-20, 6:12 am |
| quote:
Originally posted by peterd
hi guys,
hometown is Grimsby...
we have the biggest fish docks in Europe and possibly in the world...
unfortunately we have no fishing fleets anymore due to our crappy governments caving in over a number of years to the Icelandic scrobs and then to the EU.
Also, our football team (soccer, that is!) have never played a match at home in well over 100 years of existence...their ground is in the neighbouring town of Cleethorpes!
Regards
Peter
Does Blundell Park still have the Findus Family stand? | |
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| thecomeons 2003-06-20, 7:25 am |
| quote:
Originally posted by bearing
You seriously taught him the Guitar? Couldn't you have belted him round the back of the head with it when you had the chance.
i know. maybe i should have taught him some more-manly stuff instead of lemonheads and oasis pish.
maybe i should have introduced him to one of my other ex-students, as at my last gig in the town she came up to me frothing at the gash. and of course i turned her down. | |
| me? I dunno... 2003-06-20, 11:11 am |
| quote:
maybe i should have introduced him to one of my other ex-students, as at my last gig in the town she came up to me frothing at the gash. and of course i turned her down.
That reminds me, there is a small town in northern Alberta called Grimsby. | |
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| everetjo 2003-06-20, 1:57 pm |
| Velveeta cheese was invented in my town. Every year we have a cheese festival where cheese companies from around the world gather into my little town and eat cheese and crackers and wine
the original name of my town was Cheesecock, NY...until (thank god) James Monroe became president.
we are also have the largest outdoor mall in the world in the next town over.
my town is also famous for having an insanely low girl to guy ratio..im convinced the town was either founded by vikings or it's some army experiment. | |
| thecomeons 2003-06-20, 2:09 pm |
| maybe they are fairys. or maybe it's the genes. | |
| everetjo 2003-06-20, 2:16 pm |
| yeah, now that you mention it, there are a lot of guitar teachers there.. | |
| yanqui 2003-06-20, 2:18 pm |
| quote:
Originally posted by thecomeons
maybe they are fairys. or maybe it's the genes.
Maybe there just aren't enough guys worth sticking around for. | |
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| quote:
Originally posted by MistyRing
What is the crappiest thing your town/city/region is famous for?
Mine invented the deep fried Mars bar.
Pathetic.
I originally come from Barking, the home of "singer" and activist Billy Bragg.
Beat that for brown, soft & sticky!
It is also famed for the Chris Tarrant quote "They called him Dagenham East, because he was 3 stops beyond Barking."
If that's not bad enough, it's in Essex. Must go, I've got some new furry dice to put in me Capri Ghia. | |
| chodan 2003-06-22, 8:36 am |
| I live in an area known as "the house boat capital of the world" in a city with a population of around 10'000 we have I think 10 house boat manufacturing plants, they are the areas largest employers collectively.
NOt really crappy I guess, it beats the garment industry that used to be the highest employer.
People complained that NAFTA was taking our jobs but as far as I can tell our unemployment has went down and the average pay scale has increased in our area.
The garment factories were paying third world wages anyway and working our local people half to death. | |
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| I was born in Bourbon County Kentucky birthplace of Bourbon Whiskey. Thats not crappy at all though. Now I live in the same town as Kentucky Joe/Roger Bingham from Survivor. My brother had him for a teacher. We have a bridge over the Interstate that they named the Roger Bingham bridge. | |
| anglin_fool 2003-06-22, 12:37 pm |
| crappy huh?
My town was formed because of a small shelf between a mountain and the river wasn't big enough for the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal and the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. In the 1830's, the two companies fought over who could use the shelf and the Canal company won. The railroad had to drill a tunnel thru the mountain. In the mean time, all the workers congregated on this side of the mountain, got sick and died. More people came here to bury their dead. Later on, this town was known for its roughhousing lifestyle and bars. Now it's known for the floods that come and inundate our 'downtown' with water up to the second floor of some of the houses.
That's crappy | |
| MistyRing 2003-06-23, 7:04 am |
| quote:
the original name of my town was Cheesecock...
...my town is also famous for having an insanely low girl to guy ratio..
And you don't think there could be a connection!?? | |
| jojogun 2003-06-23, 7:16 am |
| my home town is were the beatles came from, it is also the birth place of spam (the food not the email) | |
| smeek 2003-06-23, 10:19 am |
| San Angelo, Texas
Most famous for one of the oldest frontier forts (or something like that) but just nearby is out great "hooker" museum, paying homage to hard workers in the entertainment business there.
Not I live just outside Fort Worth, or Cowtown. It used to be "Hell's Half Acre" or a notorious place for violence and hookers.
And I don't think I planned to always live near famous hooker places...
Steve Meek | |
| thecomeons 2003-06-23, 10:21 am |
| rather good fortune though  | |
| ANDRONDA 2003-06-23, 1:12 pm |
| Houston Texas. It is well known for ping-ponging back and forth with LA for "worst air quality" and also for three years running it "Americas Fattest City" according to Men's Health. | |
| chodan 2003-06-23, 1:19 pm |
| quote:
Originally posted by ANDRONDA
Houston Texas. It is well known for ping-ponging back and forth with LA for "worst air quality" and also for three years running it "Americas Fattest City" according to Men's Health.
is that fattest or phattest?? | |
| thesparrowhawk 2003-06-23, 1:56 pm |
| My hometown of Charleston, SC, besides all of the historical stuff, is several inches below sea level, which means that the town floods during high tides in some places. Also, one of the big tourists attractions in the downtown area is the old Slave Market (now a flea market).
Also, my current town of Charlotte, NC, and the surrounding area, is famous for being the home of NASCAR and we (the voters) kicked out our old basketball team - the Hornets and won a new team - the Bobcats. Also, the nearby town of Gastonia was the Murder Capitol of the US for several years running. | |
| mrfixit 2003-06-23, 11:03 pm |
| quote:
Originally posted by smeek
San Angelo, Texas
Most famous for one of the oldest frontier forts (or something like that) but just nearby is out great "hooker" museum, paying homage to hard workers in the entertainment business there.
Not I live just outside Fort Worth, or Cowtown. It used to be "Hell's Half Acre" or a notorious place for violence and hookers.
And I don't think I planned to always live near famous hooker places...
Steve Meek
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Hell's Half Acre provided saloons and bawdy houses for cowboys and havens for desperadoes. By 1876 Fort Worth residents were demanding that the lawlessness be controlled, and they elected Timothy I. "Jim" Courtright as marshal.http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook...w/CC/fcoaa.html
And an actual article:
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DALLAS DAILY HERALD
Tuesday, Feb. 2, 1875.
FORT WORTH IN A COLD SWEAT.
Mass Meeting of Citizens--A ''Panter'' Loose In Her Streets.
Last week our suburban village of Fort Worth was the scene of the wildest excitement. Nothing like it has been seen since the report that the railway was coming.
The high water in the Trinity overflowed the bottom and drove out a panther, who wandered at his own sweet will during the night through the streets. Next morning his tracks were seen by the terror stricken natives, and a scene ensued which beggars description. The whole village turned out to examine the tracks of the monster, and a public meeting was immediately called--Fort Worth never does anything without a meeting.
Parson Fitzgerald drove down a stake ''whar the panter had laid down.''
On motion, Captain Eph. Daggett was overwhelmingly called to the ''cheer,'' and Frank Boaz was elected secretary.
Parson Fitzgerald, in a few appropriate remarks, explained the objects of the meeting, by stating that it would never do for it to get out that a ''panter'' had walked those streets, for the Dallas people and their confounded papers would nevr let up on Fort Worth, and that it would deter people from investing, and ruin the prospects of their city as a railway centre. He then offered the following resolution:
Resolved, That the people, en masse, of Fort Worth, be requested and cautioned to say nothing about the fact that a ''panter'' had been in their street, and that the press is requested to keep it out of their paper.
On motion of Captain Paddock, a committee of three prominent citizens, Dr. Burks, Captain Hanna, and Hyde Jennings Esquire, was appointed to wait upon General Peers, and to earnestly request him for the sake of the future prosperity of the city, to keep his d--d mouth shut.
These resolutions were very eloquently supported in telling speeches by Dr. Sam. Field, Hon. Edward Terrell, Woolear Fraser, and Colonel William Terry, jun.
The mayor was instructed, on motion of Hon. Junius W. Smith, to double the police force, and put a strong guard around town, and to search the mails to prevent any ''panter'' information going abroad. Captain Eph. Daggett introduced a resolution that the star of empire be requested to take its way westward by the first train.
The exercises were closed with prayer, by that ''son of thunder,'' as he is familiarly known, Parson Fitzgerald, after which that prince of liberal nature's noblemen, Captain J.Y. Hogsett, stood the champaigne for the crowd. Adjourned.
Pretty wild town! | |
| yanqui 2003-06-24, 8:44 am |
| quote:
Originally posted by smeek
San Angelo, Texas
Most famous for one of the oldest frontier forts (or something like that) but just nearby is out great "hooker" museum, paying homage to hard workers in the entertainment business there.
Steve Meek
I don't remember anything like that when I was there back in '80, but then I didn't exactly go looking for it. I was there in July, August, and September. I remember it being extremely hot in the daytime and quite cold at night. And I worked downwind of the stockyards.
YUK! | |
| MistyRing 2003-06-24, 9:40 am |
| I went to a place in England once where they boasted a pencil museum. That was pretty crappy. | |
| thecomeons 2003-06-24, 9:45 am |
| you should know better than crossing hadrian's wall | |
| Supertech 2003-06-24, 10:05 am |
| The Panther City Fountain | |
| ANDRONDA 2003-06-24, 10:20 am |
| quote:
Originally posted by thesparrowhawk
Also, my current town of Charlotte, NC, and the surrounding area, is famous for being the home of NASCAR
I am curious as to how Charlotte lays this claim since the first race was held in Daytona Florida and NASCAR headquarters is also there.
If it is becasue of the Winston, I am sure you have heard that Nextel now ownes it and it probably will not be at the Lowes Speedway much longer.
Just curious, I am sure there is a connection. | |
| tkelley91 2003-06-24, 11:18 am |
| Raised in small town in OH famous for "The Pumpkin Show"! Of all things to claim for fame....showing pumpkins. | |
| enforcer 2003-06-24, 11:20 am |
| quote:
Originally posted by tkelley91
Raised in small town in OH famous for "The Pumpkin Show"! Of all things to claim for fame....showing pumpkins.
could be worse, could be 'The Melon Show' or 'The Bun Show'
or the town could be famous for raising beavers and have a . . . . I think you know what I'm getting at | |
| tkelley91 2003-06-24, 11:47 am |
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or the town could be famous for raising beavers and have a . . . . I think you know what I'm getting at
'nuff said.. Next subject! | |
| mrfixit 2003-06-24, 12:11 pm |
| quote:
Originally posted by ANDRONDA
I am curious as to how Charlotte lays this claim since the first race was held in Daytona Florida and NASCAR headquarters is also there.
If it is becasue of the Winston, I am sure you have heard that Nextel now ownes it and it probably will not be at the Lowes Speedway much longer.
Just curious, I am sure there is a connection.
You're absolutly right...
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In the summer of 1938 a man named William H.G. "Bill" France organized a race on the wide, firm sands of Daytona Beach, Florida. The winner recieved such items as a bottle of rum, a box of cigars, and a case of motor oil (precursors to present-day sponsor involvement in the sport) - NASCAR history had begun. France was a visionary; he realized for stock car racing to grow, an official organization had to exist to list champions, keep statistics, and memorialize records and record-holders.
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| ghaouf 2003-06-24, 12:13 pm |
| mr. fixit any 218 qods | |
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| thecomeons 2003-06-25, 3:20 am |
| sanach bastards! | |
| bearing 2003-06-25, 3:31 am |
| quote:
Originally posted by thecomeons
sanach bastards!
Do you mean:
Sassenach noun [C] SCOTTISH ENGLISH MAINLY DISAPPROVING:
an English person | |
| thecomeons 2003-06-25, 3:35 am |
| sorry. guess i was using the irish gaelic for saxon instead of the scottish | |
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| thecomeons 2003-06-25, 3:43 am |
| only the welsh | |
| MistyRing 2003-06-25, 6:40 am |
| Nice to be talked about as if you weren't here! And as regards your remark...
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He didn't go that far, I think the museum he's reffering to is the Cumberland Pencil Museum in Keswick...
It was probably once in Scotland until we stole it.
You're bleedin' welcome to it mate!
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| MistyRing 2003-06-25, 11:07 am |
| Yeah you got me. We'll just have to remain envious of your pencil museum I guess.... | |
| enforcer 2003-06-25, 11:12 am |
| just don't ask about the lead | |
| ruscorp 2003-06-25, 7:47 pm |
| Damn redcoats. |
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