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Why is your Town Famous? (pg. 9)
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| jdat |
| quote: | Originally posted by Dervish
BTW how come these American small towns can proclaim to be for example "strawberry capital of the world"?
Wonder how much research went into that? |
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That's one thing that always makes me laugh here .
They have restaurants with signs marked " world famous " and that kind of crap. It's just bloody stupid.
Damn american twats :P |
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| Trance Nutter |
We used to host the Australian Formula 1 Grand Prix for eleven years.
A company in Adelaide invented the dual flush toilet (Caroma)
We produce the best Australian wines
"The city of procrastination" - we can't get done. (its taken over 30 years to plan a new intersection to replace a shocker of a roundabout)
If any Americans drive Pontiac GTOs, they are made here in Adelaide
The Classic Adelaide Rally, a world famous classic cars road rally each November.
Tour Down Under for cycling in January
We have the most picturesque cricket oval in the world (Adelaide Oval)
Sir Douglas Mawson - Antarctic explorer was born and bred in Adelaide
As was Sir Howard Florey - who was the first person to work out how to produce large quantities of penicillin.
Stuart O'Grady - cyclist
Ratbag Games - make a stack of computer games that get sold all around the world.
Inventors of the pie floater - a meat pie floating upside down in pea soup - YUMMY, top tucker |
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| Blik |
I live in Rosmalen, which is known for an amusementpark called "Autotron"
Rosmalen is also famous because they have the only tennis-tournament on grass in the Netherlands, last year several big players played in this tournament. Justine Henin, Kim Clijsters, Dementieva, Petrova, Srichapan, Verkerk, Sluiter, Krajicek, Safin etc etc.
It will begin next week, the week before Wimbledon starts |
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| UnBracKo |
Although is a small city (80,000 inhabitants) Girona is faumous for his great cathedral (his gothic vault is the largest of the world.) and for the Jewish old quarter.
Also here we have one of the best (for his quality) cork industries.
And our level of life is the highest of Spain: highest growth per capita, low unemployement... |
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| tjpatel |
| cerritos = Beat Junkies |
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| richwms |
The village i live in has the longest name in europe.....
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This is the truth! |
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| Ben_Diesel |
I live in Simi Valley, CA. Pretty hectic over here right now.
BTW: For those of you who have been living under a rock for the past week, Reagan is going to be buried here later today. |
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| LoCa |
Guinness! :p
And of course the famous Guinness Brewery
Also, Joyce, Beckett, Swift and Wilde were born in Dublin (writers for those of you who don't know who they are). |
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| Billabong |
| My town is famous for having the most nail salons in any square mile radius, why do girls need to do so much to their nails, we all know you only use them to inflict damage into our soft flesh during love making sessions, so why waste time doing something you know will get messed up in the end. |
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| mndeg |
it increases their very low self esteem, same with height boosting shoes
anyway my town hoffman estates is famous (kind of) for the sears headquarters thats located here
boeing isnt very far away
i think motorola headquarters is near here as well |
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| Scottaculous |
I'm from NYC but I currently live in: Atlanta, GA, USA
* Birthplace of Coca-Cola Company
* Being burned to the ground during the Civil War by Gen. Sherman |
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