Where are you from and what is your country or state known for...

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I'm so far in-land they never get here. Greensboro.....or Greensboring however you want to look at it. I forgot to mention the old ORD or Over Seas Replenishment Depot......about 144,000 men came thru my home town on their way to war. WW2 , Charlton Heston was married in Greensboro, right before he was shipped over seas for war. Married by the Magistrate. I grew up in the ORD/Bessemer section of Greensboro.a reply to: Sillyolme

a reply to: Skid Mark

Ah ha, I knew you would get it lol

a reply to: Quantum12
Sometimes even the most innocent things can be taken as dirty. That's what I find funniest.

a reply to: Skid Mark

Lol, I know. Your the only one who got it. Oh we have sick minds.
You writing is waiting on my co workers desk. She will be back Monday.

a reply to: Quantum12
Thanks! I'm still working on that. It'll most likely be done well before the deadline lol.

a reply to: Quantum12

Yorkshire :

Yorkshire pudding
Pomfret/Pontefract Cakes
Parkin.....Oh yeah....
Wensleydale Cheese...perfect for eating with fruit cake.
God's County.
Yorkshire Terrier
Location where the only black ruler of Britain died !
Timothy Taylor's Pale Ale....well I think it's worth mentioning.
Harold Wilson (A UK PM for our US cousins with limited knowledge of non US history )
The M62 leaving Lancashire....sorry but I had to

a reply to: yorkshirelad

LOL I love it!

You know that grandpa was from your hometown.

He was afraid to drive on the street
One day grandpa forgot to check his train map and was skwished

a reply to: Misterlondon

Your from Arthur Conan Doyols imagination?

I'm from Oklahoma and we are probably best known as formerly being "Indian Territory" before becoming a state, the bombing of the Murrah Building and our tornadoes.

Other than that, we have oilfields, ranches, rodeos, a ton of churches (this is the Bible Belt, after all), farms, a good portion of Route 66 and some of the friendliest residents you will ever meet.

Oh, and okra. We freaking loooove our okra around here. Okrahoma...lol. My personal favorites are fried okra and pickled okra.

a reply to: DustbowlDebutante

Mmmmm, that sounds good!

a reply to: openyourmind1262

Greensboro. Coming down 95 I know I still have hours until I hit myrtle beach. And I'm looking for 40 south.

a reply to: yorkshirelad

And that accent!

a reply to: Sillyolme

LOL

a reply to: DustbowlDebutante

Well ya know what I say about that?
O K

L A H A O M A

Oklahoma okay.... Sorry. Old Rogers and Hammerstein fan.


Shuffles away humming Surry with the fringe on top.

Originally, I'm from Nebraska...
Known for being a place no one is from.
Williams Jennings Bryan, birthplace of Dick Cheney and Gerald Ford,
Produces the largest share of the world's soybeans. University of Nebraska football mascot stuff, either a hick with a huge cowboy hat and a cob of corn in his back pocket or an inflatable or insufferable "lil red" with a sideways cap that Tom green pretended to have relations with (yeah, I'm old).

Willa Cather, John Sterling Morton (of Morton salt fame and Arbor Day, if you've ever heard of it).
Strategic Air Command. That old Cold War relic.
The Penis Of The Plains, the capital building...a very phallic building visible for miles over the flat prairie.

The only unicameral. Only one house of government that passes legislation on to the governor. One of the only awesome parts.

The Henry-Dorley Zoo...one of the best worldwide. Seriously. It is.


Edit: and sorry, Larry the Cable Guy.

originally posted by: the owlbear
Originally, I'm from Nebraska...
Known for being a place no one is from.

I like Omaha, I always get good chow when I visit there.

a reply to: Quantum12

Warwickshire.

A few names you may know. Then again maybe not.

Black Sabbath
Judas Priest
Napalm Death

Neville Chamberlin
J R R Tolkien

The Moody Blues
ELO
Traffic

And some chap named William Shakespeare.

The Worlds first factory.

And of course The Cotswolds as seen below.

originally posted by: Quantum12
a reply to: yorkshirelad

LOL I love it!

You know that grandpa was from your hometown.

He was afraid to drive on the street
One day grandpa forgot to check his train map and was skwished

Was he a Ripley...cos I am...believe it or not.

My home town is actually Mirfield where Patrick Stewart is from (Captain Jean Luc Picard). In fact my dad and Patrick Stewarts brother (Trevor) were school buddies born in the same street lived in the same street.

Forgot to add and here I will annoy people from Nottingham but they are soooo wrong :

Robin Hood's grave!...look it up, it's in Kirklees woods in Mirfield.
Kirklees Priory, where Robin Hood died.
Gadzillions of wells, fields, towns etc all named after various Robin Hood people and places. Oh we even have a seaside town called Robin Hood's Bay.
The people of Nottingham fail to appreciate that back in Robin Hood's days Sherwood Forest was enormous and spread right up into Yorkshire......why camp near Nottingham where the sheriff was anyway, a bit dumb.

originally posted by: AugustusMasonicus

originally posted by: the owlbear
Originally, I'm from Nebraska...
Known for being a place no one is from.

I like Omaha, I always get good chow when I visit there.

How do you get a star when when I pour my guts out about the little known facts of the weird looking snowplow state?

Omaha has some good eats. The Jaipur in Omaha and the Oven in Lincoln have had some of the best Northern Indian cuisine I have ever had. Sorry, I don't want to take the train to New York just to get mugged.

Please tell me you went to the zoo. That thing is phenomenal. For a zoo.

a reply to: yorkshirelad

For anyone doubting the Robin Hood claim, here's a google reference !!!:

www.google.co.uk...@53.6897208,-1.7406178,546m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x48796032284458e5:0x61f47f92945f0962 ?hl=en

That didn't copy and paste well, hang on...patience....


Oky doky Search for the following in Google maps:

Robin Hood's Grave, Wakefield Road, Mirfield , West Yorkshire WF14 0BU

You even get a picture of the grave!