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So what things is your city famous for?

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Originally posted by: jonks
Originally posted by: guyver01
Originally posted by: Linflas
The large city close to me is famous for copious amounts of bullshit and hot air produced by 535 bloviating leeches and for figuring out ways to screw with everyone else in the country.
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you live near Washington DC?
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why not 545?
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Because I figured I'd have to explain it then.
 
Originally posted by: SP33Demon
Only cheesesteaks, 2008 World Series Champions, and no wide receivers.
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What about the 9th Street Italian Market, Independence Hall, the Liberty Bell, and best of all Ben Franklin?
 
BTW, since none of the other grammar nazi's have mentioned it yet...

Topic Title: So what things is your city famous for?
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things is a plural word...so it SHOULD read:
"So what things ARE your city famous for?"

OR, "What THING is your city famous for."

I suppose the OP's title MIGHT be acceptable somewhere down south...but not in the English speaking part of the country. 😛
 
According to WikiAnswers:

the Pacific Ocean, great Asian cuisine (sushi, robata, izakaya), falafel and shawarma, great seafood, excellent philharmonic orchestra, temperate weather, rain, Stanley Park and the Seawall, Wreck Beach (nude), great nightlife, heavy traffic, foreign language students on temporary visas, Granville Island Market, Robson Street, urbanism, yoga,
Host of the 2010 WINTER OLYMPICS!!! (which a lot of Vancouverites oppose)
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Not very exciting.

KT
 
Originally posted by: ChAoTiCpInOy
Sacramento....Trees
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The only thing Sacramento is famous for is being the capital of California that always screws up elementary students because they assume it should be San Francisco or LA.
 
Originally posted by: AstroManLuca
Originally posted by: ChAoTiCpInOy
Sacramento....Trees
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The only thing Sacramento is famous for is being the capital of California that always screws up elementary students because they assume it should be San Francisco or LA.
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those poor retarded school kids... NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND!!!!
 
Originally posted by: AstroManLuca
Originally posted by: ChAoTiCpInOy
Sacramento....Trees
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The only thing Sacramento is famous for is being the capital of California that always screws up elementary students because they assume it should be San Francisco or LA.
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I just though Sactown was only known for being called Cowtown and never being able to make it that far in the NBA playoffs?
 
Being a mile above sea level
Housing football players that act like man-children who whine a lot and ask to be traded when a new coach shows up
 
Originally posted by: BoomerD
BTW, since none of the other grammar nazi's have mentioned it yet...

Topic Title: So what things is your city famous for?
Click to expand...

things is a plural word...so it SHOULD read:
"So what things ARE your city famous for?"

OR, "What THING is your city famous for."

I suppose the OP's title MIGHT be acceptable somewhere down south...but not in the English speaking part of the country. 😛
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if you were a true grammar nazi you'd never approve ending a sentence with a preposition
 
Originally posted by: BoomerD
BTW, since none of the other grammar nazi's have mentioned it yet...

Topic Title: So what things is your city famous for?
Click to expand...

things is a plural word...so it SHOULD read:
"So what things ARE your city famous for?"

OR, "What THING is your city famous for."

I suppose the OP's title MIGHT be acceptable somewhere down south...but not in the English speaking part of the country. 😛
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🙁
 
ADM price-fixing case
In early November, 1992, the high-ranking Archer Daniels Midland Co. (ADM) executive Mark Whitacre confessed to a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent that ADM executives, including Whitacre himself, had routinely met with competitors to fix the price of lysine, a food additive.

The lysine conspirators, including ADM, ultimately settled federal charges for more than $100 million. ADM also paid hundreds of millions of dollars [$400 million alone on the high fructose corn syrup Class Action case] to plaintiffs/customers that it stole from during the price-fixing schemes.[12][13][14][15] Furthermore, several Asian and European lysine and citric acid producers, that conspired to fix prices with ADM, paid criminal fines in the tens of millions of dollars to the U.S. government.[16] Several executives, including the Vice Chairman of ADM, did federal prison time.

The investigation and prosecution of ADM and some of its executives has been reported to be one of the "best documented corporate crimes in American history".[17] The events were the basis of a book named The Informant as well as a film, also named The Informant.

[edit]Jesse Jackson protest
In November 1999, Decatur was brought into the national news when the Rev. Jesse Jackson and the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition protested the expulsion and treatment of several African American students who had been involved in a serious fight at an Eisenhower High School football game. Jackson was arrested and detained briefly; however, charges were later dropped.[18]

[edit]Firestone Tire problems
In May 2000, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) contacted Firestone Tire about the high incidence of tire failure on Ford Explorers, Mercury Mountaineers, and Mazda Navajos fitted with Firestone tires. Investigators found that several models of 15" Firestone tires (ATX, ATX II, and Wilderness AT) had very high failure rates, especially those made at Firestone's Decatur plant. The plant opted to pay off the lawsuits rather than recall the tires. This was one of the leading factors to the closing of the Decatur plant.[19]

[edit]Tornadoes in a Row
On April 18 and 19, 1996, the city was hit hard by tornadoes. On the 18th an F2 tornado hit the city's southeast side, followed by a devastating F4 tornado the following evening. The April 18 & 19th tornadoes were part of the largest tornado outbreak in the state of Illinois in history.[20][citation needed][original research?] No one died in the city of Decatur during the event.

Inventions in Decatur

Spiral Screwdriver Decatur Coffin Companies' Early Spiral Screwdriver

Photo Timer Robert Faries' Pneumatic Photo Timer

Flyswatter invented by Robert Montgomery, who holds the patent from c. 1900

Radar Gun Law enforcement radar invented by Bryce K. Brown of Decatur Electronics

On April 24, 1923, US Patent #1452956 was issued to Arthur W. Cash of Decatur. Mr Cash assigned the patent to Harvey A. Sellers owner of the Hi-Flier Manufacturing Company of Decatur. The patent was for the design of an inexpensive paper kite which dominated the children's kite market from the 1920s to the 1960s.
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Quite a bit for such a small town.
 
Originally posted by: Red Irish
Originally posted by: PlasmaBomb
Where to start?

As some of you know I am from Northern Ireland, which is a small place, so I am near several cities. Might as well just choose the capital of Northern Ireland which is Belfast.

History -

The name ?Belfast? originates from the Gaelic ?Beal Feirste?, which means ?mouth of the river?. Belfast was granted city status in 1613 by Royal Charter. Its CityCrest bears the motto 'Pro tranto quid retribuamus' which is 'what return shall we make for so much' in English (from verse 12 of Psalm CXVI).

I suppose I may as well start with the better known things about Belfast -

The Titanic was built in the Harland and Wolff shipyard, whose cranes are city landmarks.

The other well known thing about Belfast is The Troubles, which gave us the Europa Hotel the dubious honor of being "the most bombed hotel in Europe". Though it no longer holds the title (I believe it now resides in Serbia).

Lesser known things are -

Famous for its Botanic Gardens second only to Kew Gardens.

The dude in the background is William Thomson - Better view of the Statue

Cavehill is said to have inspired the famous novel Gulliver's Travels written by Jonathan Swift. On a clear day you can see over to the Isle of Man and if you are lucky Scotland.

It was heavily damaged during the second world war during the Belfast Blitz.

Belfast has a lot of excellent architecture -
City Hall

Albert Clock

Belfast Castle

Stormont Parliment Buildings

The Queen's University of Belfast is the second oldest University in Ireland and the Ninth oldest in the UK.
Lanyon Building
Lanyon Building
Lanyon Courtyard

and what thoughts of Belfast could be complete without a reference to the mighty Belfast sink?
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I didn't know there were other people from Belfast here: 'bout ye?
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'bout ye?

I'm good, thanks for the PM.
 
Buddy Holly
Largest contiguous cotton-growing region in the world
Mac Davis
Natalie Maines

... and the raider rash.

Woo. Go us.
 
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