What your region is noted for?

drumbunny1 · Post by **drumbunny1** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 10:17 pm

Oregon is noted for Trees....hippies....and slow @$$ drivers!!!:D

My region is Brookings...a very small coastal town known as "Oregon's Banana Belt"

double helix · Post by **double helix** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 12:21 am

Wide open vistas of wild untouched beauty. Very cold weather even in summer:rolleyes: Lots of moose roaming around and

lots of bears roaming along right after them.

Post by **spot** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 12:28 am

Previet, comrade! For someone in Krasnoyarsk you write excellent English.

wardah · Post by **wardah** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 9:31 am

humous.

oh and falafel! and these little sweets called helwiyaat which are generally from around here, but I don't really like them, never mind eh.

wardah · Post by **wardah** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 9:34 am

the goodies aren't obscure! i know this to be a fact, for I am but a poor student of 22 and thus if I have heard of them they can't be.

wardah · Post by **wardah** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 9:45 am

spot;764564 wrote: and forged poetry.

rowley? or should i say chatterton? ah, but haven't i been well-educated

Uncle Kram · Post by **Uncle Kram** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 9:46 am

My hometown is Birmingham, England - "The Second City" in the UK. The city is known for :

UB40

Duran Duran

The Move

ELO

Wizzard

Judas Priest

Steve Winwood

Moody Blues

Black Sabbath & Ozzy Osbourne

Ocean Colour Scene

Dexys Midnight Runners

Cadburys chocolate

Fort Dunlop - home of tyres

Bakelite

Birds Custard

Joseph Lucas - Electrical component giant

The Bull Ring

The Rotunda

Spaghetti Junction

Aston Villa Football club

Matthew Boulton - Industrialist

William Murdoch - pioneer of gas lighting

Bill Oddie - birdwatching Goodie

Neville Chamberlain - Prime minister when WW2 started

IRA pub bombings in 1974

National Exhibition Centre & National Indoor Arena

HP Sauce

Land Rover

Spitfire & Lancaster bombers manufactured by Vickers

Jaguar Cars

Chad Valley toys

Comedian Jasper Carrott

More canals than Venice

The Birmingham 6

Eurovision Song Contest 1998

G8 Summit 1998

The Balti Triangle - Birthplace of the Balti

The Jewellery Quarter

Manufacture of James Watts steam engines

Austin Cars

Amy Turtle

MG Rover

Morris Cars

Metro-Cammell - Railway carriage & wagon builders

Comedian Tony Hancock

Lord of the Rings Author JRR Tolkien

The Gun Quarter (800,000 guns to U.S.Civil War)

BSA Motorbikes (Originally Birmingham Small Arms gunmakers)

The first Lloyds bank

Birmingham Mint

Think Tank

Uncle Kram

joesoap · Post by **joesoap** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 9:52 am

Not much noted about this area but we did push the boat out at the Millennium!

Bamburgh Celebrates Millennium

The picturesque Northumbrian coastal village of Bamburgh has finally, yet spectacularly, celebrated the dawn of the new millennium, though three years and one month later than the rest of us. In an orgy of drug fuelled sexual debauchery, sadistic violence and blood lust, set to a backdrop of burning effigies and the squealing of pigs, the inhabitants of Bamburgh, known in some parts as “the village of the dammed and in others as “that dammed village, twitched, staggered and gyrated their godless way into the 21st Century. Reverend Vladimir Cantle, chairman of the Bamburgh Millennium Committee and Vlad the knife, the bloody butcher of Budle to his parishioners, explained the reason for the three-year delay. “Our calendar is actually three years and nineteen days behind everyone else’s, so in Bamburgh today it is 1st day of 2000. You see, when the Gregorian calendar started in the thirteenth century, Bamburgh was never informed and the village had already developed an annual cycle, basically “nay bugga telt us, not bad though when you consider we are only three years and one month out! Mind you, we have thirteen months in our year and none of them have names just symbols. We discovered the difference after decimalisation then strange new coins fell from the pockets of lost travellers when they were hung upside down, so someone was sent to the “outside to investigate. It was decided that we would keep our calendar as it is as nobody could be “fashed to change it. The grand finale to the nights festivities was the burning of a huge wicker woman rowing a huge wicker boat, the screams of those trust up inside could be heard clearly in Seahouses.

Paul :yh_rotfl

YZGI · Post by **YZGI** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 9:56 am

Kansas:

Dodge City, Wichita, Boot Hill.

Anyone want to have a gunfight? I'm your hucklberry. You're a daisy if you do..

Well then Clear that smokewagon and lets get to commencin.

Post by **spot** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 4:21 pm

wardah;767569 wrote: rowley? or should i say chatterton? ah, but haven't i been well-educated

And you're 22? You'd better get a move on.

You do realize that by the time Chatterton was your age he'd been dead five years?

Post by **spot** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 8:44 pm

JAB;768244 wrote: I live just outside of Wash DC so that kinda gives it away as to what my region is noted for.

Terminologically imprecise obfustication?

911 · Post by **911** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 8:45 pm

Civil War

Civil Rights

Robert Trent Jones

Bass Pro

Sandy white beaches

Heat

Humidity

Bear Bryant

NASCAR (sorry to admit that!)

Lots of beautiful trees and woods for hiking and camping

Football

Some of the highest sales tax in the Union

Roadkill

Deer

Cows

And ME!

And some other stuff, I'm sure

Post by **spot** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 9:01 pm

JAB;768274 wrote: No, actually I think they're rather precise about it.

Ah. It'll be terminologically precise obfustication then.

double helix · Post by **double helix** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 12:55 am

spot;765980 wrote: Previet, comrade! For someone in Krasnoyarsk you write excellent English.Why thanks Spot! The Inupiat taught me when I crossed the bering straight in my pushtic boat.:-6

Post by **spot** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 2:28 am

Raleigh?

Imladris · Post by **Imladris** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 3:15 am

for having a railway line right on the coast

[ for red cliffs and sand

black swans in the town centre

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Post by **spot** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 6:16 am

Soberhoho;768445 wrote: No, i had a BMX.

You're kidding me! I'd have gone to my grave swearing you'd had a penny farthing.

gmc · Post by **gmc** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 8:11 am

anaethetics, antiseptics,how to crack oil to start the worlds oil industry, (how to sue the Bas*(*^S that pinched the patent and win-you texas oil people know who you were) . steamships, steam engines telephone, television radar, golf, computer games, ultrasound scanners, dolly he sheep, microwaves, electric light, cotton reels, bicycles. breech loading rifles.

look I'm scots, if you take scotland as a region have you any idea how long the list is? We invented the modern world bow down in homage as without us you would be sitting naked in the dark with no tv using semaphores for long distance communication.

http://www.scotland.org/about/history-t ... tions.html

And that's without mentioning the scottish enlightenment.

Chookie · Post by **Chookie** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 1:40 pm

Damnit. You left out faxes, economics, America (for which we apologise), Canada, proper alcohol (face it, single-malt whisky for Scotland is the only proper alcohol) etc etc etc.

gmc · Post by **gmc** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 7:20 am

Chookie;768721 wrote: Damnit. You left out faxes, economics, America (for which we apologise), Canada, proper alcohol (face it, single-malt whisky for Scotland is the only proper alcohol) etc etc etc.

I know but you can rub it in too much. I don't want to give anyone any more of an inferiority complex they already have because they're not scots!

double helix · Post by **double helix** » Sun Feb 03, 2008 1:25 am

People who eat seal blubber, dried caribou and drink too much. Chechako's that flip their big SUV's everytime it snows another half-inch. Sourdoughs who stop to help and everything in between.

Hope6 · Post by **Hope6** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 12:48 am

Virginia- beautiful scenery, mountains and beaches, a lot of historical sites (houses and civil war battlefields) was one of the places were the country began with the Jamestown settlement. Where the civil war ended, Appomatox Courthouse. Is known as the mother of presidents since 8 of our former presidents were born here.

tobacco

cows

country ham

deer hunting

lots of trees

lots of wonderful people

qsducks · Post by **qsducks** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 9:49 am

Pennsylvania - #1 is Potholes (ask any trucker), deer hunting, Philadelphia attractions are:

The Liberty Bell

Independence Hall

Ride the Ducks

Cheesesteaks (The Real Deal)

Scrapple (breakfast meat)

Constitution Center

Wachovia Center

Philadelphia Phillies, Eagles, Flyers & 76r's

Pat's Steaks, Geno's Steaks, Tony Lukes Steaks (cheesesteak places)

Chicky's & Pete's

Philadelphia Art Museum

The Nudder Museum (This place is really cool & gross)

Tons of stuff to do in Philly - check it out

chrisb84uk · Post by **chrisb84uk** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 10:47 am

My city is known for Worcester porcelain and the awful Worcester sauce!