Where are you from?

[Pinky but Perky]

[s]Ethan With wrote on 00:01, 14th Mar 2005:
Where do you consider to be your home town?


Aberdeen...
and the sheep jokes begin...

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the knack is finding a grape that actually looks edible....damn you Tesco!

[LonelyPilgrim]

I come from Indiana.

This is the point where my fellow Americans' scream and disavow my existence.

Brits will just make comments about some old TV Show, Eerie Indiana or some such.

Everyone else will just have no clue.

But, I hail from a proud land of corn, intolerance, corn, bigotry, corn, Bible-thumping, corn, bad education, corn, bad roads, corn, good hospitality, corn, pickup trucks, corn, good ol' boys with shotguns, corn... and uh... more corn.

[hr]I sing of arms, and the man...

[Pinky but Perky]

Brits will just make comments about some old TV Show, Eerie Indiana or some such.

i loved that show! i wish they would put it back on again!


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the knack is finding a grape that actually looks edible....damn you Tesco!

[mdave]

I am from the great state of Washington. If you meet me on the street and I mention this, do NOT ever, ever, everevereverever ask me what it's like to live so near the White House, the Capitol, etc. The city to which you are referring, Washington staters invariably refer to as 'D.C.'

I generally tell people that I'm from Seattle, since I did my first degree at the University of Washington (No. 1 seed in the college basketball tourney, baby!) Sleepless in Seattle? When I was there, it was more like Legless in Seattle. Anyway, it's also easier than explaining that my real hometown is Richland, Washington, 220 miles east of Seattle, where I went to high school and where my parents and sister still live. Perhaps our only claim to fame (or perhaps to infamy) is that the federal government built the town in 1943 to house workers for the Manhattan Project and we're now the home of the nation's largest nuclear waste dumping site. As you might expect, folk in my hometown are somewhat...unique. But we do have more Ph.Ds per capita than any other town in the USA.

[s]liliputian wrote on 02:19, 14th Mar 2005:

I came to realise that after watching The Simpsons episode when Marge tells the kids they should find something to be proud of in Springfield

Rumor has it that when Matt Groening created Springfield, he modeled it on my hometown.

I've come to discover a greater pride of Scouseland - home of Liverpool FC, the Beatles and my dad - as a result.

I think I love you! Those are two of my favorite things! (And your dad must be good craic too even though I never met him.)

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"It is history which teaches us to hope" --R. Edward Lee

[pea]

Livingston, which is not far outside Edinburgh. But I was born in Glasgow, and even though I only lived there for 3 years and don't remember living there, I still feel really strongly for it.

[flarewearer]

[s]pea wrote on 08:50, 14th Mar 2005:
I still feel really strongly for it.


I feel strongly for Glasgow, but not in a good way. And before you accuse me of Edinburgh snobbery, half the family comes from there, but fortunately my clued up grandmother made the escape to Edinburgh

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[s]Have you ever wondered how you get triangles from a cow?
You need butter, milk and cheese, and an equilateral chainsaw.[/s]

[harmless loony]

I'm from Warrington too - but lilputian already knew that. I'm suprised however that she forgot something else we're always reminded about when someone mentions Warrington - it's the home of the giant Ikea *groans* Oh and not forgetting it's where the secret policeman documentary which uncovered the racist policemen was filmed (at centrex in Bruche)....*struggles to think of something good*.....Margaret Dixon and the hospital and the tory party....*gives up*

Our rugby team aint bad...well not too bad...okay they have their bad days....well alright then they're shit. But hey the Coach is a lovely geezer.

There's quite a few of us Warringtonians in St Andrews, whether they want to admit that is another matter altogether.

Despite being a fan of Liverpool FC, I strangely find myself closer to Manchester then Liverpool - although that might have something to do with the fact that I apparantly live on the Manchester side of Warrington and Wilmslow Road in Rusholme just rocks!!

Chester also rocks but that's cos I was born there.

So the answer to where I'm from....Warrington, near Manchester...lol

[Zombie Sheep]

If you scroll back up to Cain's map, half way along his path, take a right o Letham (and that's the one in Angus, not Perth or Fife).

[hr]Superman Beats Gally, Cockburn and Archer!

[Stuart]

Leven. Until this year I seemed to be incapable of being educated outside Fife.

[David Bean]

Well, I call St Andrews my adopted hometown, but I was born and brought up in Rosemount, Blairgowrie.

[hr]"For what shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul?- Matthew 16:26

[flarewearer]

In St Andrews;

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http://www.getmapping.com if you want one too

[hr][s]Have you ever wondered how you get triangles from a cow?
You need butter, milk and cheese, and an equilateral chainsaw.[/s]

[niall]

[s]Tyler Fincher wrote on 00:14, 14th Mar 2005:
Hamilton.

Long live the Palace!



i'm from Motherwell

[exnihilo]

So be nice to me.

[legohead]

I'm a bit confused about mine- I lived on the isle of Skye for 8 years (tho I was born in Paisley-woo!) and then Edinburgh for about 6 years till coming here.

I dislike Edinburgh- the people there tend to be less open, friendly and accepting as you would expect from a big city.

yeh, there are some missing years of my childhood...i think they were in glasgow and edinburgh, but I was too young to remember

[Koala Boy]

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You see the very bottom right hand corner of that black smudge that is Aberdeen? That's Cove Bay, an old fishing village which has been surbarbanized, where I have lived since I came home from Aberdeen Royal Infirmary.

Aberdeen is the oil capital of Europe, has the largest granite building in Europe (Marischal College), and was quarantined in the 70s when there was a large scale typhoid epidemic, which was carried there in a can of Argentinian corned beef.


[hr]Stick it up your jumper
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[smeagol]

I'm from Ramsbottom in Bury, Lancashire. It's a very strange place indeed. Bury is as 'chav' as they come but Ramsbottom is a little bit different as I'm almost completely sure that there are some wife-swapping practices going on there. The men in Ramsbottom wear tweed and smoke pipes, and drink mulled wine throughout the year. This might not seem that weird but if you consider that Ramsbottom is in the middle of an industrial bleak Northern town, still possibly stuck in the 1890s, it seems weird to me. I love Bury - there's nowhere like it. If I could give you any advice, it would be to avoid Bury if at all possible.

[Rrrr]

Glasgow, born in paisley, though as much Edinburgh through my dads family, a bit of texas after 3 years there. generally scotland.

[hr]Splat!

[sejanus]

Portree on Skye until arriving in St Andrews amazed that there were such shops as Woolworths...

[the reason for the word w]

[s]harmless loony wrote on 08:59, 14th Mar 2005:
*struggles to think of something good*.....Margaret Dixon and the hospital and the tory party....*gives up*

I know something good about Warrington! It's where Loony comes from!
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Above all shadows rides the Sun
and Stars forever dwell:
I will not say the Day is done,
nor bid the stars farewell!

[Clonion]

Clones, Co. Monaghan. (Pronounced Clo-ness) Born in the bright lights and city metropolis of Enniskillen.

[hr]"If I want to quantify anything, I measure it against Clones. There is nothing you will ever encounter in life you haven't seen in some form in Clones"
Neil Jordan