Pasties
Ice fishing
No it’s not Canada
this one will give it away…Da Yoopers
So am I trying to make it easy, or am I trying to make it difficult?
I mean, there’s A cultural reference for where I live that would make it super-easy.
Let’s try a few things that people might not instantly recognize…
The Eyeball sculpture
US Ebola outbreak
Home of first drive-in restaurant
A certain eponymous TV show
- 201 Poplar
- Prince Mongo
- The Rendezvous
- Cotton Carnival
- Shelby Farms
Answer Memphis TN
- A huge flood
- Another flood
- Yet a third flood
- Paul Newman hockey movie
- Galloping Gertie (replaced by “Sturdy Gertie”)
- Coffee Pot Restaurant (not its current name)
- Aroma
- Ted Bundy
- Muhammad and Malvo
- Hot dogs
- Deep Dish Pizza
- Big shoulders
- Second City
- Third Coast
- Windy City
- City by the lake
Yay!!!
5) Parking Space Chairs
Arrr, the code!
Danny Marino once asked if he could park in my spot one blustery winters day. I lived behind his mom and dads house. Nice fellow.
No, it’s not pronounced “mu-KIL-tee-oh” and trust me, there’s nothing speedy about it.
KMA-367 license plate frames
- Ben’s Chili Bowl
- Go-go music
- Exorcist steps
For the closest major city to where I live:
- It’s about 2 hours from where you’d rather be.
- That’s hella tight.
- Greta Gerwig
- Jim Denny’s diner
- Politics
The actual suburb I’m in:
- Johnny Cash
- The dam/lake
- Johnny Cash
Spiedies
A caveman-themed golf tournament
The Zip to Zap
Them damn Talus Balls
Just Interstate references could be neat.
“What do Adlai Stevenson, Bishop Louis Henry Ford, Jane Adams, Frank Borman and Dan Ryan have in common?”
“Do you know the way…?”
“I killed a man in Reno, just to watch him die.”
Different references to different places.
They’re all from some weird place(s) that name their highways? 
I know spiedies since I moved to the southern tier.
The arc of my childhood:
From The Campanile to Tule fog.