@IPJ- yeah, I personally wouldn't have been standing out there taking pictures during a tornado, but that's just me.
@luckwad-- oh, how I miss the Mall of America. When I was home last summer they had a sephora store that had just opened. It was fabulous.
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When I was home last summer they had a sephora store that had just opened. It was fabulous.
you couldn't make that first picture just a tiny bit bigger could you luckwad?
QUOTE (Chalky @ Mar 16 2006, 1:56 am) 
Newport Pagnell, The Home of Aston Martin, The Only remaining Parchment Works in England (currently covers the Doomsday Book) and the only remaining Iron Bridge still in everyday use by modern traffic.
Oh and lots of pubs aswell
Oh and lots of pubs aswell
Like The Cannon - bloody rough. I always preferred Stony for pubs.
QUOTE (Jenny L @ Mar 16 2006, 8:19 am)
Hastings, Nebraska
Kewl. Jenny L grew up in a town named after me
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Edit: OMG, Jenny L, the chick in that photo is nuts! Sheesh, and people get paranoid in California about Earthquakes.
Ah yes good ol' feb - may in tornado alley...plan your vacation ahead folks. Nothing like no wind in the air but the trees are still swaying all to the back drop of pink,yellow, and grey skies. I grew up in North Texas and by age of five you needed no weather forecast on the plains you could just feel it.
Edit Here is the reason why for me. I was about 7 or 8 when this happened and I still remember it. Three funnels came together outside of town.
Terrible Tuesday
On another note here is W.F. Texas other claim to fame(although they will not claim this town haha) I went to highschool and Uni with two of these guys, and was invited to the guitarist wedding. In fact the song 1985 is a homage to our professor. Also they do a wonderful song called our hometown another homage to W.F. Texas. B.F.S.
QUOTE (perdido @ Mar 16 2006, 9:47 am)
and by age of five you needed no weather forecast on the plains you could just feel it.
Very true. And there's nothing creepier (weather-wise) than the way you feel before a tornado.
Agreed. When I moved to Oregon I came out of the office one day and boom I felt it. I muttered to myself "This feels like tornado weather"
The guy next to me laughed and said "We dont have those here"
Another worker from Kansas was with us and she repled "Your right it does feel that way"
Later that afternoon a funnel touched down outside Vancouver Washington(across the river).
The guy next to me laughed and said "We dont have those here"
Another worker from Kansas was with us and she repled "Your right it does feel that way"
Later that afternoon a funnel touched down outside Vancouver Washington(across the river).
Taken from my dads house when I was back at christmas...
[img]http://www.keithball.net/gallery/albums/xmas05/CIMG4749.jpg[/img]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hednesford
BBC site...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/stoke/mytown/sst/hednesford/index.shtml
The mighty PITMEN!!!
http://www.hednesfordtown.com/
[img]http://www.keithball.net/gallery/albums/xmas05/CIMG4749.jpg[/img]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hednesford
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Hednesford (pronounced "Hensford") is a small town in Staffordshire, England, within Cannock Chase district. It adjoins Cannock Chase to the north, and the town of Cannock to the south.
The town is best known for Hednesford Hills Raceway, the stock car track built on the site of a disused reservoir, which has brought tens of thousands of race fans to the area since the early 1960s and still attracts crowds of several thousand to its major events. The town's semi-professional football team, Hednesford Town F.C., currently play in the Conference North and won the FA Trophy in 2004.
Hednesford was an important mining community for over a century. The oldest sections of the town surround the hilltop areas of the existing town, however, the lower part of the town became the focal point as the community grew with the mining industry.
Between 1914 and 1918 two huge army training camps were built in the area and over a quarter of a million British and Commonwealth troops passed through destined for the Western Front. In 1938 a Royal Air Force training camp was established to train technicians in maintenance and repair of airframes and engines. No. 6 School of Technical training became better known as RAF Hednesford. The camp was later used for resettlement of Hungarian refugees fleeing from the Russian invasion of Budapest. The site is now a part of Cannock Chase Country Park.
Hednesford now spreads across a swathe of the northern fringe of Cannock, from Pye Green across to Heath Hayes. The commercial life of Hednesford has suffered a rapid decline since the 1980s as it lost out to larger towns and cities nearby. The main street of Hednesford, Market Street, has become particularly dilapidated over the 1990s despite attempts at cosmetic face lifts. Hednesford has recently become a town over-filled with industrial parks and small company headquarters with local property seemingly dominated by the Pritchard company. Plans are currently in the pipeline to carry out major redevelopment work in the town.
The town is best known for Hednesford Hills Raceway, the stock car track built on the site of a disused reservoir, which has brought tens of thousands of race fans to the area since the early 1960s and still attracts crowds of several thousand to its major events. The town's semi-professional football team, Hednesford Town F.C., currently play in the Conference North and won the FA Trophy in 2004.
Hednesford was an important mining community for over a century. The oldest sections of the town surround the hilltop areas of the existing town, however, the lower part of the town became the focal point as the community grew with the mining industry.
Between 1914 and 1918 two huge army training camps were built in the area and over a quarter of a million British and Commonwealth troops passed through destined for the Western Front. In 1938 a Royal Air Force training camp was established to train technicians in maintenance and repair of airframes and engines. No. 6 School of Technical training became better known as RAF Hednesford. The camp was later used for resettlement of Hungarian refugees fleeing from the Russian invasion of Budapest. The site is now a part of Cannock Chase Country Park.
Hednesford now spreads across a swathe of the northern fringe of Cannock, from Pye Green across to Heath Hayes. The commercial life of Hednesford has suffered a rapid decline since the 1980s as it lost out to larger towns and cities nearby. The main street of Hednesford, Market Street, has become particularly dilapidated over the 1990s despite attempts at cosmetic face lifts. Hednesford has recently become a town over-filled with industrial parks and small company headquarters with local property seemingly dominated by the Pritchard company. Plans are currently in the pipeline to carry out major redevelopment work in the town.
BBC site...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/stoke/mytown/sst/hednesford/index.shtml
The mighty PITMEN!!!
http://www.hednesfordtown.com/
Tacoma, Washington, USA
The bridge, v1.0
The Mountain
The High School
The bridge, v1.0
The Mountain
The High School
Reading this thread just reminds me of what a sheet hole i come from. While you guys have mountains and lakes, we have drinking, fighting and smackheads.
Just about says it all really.
Just about says it all really.
@TBFB- at least there were people where you grew up. And be thankful you don't come from a place that boasts attractions like "Carhenge".
A commercial web site of the ...place... I grew up in: http://www.belmont.co.il/english/
You grew up in a hotel? Explains alot
@alala & GLC
Mmm Hamms, Ranier, and Olympia beer...
@alala & GLC
Mmm Hamms, Ranier, and Olympia beer...
Kibbutz, hotel, it's all the same ...
ISTANBUL!!! That s a privilige to be born&grown up there...
http://english.istanbul.com/photogallery.asp
http://english.istanbul.com/photogallery.asp
QUOTE (perdido @ Mar 15 2006, 2:22 pm)
Well at the rate Dallas is growing it will be a suburb of Dallas in five years. I still remember when Denton was 45 min away from Dallas.
i've actually been up to denton. i went to visit a guy there (sheesh, drove all the way from san marcos just to get laid. crazy college years). and if i'm not mistaen, norah jones went to school there?
high school (honolulu):
where i call home (austin):
my favorite place to go to when i go "home" (enchanted rock):
edit: weak attempt at humour made even poorer now Elf edited...please ignore me
No no Elfenstar, since you are from San Marcos I expect a link to that "wonderful" water or amusement park they had there...I forgot the name. And where is kaiserf? We need a Georgetown link.
Edit: F.Y.I. San Marcos was known as the Cocaine Capital of Texas for the longest time. Not to say Ms. elfenstar is that way. She needs no drugs to make her the wonderful woman that she is.
Edit: F.Y.I. San Marcos was known as the Cocaine Capital of Texas for the longest time. Not to say Ms. elfenstar is that way. She needs no drugs to make her the wonderful woman that she is.
@ Boomtown: oops, pics got all mixed up! :-)
@ perdido: like you, i remember the 70s, but not the 90s!
@ perdido: like you, i remember the 70s, but not the 90s!
QUOTE (perdido @ Mar 16 2006, 1:35 pm)
No no Elfenstar, since you are from San Marcos I expect a link to that "wonderful" water or amusement park they had there...I forgot the name. And where is kaiserf? We need a Georgetown link.
do you mean schlitterbahn? that was in new braunsfels!
No there use to be something in San Marcos some sort of tourist trap. My parents loved that place. Well it was in the 80s though could be gone now.
The Wurstfest!
mine is wallaceburg.ca
not as nice as the pics
edit: my link isn't working
not as nice as the pics
edit: my link isn't working
here is mine
http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/linl...hgow/index.html
def worth a visit when you go to Scotland, right inbetween edinburgh and glasgow
http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/linl...hgow/index.html
def worth a visit when you go to Scotland, right inbetween edinburgh and glasgow
QUOTE (perdido @ Mar 16 2006, 1:40 pm)
No there use to be something in San Marcos some sort of tourist trap. My parents loved that place. Well it was in the 80s though could be gone now.
yup! got it, AQUARENA SPRINGS which featured:
Ralph, the swimming pig!
Wasn't Piranha filmed there?
yes! our claim to fame.
also the "wurstfest" was in new braunsfels.
also the "wurstfest" was in new braunsfels.
The ten day salute to sausage. I loved that!!
[img]http://www.wurstfest.com/cover.jpg[/img]
[img]http://www.wurstfest.com/cover.jpg[/img]
Well hell I will have to ask my parents about the San Marcos thing...only problem is that always bring up how I cried my eyes there when I was 4 yrs old.
Edit yeah thats it. phew didnt want to have call my parents. The xmas phone call was tough enough
Edit Edit Pirahna was filmed there. God I remember that movie, no wonder I cried my eyes out
Edit yeah thats it. phew didnt want to have call my parents. The xmas phone call was tough enough
Edit Edit Pirahna was filmed there. God I remember that movie, no wonder I cried my eyes out
I dont really have a home town website, as my town is really really small.
But here is some Wiki info on it: Linkage
Like is says on wikepedia, its well known these days for one reason:
The Emporium Night Club - Passion
[img]http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/9463/q16qr.jpg[/img]
[img]http://img56.imageshack.us/img56/2955/q29cx.jpg[/img]
But here is some Wiki info on it: Linkage
Like is says on wikepedia, its well known these days for one reason:
The Emporium Night Club - Passion
[img]http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/9463/q16qr.jpg[/img]
[img]http://img56.imageshack.us/img56/2955/q29cx.jpg[/img]
Sarabryd posted this link and it shows a picture of my current flat.
http://www.faszination-altstadt.de/market/...ltstadt-daecher
http://www.faszination-altstadt.de/market/...ltstadt-daecher
QUOTE (skoolboyerror @ Mar 16 2006, 1:56 pm)
The Emporium Night Club - Passion
I recall having hallucinations in that place.
OK, something local now:
The one City where you could walk from one border to the next within 5 min:
[img]http://www.ddr-im-www.de/Bilder/zonengrenze.gif[/img]
Since we are such lovely people, our friends invented the idea of home food delivery service, before we all had to eat Borscht:
[img]http://www.kssursee.ch/schuelerweb/kalter-krieg/entstehung/images/rosinenbomber.jpg[/img]
Famous for our specialities and the distinctive cuisine:
[img]http://www.attilahildmann.com/currywurst/bilder/currywurst_big.jpg[/img]
We brew the worst beer in all germany:
[img]http://www.ozaru.freeserve.co.uk/weizen/Berliner.jpg[/img]
We used to have little sit-ins with our friends from time to time, but somehow forgot the loos:
[img]http://www.derpartyflyer.de/News/Loveparade.jpg[/img]
Yup, your right it's Berlin (West of course... gotta admit I'm a bit picky there ).
The one City where you could walk from one border to the next within 5 min:
[img]http://www.ddr-im-www.de/Bilder/zonengrenze.gif[/img]
Since we are such lovely people, our friends invented the idea of home food delivery service, before we all had to eat Borscht:
[img]http://www.kssursee.ch/schuelerweb/kalter-krieg/entstehung/images/rosinenbomber.jpg[/img]
Famous for our specialities and the distinctive cuisine:
[img]http://www.attilahildmann.com/currywurst/bilder/currywurst_big.jpg[/img]
We brew the worst beer in all germany:
[img]http://www.ozaru.freeserve.co.uk/weizen/Berliner.jpg[/img]
We used to have little sit-ins with our friends from time to time, but somehow forgot the loos:
[img]http://www.derpartyflyer.de/News/Loveparade.jpg[/img]
Yup, your right it's Berlin (West of course... gotta admit I'm a bit picky there ).
QUOTE (glasgowgirl @ Mar 16 2006, 2:43 pm)
here is mine
http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/linl...hgow/index.html
def worth a visit when you go to Scotland, right inbetween edinburgh and glasgow
http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/linl...hgow/index.html
def worth a visit when you go to Scotland, right inbetween edinburgh and glasgow
Linlithgow is lovely. My brother lives there. Love the palace but the whole place has a good feel about it.
And it doesn't get any more exciting than this, ladies and gentlemen:
Town of Moraga, CA Official Homepage
(aka Boraga)
Town of Moraga, CA Official Homepage
(aka Boraga)
Well, it does get more exciting than that - here's a link to my dad's hometown, famous for hosting the largest Wild Blueberry Festival of north-central Saskatchewan:
http://www.stwalburg.com/
http://www.stwalburg.com/
Only a Southerner knows...
Only a Southerner knows the difference between a hissie fit and a conniption fit, and that you don't "HAVE" them, you "PITCH" them.
Only a Southerner knows how many fish, collard greens, turnip greens, peas, beans, etc., make up "a mess."
Only a Southerner can show or point out to you the general direction of "yonder."
Only a Southerner knows exactly how long "directly" is - as in: "Going to town, be back directly."
Even Southern babies know that "Gimme some sugar" is not a request for the white, granular sweet substance that sits in a pretty little bowl in the middle of the table.
All Southerners know exactly when "by and by" is. They might not use the term, but they know the concept well.
Only a Southerner knows instinctively at the best gesture of solace for a neighbor who's got trouble, is a plate of hot fried chicken and a big bowl of cold potato salad. If the neighbor's trouble is a real crisis, they also know to add a large banana puddin!
Only Southerners grow up knowing the difference between "right near" and "a right far piece. They also know that "just down the road" can be 1 mile or 20.
No true Southerner would ever assume that the car with the flashing turn signal is actually going to make a turn.
A Southerner knows that "fixin" can be used as a noun, a verb, or an adverb.
Only Southerners make friends while standing in lines.
Put 100 Southerners in a room and half of them will discover they're related, even if only by marriage.
In the South, 'y'all' is singular..."y'a ll y'all ! " is plural.
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Southerners know grits come from corn and how to eat them. Every Southerner knows tomatoes with eggs, bacon, grits, and coffee are perfectly wonderful; that red eye gravy is also a breakfast food; and that fried green tomatoes are not a breakfast food.
When you hear someone say, "Well, I caught myself lookin'," you know you are in the presence of a genuine Southerner!
Only true Southerners say "sweet tea" and "sweet milk." Sweet tea indicates the need for sugar and lots of it -- we do not like our tea unsweetened. "Sweet milk" means you don't want buttermilk.
And a true Southerner knows you don't scream obscenities at little old ladies who drive 30 MPH on the freeway. You just say, "Bless her heart " and go your own way.
And to those of you who are still having a hard time understanding all this Southern stuff, bless your hearts, I hear they are fixin' to have classes on Southernness as a second language!
And for those that are not from the South but have lived here for a long time, all y'all need a sign to hang on y'all's front porch that reads "I ain't from the South, but I got here as fast as I could."
Bless your hearts. Y'all have a blessed day, ya hear.
Only a Southerner knows the difference between a hissie fit and a conniption fit, and that you don't "HAVE" them, you "PITCH" them.
Only a Southerner knows how many fish, collard greens, turnip greens, peas, beans, etc., make up "a mess."
Only a Southerner can show or point out to you the general direction of "yonder."
Only a Southerner knows exactly how long "directly" is - as in: "Going to town, be back directly."
Even Southern babies know that "Gimme some sugar" is not a request for the white, granular sweet substance that sits in a pretty little bowl in the middle of the table.
All Southerners know exactly when "by and by" is. They might not use the term, but they know the concept well.
Only a Southerner knows instinctively at the best gesture of solace for a neighbor who's got trouble, is a plate of hot fried chicken and a big bowl of cold potato salad. If the neighbor's trouble is a real crisis, they also know to add a large banana puddin!
Only Southerners grow up knowing the difference between "right near" and "a right far piece. They also know that "just down the road" can be 1 mile or 20.
No true Southerner would ever assume that the car with the flashing turn signal is actually going to make a turn.
A Southerner knows that "fixin" can be used as a noun, a verb, or an adverb.
Only Southerners make friends while standing in lines.
Put 100 Southerners in a room and half of them will discover they're related, even if only by marriage.
In the South, 'y'all' is singular..."y'a ll y'all ! " is plural.
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Southerners know grits come from corn and how to eat them. Every Southerner knows tomatoes with eggs, bacon, grits, and coffee are perfectly wonderful; that red eye gravy is also a breakfast food; and that fried green tomatoes are not a breakfast food.
When you hear someone say, "Well, I caught myself lookin'," you know you are in the presence of a genuine Southerner!
Only true Southerners say "sweet tea" and "sweet milk." Sweet tea indicates the need for sugar and lots of it -- we do not like our tea unsweetened. "Sweet milk" means you don't want buttermilk.
And a true Southerner knows you don't scream obscenities at little old ladies who drive 30 MPH on the freeway. You just say, "Bless her heart " and go your own way.
And to those of you who are still having a hard time understanding all this Southern stuff, bless your hearts, I hear they are fixin' to have classes on Southernness as a second language!
And for those that are not from the South but have lived here for a long time, all y'all need a sign to hang on y'all's front porch that reads "I ain't from the South, but I got here as fast as I could."
Bless your hearts. Y'all have a blessed day, ya hear.
QUOTE (jml @ Mar 15 2006, 4:20 pm)
Wichita Falls was the kind of place where people from my kinda town escaped to when they grew up.
QUOTE (jml @ Mar 15 2006, 4:20 pm)
I lived in too many places to count one as my home town so I'm listing them all, except for the town above that shall never be named.
I will keep my mouth shut for 3 beers.
5 beers to keep the stories of your first days at school to myself.
I already know it we discussed it once...
Yet I have to say this JML chided me the first time and said something like quote " dont be ashamed show those high school colors, have some pride man!"...or something along those lines.
Yet I have to say this JML chided me the first time and said something like quote " dont be ashamed show those high school colors, have some pride man!"...or something along those lines.
Tillicoultry
a nice place but the web site makes it look very sad
a nice place but the web site makes it look very sad
Birthplace: Burlington, Iowa
High school: Kankakee, Illinois
Former motto: "An hour from Chicago -- and a world apart". That's not a good thing, folks.
High school: Kankakee, Illinois
Former motto: "An hour from Chicago -- and a world apart". That's not a good thing, folks.
Ahh, home sweet home
The joys of Clitheroe. Painted by Lowry dontcha know?
And for all your Clitheroe news needs, the website that loads about as fast as things change back home
(Yes, and the clit hero jokes have all been done before, thanks anyway)
The joys of Clitheroe. Painted by Lowry dontcha know?
And for all your Clitheroe news needs, the website that loads about as fast as things change back home
(Yes, and the clit hero jokes have all been done before, thanks anyway)
According to the 1990 census, Mendocino County had about 80,000 residents. I'm going to guess that the number hasn't risen since then...
"Away from the hustle and bustle of the big city but still close by. With a population of 6,000 residents and an area covering 36 square miles it's truly a hidden gem waiting to be discovered."
Corcoran, MN
Soon to be covered in beige colored housing developements...
Corcoran, MN
Soon to be covered in beige colored housing developements...
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