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jennthebenn 03.26.2007 05:52 PM

hagerstown, maryland has brought you

 



 


baseball legend willie mays also referred to it as "the most racist city" he'd
ever visited, in his autobiography.

Savage Clone 03.26.2007 05:56 PM

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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
oh it's a grid, a total grid w/ 4 quadrants:

NW NE
SW SE

with the capitol (congress, mind you, not the white house) smack in the middle


We have this. It makes perfect sense, as does Chicago's. What fucks DC nine ways from Sunday is those goddamned diagonals. Newbies to that city are advised to travel with a native navigator at first!

Phlegmscope 03.26.2007 05:58 PM

"Kuopio" is one of the few words that is typed entirely with the right hand on the QWERTY keyboard, but entirely with the left hand on the Dvorak keyboard layout."

Jeez! oh man!

Besides that, nothing notable occurs here. Boring little shithole of a town. I've lived here for a mere 7 months, so I'd never call it my hometown though... Especially as I lived in my previous town for 20 years.

Also, trivial curiosity, my town is a "friendship city" with Minneapolis. (heyo ´Clone!)

Savage Clone 03.26.2007 06:00 PM

Hey there, Friendscope!

sarramkrop 03.26.2007 06:04 PM

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Originally Posted by sarramkrop
I'm really reALLY REALLY FUCKED OFF WITH sTEPNEY gREEN, PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN IT, MY LANDLORD, GENERALLY PEOPLE WHO ARE STRESSING ME OUT A LOT.I have just noticed the capitalization in my post but i can't be arsed to change it back to what it was. In a way, i don't know what i'm doing in here but i like it. Anyway, i'm out of here.

If i really think about it, England sucks a whole lot . It's not the place it thinks it is. I mean, i have Marx and Engels on my side. Rubbish place with loiads of pretencions. Sorry. I'm looking forward fir the mis-s spelling bitchinesss. Go on, amuse me.

pantophobia 03.26.2007 06:18 PM

born in DC but honestly know very little much as i probably should, and exploded wagon wheel is sorta true, there are a few windy side streets then you have avenues that split right thru the city

the only thing really notable about Olney, Maryland where i have lived for the majority of my life is that Skip Groff lives here, he owns Yesterdy and Today Records (used to be the hang out in the early 80s DC/MD punk scene situated in Rockville, but is now a mail order only) and ran Limp Records that released both the first Slickee Boys LP, and the first ever released track by Bad Brains, not to mention recording and mixing a good portion of Minor Threat's catalog and compiling the groundbreaking :30 over DC compilation in '78 featuring among others: Slickee Boys, The Raisinets, and Half Japanese

Brett Robinson 03.26.2007 06:43 PM

Ecstatic Peace is about 2000 feet away from my house.

But more exciting than that is the fact that Wesley Willis performed about 500 feet away from my house in 2001. The next day my house burned down. That was a weird weekend.

samuel 03.26.2007 06:49 PM

I live on Kent Island, an island in the Chesapeake Bay of Maryland.
It is the third oldest permanent English settlement in the United States, after Jamestown, Virginia and Plymouth, Massachusetts.

Pookie 03.26.2007 06:53 PM

My town's famous residents:

Thomas Burberry.
Jane Austen.
Liz Hurley.
Tanita Tikarem (ahem).
Andrew Liles (Nurse With Wound).
Carl Barat (Libertines).
Thomas Warton (Poet Laureate 1785).
Trojan (Gladiators).
Falcon (Gladiators).
Ruth Ellis.

!@#$%! 03.26.2007 07:02 PM

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Originally Posted by sarramkrop
If i really think about it, England sucks a whole lot . It's not the place it thinks it is. I mean, i have Marx and Engels on my side. Rubbish place with loiads of pretencions. Sorry. I'm looking forward fir the mis-s spelling bitchinesss. Go on, amuse me.


you serious porky? but sometimes you're more english than the english. so much so that at times i forget you're italian.

Iain 03.26.2007 07:13 PM

This really shit Doctor Who spin-off series is set and largely filmed where I live. Cardiff, South Wales. Check this shit out:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/torchwood/

As a result, I occasionally spot z-list celebs Eve Myles and John Barrowman in a bar or outside theatres where they have been in a panto or something.

sarramkrop 03.26.2007 07:14 PM

I'm a little beyond that, even if it doesn't make sense.

floatingslowly 03.26.2007 07:20 PM

The Fastest Fucking Wind Speed On Record.

Cantankerous 03.26.2007 07:36 PM

no matter what city we were in i would take you out drinking.

where i live now (and thankfully no more in a few days), i would take you out drinking here:
http://www.citymuseum.org/home.asp

luxinterior 03.26.2007 07:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Cantankerous
no matter what city we were in i would take you out drinking.

where i live now (and thankfully no more in a few days), i would take you out drinking here:
http://www.citymuseum.org/home.asp


Goddamn do I love it there.

Cantankerous 03.26.2007 07:39 PM

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Originally Posted by luxinterior
Goddamn do I love it there.

alcohol, small tunnels, catwalks, and a ferris wheel: a winning combination

you know, i can't really think of anywhere i would take anyone in any city. i go out shopping a lot. a sizeable chunk of my time here on earth has been spent acquiring things.

girlgun 03.26.2007 07:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Cantankerous
no matter what city we were in i would take you out drinking.

where i live now (and thankfully no more in a few days), i would take you out drinking here:
http://www.citymuseum.org/home.asp



that looks fucking bad ass!

SpectralJulianIsNotDead 03.26.2007 07:57 PM

Harmony PA was settled by a celibate Christian sect from Germany in 1808.

youthoftomorrow 03.26.2007 08:20 PM

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Originally Posted by floatingslowly
The Fastest Fucking Wind Speed On Record.


OKC?

something 03.26.2007 08:20 PM

there is nothing remotely interesting about where i live its trully a purgatory on earth but growing up around boston and living in nyc on the other hand was amazing phoenix is a wanna be ghost town


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