Had this exact same thing happen to me, only it was “La Bamba’s”. On the other hand, I was REALLY tickled when I found the one in Bloomington, IL.
Damn good burritos.
I used to know a guy who was an international relations major specializing in some of this stuff, had an entire grad level class on nuclear weapons. I’ll have to see if there’s a known actual list. Gut feeling is that everyone who was a target at all would be in the top four anyway (“First strike” against missile fields/bomber bases/etc, secondary (non-nuclear) military targets, primary civilian targets, secondary civilian targets)–why would there be more than four waves of an ICBM attack?
I once got some email glurge listing things that were supposedly unique to the Chicago area, including the “jeetjet” contraction, the junk drawer in the kitchen, and the Empire Carpet commercials that I still see to this day in Los Angeles.
The coast, eh? I was led to believe that the rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain. (Thanks for tuning in to this week’s installment of Randy’s Groaners!)
Schoolyard scuttlebutt in my hometown was that we were number 22. Nobody seemed to know which twenty-one cities were above us, but us kids were sure we were number 22!
I lived in a small community (40 houses on a long street) that had a special Halloween tradition. Every house took a small white paper sandwich bag, and put about 2 inches of sand in the bottom. Then, put a candle in the middle. The bags were place about 2 feet apart along the curb. Each house had about 40 bags with candles.
The display got so popular that they needed a cop to direct traffic from visitors wanting to see the display. This 1968- ?? maybe 1980. I’m not sure when they stopped.
I’ve always assumed this was a unique idea to our tiny community. It could only work if every house on the street did it. Otherwise, the effect would be spoiled.
Now that I’m older, I realize somebody must have thought of the same thing. But, I’ve never known for sure.
I have first hand experience that they do in fact say that in those two places. I always felt like looking up at the blazing blue sky and making some sarcastic comment, but politeness held me back.
What’s weird is that a couple of the things stated here are oddly semi-accurate in the Knoxville area. (Seriously, hear me out).
For example, we live in one of two temperate rainforests in North America. And believe me, we get a LOT of rain. It can go months without more than a glimmer of sunlight. While for some reason, people do say the “Wait five minutes” line, here it’s more because people have moved in from damn near everywhere in the country rather than the weather really being that changeable. Our seasons are simply Rainy, Muggy, Chilly, and Bitterly Frozen.
Very nearby is Oak Ridge, one of the early nuclear project sites and still a major nuclear center in the country. It was indeed a high priority for any possible Russian nuclear attack. Now, I don’t know if it was on their official Top Five hitlist, assuming they even had such a silly thing.
For a while UT wanted to be in the top partying schools, but we got pwned so hard by Lousisiana that we immediately stopped “competing” and never went back. Now we party for fun!
You obviously haven’t seen the suburban Christmas-light contests that take place around Toronto. I think they have to issue special notices to air crews so that 747s don’t get guided into landing in Oakville.
I always thought Mellow Mushroom was a local pizza place. The decor looks kind of hand-made to me, which it may be- according to their websites all the Mellow Mushrooms have a “different vibe”, so maybe they get stuff made differently for each one? I felt kind of stupid when I saw another one in a different state.
Watching cows fart was the other entertainment option.