It's the last bastion of rational thought in the state and it's the live music capital of the world.
Be well, people of CoH.
My city is GREEN , There are forests, trees, lakes, rivers, streams, waterfalls and SPACE... all of that with all the benefits of a city at hand, it's a pretty great place.
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My city is BROWN, There are bums, hippies, prostitutes, drug dealers, junkies, Scientology and HOLLYWOOD...all of that with all the benefits of window-tinting smog, it's a pretty f** awesome place.
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Originally Posted by Early Girl
My city is GREEN , There are forests, trees, lakes, rivers, streams, waterfalls and SPACE... all of that with all the benefits of a city at hand, it's a pretty great place.
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basically, if you see a miki on Triumph, it's probably cute and it's probably me.
Huge thanks to cuppamanga and all the folks in the mac help forum for prolonging my borrowed time on this game.
We're the Motor City, home of the greatest industry in the world!
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Originally Posted by mintmiki
My city is BROWN, There are bums, hippies, prostitutes, drug dealers, junkies, Scientology and HOLLYWOOD...all of that with all the benefits of window-tinting smog, it's a pretty f** awesome place.
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well, minus the Hollywood and smog.
The sheer lack of traffic at 3AM when you're in a hurry...
"The mind is like a parachute. It only works when it is open"
"Sometimes we risk taking things too far to see how far we can really go."
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Home of State hwy 316
less then 1/2 mile long located between two county roads. but since it's a state road.. the state plows have to come and plow the road. our tax dollars at work.
The good: The Phillies, The Flyers, The Art Museum, The Liberty Bell, Citizen's Bank Park (the GREATEST ballpark in the world), A good cheesesteak at a mom and pop corner deli, hoagies from Lombardi's
The bad: The Eagles, The Sucks-ers (Sixers), Pat's Steaks, Geno's Steaks, Jim's Steaks (can you tell I hate the "big three" of steak shops in Philly?), traffic, the rep my city has and Comcast (greedy corporate bastages)
I live out in the country with the nearest city about 30 miles away so....
My country is so country that country tries to be country!
I'm serious, we got wannabe cowboys in the next state that try to be rappers. In this area of the state, farmers that try to be well known in a small community....a few anyways, the rest are decent LOL!
Prominent people who live or have lived in my city include:
Jaymz Bee, musician, producer, concert promoter, radio personality (CJRT), bandleader of The Royal Jelly Orchestra and former frontman of The Look People
Giles Blunt, author
Gerald Bull, controversial aerospace engineer
Billy Coutu, NHL hockey player
Ab DeMarco Sr - former NHL hockey player
Michael J. Fox, actor
Kevin Frankish, is a Toronto-area media personality. He co-hosts Breakfast Television on Citytv.
Bobby Gimby, orchestra leader, singer/songwriter who wrote the Canadian Centennial song
Mike Harris, former Premier of Ontario
Susan Hay, Global news reporter
High Holy Days, rock music group
Bill Houlder, former NHL player
Troy Hurtubise, inventor
Byron M. Jones, Christian movie producer and managing partner of Pure Flix Entertainment
Gerry Mendicino, actor
Andi Muise, model
Bryan Lee O'Malley, cartoonist, creator and author of the Scott Pilgrim series of graphic novels
Michael O'Shea, linebacker for the Toronto Argonauts of the CFL
Steve Omischl, world champion, freestyle skiing aerials
Kate Pace, world downhill alpine ski champion
Tony Poeta, former NHL player
Denis Rancourt, scientist, educational reform activist, former physics professor at the University of Ottawa
Craig Rivet, NHL defenseman for the Buffalo Sabres
Steve Shields, former NHL goalie
Colin Simpson, bestselling author
Lance Storm, professional wrestler
Scott Thompson, comedic actor
Roy Thomson, Baron Thomson of Fleet
Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet
Mike Yeo, Pittsburgh Penguins Assistant Coach
Cartoonist Lynn Johnston lives just outside the city in nearby Corbeil, and the famous Dionne Quintuplets were born on the outskirts of the city between Corbeil and Callander. Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet started his empire in North Bay in 1931 when he purchased an AM radio station in Iroquois Falls, CFCH, and moved it to North Bay. Thomson Park in North Bay is named in his honour.
For a town of 56 thousand that isn't too bad.
My hometown is HOT! HOT! HOT!
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TO THE END!Villains are those who dedicate their lives to causing mayhem. Villians are people from the planet Villia!
We has the mountains, we has the rivers and lakes and woods and deserts (Eastern portion) and rainforests and ocean.........best of all we has my wonderful family!!! We has it all. It's easy being green.
�Many things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.� We are just North enough to be perfect.
Guinness
Coney Dawgs
Is home to NORAD
Oh, duh me I forgot one more very important thing about my city: Roy Halladay is a Phillie!!
My city is situated on The Canadian Shield and is home to many volcanic pipes.
These are the volcanic pipes as seen from shore
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My city built your city.
At least most of the Steel in it. If it was made prior to WW2 that is.
My city was pivotal during the civil rights movements, for it's atrocious behavior and subsequent reputation.
My city has recently become one of the largest ever to declare bankruptcy...
My city has the world's largest cast iron statue at 50 tons. Vulcan watches over the city while mooning the rich neighborhood behind him.
His torch lights red when a traffic fatality occurs, green all other times.
My city has a 36-foot tall bronze replica of the Statue of Liberty looking over a busy interstate. Complete with burning flame.
Maestro Mavius - Infinity
Capt. Biohazrd - PCSAR
Talsor Tech - Talsorian Guard
Keep Calm & Chive On!
My city's Main Street has won the Great American Main Street Award twice this decade (2003, 2009).
There are nine bronze mice collectively known as the "Mice on Main" hidden up and down Main Street. They are based on the children's book Goodnight Moon. Families love to bring children to hunt for the mice while parents window shop.
My city's most famous residents have included:
- Charles Townes, Nobel prize winner and one of the inventors of the laser and the maser;
- diplomat Joel Poinsett for whom the Poinsettia plant is named;
- Aaron Tippin, country music star;
- Joanne Woodward, actress and widow of Paul Newman;
- Rudolf Anderson, Jr. U.S. Air Force major and U-2 pilot shot down during the Cuban Missile Crisis;
- Tyler Florence, celebrity TV chef;
- and of course, the legendary Shoeless Joe Jackson, arguably one of baseball's greatest natural players and focal point of the Black Sox scandal and the movies Field of Dreams and Eight Men Out. Shoeless Joe is buried about a mile from me. His grave is usually covered with baseballs and bats. His house was moved next to the new baseball stadium and now hosts his museum .
Until recent years, the world's entire supply of Pepto-Bismol was manufactured in my city.
The last performance of the original Lynyrd Skynyrd was in my city. The fatal flight left from my city's airport.
My city has one of the last Frank Lloyd Wright homes ever built.
Diet-Rite soda was invented at the Coca-Cola bottler in my city.
My city is the city that invented Chicken Riggies.
It's also the home of Saranac beer.
My city (the greater Phoenix metro area) at one point was growing at the rate of one foot per hour. And we ALMOST toppled the Pittsburgh Steelers during the Super Bowl in 2009.
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Originally Posted by Dark_Respite
And we ALMOST toppled the Pittsburgh Steelers during the Super Bowl in 2009.
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Yet my city has more professional sports championships than them
It's beautiful up here in the fall....
Yeah, what's so great about your city anyway? Name something cool about your city. Hell, name something lame about your city for all I care. I'll start:
The winged wheel, our Detroit Red Wings baby!