I rarely pass up an opportunity to say how wonderful my hometown is (yes, I know it has issues, but let me be proud of something). St. Louis is said to have the largest Bosnian population of any city outside Bosnia – something like 40,000 at last count. I just think that’s cool.
My current location, Cincinnati, says that it has the biggest Oktoberfest in North America. I’ve gone the past few years – it is pretty big, and a lot of fun.
At least you’re not in Malaysia, when they chop it off for even less reasons.
Kitchener, Ontario makes the same Oktoberfest claim. (Kitchener’s right, but you guys tend to forget Canada is part of North America too.)
matt_mcl forgot to add to his ‘best worlds fair’ statement, the fact that Montreal had the worst Summer Olympics ever just nine years later.
The city of Guelph, Ontario is famous for… hmm… I dunno. We had that John McCrae fellow, Neve Campbell and a big church on a hill. Rockwood, just a few miles down the road, has the world’s largest pothole and is the turnip capital of the world.
Dunedin, New Zealand has the world’s steepest street, Baldwin Street, at a rise of 1 meter for every 2.86 meters travelled. (The city was built according to a plan based on Edinburgh, Scotland, and was implemented regardless of the actual topography of the land.)
And my current home, Calgary, Alberta, is famous for the biggest outdoor party on earth. It’s also famous for urban sprawl, high cost of living, low vacancies and ridiculous housing prices!
Canada? Where is that again?
So, I was repeating the propaganda without bothering to verify it. C’mon, anyone could do that. OK, so Cincinnati has the biggest Oktoberfest in the US. Still pretty cool.
My apologies to my Canadian friends…
I accept your humble apology on behalf of my country, noble sir.
When was that? I know they hanged a man in Washington State about 15 years ago.
Yowch!
I forgot to mention Pancake Day, an annual event featuring the Pancatron, the special system invented just for this. People wait all year for it. My daughter’s planning to come home from college.
Yokohama, where I live, is famous for being the port which Japan was forced to open to the West when Admiral Perry came over. It grew from a small 600 person fishing village in 1858 to the second largest city in Japan.
Billy Bailey in 1996. He had the option of lethal injection but chose to be hanged. :eek: Freakin’ weirdo.
Here in Austin, we’ve got the world’s largest urban bat population
Arco Idaho First city in the world to be lit by nuclear power. Well if you can count 4000 people a city.
I live in the Castro.
Mountain View is home of / being consumed by Google, Inc.
Hmm, well they used to make the Morris Minor here. Was a Royalist stronghold in the English Civil War (the monarchy moved here). And there’s our beloved Inspector Morse. And probably the world record in per-capita sweatervests.
And to steal a line from a denizen of a town I formerly lived in (Terminus Est), there’s some university here…
Hometown of Evanston, IL is the proud home of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, and John & Joan Cusack.
Thanks for the info. The guy I mentioned in Washington State 15 years ago also chose to be hanged. All of his victims (all children, little boys) had died of strangulation, so he wanted the same. (Okay, it was not strangulation he died of per se, it was a broken neck, but you get the idea. I think he DID hang at least some of his victims with a sheet from a doorknob, something like that.) Plus he thought it would be a good, graphic anti-death-penalty statement for the witnesses. But you know what? The witnesses all said it was quick and rather non-gruesome. One guy said he had been prepared to see the worst but that it really seemed like a quick and effective method.
I stayed in that hotel right next to the bat bridge at the beginning of bat season. I freakin’ LOVE the Austin bats!
and you forgot to mention Eeyore’s birthday party.
Hmmm, let’s see… Thinking of the Medway Towns as a single entity:
HMS Victory built here
Horatio Nelson, Francis Drake and Will Adams all first went to sea from here.
Home of the Royal School of Military Engineering.
Charles Dickens lived here.
Home of England’s largest second-hand bookshop (Baggins Book Bazaar).
Birthplace of Sir David Frost.
Western PA is the Zombie Capital of the World and Monroeville PA currently holds the official record for the largest Zombie Walk – a record they hope to break on October 28th in Monroeville Mall. Now if that isn’t something to be proud of, I can’t imagine what would be.
They also have some sports teams and universities, but so does everyone else.
Let’s see here…We are “America’s Hometown”, the Pilgrim’s landed here (if we ignore all the time they spent vacationing on the Cape before they got here), the second permanent English settlement in the modern United States, once held the world’s largest ropemaking company, at one point, the longest ropewalk in the world was found on the Cordage Company’s site on the North Plymouth waterfront, the largest land area of any municipality in Massachusetts (not that that is saying much), the oldest continually operating museum in the United States, and the tallest free-standing solid granite monument in the United States.