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Limestone used to build the Empire State Building and the Pentagon came from the local quarries near or in Bedford, IN.

The world's largest bronze monument, standing at the Dallas Convention Center, has more than 40 larger-than-life longhorn steers, horses and cowboys in a Texas cattle drive.

In July of 1958, the integrated circuit computer chip was invented in Dallas. Dallas has the nation's second-largest concentration of high technology companies and employees and has long been the discovery called "Silicon Prairie."

Dallas' City Hall was designed by I.M. Pei and features an outdoor sculpture by Henry Moore.

Yippee for Dallas.

Kirksville, MO

Jenna Fischer (NBC's The Office) and Kane (WWE) attended Truman State University here.
Geraldine Page (The Trip to Bountiful) was born here in 1924.
Andrew Taylor Still founded The First School of Osteopathic Medicine here in 1874.

"The Battle of Kirksville" (Aug 6-9 1862) was fought here during The Civil War
Col. John McNeil (US) with 1,000 troops defeated Col Joseph Porter (CS) with 2,500 troops.

Total casualties 456.
88 US
368 CS

St. Helens, United Kingdom

Home to the "World Famous" Pilkington Glass Company (no doubt soon to be defunct).
Home to the "World Famous" and ex-World Champion Rugby League team "The Saints".
A cow's spit from the site of the world's first railway journey (Stephenson's "Rocket").
The incest capital of Great Britain (I kid you not).
Home to the fifth worst hospital in the UK (1999) judged on the number of patients entering alive and leaving dead.

Julian, NC

as for the 30 years of my life that I've seen, Julian, NC still does NOT have a stoplight.

Julian, NC claim to fame: it has a post office.

courtesy of Wikipedia.org

Louisville, KY facts

1) One third of the bourbon whiskey in the U.S. comes from Louisville.
2) Both the lyrics and the melody of Happy Birthday to You are reported to have been written by
Louisvillians in the late 19th century.
3) Louisville is the only city in the United States to have two consecutively-numbered three-digit Interstate
Highways: I-264 and I-265.
4) 90% of the United States' disco balls are made in Louisville at National Products, Inc.
5) Louisville is perhaps the most Catholic city in the South. There is a city cathedral (Cathedral of the
Assumption) downtown as well as 27 Catholic schools and two Catholic universities.
6) Movies filmed in Louisville include Stripes and The Insider.
7) The very first cheeseburger was made in 1934 at Kaelin's Restaurant

Famous Louisvillians

Muhammed Ali
Ned Beatty
Tod Browning
William Conrad
Tom Cruise (but, he only lived here for a couple of years)
Victor Mature
Joan Osborne
Don Rosa
Col. Harland Sanders
Diane Sawyer
Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
Gus van Sant
Jack Warden
Sean Young

Longview, TX

-Matthew McCounaghey grew up and went to high school here in Longview. I know people who claim to have gone to high school with him - they say he was a dick.

-Neal McCoy grew up (and still resides) in Longview. It's not an uncommon occasion at all to see him at the local grocery store or gas station. At one point he owned an ATV shop but he has since sold it.

-David Wesley (who plays for the Houston Rockets) went to Longview High School

-Kilgore, TX (which is so close to Longview it might as well be part of it) is known as "The World's Richest Acre" due to the absolute abundance of oil back in the oil-boom days.

-The Kilgore Rangerettes are considered by MANY to be one of the three most recognizable dance groups in the world (along with the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders and the Laker Girls). The Rangerettes performed in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in NYC and also, if memory serves me, they performed at at least 1 Presidential Inauguration. But I may be mistaken on that.

Bristol, England

- Birthplace of Cary Grant
- Isembard Kingdom Brunel (that guy from that Star Trek episode with Data playing chess with Stephen Hawking) built a bridge, a railway line, and a ship here.
- Simon Pegg went to university here
- Nobel Prize-winning Physicist Paul Dirac was born here
- Apparently, we're the smiliest city in England, which I assume means the surveys were taken on Giro day when all the junkies got their checks so they could get their fixes

I guess I could say something about Atlanta, Georgia, but that wasn't my true home town (though I live there now). Well, heck, I'll say this: the city had some visitors in 1864 who, starting on November 11, made a real mess. In some areas the maintenance crews are still cleaning up.

For my REAL hometown of Gainesville, GA, I guess there are two things that are interesting. One, it is the self-proclaimed "Poultry Capital of the World", and we even have a small park called Poultry Park that features, and I swear I'm not making this up, a statue of a chicken. It's a very tasteful statue, as far as chicken statues go. It is a life-sized bronze rooster that stands on top of a tall stone pedestal (like an obelisk with the tip cut off and replaced with a chicken).

The second interesting fact is that on April 6, 1936, a tornado (EDIT: actually, upon doing research, a double tornado) virtually destroyed the entire town. My grandfather was working in a millwhen the tornado hit the building, ripping the roof off completely. He was one of the lucky ones who managed to rush down the stairs to the relative safety of the ground floor. He had quite a collection of photographs of the aftermath. Very impressive stuff.

Oh, and a third fact (I know I said two, but this one just popped in my mind): It is illegal to eat fried chicken with a fork and knife in the city of Gainesville. So don't do it.

New York City

- is New York City

Albi, France:

-stronghold of the Cathars, a religious branch of Christianty in the 12th and 13th century, that were declared Heretics and subsequently persecuted till they were wiped out in a famous crusade by the Church of Rome
-birthplace of painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and sailor Jean-François Galaup de Laperouse
-houses the St-Cecile basilisk, the world's largest brick monument
-its Old Bridge is still in use after nearly a millenium of existence
-French president Georges Pompidou studied there

Personal experience is in harmony with your assessment.

Not my home town but Topeka has...

Brown V Board
Gwendolyn Brooks
Langston Hughes
Kansas (the band)
Menninger Clinic (lost that a few years ago though)

...and we got the Westboro Baptist Church, YEAH!

Indianapolis, Indiana

-The 500
-A QB that makes more then GOD, but well, I'm sure GOD could get us to the superbowl


-I think thats about it...

Good Lord...from what I've gathered from your past posts, you must have an abundance of crazy-ass stories. I'm betting some funny, some creepy.

Moonbats, paranoiacs and lunatics are attracted to me like iron filings to a magnet. I must be cursed with a sympathetic aspect.

Or I'm a lunatic.

New Orleans

One of the first submarines was tested in Lake Ponchartrain. You can still see it at the Cabildo, the Louisiana History Museum.

Several Italians were lynched in the late 1800's after the police chief was killed and his reported/supposed last words were, "The dagos did it." This incident was the basis for a Showtime movie I believe.

Both Harry Connick Jr. and Will Clark went to my high school, Jesuit High School of New Orleans. Ellis Henican who has won a pulitzer prize and does a voice on Sealab 2021 also went to my high school. One more tridbit, our mascot was designed my Walt Kelly who created Pogo.

When the Jesuits first came to New Orleans they were kicked out and so moved outside of the city were they grew sugar cane and made rum.

Mardi Gras did not originate in New Orleans in the US. It first occured on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

Tallinn, Estonia

- Medieval Tallinn enjoyed a strategic position at the crossroads for trade between Western and Northern Europe and Russia. The city, with a population of 8 000, was very well fortified with city walls and 66 defence towers.

- Historically, the city has been attacked, sacked, razed and pillaged on numerous occasions. Although extensively bombed during the latter stages of World War II, much of the medieval old town still retains its charm. Tallinn Old Town became a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage site in 1997.

- At the end of the 15th century a new 159 meter high Gothic tower was built for Saint Olaf's Church. This was then one of the highest towers in Europe and possibly the highest building in the world.

Wasn't Estonia the home of Encino Man?

I've heard some of these stories, but it's amazing what you can dig up on Google...

Covington, GA

Newton County and the City of Covington once belonged to the Creek Indian Nation. The Creek Indians roamed the land as the first English settlers landed on the coast of Georgia in 1733. In 1813, Georgia Governor Thorp negotiated a treaty whereby the Creek Indians relinquished all claim to the land. Named in honor of Sergeant John Newton, a Revolutionary Soldier, Newton County was formed by the Georgia General Assembly on December 24, 1821.

The first settlers (primarily from the Carolinas and Virginia) began arriving during this era, selecting the Eastern part of the county around a town called Winton for their homesteads. Winton was the site of the first brick building in the county. The Brick Store served as a general store, a stage coach stop and was the location of the first session of Newton County Court in April of 1822. The Georgia General Assembly, however, insisted with very few exceptions that the county seat be in the center of the community, so Newton County's seat was moved west to "Newtonborough."

Renamed for General Leonard Covington of the American Revolution, the Indian War and the War of 1812. Covington was incorporated on December 6, 1822. The completion of the railroad in 1845 brought new growth and direction to the area. Until the early 1900's, Covington and Newton County was strictly agricultural. Crops grown in the county included barley, corn, cowpeas, grain sorghum, hay, oats, peaches, pecans, peanuts, rye, soybeans, sweet potatoes, watermelons and wheat. However, like most Georgia counties, "Cotton was King" and the development of the cotton mill brought the first sign of real prosperity to Covington. The town continued to grow as a business and agricultural center and was soon accepted as the cotton market for local farmers. The sawmill and pulpwood industry also contributed to the growing economy of Newton County.

Covington and Newton County played an active role in the Civil War. On the evening of July 20, 1864, Union forces under Brigadier General Kenner Garrard moved into Covington. Orders from his commander, General Sherman, were to burn bridges over the Yellow and Alcovy Rivers and destroy the railroad between Lithonia and the Alcovy. Successfully completed, this raid stopped all communication between Augusta and Atlanta and ended all hope that defenders of Atlanta might receive desperately needed reinforcements from the Eastern Confederacy. Fortunately, many plantations and town homes were spared by Sherman on his "March to the Sea". Today' these historical homes and landmarks remain a proud reminder of our country's heritage.

In 1988, Covington was awarded the designation of a Georgia "Main Street" city due to the community's dedication to the preservation of its 19th century structures. Adorning the Main Street area and National Register Districts are carefully restored antebellum and Victorian-era homes, churches, parks, and the Downtown Square. Still the center of the community, the Square is often host to festive social events such as outdoor luncheon concerts.

Covington has been a popular on-site shooting location for many feature films and one of the longest-running television series, In the Heat of the Night. Ten years prior to the arrival of that show, Warner Bros. filmed the first 5 episodes of The Dukes of Hazzardon location in and around Covington.

More info on Covington's history with Hollywood can be found here.

sorry if this sounds obvious:

quoting wiki (just lazy): The Eastern Republic of Uruguay (Spanish: República Oriental del Uruguay) is a small country located in southern South America. It is bordered by Brazil to the north, the Uruguay River to the west, the estuary of the Río de la Plata (literally "Silver River", but commonly known in English as "River Plate") to the southwest, with Argentina on the other bank of both, and finally the South Atlantic Ocean to the southeast. About one-half of its people live in the capital and largest city, Montevideo.

well I live in Montevideo, Mdeo so

During World War II, a famous incident involving the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee took place in Montevideo, which was a neutral port during the war. After the Battle of the River Plate with the British navy on December 13, 1939, the Graf Spee retreated to the port. To avoid risking the crew in what he thought would be a losing battle, Captain Hans Langsdorff scuttled the ship on December 17th.

just lazy again, other related issue we have the longest (not largest) carnaval around the world, we do a big parade and later a series of shows that last almost 2 months.


well have you seen alive (viven) with ethan hawke (sp?) well they departed from Mdeo and they were all from here

Austin, TX

-"Hasn't been the same since they closed the Armadillo."
-Isn't as cool as people say...but is still pretty nice.
-Is the self-proclaimed "Live Music Capital of the World". Unfortunately, most of it is shitty blues-rock.
-Was originally named Waterloo, which is why our best record store, one of the greatest remaining independent record stores in the US, is called Waterloo Records.
-Is the home of the Whole Foods grocery store chain

I've researched this piece of history on and off for a few years now. It's a fascinating story.

recently (last year) they grab the "telemether"(sp or wrong) or something from the bottom. yes it's kinda facinating how some of the official stay here and the rest have a quiet palce in one of ours cementery

Isn't Jim Cameron lurking about under the water with his camera?

I believe that was actually the largest mass lynching in American history.

Anyways, as for Montreal...

Home to Canada's two largest, single-day mass arrests with the October Crisis in 1970 and the annual march against police brutality in 2002.

Birthplace of both Leonard Cohen and William Shatner.

The second largest French-speaking city in the world.

First reached by Europeans in 1535 and settled in 1642.

One of the few cities to have a subway system that runs on rubber wheels.

As for my current home of Toronto...

Sydney, Australia and Toronto are the two most diverse cities in the world.

Officially founded in 1793 and originally inhabited largely by United Empire Loyalists fleeing the new American Republic.

Home to some of Yonge Street, the longest street in the world.

Anarchist Emma Goldman lived here for a number of years.

Still has a widespread street car route and is home to the first subway system in Canada (1954).

Numerous streams and rivers were buried in the development of the city.

I once got a blowjob in Milwaukee, WI. I think they also make beer there.

Hey French liker guy, did you know the famous saying "Kill them all, let God sort them out!" dates back to one of the slaughters of the Cathars by the Xians?

"Orlando is the fifth-ranking US destination of overseas travelers - after San Francisco, Miami, Los Angeles and New York City - and it claims the second highest number of hotel rooms in the US, lagging just behind Las Vegas in the bedroom stakes." http://www.orlando-world.com/history.html

"Stories abound about how this famous city first got its name. Perhaps the most reliable concerns an American volunteer soldier. During the Seminole War in 1835, Orlando Reeves was on his post which was located on what is now known as Lake Eola. Orlando noticed what appeared to be a log drifting in the lake. Once he realized it was an Indian sneaking up on the camp, he gave the alarm to alert his company. In gratitude, the volunteer soldiers who stayed to make the area their home named the town for their comrade." http://www.ego.net/us/fl/orlando/history/

Orlando's Tinker Field was named after Joe Tinker of the Chicago Cubs' infamous double-play combo Tinker to Evers to Chance.

My original hometown Maple Valley, WA

From the Seattle PI:
“Lake Wilderness, the natural landmark at the center of the city, was once the site of one of King County’s larger lumber mills. In the late 1870s, the first settlers began developing what would later become Maple Valley.
By 1885, trains were hauling coal to neighboring Black Diamond, a city whose industrial awakening revolved around the “black diamond” – coal – and contributed to the growth of Maple Valley.
In the early 1880s, settler George Ames suggested the city be named Vine Maple Valley because of the many vine maples trees around the area. Another settler, C.O. Russell, liked Maple Ridge much better.
The settlers voted, and Vine Maple Valley won.
By 1887, "Vine" had been dropped and, three years later, Russell platted the town.”
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/webtow...ID=68&ID=98805

Where I live now, Lithonia GA:
The community traces its beginnings to the early 1840's when a tiny settlement sprang up at the intersection to two roads, one between McDonough and Lawrenceville and the other between Augusta and Decatur. The small village was appropriately known as Cross Roads.
Cross Roads began growing when the Georgia Railroad completed its rail line through the town in 1845. Running from Atlanta to Augusta, the line had an important role in the town's development.
The community got its unusual name, according to locals, when in the 1840's a teacher instructing Greek in a local school, combined the Greek words Litho meaning rock and Onia meaning place to create Lithonia. Considering that East Dekalb area contains an abundance of Gneiss granite Lithonia was aptly named.
By 1850, Lithonia had about 250 residents. Twenty-seven of its young men left town to serve in the Confederate Army. Toward the end of the war between the states, General Sherman, on his famous march to the sea spent his first night out of Atlanta in the Philips house, known today as the Johnson Home located on Main Street. During his stay in Lithonia, Sherman's troops burned the railroad depot and destroyed the tracks. It is said a house near the railroad depot was also engulfed in flames. According to one source of Lithonia history, the Masonic Lodge was spared destruction when a Masonic apron was placed on a chair outside the lodge building.

Fort Scott, Kansas:

Hometown of Gordon Parks, who promptly left because the town was filled with racist douchebags, as documented in The Learning Tree.

Still filled with racist douchebags.

Future site of Wal-Mart Supercenter!

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Bristol - Where I live now has been done by Fett so i give you Dursley - my home town

The evil uncles in Harry Potter are named after it (JK Rowling is from around here somewhere)

The first mass produced bicycles were made in the town

Home of Berkeley Castle, which is where the camp prince from Braveheart was killed by having a red hot poker shoved up his arse.

Nibley Monument - dedicated to the guy who first tried to translate the bible from Latin to English.

Vaccination was invented by Edward Jenner who lived in Berkeley. We also have a large hill know as smallpox hill which is basically a large mass grave for Smallpox victims.

Hamilton, New Zealand.

- Built on a swamp.

- In the 1800s, was a trading town and the surrounding area was the site of many battles during the Maori land wars. The countryside is dotted with monuments, as well as the remains of Maori pa (forts) and villages.

- Heart of Tainui country (not my iwi, but we're all the same, really).

- Capital of Waikato District, famous for, er, cows.

- Near to a few LOTR locations, including Matamata, where Hobbiton was filmed.

- Lots of fucking rain (especially at the moment).

- Population: about 100,000. Mostly farmers

- No tourist attractions of any kind (except perhaps the afore-mentioned LOTR sites).

For more info, visit hamiltoncity.co.nz, a website whose most recent update was apparently for last years Christmas parade.

UK Chewers should check out The Knowhere Guide for some perceptive observations about their villages/towns/cities.

Click St. Helens for a taste of the tragedy I call home.

"I PERSONALY QUITE LIKE THE NELSON [a pub] TOILETS.THEY ARE SMALL, COMPACT AND VERY COSEY IN WINTER"

Jacksonville, Fla.

- Originally called "Cowford" because it was the best place for the herds to cross the St. John's River in northeast Florida

- When the city incorporated the entire Duval County area into the city, it became the largest city in the contiguous 48 states in terms of square mileage (873.4) and still is

- After being used as leverage for NFL teams to get better deals in their hometowns, finally got a football team in 1995 when the Jaguars were awarded as an expansion team

- The "World's Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party" (Florida vs. Georgia football) takes place every fall. This just in: Bulldogs suck.

- Birthplace of "Bullet" Bob Hayes, James Weldon Johnson, Gary US Bonds, Vince Coleman, Lynyrd Skynyrd/Molly Hatchet/.38 Special and that Durst dude from Limp Bizkit

I actually found that out yesterday while researching facts to post in this thread, yeah.

Thessaloniki,Greece.
Founded in 314 B.C. by Kassandrus one of Alexanders generals and king of Macedonia at the time.Named Thessaloniki after his wife's name,Alexander's sister.By the way he was the one that had Roxane and Alexander's son assasinated.
Cool story.A folk legend says that when Thessaloniki found out about her brother's death she jumped in the sea trying to drown herself.Instead she turned into a mermaid and now she roams the Aegean sea.When she sees a ship she asks the sailors "Does king Alexander live?".If they say that he died she get's angry and sinks the ship.If they answer "He lives, he reigns and conquers the world" she calms down and takes them safely to a harbour.

Tulsa, OK:

-in 1921, the most of the area known nationally as "The Black Wall Street" AKA the Greenwood District was burnt to the ground during the Tulsa Race Riot. As the story goes, a black man stumbled into a white woman while getting into an elevator, she cried rape and white folks destroyed over thirty five blocks of homes and businesses and left many people dead.

Rumour has it, thanks Wikipedia, that "The scene in Greenwood was so hot that story has it that in 1927 while on tour, Count Basie heard a dance band in a club in Greenwood and decided to focus on jazz."

-Birthplace of (among more famous but less noteable people) the GAP band, Leon Russell, Gary Busey, Gailard Sartain, Alfre Woodard, Mean Jeane Tripplehorn, TOny Randall, and GOLDBERG...and Hanson.
sidenote, supermodel Amber Valetta lives her too and you couldn't pick her out of a lineup if you saw her out at a bar. She's still uberhot though.

-we have art deco.

- The Brady Theater, built in 1914. Known affectionately as the "Old Lady on Brady", is rumored to be haunted by the Ghost of Enrico Caruso, who performed there in 1920, and reportedly caught the cold that led to his death of pleurisy in 1921.

-oh, and SE Hinton lives here ( I believe in an old crematorium) and The Outsiders was filmed here as well, stay golden.

-Cain's Ballroom is the last still-standing venue from the Sex Pistols infamous 1978 USA Tour.

Akron, Ohio
Current Population: 217,074
Size: 62.41 sqaure miles
Founded: 1825

Akron is the home of...

- Ice cream cones, hamburgers and caramel corn snacks were invented in Akron by Charles E. Menches
- The first graded school system in the United States and where the concept of a school superintendent was created
- The highest point on the Ohio-Erie Canal
- The first synthetic rubber tire, marketed in 1940
- The first balloon tire in 1924
- The first long distance electric railway in the world, the ABC Line -- Akron, Bedford, Cleveland
- The birthplace of the trucking industry
- The world's largest model train display at the Depot, at Quaker Square (former site of the Quaker Oats Co.)
- One of the largest buildings without interior supports, the Loral Airdock -- where Goodyear once built blimps --- is 22 stories high and could accommodate four football games at once. Height and atmosphere actually produce rain inside.
- The first breakfast cereal, now Quaker Oats
- Processed cereals developed by Akron's Ferdinand Schumacher, the oatmeal king
- Alcoholics Anonymous, founded in Akron by "Dr. Bob" (Smith) and "Bill W." (Wilson) in 1935
- The first automobile police patrol wagon, in 1899
- Derby Downs, home of the All-American Soap Box Derby, the world's greatest amateur racing event
- The first artificial fish bait, made by Pfleuger Fishing Tackle Company
- Abolitionist John Brown, and the site of Sojourner Truth's "Ain't I a Woman" speech on freedom from slavery (1851)
- Inventure Place, the world's first transactive science museum, and is the home of the National Inventors Hall of Fame
- The NEC World Series of Golf at Firestone Country Club every August
- The largest small business incubator in the state and one of the largest in the world.
- Stan Hywet Hall and Garden, considered the finest example of Tudor Revival architecture in America, built by Frank A. Seiberling, founder of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co.

Claims to Fame

- LeBron James, number one overall selection in the 2003 NBA Draft, joins the Cleveland Cavaliers. LeBron, born and raised in Akron, was drafted after graduating from Saint Vincent - Saint Mary High School.
- Chrissy Hynde of the Pretenders
- Devo!
- Musician James Ingram
- Clark Gable worked in Akron before making it big in Hollywood
- "Third Rock From the Sun" actor John Lithgow lived here
- Supermodel and actress Angie Everhart
- ABC's Hugh Downs
- Former Miami Dolphins running back Larry Csonka
- Former NBA greats Gus Johnson and Nate Thurmond
- Guinness Book of World Records "Most Traveled Person" Parke Thompson
- The late Challenger astronaut Judy Resnick
- Thomas Edison married an Akron woman, Mina Miller, in Akron, Ohio
- Rita Dove, the Pulitzer Prize winning Poet Laureate
- Ruby and The Romantics
- Linda Lorenz-Sengpiel - The Akron yo-yo champion, never defeated in during her lifetime, offered $100,000 to anyone who could match her skills. No one ever collected.
- Melina Kanakaredes
- Philip Shawn (known in Akron as Jack "Pat" Waltz), starred in the 1950 movie,The Sun Sets at Dawn. During the 1950s and 1960s Shawn also made frequent TV appearances in shows such as Perry Mason, McHale's Navy, Gomer Pyle, Lassie, The Twilight Zone, The Mod Squad and many others.
- Punk-rock guitarist, Robert Quine (1942-2004)

My hometown, Neodesha, KS (some info provided by Wikipedia):

Population as of 2000: 2,848.

The median income for a household in the city is $26,042.

The racial makeup of the city is 96.49% White, 0.35% African American, 0.67% Native American, 0.21% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.84% from other races, and 1.44% from two or more races. 2.11% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

"Last time I checked" category: A city ordinance was still on the books when I was in high school (circa 1990) that prohibited black people from remaining within the city limits after sundown.

The city has a total area of 3.0 km² (1.1 mi²).

Claim to fame: The first commercially successful oil well west of the Mississippi, Norman #1, hand-dug in 1892. Crude oil refinement ended in 1970.

My local brush with fame: In 1990, Miss USA Carole Gist appeared at our local armory to accept one of her prizes from Cobalt Boats, Inc. I stood about two feet from her for about 15 minutes, directing the staff photographer for our school newspaper to take photos of her during the ceremony.

Local restaurants: A Pizza Hut, Dairy Queen, Sonic Drive-In and Subway. During any given year, there are 3-5 other local restaurants in service as well. Most go out of business quickly.

Definitely something to be proud of there.

Did I mention I once received oral sex in Milwaukee?

Was he cute? Do you guys still keep in touch?

Cash or cheque?

See personally I consider a transsexual a she, but maybe that's just me.

Gaston County, NC

-has the highest concentration of churches in the US
-has the largest flying American flag in the country
-currently working towards having the highest concentration of Wal-marts in the US

Guess which way we voted last year?

Some of these towns sound like the kind of places Clark. W. Griswold would make a point of visiting on his way to WallyWorld.