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Is your home town famous for anything? - 9/23/2006 2:29:34 PM   
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Status: offline 		I'm so proud of my hometown.  Some English towns give you Shakespeare, some give you historic events that changed the world, mine gives you...

The World Gurning Championships.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/3670504.stm

And I'd like to take the opportunity to apologise to planet Earth.




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RE: Is your home town famous for anything? - 9/23/2006 2:31:58 PM   
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RE: Is your home town famous for anything? - 9/23/2006 2:35:54 PM   
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I will not speak of the sports teams...that will just get me depressed. 

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RE: Is your home town famous for anything? - 9/23/2006 2:37:48 PM   
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RE: Is your home town famous for anything? - 9/23/2006 2:45:02 PM   
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Ugly, ugly people, (except me of course)

Being the butt of many a joke in sitcoms because of its unusual name and because no one knows exactly where it is.

The biggest parish church in the county and maybe the country.

I live here.
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RE: Is your home town famous for anything? - 9/23/2006 2:49:17 PM   
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ORIGINAL: EnglishDomNW

I'm so proud of my hometown.  Some English towns give you Shakespeare, some give you historic events that changed the world, mine gives you...

The World Gurning Championships.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/3670504.stm

And I'd like to take the opportunity to apologise to planet Earth.



Interestingly enough (great question, by the way), everything was invented in Seattle.

Now, you all know about software (actually {and incorrectly} thought to be invented in the early 40's for and by the govt.), airplanes (those Wright Bros. guys...also wrong) and coffee (trust me, the Brazilians didn't do it first...that was indeed Starbucks...they only incorporated the name decades after the market had been proven).

Let's start off with Freeways.  Those were invented by a (then) small Seattle area paving company called "Lakeshore Asphalt".

Pens.  "Bic" was an afterthought of a local Seattle manufacturing company that was later moved to Germany.

Of course, toilet paper was a secondary market that came after a small dinner conversation where someone said "I don't give a shit", and the person realized that someone must...and they didn't want any part of it.

But, a local Seattle area timber company that had far too many pulp remnants and found they made excellent soft tissue paper, did.  No one could figure out what to do with all this additional pulp and in another dinner conversation, after having been presented with a sample of this very tender paper made from this same pulp, a local timber manufacturer stated "I wouldn't wipe my ass with that crap!".

And of course, history was born.

I could go on and on...but I think most thinking people know I'm telling the truth here.





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RE: Is your home town famous for anything? - 9/23/2006 3:02:08 PM   
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RE: Is your home town famous for anything? - 9/23/2006 3:10:53 PM   
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RE: Is your home town famous for anything? - 9/23/2006 3:18:36 PM   
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Peg Leg Clayton Bates lost his leg in a cotten gin accident became a famous dancer with wooden leg performed on the Ed Sullivan show many times  his signiture step was called Imitation airplane jet plane where he would jump 5 feet in air land on his wooden leg with other leg  straight out behind him

as well as the commercial artist Art Frahm who brought life to the coppertone suntan girl as well as the quaker oats man    he lived here for over 20 yrs
as well as humorist and syndicated  writer Robert Quillen he started our local paper in 1911

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RE: Is your home town famous for anything? - 9/23/2006 3:19:54 PM   
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RE: Is your home town famous for anything? - 9/23/2006 3:23:06 PM   
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RE: Is your home town famous for anything? - 9/23/2006 3:28:52 PM   
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RE: Is your home town famous for anything? - 9/23/2006 3:31:12 PM   
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The Beatles amongst many other groups and....(many of which none Brits won't know.)

Askey, Arthur - Comedian.
Bainbridge, Beryl - An acclaimed writer, nominated several times for the Booker Prize.
Baker, Tom - Actor famous for his portrayal of the lead role in Doctor Who in the 1970/80's
Bannon, Gary - Actor, poet,songwriter. and filmmaker
Birt John - former Director General of the BBC.
Black, Cilla - Singer and entertaine.
Bleasdale, Alan- TV dramatist.
Booth, Tony- Actor and father of Cherie Booth.
Cattrall, Kim - Actress.
Craig, Charles - Actor whoplayed Dave Lister in Red Dwarf..
Chisholm, Mel- Ex-member of the Spice Girls.
Currie, Edwina - former Member of Parliament.
Dodd, Ken - Comedian and singer.
Everett, Kenny - DJ and comic.
Fury, Billy - Pop singer and songwriter.
Gladstone, William - Four times Prime Minister with many notable achievements.
Glazebrook, Sir Richard- Physicist.
Hamilton, Ruth - Best-selling author.
Handley, Tommy - Comedian.
Henri, Adrian - Painter and poet.
Horrocks, Jeremiah - Astronomer
Jacques, Brian - Bestselling author of the Redwall series of children's fantasy books.
Lane, Carla - televison writer.
McGough, Roger - poet.
Montserra,t Nicholas - author of 'The Cruel Sea'.
Moores, John - Businessman and a former boss of the Littlewood empire.
Patten, Brian - 1960s poet.
Rattle, Sir Simon - Orchestra conductor.
Robinson, Anne - Quiz show host, Weakest Link.
Roscoe, William - Poet.
Rossiter Leonard - Actor, Rigsby in the T.V. series Rising Damp.
Routledge, Patricia - Actress, Hyacinth Bucket in Keeping Up Appearances.
Russell Willey - Playwright.
Sayle, Alexi - Comic.
Sissons, Peter - News Reader.
Tarbuck Jimmy - Comedian.
Tushingham Rita - Actress.
Tyson, Cathy - Actress.
Williamson Joseph - Builder of Williamson's tunnels.

Oh and Liverpool FC where Manchester United fans can see the European Champions Cup they won in 1999, now on permanent display at Anfield.

And not forgetting ME!!!!!!!!!!

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RE: Is your home town famous for anything? - 9/23/2006 3:36:01 PM   
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RE: Is your home town famous for anything? - 9/23/2006 3:37:33 PM   
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Status: offline 		where i live now is famous for cream teas! where i was brought up is famous for smuggling and the birth of scouts and guides.

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RE: Is your home town famous for anything? - 9/23/2006 3:47:51 PM   
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Status: offline 		I am from Elkridge, Maryland; now a nondescript town off Rt 1 and I-95  on the Patapsco River. This was formerly a colonial seaport at the furthest point navigable inland for early tobacco plantations. Sailing ships from England would bring goods and take tobacco. Elkridge Landing was in direct competition with Annapolis as a major center for commmerce in the early colonial days. After the farmland was played out and silt filled in the river after several floods; Elkridge Landing lost its functional identity and became just another crossroads town...the Pataspsco river once trecherous; now is waist deep and calm.  For more information...see Capt James Smiths explorations of the waterways of the Chesapeake (yes, the Pocahontas one).
My current home upstream about 8 milesis Ellicott City. This is the home of America's first railroad terminal...also the site of the famous TomThumb engine's race with the horse.
Lots of history here. Who else has a good story? 

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RE: Is your home town famous for anything? - 9/23/2006 3:50:52 PM   
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Status: offline 		Well, I suppose that depends on what you would consider to be my hometown.  The town that I have spent most of my life in would be Niles, MI.  Tommy Shaw from the band Styx is from Niles.

I was born in Heidelberg, Germany, though.  Heidelberg Castle is there.

And then there is the first town that I really remember.  That would be the first one that we lived in when I came to the U.S. and where I learned to speak English.  That was Elizabethtown, KY.  There is a movie called Elizabethtown that is set in that town.

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RE: Is your home town famous for anything? - 9/23/2006 4:11:37 PM   
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RE: Is your home town famous for anything? - 9/23/2006 4:12:51 PM   
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ORIGINAL: PrimitiveLogic

I am from Elkridge, Maryland; now a nondescript town off Rt 1 and I-95  on the Patapsco River. This was formerly a colonial seaport at the furthest point navigable inland for early tobacco plantations. Sailing ships from England would bring goods and take tobacco. Elkridge Landing was in direct competition with Annapolis as a major center for commmerce in the early colonial days. After the farmland was played out and silt filled in the river after several floods; Elkridge Landing lost its functional identity and became just another crossroads town...the Pataspsco river once trecherous; now is waist deep and calm.  For more information...see Capt James Smiths explorations of the waterways of the Chesapeake (yes, the Pocahontas one).
My current home upstream about 8 milesis Ellicott City. This is the home of America's first railroad terminal...also the site of the famous TomThumb engine's race with the horse.
Lots of history here. Who else has a good story? 


(Actually, many people are unaware of this, but, Elkridge Maryland was in fact invented in Seattle).

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RE: Is your home town famous for anything? - 9/23/2006 4:34:09 PM   
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rain, lots and lots of rain...

and my hometown is? 

if you don't know... you shouldn't be here.  heh

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