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ABSTRUSE said:Damn Yankees!!!
That's enough outta you ya damn reb'.
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Not to worry, I'm northern gal and I have no desire to move South, visit maybe, but not move.cloudy said:They're only damn yankees if they have the absolute gall to move down here permanently.
Otherwise, just plain old yankees, and carpetbaggers.
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ABSTRUSE said:Damn Yankees!!!
LOL,
I was 14 before I found out Damn Yankee was 2 words
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Its award winning beaches (voted the best in the country, 2004). 7 miles of clean, sandy beaches.
Lillie Langtry and Mary Shelley both lived here, so quite a cosmopolitan place.
Political conferences - often the town of choice for the major political parties. Both the Tories and the Lib Dems held their annual conferences here this year. Us locals had to foot the bill for the extra policing.
In more recent years, the night life. It's fast becoming one of the clubbing capitals of England.
Anyone who lives in Britain now knows the name of my home town.
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Ah , Lilly Langtry.
Prince of Wales: "Lilly, I've spent enough on you to buy a battleship."
Lilly: "Highness, you've spent enough in me to float one."
Prince of Wales: "Lilly, I've spent enough on you to buy a battleship."
Lilly: "Highness, you've spent enough in me to float one."
My city is famous for:
Hosting the only Winter Olympics where the host country did not win a gold medal (damn Brian Boitano!!).
Being the closest airport to a particularly nice group of mountains.
Hosting a festival every summer which features about 1.5 million people pretending to be cowboys. (And on a good year, maybe a few dozen legitimate cowboys).
Having the greatest per capita light pollution of any city in North America.
Oh, and having a hockey team that was one bad call away from winning the Stanley Cup last year.
Hosting the only Winter Olympics where the host country did not win a gold medal (damn Brian Boitano!!).
Being the closest airport to a particularly nice group of mountains.
Hosting a festival every summer which features about 1.5 million people pretending to be cowboys. (And on a good year, maybe a few dozen legitimate cowboys).
Having the greatest per capita light pollution of any city in North America.
Oh, and having a hockey team that was one bad call away from winning the Stanley Cup last year.
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I grew up in "The Tree Planting Capitol of the World."
The sign is still along thehighway at the entrance to town, but the Annual Tree Planting Festival died out about twenty years ago along withthe logging industry and lumber mills.
The sign is still along thehighway at the entrance to town, but the Annual Tree Planting Festival died out about twenty years ago along withthe logging industry and lumber mills.
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Furniture and Hosiery
Most of the hosiery business has now gone south and Far East. What used to be the largest concentration of hosiery manufacturing in the US is now relegated to a few companies, most making specialty items such as medical compression hose.
Furniture is still going strong and the twice a year "International Home Furnishing Market" is the largest in the world. However, almost half of all furniture is now imported, much of it from China and it is probably only a matter of time before it is gone also.
The town and area is still very economically healthy and the lost jobs have been replaced by more diversified and higher tech industry.
Ed
Oh, I forgot to add that it's the highest point on the railroad between Fayetteville and Charlotte. Or maybe that's Raleigh and Charlotte on the old Fayetteville Railroad. Durham and Charlotte? Anyway it's a high point on a railroad.
Most of the hosiery business has now gone south and Far East. What used to be the largest concentration of hosiery manufacturing in the US is now relegated to a few companies, most making specialty items such as medical compression hose.
Furniture is still going strong and the twice a year "International Home Furnishing Market" is the largest in the world. However, almost half of all furniture is now imported, much of it from China and it is probably only a matter of time before it is gone also.
The town and area is still very economically healthy and the lost jobs have been replaced by more diversified and higher tech industry.
Ed
Oh, I forgot to add that it's the highest point on the railroad between Fayetteville and Charlotte. Or maybe that's Raleigh and Charlotte on the old Fayetteville Railroad. Durham and Charlotte? Anyway it's a high point on a railroad.
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First planned city in the United States - built on a grid system.
Statue of the founder on city hall that, when looked at from the proper angle, appears to have an erection.
Brilliant Italian market with cheese, pastry, and sausages to die for. Also home of some of the world's more colorful street vendors. Sample of dialogue between two partners: "Shut da hell up! I'm workin' here. It don't look professional."
Has Edgar Allen Poe's house in a nice state of preservation, or did last I checked.
Home of Zipperheads and the Dead Milkmen.
Also a large piece of cracked metalwork that tourists positively flock to. Now they've built it a nice new enclosure.
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Statue of the founder on city hall that, when looked at from the proper angle, appears to have an erection.
Brilliant Italian market with cheese, pastry, and sausages to die for. Also home of some of the world's more colorful street vendors. Sample of dialogue between two partners: "Shut da hell up! I'm workin' here. It don't look professional."
Has Edgar Allen Poe's house in a nice state of preservation, or did last I checked.
Home of Zipperheads and the Dead Milkmen.
Also a large piece of cracked metalwork that tourists positively flock to. Now they've built it a nice new enclosure.
Shanglan
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The beach.
As in "oh yeah, my uncle has a cabin up there by the beach."
There's a few other things too.
Like for instance, it *was* KISStown USA!
And the girl who played the woman who married woody on cheers went to my high school. (before me)
As in "oh yeah, my uncle has a cabin up there by the beach."
There's a few other things too.
Like for instance, it *was* KISStown USA!
And the girl who played the woman who married woody on cheers went to my high school.
(before me)
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Absolutely nothing.
It was so depressing that even the inhabitants couldn't live there.
It was so depressing that even the inhabitants couldn't live there.
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Virtual_Burlesque said:
Oh come on now- there has to be something!
Even the most podunk town proudly proclaims to be *something* speacial. Home of the acorn festival, or "Halloween Town USA" or birthplace of L. Ron Hubbard! Could even be the 'highest suicide rate in the nation" (if it's really that depressing!)
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cantdog said:
How many times do you people have to be told, it's crash and basspedal then hold the crash. tsk tsk.
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My town, Kokomo, Indiana, is in the history books our high school uses as the location for the largest meeting ever of the Ku Klux Klan. Yeah, we're REAL proud of that! It was back in the 1920's when Indiana's governor was the Grand Wizard or something like that. Before he was arrested for murdering a prostitute on his private train.
We are known as the City of Firsts because a lot of things were invented here. Elwood Haynes developed his biggest inventions just down the street from my house. A few of them are: The first successful gasoline powered automobile (it's in the Smithsonian), stainless steel, the thermostat used in regulating temperatures in houses, the reflector mirror used for ship-to-shore signaling that can send a light beam 23 miles (used during wartimes), the muffler, several alloys, and many other items. His most important invention was probably stellite alloy, which opened the door to the development of a series of space age alloys of the highest melting temperatures, taking the greatest stress, and virtually eliminating corrosion.
The moon buggy was designed and built about a mile from my house at Haynes International, formerly known as Stellite Corporation.
Other people here in Kokomo invented pneumatic rubber, the carburetor, the first Howitzer shell, the first aerial bomb with fins, the first push button car radio, signal seeking car radio and the all transistor car radio.
Kokomo's other nickname is Stoplight City. The truckers hate coming through here because all the traffic signals stop them before they can even get back up to speed. In a four mile stretch of the main highway that goes through our town we have 19 traffic signals. What happens a few times a year is that some truck driver gets pissed at having to stop and runs a light, killing the occupants of the compact car he will invariably hit.
Something else we are famous for is that we are the town that allegedly tormented young AIDS victim Ryan White until his family moved to get away from the evil people of Kokomo. It's not really true, that the town persecuted him, but why let that get in the way of a good story. LOL.
The classic movie, Terror Squad, was filmed here back in 1986. (It starred Chuck Connors, aka the Rifleman. The police were warned to watch him because apparently the Rifleman had a taste for little Rifleboys.) I auditioned for a role as a high school student, but they said I wasn't believable as a teenaged high school student. I was fifteen and a junior in the high school they were going to film in, but oh well.
In the 70's, Playboy magazine came here and did an issue devoted to the Women of Kokomo. I have no idea why, other than possibly the fact that the world famous Hip Hugger gentlemen's club is here.
Claude Aikens, tv's Sheriff Lobo, was from here. Chet Atkins, one of the greatest guitarists EVER, lived here for a time. I used to do business with his brother, who owned a music store downtown. A lot of famous people have family who live here. Loretta Lynn has family here, as does Aretha Franklin. I went to high school with Aretha's son.
Soon, it will be known worldwide as the town that I am from.
We are known as the City of Firsts because a lot of things were invented here. Elwood Haynes developed his biggest inventions just down the street from my house. A few of them are: The first successful gasoline powered automobile (it's in the Smithsonian), stainless steel, the thermostat used in regulating temperatures in houses, the reflector mirror used for ship-to-shore signaling that can send a light beam 23 miles (used during wartimes), the muffler, several alloys, and many other items. His most important invention was probably stellite alloy, which opened the door to the development of a series of space age alloys of the highest melting temperatures, taking the greatest stress, and virtually eliminating corrosion.
The moon buggy was designed and built about a mile from my house at Haynes International, formerly known as Stellite Corporation.
Other people here in Kokomo invented pneumatic rubber, the carburetor, the first Howitzer shell, the first aerial bomb with fins, the first push button car radio, signal seeking car radio and the all transistor car radio.
Kokomo's other nickname is Stoplight City. The truckers hate coming through here because all the traffic signals stop them before they can even get back up to speed. In a four mile stretch of the main highway that goes through our town we have 19 traffic signals. What happens a few times a year is that some truck driver gets pissed at having to stop and runs a light, killing the occupants of the compact car he will invariably hit.
Something else we are famous for is that we are the town that allegedly tormented young AIDS victim Ryan White until his family moved to get away from the evil people of Kokomo. It's not really true, that the town persecuted him, but why let that get in the way of a good story. LOL.
The classic movie, Terror Squad, was filmed here back in 1986. (It starred Chuck Connors, aka the Rifleman. The police were warned to watch him because apparently the Rifleman had a taste for little Rifleboys.) I auditioned for a role as a high school student, but they said I wasn't believable as a teenaged high school student. I was fifteen and a junior in the high school they were going to film in, but oh well.
In the 70's, Playboy magazine came here and did an issue devoted to the Women of Kokomo. I have no idea why, other than possibly the fact that the world famous Hip Hugger gentlemen's club is here.
Claude Aikens, tv's Sheriff Lobo, was from here. Chet Atkins, one of the greatest guitarists EVER, lived here for a time. I used to do business with his brother, who owned a music store downtown. A lot of famous people have family who live here. Loretta Lynn has family here, as does Aretha Franklin. I went to high school with Aretha's son.
Soon, it will be known worldwide as the town that I am from.
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Thats easy. The French are pussies and always run.scheherazade_79 said:
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I grew up less than a mile from Gary, Ind. Murder capital many times and doesn't look to be getting better.
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