What is your town or city famous for?

Desk Jockey

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Rico Suave
You forgot the Banana Slugs (Pulp Fiction).

Topeka
The World Famous Chavez Bruther's
The Capital City of Kansas
Brown vs Board of Education Historic Site
Heartland Park Topeka Race Track :icon_cool:
Washburn University Ichabod's (don't ask, I don't know what one is)




and ummm

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High Crime

Fred Phelps

Topeka, the end of progress

Lawrence
Home to the Kansas Jayhawks!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Birthplace to modern basketball!!!!!!!!!!

Football Gale Sayers, Bobby Douglas, John Riggins
Basketball Wilt Chamberlin, JoJo White, Darnall Valentine, Danny Manning, Paul Pierce, Kirk Hinrich, Nick Collison, Mario Chalmers, Morris Twins, Thomas Robinson
 
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dealtimeman

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Texas rangers

dallas cowboys

six flags over Texas

hurricane harbor

thats just Arlington

In Dallas we have

dallas stars

dallas mamavericks

some soccer team that no one goes to watch ( don't know there name of team)

cobbs carpet susupply

the tv series Dallas

in Fort Worth we have the Wild West cowtown

we have Texas motor speedway

LCS Cleaning Concepts

the water gardens

but most of all we have walker Texas ranger yes we have CHUCK NORRIS!
 
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frresh1

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Doug
Cops Beating Homeless men to Death. Fullerton PD look out here comes the judge!
 

Charlie Lyman

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Blue Turf
Simplot Potatoes
A place for retired law enforcement to retire
 

J Scott W

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Jeffrey Scott Warrington
The Great Salt Lake

Mormon Tabernacle Choir

Green Jell-o (with carrots or pineapple)
 

Jim Martin

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illegal immigrants...........

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mirf

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Where the mud major league baseball pictures use. Across the river from Philadelphia.
 

Hoody

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Figure Skater Scott Hamilton is from here. Our town provided a lot of secret homes for the underground railroad during the civil war. Battle of Ft Meigs is just 5 minutes up the road.
 
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Lee Stockwell
Murray Kentucky: Birthplace of Radio (1st public demonstration 1892 by NB Stubblefield)

Home of Murray State University, who's Basketball team had the nation's BEST win record this year.

Rated #1 place to retire by Rand-McNally.
 

The Great Oz

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TheSpace Needle. The largest collection of pissy men in Spandex (Cascade bike club). A soccer team that draws fans. Liberals. Slugs, Moss.


... and, Boeing, Microsoft, amazon.com, Starbucks, Nordstrom, Costco,PACCAR (Kenworth and Peterbuilt), Getty Images, World Vision, Weyerhauser, UPS, United Airlines, Cinnabon, Muzak, REI, Eddie Bauer and AT&T Mobility startedhere.

More recently Coinstar/Redbox Video, Bungie and Valve (the makers of Halo and Left4Dead),onlinecompanies Drugstore.com, Expedia, RealNetworks, Rhapsody, Blue Nile, Zillow...
 
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Connor

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The Masters Golf Tournament.
Amy Grant, Singer is from here.
Hulk Hogan was born here and I heard that Lawrence Fishburne was from here, too.

James Brown called Augusta his home town, but he was actually from a small town in South Carolina.
 
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Al
Summerville, SC

The Coach that has won the most football games EVER, 601.
Sweet Tea was started here.
The one of nations longest running mayor.
The world famous Al Bradham
 

Shane Deubell

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Snow, snow and more snow.Twitter also named us the rudest city on the internet. I think the two are related ...
 

Newman

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The white man stole the land for St. Charles from the Pottawatomi Tribe after the Blackhawk Indian massacre of 1832.

Brian Wilson, singer from the Beach Boys lives here
 
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Olympia beer, oysters, water, Capitol, and people that apparently can't drive when they are around me.
 

Vivers

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Real housewives of Orange County
Laguna Beach
Disneyland
Terrible traffic
Extremely expensive
Heavily crowded
 

knoxclean

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Not much in the tiny town I was born in but the next one over (Stockbridge Ma) is where Norman Rockwell lived and his museum is there and also Daniel Chester French ( he sculpted the Lincoln memorial)
 

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Albuquerque is known for it's great fighters.

Hoping Carlos Condit takes out GSP in the next UFC.

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Go Carlos!!!
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Albuquerque is also know for The Worlds Greatest MMA Training Center

Jackson's-Winklejohn's Mixed Martial Arts Center http://www.jacksons.tv/index.php

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joeynbgky

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From columbus ohio.. now in bowling green ky. They make the corvettes here big deal. Lol boring here

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