Topic: Where you from/ what it's famous for.

[joeamis]

I never got to know anyone on here that much
so I don't know all about where everyone is from
so I figured we could let everyone who doesn't know know,
and also state what your state/province/city/etc is famous for.

I'm from Connecticut, U.S.
famous things from CT include:
- Subway started here
- The WWE started here (not that i hold that in high regard lol)
- The first helicopter or atleast one of the first

[mouse_clicker]

I was born in South Dakota. It's famous for the Black Hills, Mount Rushmore, and Crazy Horse.

I then moved to California- I don't think I need to say anything more.

Then I moved to Okinawa, Japan, site of a major World War 2 battle. People would find live landmines all over the place.

Finally I moved to Kansas, where I live now. Kansas is home the first shopping mall ever, as well as people like Kirstie Alley and Barrie Sanders (I think). The creator of Dennis the Meance also said once it was set in Wichita Kansas, where I live specifically. Oh, and the BTK (bound - torture - kill) is a resident of Wichita- he's one of the creepiest serial murderers you'll ever heard about (and may have actually already heard about- it was national news for a little while). Otherwise, there's not much.  

[Hostile Creation]

Louisiana.  Cajun food, jazz, Bourbon Street, Mardi Gras, awesome seafood (dunno if we're known for it, but it is damn good), Britney Spears, idiocy (I suppose), and eventually, me.

A more extensive list than I expected.  My particular town, St. Francisville, is somewhat famous as a result of plantation homes and lots of history.  Hordes of old people flock here all the time.  Not really known on a national level, though.

[Uncle Rich AiAi]

I'm from Melbourne, Aussie Land.  And have lived there my whole life.
Has been voted as the most livable city in the world more than once!

Melbourne is famous for it's trams, terrible transportation network, and wacky weather (we can have all 4 seasons in a day).  Host the Australian Grand Prix ever year, and will be hosting the Commonwealth Games in 2006 (argh, traffic GET).  Oh ya, it's also a sport crazy city.  Very sport crazy.

Plus, NAL (Nintendo Australia) is located in Scoresby (is that a good thing?).  And they treat us Aussie Nintendo gamers like sh!t.  Huzzah for that!

[Pale]

Buffalo, NY

Chicken Wings
A football team that was both unbelievably good and incredibly bad at the same time for 4 straight years
Pale lives there
Supposed crappy weather
Niagara Falls?

Edit: Jeez mouse, you lived all those places and your only 16?  I want to live in Japan for a while...

[Berny]

Joe! Long time no see. I'm from Irk. I was banned to Food Courtia when I accidentally destroyed my homeplanet's army, but I decided to stop being banned and take part in Operation Impending Doom II. I was sent to earth to research the indiginous creatures and find out your weaknesses. MwAH HA HA.

[mouse_clicker]

My dad was an Air Force pilot for 22 years, so we moved a lot, although not near as much as some military families.

Also, Okinawans don't like to be called Japanese, they get REALLY pissed if you do as much. They were independant for a while until Japan conquered them. A lot of people don't know it, but karate was actually devised by the Okinawans to protect themselves from the Japanese. It's why a lot of the weapons look eerily similar to farm equipment, because the Japanese had taken all their traditional weapons and they had to improvise.  

[Ian Sane]

I live in Langley, British Columbia, Canada which is a suburb of Vancouver.

We're famous for a hockey team that never seems to win the big one.  Okay not really.  I'm just upset the Canucks just got eliminated from the playoffs.

BC is known for it's forests and mountains.  We're known for our ski resorts including Whistler which is the location of the 2010 Winter Olympics.  Vancouver has been called the Hollywood of Canada as several movies and TV shows are filmed here.  X-Men 2 for example was filmed in Vancouver.

Although he wasn't born in BC Bryan Adams was raised and started his music career here.  Michael J. Fox was born in BC.  NHL stars Joe Sakic and Steve Yzerman are both from BC.

And finally BC is apparently known for it's quality pot though I have absolutely no experience with that whatsoever and thus can't confirm that.  People also say Vancouver has really pretty girls and though I haven't travelled to very many places I would have to agree.

Edit:  I almost forgot.  EA Canada is also located in BC.  I believe they made SSX which pretty much makes them EA's top team right there.

[ThePerm]

next time you go to oknawa go to all the shops and ask for hattori hanzo...

[Ocarina Blue]

I come from Dunedin, which is famous for its university. More specifically, its famous for its students. About a 5th of our population are students, who are known here as 'scarfies'. To accomidate the scarfies, thousands of run-down old houses have been turned into flats. Being young and living in a really crappy flat is another one of our icons (though it sould be noted that a few hostles have been popping up lately.) Scarfies are renouned for their love of drinking (which has, with the lowering of the drinking age, extended to my brethren, the highschool students; we're the most pissed-up town in New Zealand ) and couches (a crappy run-down couch is yet another symbol of Dunedin.)

Other than that, a 'Scottish Heritige", the steepest street in the world and terrible weather represent Dunedin.  

[KnowsNothing]

whoops Dublin postage w/ extras lol

[KnowsNothing]

Rhone Island

The captial, Providence, was voted one of the top 1- US-vacation cities from some magazine, which leads me to believe the US must have alot of crappy cities.

Something about the first cotting gin.

The last of the thirteen original colonies.  CUZ WERE ALL SLOW

The state bird is a chicken.

End.

[rpglover]

born in worcester massachusettes
close to boston known for the red sox

recently i moved down to philadelphia pa
known for cheese steaks
the eagles, philllies and flyers

[ruby_onix]

Vancouver, B.C.

See Ian's description.

Add to it that it was Minoru Arakawa's North American home after he got married to Yamauchi's daughter and moved away from Japan, before he moved to New York (and later back towards Seattle) to build Nintendo of America. Supposedly Arakawa started up a world-class sushi resturaunt somewhere in Vancouver when he first moved here, and still owns it. I don't know exactly which one, and don't eat sushi anyways.

Nintendo of Canada is located just outside of Vancouver, in Richmond, one of our suburbs. The world's first ever videogame development school "Digipen" was setup by NoC in Vancouver.

EA Canada has some sort of massive HQ in Burnaby, another Vancouver suburb. It's supposed to be fricken HUGE (I've only seen it from one side, through some trees, and it did look pretty big) and state-of-the-art, and does a good chunk of EA's business (like, all of their motion-capture, and voice recording, for starters), and EA still apparently wants to double it's size. All of Final Fantasy's translation work when Square was teamed up with EA was apparently done inside the Burnaby HQ.

The "Electric Playground" videogaming TV show is based out of here. I was lucky enough to hang out in their office once, a long time ago. Never met Tommy or Victor though.

"Ocean Studios", a company that does a LOT of voice recording for English-dubbed anime shows like Dragonball Z and Gundam is located right here.

"Mainframe Entertainment", the computer-animation guys behind shows like Reboot Transformers (Beast Wars and Beast Machines), and the latest cel-shaded Spiderman series is here.

Other popular Vancouver-based TV shows would include Highlander: The Series, The X-Files, Stargate SG1, and Smallville. My older brother once goofed around in Duncan MacLeod's dojo (he crossed one of those "do not cross" ropes), my sister was an extra on an episode of the X-Files (and mistaken for Gillian Anderson's stand-in), I've got Michael Shanks's autograph, and I've bumped into Kristen Kreuk once (but I had nothing for her to autograph).

And I am also pained by the Canucks loss.

[Hostile Creation]

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next time you go to oknawa go to all the shops and ask for hattori hanzo...

I was thinking the same thing, perm.

[mouse_clicker]

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next time you go to oknawa go to all the shops and ask for hattori hanzo...

I would, but that movie sucked so much I'd probably want to kill myself afterwards.

[nitsu niflheim]

Maryland.

Tom Clancy lives somewhere around where I live.  I am so lucky. *sarcasm*

Lacross is the state team sport.  made so just recently.

Anne Tyler is in Baltimore
Nora Roberts is somewhere in Maryland
Sandra Bullock is from Maryland, I think
Toni Braxton is from Maryland
Chris O'Donnell is from Maryland
Goldie Hawn I think is from Maryland

[joedaddy]

Sydney, Australia. ummmmm, 2000 olympics.... ummmmm.... about half of all the american blockbuster movies are filmed here these days... most multicultural city in the world.... least amount of gamecube owners in the world... ummmm.... isnt this a poll? ...... finest honeys in the world (and theyre all at my uni)..... i could go on forever but im drunk and tired.

goodnight.

[oohhboy]

Auckland, New Zealand.

Famous for stealing the Americas Cup then having some crazy Maori smash it only to be stolen by the Swiss.
Non-existant public transport.
Wasting 500 Milllion on a train station nobody actually wanted or needed as there was a prefectly good one 200 meters down the road.
Greater than 1/4 Of NZ's population lives here.
Home of 90% of all crazy Maoris who like to chop down histroic trees.

Note that Tom Clancy lives at Pergrine Cliffs FYI Nitsujdark.

[Bill Aurion]

South Carolina, where nothing ever really happens... :\  (Born in San Antonio, TX)

Though Sterling Sharpe has a home that is not 2 miles away from me...  

[vudu]

i'm originally from dekalb, illinois.  only two things have ever happened there--some guy invented barbed wire about a hundred years ago, and cindy crawford was born.

i now live in oak park, illinois, which is a very close suburb of chicago.  frank lloyd wright used to live here and there are a bunch of buildings he designed all over the place.  also, i hear the guy who plays frasier's dad on frasier lives here, but i've never seen him or his little dog.

[evil intentions]

I'm from Dallas, TX.

I now live in Woodstock, IL. Our town was in the movie Groundhog Day...that's the biggest thing that's ever happened to this town.

[manunited4eva22]

BUT THERE IS MORE BILL: Ya, Shannon Sharpe, George Rogers, Alex English, a few famous sports guys.  Also we started the civil war, and hmm, we have the 3rd largest port in the US.

[Bill Aurion]

Columbia sucks and you know it, manunited!  Stop trying to make it sound cool!

[mouse_clicker]

Hey, I made Kansas sound halfway cool, and this is the most boring place on Earth. For example, I got really depressed about a week ago. I walked outside of my house to get the mail- it was nice and warm, not too humid, the sun was bright, there was a slight breeze, overall very pleasent. Then I remembered I was in Kansas and all that just blew away, so to speak- I'm not kidding at all. I've lived here for 10 years and I'm surprised I haven't gone crazy yet- there is nothing to do in Kansas. With the sole exception of our outstanding zoo (considered one of the best in the nation, has one of the largest animal collections in North America, and has what is considered the finest lion exhibit in the world) and the Cosmosphere (has the Apollo 13 command module, assembled and owns the Liberty Bell 7 spacecraft, and has an SR-71 Blackbird), Kansas is a wasteland. Even my friends who have lived here their whole lives can't stand it. I lived on an island before moving here- can you imagine what it's like to go from having the ocean no more than a half hour away to having the nearest ocean some 1,500 miles away? Kansas- cool place to visit, very nice people, but shoot yourself if you ever have to live here.  

The weather does get pretty cool, sometimes, though.