Hometown Pride

[smartnsassy]

What is your hometown 'famous' for?

 

[scheherazade_79]

A group of women who fought off 1000 French invaders armed with pitchforks.

 

[LustyLovers]

LOL... Peaches and Peanuts

 

[Guest]

 

[rgraham666]

It was once "New York run by the Swiss'.

We have one of the world's worst cases of municipal penis envy.

 

[SensualCealy]

RGraham- you are lucky I didnt have a mouth full of coffee when I read your post- Hog Town, penis envy? hmmm Okay you are right! lol

A Cow- thats all I can say! lol
C

 

[rgraham666]

Not my line C.

The same writer described Toronto as wanting, "the culture of Paris, the economic power of New York, the fern bars of San Fransico and the moral rectitude of Peterborough."

 

[cheerful_deviant]

Swamp and cows.

Actually with the high realestate values, all the farms are gone. Now it's swamp and yuppies.

Oh, and mosquitoes.

 

[SensualCealy]

What writer are we talking about? Couldn't be anyone from the T.O. Star, or the "Sun" they aren't that quick!

However I do agree, Quebec City even though it is much smaller has more class than Toronto and between Q.C. and Montreal they are surpassing Toronto as filming sites for movies for US based directors and producers!

Heck even my little town had a movie shot here!
C

 

[rgraham666]

What writer are we talking about? Couldn't be anyone from the T.O. Star, or the "Sun" they aren't that quick!

It was Allan Fotheringham. Must be twenty years ago since I read those lines.

Even though I've lived in Toronto most of my life, I thought these descriptions were spot on.

I'll agree with the Sun. Only thing it's good for is lining the bottom of a hamster cage.

The Star has some good writers. None especially funny, but good none the less. I drink with one of them occasionally.

 

[cantdog]

Pine

Historically, it was the lumber capital of the world for 12 years in the 19th century, and a big player in the commodity for decades. Famous also for schooner building. The town was full of, uh, "facilities" for all the sailors and lumbermen. Gambling hells, bars, flophouses, and whorehouses.

It's a little ashamed of itself these days. All the junkies and none of the night life, and the way the economy has been, since Reagan, it's a place where people used to make things, now. Every mill gone to some other third-world area where they don't have OSHA or unions.

 

[OhMissScarlett]

My actual hometown isn't really famous for shit. It's a four way stop with a flashing red light. Though it did have the first integrated school in the state, only about a dozen people seem to know this.

The town I live in now is famous for the world's tallest man being born there and for having a bar on an incline that sells cheap shrimp.

 

[cloudy]

Rednecks. (Where I live now)

I grew up in Santa Barbara, California. It's been called the "American Riviera" as long as I can remember.

It's also famous for it's mission. It's one of the old Mission towns in California, and the mission there was called the "Queen of the Missions" because it was built so beautifully.

Also known for the channel islands.

*sigh*

I miss it.

 

[Guest]

I grew up in Santa Barbara, California. It's been called the "American Riviera" as long as I can remember.

It's also famous for it's mission. It's one of the old Mission towns in California, and the mission there was called the "Queen of the Missions" because it was built so beautifully.

Also known for the channel islands.

And those are famous for perhaps the oldest human evidence found in the America's.

 

[Guest]

George Washingon slept here.

Drank too much at the party, to drive, is my guess.

 

[cloudy]

And those are famous for perhaps the oldest human evidence found in the America's.

I didn't know that - how cool!

Thanks!

 

[gauchecritic]

Cakes and killing a king.

Gauche

 

[Liar]

An 18th century transvestite.

Actually a legendary womanizer and thief who dressed up as a girl to escape the cops.

#L

 

[oggbashan]

1. Roman fort.
2. The murder of a Customs Officer by smugglers.
3. A planned town that failed to make money.
4. A nutty benefactor who thought she was the Holy Ghost.
5. The first town in Kent to install a traffic light (hand operated by a policeman - the locals just diverted around it and the policeman stood there for hours before being required to change the lights).
6. Burning down its Town Hall (the locals impeded council staff trying to rescue the records; chanted 'Let the Rate Books burn' and chucked any rescued records back into the fire).
7. Burning down its Fire Station with the Fire Engine inside.
8. Being the subject of jokes in Punch magazine in the 1840s.
9. Incompetent smugglers - one boatload were caught in the 1980s trying to smuggle obscene videos from Denmark. The police found that despite the graphic descriptions on the labels they were all children's cartoons. Another more recent set of smugglers ran aground on a falling tide. The police walked out to arrest them.
10. Too many pensioners and 'buggy rage'.

Og

 

[killallhippies]

the tulip time festival. a town of 70,000 becomes a town of half a million for two weeks to watch people walk around in wooden shoes and pretend their dutch while locals curse under their breath.

 

[Belegon]

The weather, in a good way. *sigh* it's hard to live in paradise...

 

[Guest]

Auto industry, race riots and music.

Perdita

 

[LadyJeanne]

Then: hog butchering, a Big Fire, reversing the flow of a river, dead people voting, and gangsters.

Now: traffic jams, skyscrapers, Michael Jordan and the Cow Parade.

 

[ABSTRUSE]

Anthacite coal and trains, democrats, and malls.

 

[Colleen Thomas]

My hometown was burned to the ground so many times during the civil war it was known as chmneyville, since the only thing left standing were the chemniys.

-Colly