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Places entirely famous for the wrong things!!!

Post 21

(crazyhorse)impeach hypatia

hey redbone i crossed the atlantic on the queen mary


Places entirely famous for the wrong things!!!

Post 22

Emee, out from under the rock

Oklahoma City - bombing of the Murrah Federal Building
Ruby Ridge - FBI storms the camp
Jonesboro - don't drink the Kool-Aid


Places entirely famous for the wrong things!!!

Post 23

Emee, out from under the rock

Tulsa, Oklahoma - race riots
Ford's Theatre - Lincoln assassination
Kent State University - peaceful demonstration gone wrong


Places entirely famous for the wrong things!!!

Post 24

A Super Furry Animal

Was it Hawaii, though? I thought it was another bunch of islands who's name completely escapes me at the moment.

Scunthorpe is famous for something? Apart from the saying, "Who put the c**t in Scunthorpe?"

RFsmiley - evilgrin


Places entirely famous for the wrong things!!!

Post 25

REDBONES68

hey crazyhorse, where were you coming from? and where were you going and when?


Places entirely famous for the wrong things!!!

Post 26

Beatrice

Just had to point out that the Garvaghy Road is nowhere near Derry/ Londonderry (nicknamed "Stroke City" by the residentssmiley - winkeye)


erm, Belfast?

Heck, all of Northern Ireland!


Places entirely famous for the wrong things!!!

Post 27

HonestIago

Tianneman (sp?) Square - another student riot gone horribly wrong


Places entirely famous for the wrong things!!!

Post 28

REDBONES68

colma, california population 500,000 and they're all dead!
one city that is only cemetaries..
smiley - monster


Places entirely famous for the wrong things!!!

Post 29

A Super Furry Animal

Oh yeah. Tahiti. Wasn't it Tahiti where the natives invited Captain Cook to dinner?

RFsmiley - evilgrin


Places entirely famous for the wrong things!!!

Post 30

(crazyhorse)impeach hypatia

jonestown isthe kool aid capital not jonsboro


Places entirely famous for the wrong things!!!

Post 31

(crazyhorse)impeach hypatia

1963 liverpool to ny i was just a wee bairnsmiley - wizardbut i visited it whewhen i lived in L..A.


Places entirely famous for the wrong things!!!

Post 32

Emee, out from under the rock

I knew it was Jones-something. smiley - erm

Los Alamos, New Mexico - birth place of the nuclear bomb


Places entirely famous for the wrong things!!!

Post 33

REDBONES68

i thought that cook got cooked in samoa or tonga? or was it figi?
i guess you are what you eat right?
smiley - monster


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Post 34

(crazyhorse)impeach hypatia

hawaii was formerly known as the sandwich islands where cpt cook was ironically to become the filling


Places entirely famous for the wrong things!!!

Post 35

(crazyhorse)impeach hypatia

universiy of texas-charles starkweather


Places entirely famous for the wrong things!!!

Post 36

REDBONES68

san francisco,california same sex marriages


Places entirely famous for the wrong things!!!

Post 37

HonestIago

care to explain how that is a bad thing without spouting homophobia Redbone?


Places entirely famous for the wrong things!!!

Post 38

(crazyhorse)impeach hypatia

san ysidro mcdonalds....bring your own automatic rifle


Places entirely famous for the wrong things!!!

Post 39

(crazyhorse)impeach hypatia

watts...bring your own molotlotov cocktail


Places entirely famous for the wrong things!!!

Post 40

A Super Furry Animal

Ah, yes. Right. Was that a joke in 1779, or did it come later?

RFsmiley - evilgrin


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