Whats your towns claim to fame?

[Barry the Sprout]

Originally posted by Staralfur: I used to live in small town called Fleet in Hampshire. People I meet usually know where it is, because there is a motorway service station there. It's not the greatest reason to be famouse, but at least it is on a few maps now.

Wow, you are from Fleet? I am from Farnham, so just over the county border from you. I used to live about 200 yds from the little sign saying "You are now entering Hampshire", on the Basingstoke Road.

Anyway, Farnham is famous for a lot of extremely insignificant stuff really. King Charles stayed there the night before he had his head cut off, and Brian May lives in the nearby area somewhere.

As for where I live now... I think Donut said it all. But with reference to the immediate area I recently found out that the Communist Manifesto was written nearby, and this particular road is the home of the famous Amnesty International Headquarters , the even more famous Sadlers Wells Theatre, and also the less famous (but no less deserving) Harputs Charcoal Grill Kebab Shop.

[andrewas]

Originally posted by Evil Al: The names Irish and Garbage Boy ring a very loud bell. Well more like the sound of a rocket launcher then seeing my own guts on the screen and the laughter of good ol' Doc. Jones. But any how if Garbage Boy's real name is Stuart then i know who you mean. You might know me if you knew Sarah (blonde with big... eyes) she seemed to know a lot of people in the senior years mainly cause she had a crush on most of them.

Garbage boy = Martin , psycho with a quad rocket but not really talented. He was attached to a sarah in second year while he was in fifth, or so the rumour goes.

Stuart? Kragg the Grimm. Maybe. Anyway hes got black hair and is abnormaly tall for his age. Penchant for axe-fight in quake. Dont know if he like them in R/L as well, woudnt put it past him.

I didnt pay much attention to Sarah myself (anyone who had a crush on martin is seriously suspect). Still cant quite place you though. I used to play from the YSA computers instaid of YSB (we had an understanding with hutchison). I was the fat guy with the blonde hair. *and if you come out with my old nickname, ill hunt you down and do nasty things to you. Im not kidding*

[johnny]

Originally posted by Donut: mmm! London. I can't think of anything special really.

but i can: west ham united

[Epona]

The area I live in now is famous for high crime-rates (especially car crime, there are currently 3 burned out cars within sight of my apartment) and a connection to the Krays who owned a cafe just up the road. Loads of the old folk here remember the Krays with starry-eyed nostaligia ("aaaah, but you see there was no crime here when the Krays were around"), and the funeral processions passed down the main road lined with crowds of adoring fans. And I know Mad Frankie Fraser's niece, she lives near me.

The NF got 75% of the vote here in the GLC elections a couple of decades back (they wouldn't now).

Mmmmm... what else... The video for The Verve's 'Bitter Sweet Symphony' was filmed in my street (that's the dirge where he's walking down a long road pushing people out of the way).

Jarvis Cocker from the 90's britpop band Pulp lives round the corner and drinks in my local - and yes he does dress like that when he's in the pub.

Artists Damian Hirst (sheep in formaldehyde) Rachel Whiteread (concrete sculptures of the inside of houses) Tracy Emins (unmade bed) and Tim Noble & Sue Webster (sculptures made from piles of rubbish) are or were based here.

They buried 15th century plague victims here when it was all fields - now under a road called 'Pitfield Street' which refers to the plague pits.

Shakespeare's first Theatre was based here, in Curtain Road - The Globe. It wasn't called the Globe at that time though, and was later moved south of the river due to city laws concerning 'entertainments' (ie. Theatres, Prostitutes and Bear Pits). He also wrote a lot of his plays in a tavern nearby.

Dr James Parkinson (Parkinson's disease named after him) lived here

Edmund Halley (discoverer of Halley's Comet) was born here

One of the main Roman Roads (Ermine Street) is now the A10 - Shoreditch High Street/Kingsland Road - runs right past my apartment

The Eagle pub (from the rhyme 'Pop goes the Weasel') is just around the corner

The Gainsborough Studios where Hitchcock's films were made was here - now knocked down and being turned into luxury apartments for yuppies

[Donut]

Originally posted by johnny: quote: Originally posted by Donut: mmm! London. I can't think of anything special really.

but i can: west ham united[/QUOTE]A small tip here johnny. When you make a joke put a little smiley after it so that people know you are not serious.

[Redblueflare]

Originally posted by /)eathKiller: quote: Originally posted by Sir Goulum: Houses AlQueda and Taliban detainees? wow. Don't let them into a plane.

O_o you're telling me that there are actually people in the world who don't know about GTMO and our very own Camp X-Ray @_@...

I'm sure RBF could tell ya alot more [img]tongue.gif[/img] he's closer to the place than me hehe...[/QB][/QUOTE]Oh yeah thanks for reminding me pal. You know just as much about that place as I do. Well actually I might know a little bit more, since my dad is with security and all.

[johnny]

Originally posted by Donut: quote: Originally posted by johnny: quote: Originally posted by Donut: mmm! London. I can't think of anything special really.

but i can: west ham united[/QUOTE]A small tip here johnny. When you make a joke put a little smiley after it so that people know you are not serious. [/QUOTE]no joke, donut. i am a west ham supporter since i saw them on t.v for the first time. and in those days trevor brooking played for the hammers, so go figure

[Luigi17]

My town is complete crap.

The only claim to its fame might be a peanut butter factory and some highway vehicle factory that has been run down for over 40 years. That and the fact that everyone in town I swear is related to eachother one way or another. Boy am I glad I live 7 miles outside town!

[Sigmar]

Gibraltar-

1)John Lennon and Yoko Ono got married here.
2)The Gibraltar woman skull was found here a year before the Neanderthal man (it is also over 500 years older).
3)Part of a James Bond film was made here.
4)President Eisenhoare thought of operation torch while he was here. He decided to make Gibraltar his temporary base of operations.
5)Depression cannons (cannons that can fire while facing down).
6)The moorish castle (one of the remaining moorish castles in Europe.
7)A roman aquaduct that could still functon.
8)Our unique to the world apes
9)A special type of flower called the Candytuff that can only be found in India and other parts of Asia aside from here.
10)Finally the Rock of Gibraltar.

[Gammit]

Troy, MI (20 minutes North of Detroit)-

Once a farming community and pit stop for those heading north from Detroit. Now, home of a few company capitols: Kelly Services, K-Mart, Delphi automotive systems, BASF, Standard Federal Bank, etc., helps make our county the 2nd richest in the country (read it somewhere), and home of I-75's "Exit 69" (which takes you onto "Big Beaver" road), Somerset Mall (and as a result) gobs of snooty people who's offspring are equally rich, annoying, arrogant, and ignorant as their parents.