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Zimmerman
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In this thread, post your hometown's name and three things it's famous for or interesting facts about it.

Saratoga Springs, NY

1. Potato chips invented here
2. Famous song "American Pie" written here
3. The Horse Races


P.S: Sorry about the drunk thread last night.
Jul 1 2011 5:04PM
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Freshbakedbread
Posts: 949 - Karma: 483
Madison, WI
1. David Lesh
2. Vietnam protest bombings
3. UW Badgers
4. Worlds Largest Brat Fest!
5. Included as a premade city in Sim City 3000
Jul 21 2011 5:00PM
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pr4l
Posts: 348 - Karma: 56
Marquette, MI

1. Yoopers
2. Pasties.. the food
3. Not much more
Jul 21 2011 7:20PM
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Tall_Paul
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good ole' Bethlehem PA

1. Every August host Musikfest (yes the k becasue its german). Pretty much where people of all ages go, get drunk, and enjoy good food.

2. Known as the Christmas City

3. Famous for bmx trails, like the huge ass ones. Mike Aitken had his bad fall here.

4. I'll throw in an extra fact and say that the Roc went to one of the public highschool's in the city.
Jul 21 2011 8:07PM
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AwR
Posts: 5147 - Karma: 1,878
cough Modest Mouse cough
Jul 21 2011 8:24PM
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Thug**
Posts: 511 - Karma: 87
Rochester NY
1. nothing
2. bad weather
3 Rosa parks
Jul 21 2011 8:45PM
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Leafman
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The restaurant chain, and I don't give two fucks about modest mouse
Jul 21 2011 9:02PM
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Zimmerman
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is it like a nude bar chain?
Jul 21 2011 10:12PM
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Eleidecker
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Middleville,ON

1.The town of 1 street and 3 churches
2. We have a general store that someone will buy, run for 6 months and go bankrupt. this process repeats every year or two.
3. every other middlevillian grows weed. (most of them are over 45 years old, and really hickish)
Jul 21 2011 10:39PM
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Leafman
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No, they make really good food and it has a fifty's feel to it.
Jul 21 2011 10:49PM
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ironic
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Flagstaff, AZ

1. More hippies per sq. acre than San Francisco.

2. First Dark Sky City (home to Lowell Observatory which discovered the non-planet Pluto)

3. Total of over 118 inches of snowfall during 2010 (not the ski resort, the town, and remember this is Arizona.)

Jul 21 2011 10:57PM
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mnfreeskier
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Hopkins, Minnesota.
1. Hopkins = Raspberries basically.
2. lots of weed.
3. there is a mcdonalds and a bowling alley. i hear mcdonalds' are pretty rare..
Jul 21 2011 11:42PM
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Zimmerman
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sounds like an awesome place
Jul 26 2011 3:46PM
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corona
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dude! don't forget your sheet metal place. but seriously, Hopetown is better. gad I love that neck of the woods sometimes
Jul 26 2011 11:13PM
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RZcrew
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edmonton, alberta

1.worlds largest mall
2.level 1 and poor boyz came here for urban trips
3.worst hockey team
Jul 27 2011 12:46AM
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Zimmerman
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oilers were a dynasty at one point
Aug 5 2011 12:18AM
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EricaMN.
Posts: 2704 - Karma: 346

bainbridge island, wa

1) one bridge

2)chad channing (nirvana)

3) pickleball was invented here

Aug 5 2011 12:26AM
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omulligan
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Lake Mills, WI

1) a double lane drive through at McDonalds

2) a stoplight

3) we just got a walgreens
 
Aug 5 2011 12:30AM
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malux94
Posts: 232 - Karma: 25
hometown: Rome, Italy
– dunno where to start from... you know it well enough

current: Zug, Switzerland
– economic center in switzerland (lowest taxes)
– cows
– more cows
Aug 5 2011 12:32AM
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.ALOC.
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Spokane, WA
- Largest 3 on 3 basketball tournament in the world.
- Fathers day was created here.
- hometown of John Stockton, Craig T. Nelson, Mark Rypien, and Bing Crosby.
Aug 5 2011 3:12AM
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Zimmerman
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howd does that work
Aug 8 2011 2:04AM
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Steezy_IN_KC
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Well said sir. We are friends for a reason, looking forward to a snowcreek sesh.

I claim Overland Park, Kansas.

Overland Park has consistently ranked in the top 10 of CNN/Money and Money magazine's 100 Best Cities to Live in the United States.[5] Also in 2010, Money Magazine rated Overland Park, Kansas, the 7th best city to live in the United States.[6] Additionally, the city was ranked as one of "The Best Places to Raise Your Kids in 2009"[7] and was ranked 3rd for "America's 10 Best Places to Grow Up".[8]

Not to mention some of the HOTTEST milfs in the world.
Aug 8 2011 2:32AM
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Dylan_
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whats that ? a town full of dirtbags ?
Aug 8 2011 2:46AM
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_Jeffrey_
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Pacifica California Rob Schneider is from there. That's about it.
Aug 8 2011 2:53AM
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Lolocaust.
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Big Bear Lake, CA.
1. Youngest person to ever climb mount Everest is from here, goes to my school, CLAIM!
2. Ryan Hall, Olympic athlete is from here (Runner) got 27th.
3.Leo Romero the pro skater bought a cabin from my mom up here.
Aug 8 2011 2:59AM
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Zimmerman
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there's a pretty good hockey scene
Aug 8 2011 11:15AM
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Dylan_
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lmfao, adirondack phantoms suck more cock than elton john
Aug 8 2011 6:47PM
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PON3
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DEAR GOD YES!!!! I also live in OP and my god, Milfs as far as the eye can see.
Aug 8 2011 7:00PM
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GBS
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Trondheim, Norway:

- Most shitty park ever!

- Loooong, cold winter and usually alot of pow!

- founded in year 1005


Aug 8 2011 7:31PM
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PKchu
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Durango, CO. 1. the horrible park at the ski mountain. 2. the train. 3. #1 texan vacation area
Aug 8 2011 7:37PM
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jayo.
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Boise, Idaho

1) Basque People
2) Built to Spill
3) Jeret "Speedy" Peterson (Olympic aerialist who just killed himself)
Aug 8 2011 7:52PM
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Zimmerman
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haha i agree, i'm saying the fans are pretty good.
Aug 8 2011 11:13PM
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Eleidecker
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Ya i guess its kinda cool, when you're not stuck there all summer........

Aug 8 2011 11:29PM
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Vino
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not really my hometown, but almost. This song says a lot about it, guess what it is !



Then, Repentigny
1) CELINE DION
2) COWBOYS FRINGANTS
Aug 9 2011 12:42AM
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[-mvee-]
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kinda annoying when people say the have the worse park...because its been said in the thread a bunch. and its false. just saying
Aug 9 2011 10:44PM
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Zimmerman
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where then, may I ask should I avoid entailed park?
Aug 10 2011 1:54AM
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jayo.
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Boise isn't even known for potatoes. Idaho is, but Boise is an urban area without farmland...
Aug 10 2011 2:48AM
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NTPJ
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Cambridge UK

1. Worlds best university
2. Really really flat
3. Where dna and gravity where discovered
Aug 10 2011 4:22AM
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541
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Jamie is from Bend oregon mothaaa fuckka, He's ours.
Aug 10 2011 4:23AM
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Kangbang
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Kelowna BC

1. Datsik and Excision came from here
2. The first Carls Jr in Canada opened here not too long ago
3. Forest fires are the norm here in the summer.
Aug 10 2011 4:32AM
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yeahno
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the food stop is rather famous...
Aug 10 2011 8:38AM
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Corin
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Tärnaby, SWE

1. It's a skiresort
2. Most successful skiclub of all time (Ingemar Stenmark, Anja Pärson etc.)
3. It's Sweden, of course it's awesome
Aug 10 2011 8:44AM
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-PonyThug-
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Holland, Mi

1)Second happiest town in USA

2)we have a tulip time festival

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3) we have sweet beach sunsets every night

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and we are only 2hour drive from 250ft vertical!
Aug 10 2011 11:04AM
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crab_pretzel
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Baltimore, MD

1. crabs
2. national bohemian beer
3. the National Aquarium
Aug 10 2011 11:07AM
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qgmc4
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deerfield Il
invention of snobby northshore kids and parents
safe haven for jews
ahhh get me out of here
Aug 10 2011 11:09AM
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quaive
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Mississauga, Ontario

-Canada's 6th largest city
-close to Toronto
-the indian population here is large
Aug 10 2011 11:12AM
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Dwight_Schrute
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Rowley, MA

3 lights
about 4500 people (they're too poor and lazy to count)
numerous 5 year old's
1 Market Basket.
Aug 10 2011 11:39AM
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crab_pretzel
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haha cmon man if ur gonna rep bmore atleast try to give it a positive spin
Aug 10 2011 12:17PM
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[-mvee-]
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if i stay in the mitten im going to school and living there! so sick
Aug 10 2011 2:07PM
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Bubba-Snax
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Watertown, NY (o yea, reppin the 315!)

1.) Best white water rafting east of the Mississippi
2.) Smallest ski "resort" in the history of snow (but still manages to charge $20 for a half day lift pass).
3.) largest military base on the east coast.
4.) Been named Tree City USA every year since 2000 by the National Arbor Day Foundation.
Aug 10 2011 2:21PM
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ktd619
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Perry, Ohio

1.Nuclear powerplant
2.on lake erie
3.small and boring.
Aug 10 2011 2:30PM
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