What is your city known for?

[TuckandStuiesMom]

What's on your face in your avatar piccie, Mr. MM? Is it half a facial? Didja just wake up after a quick nap in Auntie Lois's ambrosia salad? Inquiring minds want to know...

 

[MonorailMan]

What's on your face in your avatar piccie, Mr. MM? Is it half a facial? Didja just wake up after a quick nap in Auntie Lois's ambrosia salad? Inquiring minds want to know...

That was one of those days when I had already coiffed my hair to beautiful perfection and didn't want to get any of the mint julep masque in it, so I didn't apply it to my forehead. I never said I was good at timing.

 

[zulemara]

La Crosse, WI

- world's largest 6 pack
- world record for most bars on one street(3rd street)
- Home of the guy who had his mother frozen in a freezer and kept her hidden to collect her social security
- We had something like 7 college kids within 9 years drown in the mississippi

 

[mickeysaver]

I grew up in several places. I guess more of my youth was spent in the town that my father still lives in, Dublin, GA. It's know for it's annual St Patrick's Day Festival. It is not the home of the Redneck Games, those take place in the city next door called East Dublin, GA.

As for where we live, well, there was a HUGE drug bust that took down a lot of members of the Mexican drug cartel, La Familia, this past week. We seem to be home to a large portion of the Mexican drug trade. The other claim to fame is that Larry Flint was shot and disabled while on trial here. I think this is also the childhood home of Oliver Hardy.

 

[jenn&nelsonrego]

Fall River, Massachusetts is most notably famous for:


August 4, 1892

Lizzie Borden took an ax
And gave her mother forty whacks,
When she saw what she had done
She gave her father forty-one.​

This was just a song made up by a newspaper salesboy. In actuality, there were 19 whacks for the step-mother Abby and 10 for the father Andrew.


Lizzie Borden:

I also have crime scene photos of the deceased Mr. & Mrs. Borden and although they are black and white and grainy - they are a bit too graphic for this site!

Lizzie's family were members of the church that I work in and attend. The minister here at the time, Rev. William Wisner Adams presided over their funerals. Lizzie was a member at another Congregational Church down the street a bit, the Central Congregational Church. She was a Sunday School teacher.

 

[MonorailMan]

Is everyone paying attention here???? Look at Jenn! She posted a picture! That's pure quality and effort.

Kudos Jenn.........and shaaaaame on the rest of youuuuuuu.

 

[rpmdfw]

Is anyone else frightened by how much Jenn looks like Lizzie?

 

[MonorailMan]

I've always wanted to stay the night at the Borden house, which I believe is now a bed and breakfast.

 

[PghLybrt]

Lizzie Borden's was the 1st gay bar I ever went to....good times.

 

[wallyb]

I've always wanted to stay the night at the Borden house, which I believe is now a bed and breakfast.

So you can get whacked?

 

[rpmdfw]

So you can get whacked?

Whacked?

or

Offed?

 

[jenn&nelsonrego]

Is anyone else frightened by how much Jenn looks like Lizzie?

My favorite saying (especially around church) is: Everything I need to know about anger management, I learned from Lizzie Borden.

I've always wanted to stay the night at the Borden house, which I believe is now a bed and breakfast.

mm-hmm. I get a kick out of it because I drive by that house almost every day and there is almost always someone standing outside taking pictures...

Here is the site for the B&B

http://www.lizzie-borden.com/

I have been to the Lizzie Borden Live production shown on the front of the website. It is magnificient! Jill Dalton is excellent as a post-acquittal Lizzie.

So you can get whacked?

Lame....

 

[wallyb]

Whacked?

or

Offed?

I was thinking a little bit of both actually.

Gotta Hand it to them guys at the Borden B & B
They do a great Job.

 

[MonorailMan]

So you can get whacked?

Ba-Dum-Bum.

mm-hmm. I get a kick out of it because I drive by that house almost every day and there is almost always someone standing outside taking pictures...

Here is the site for the B&B

http://www.lizzie-borden.com/

I have been to the Lizzie Borden Live production shown on the front of the website. It is magnificient! Jill Dalton is excellent as a post-acquittal Lizzie.

I figured as much. Every time I see something about the place people are always saying it can be hard to get reservations at....especially around this time of year.

I was thinking a little bit of both actually.

Gotta Hand it to them guys at the Borden B & B
They do a great Job.

 

[wallyb]

YOU PROVOKED ME!

 

[christopher77]

I was taking a drink of water while perusing this thread and nearly spit it out, whilst laughing. Congratulations. I look forward to the next euphemism.

 

[brendrek]

My closest city, Philadelphia is known for cheese steaks, the libertly bell, brotherly love, and those bridge people (Ben Franklin and Betsy Ross). However, when I go out west people always mention the cream cheese? Right now, with the Phillies headed back to the World Series that is all I hear about. I'm not much of a sports guy though.

 

[MonorailMan]

I forgot to add something about COWlumbus:

It's the largest city in the state of Ohio as far as population and geographical size is concerned, however it has the smallest urban area of "The Three C's"-- Columbus, Cleveland and Cincinnati. This ticks me off because the city has been trying to work to give it a "big city feel" for the past few decades, but I tend to feel the exact opposite has been accomplished as far as bringing in people who want to live downtown.

I love Columbus.

 

[buckylarue]

The Twin Cities metro area is primarily known as home to the biggest shopping mall in the US, Mall of America. We also have an excellent Major League baseball team and football team, a sometimes-excellent pro hockey team, a laughably bad pro basketball team, and world class theater and museums. Yes, in spite of the megamall, we are consistently rated one of the highest on cultural ratings sites, including being named America's most literate (Minneapolis) and 3rd most literate (St. Paul) cities. We are 2nd only to New York City in theater seats per capita, and behind only New York and Chicago for actual theater attendance figures. The University of Minnesota's campus here is the 6th largest campus in the US in attendance.

We are also the home of Scotch Tape and the Post-It Note (3M), the birthplace of Pillsbury and General Mills, and home of some guy named Prince. We are also justly proud of our parks; the Minneapolis park system has been called the best designed and maintained in the US. 16.6% of the city is parkland, an equivalent of 770 square feet or 72 square metres of park for every resident, the highest for cities of similar population density and size in the US. Also, as of 2006, Minneapolis has the 4th highest concentration of Gay. Lesbian, or Bisexual people in the US, behind, SF (of course), Seattle, and just behind Atlanta. We apparently have an airport that is very easy to miss , although living almost next door to it, I find it hard to believe!

It also gets cold here.

Very cold.

REALLY very cold.

Our average annual temperature over the entire year is 45.4°F (7.4°C), the coldest of any major metropolitan area in the US. It has gotten as cold as -41°, which is -41° no matter which scale you use.

Did I mention it gets cold here?

 

[Goof-y]

London, UK

- Being the second most visited City in the world. Boo Yeah!
- West End Musicals
- Museums and Art Galleries
- Many major companies have either their European or British HQ here.
- London Eye
- Big Ben
- Fog
- Literature
- It has the most extensive underground subway in the world.
- Music, London is one of the major music capitals in the world.
- Europe's busiest shopping area is Oxford Street.