Famous fact about your city?

Discussion in 'The Lounge' started by wondergirl, Oct 29, 2006.

  1. wondergirl

    wondergirl Well-Known Member

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    Name your city (and state/country) and what it is most well known for.

    For example, I live in Berkeley, California (US). Most well known for UC Berkeley, obviously. :p (it's ranked as the #1 public university in the nation)
     
  2. kdotc

    kdotc 안녕하세요빅뱅K-Dragon입니다

    the word Toronto say s it all...cn tower, multicultural, leafs...naw meansss
     
  3. ms-jojo

    ms-jojo Well-Known Member

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    hmm i'll put two cities since Burnaby is part of Greater Vancouver..

    Burnaby: JOE SAKIC WENT TO MY SCHOOL! iono if that's a famous fact, but it's still pretty awesome. oh and so did Jade Kwan.
    Vancouver: 2010 Winter Olympics 2010, baby!
     
  4. Sydney Australia

    famous for the all the bush fires in summer <_<,

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    also the Opera House n Harbour Bridge

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    Centre Point Tower

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    the Year 2000 Olympic Games

    and Aaron Kwok's 1999 scandal at Star City Casino -evil
     
  5. Marrow

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    Hmm. I wouldn't call the following facts FAMOUS, but more like interesting facts:

    City: New York (NY, U.S.)

    One of the Macy's (a shopping center) there is the world's LARGEST store.

    The New York Botanical Garden is home to the LARGEST Victorian glasshouse, the Enid.

    In late 1840s, thousands of pigs were released to roam Wall Street as a substitution for an early sanitation system.

    New York is called the Big Apple because a sportswriter named one of the columns in the paper he wrote in "Around the Big Apple," after hearing some stablehands refer NYC racetracks as "the Big Apple"

    Alexander Hamilton and Robert Fulton were buried here.
     
  6. don

    don ello

    oh wow didn't know that they went to burnaby north -shock

    Vancouver: 2010winter olympics......luongo..... and tree huggers lol
    oh i forgot theres also the world's largest mailbox which nobody really notices
     
  7. ms-jojo

    ms-jojo Well-Known Member

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    yeep BN! wooot!

    world's largest mailbox? where's that? xD

    OOOOOH VANCOUVER (or is it all of BC) HAS THE BEST WEED APPARENTLY! and ppl are trying to make it legal so we could get some $$$$$
     
  8. kdotc

    kdotc 안녕하세요빅뱅K-Dragon입니다

    r u serious? vancouver has the best weed? i thought the colombians have the best weed....so its legal to grow weeeed in vancouver? how u know its the best unless u tried it lol...send some over..y dont' u and don get together ;)
     
  9. ms-jojo

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    lol... no i've never tried it before. ewwwie.. and it's not legal. i heard its good because its always being talked about, and theres a political group thats trying to get it to become legal to boost our economy or something.

    hmm for one thing, iono don. =P
     
  10. don

    don ello

    it's usually by canada place during the Christmas season

    yeah weed it one of bc's top industries other than forestry thats why there's always weed grow ups everywhere since the police doesn't really do anything.....they'll clear out 1 or 2 from time to time but still leaving lots of weed around>.<
     
  11. ralliart

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    Toronto!!!! CN Tower, and Former Skydome (Now Rogers Center) With a retractable sliding roof. LOL. i find that cool. We're also known for our smog, lol, jk!!
     
  12. kdotc

    kdotc 안녕하세요빅뱅K-Dragon입니다

    lets all go to vancouver to get free weedd!!
     
  13. shadow Thi3f

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    What can I say about my home town, Oakland California? It has one of the highest homocide rates in the nation. lol. I'm currently in San Jose right now which is the home of the Silicon valley.
     
  14. densha

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    I live in Vancouver B.C. Canada..home of 2010 olympics~
     
  15. Lawlrence

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    hamilton ontario, Canada

    our downtown is scary....very scary
     
  16. dragonfire7376

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    I am from Vancouver too, you guys talking about weed... yeah sort of BC BUD... the grade is very good here... maybe it is the water here... very clean... but weed is not legal here... but ppl do it anyways, they get only little fines and maybe a day in jail... so that is why so much weed here... But there is other things we famous for here... BC Salmon? BC Wood... lots of trees around here... site of the 2010 winter olympics...
     
  17. Land of the Stunnas mang... -cool2
     
  18. sitorbewwi

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    Melbourne, Australia ..

    commonwealth games 2006, one of the worlds most liveable cities in the world :]
     
  19. kdotc

    kdotc 안녕하세요빅뱅K-Dragon입니다

    where are u from?



    vancouver should hook toronto up with their good weed =)
     
  20. ms-jojo

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    hahahha psht kdotc. weed = ew.