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I have no problem at all with Mormons (along with Christians, Muslims, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, Scientologists, what have you). The majority of Mormons I have met (and the majority of members of any of the above religions) are normal, nice people. What I have a problem with is the concept of fundamentalism. Not just the Lafferty brothers, ANY fundamentalism, whether it be rioting Buddhists, Jerry Falwell, or Osama bin Laden. Anybody that takes religious scripture literally is asking for trouble.Amen, IMHO. I do have to say that being a "gentile" in Utah is an odd experience, though. Very closed-off, cloistered, shunned. Most of our neighbors stopped inviting us over when they figured out we weren't LDS. I'm moving to New York once I get my bachelors. I say believe whatever you want, as long as you don't try to make anyone else believe it. Who is anyone to say who is right and who is wrong in matters so personal?
Now, if only I wasn't a hypocrite. ;p
If you lived in Cedar City, I would invite you over. Most of my friends are either "gentiles" or "apostates."
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Here's a recipe. But this is one of those sauces where people come up with their own "secret formula," like chili or barbecue sauce.
I'm going to try making them for my son's birthday tomorrow. I did not have enough oregano for the recipe and was out of salt so I added my own little twists. I added 1/2 tspoon of Emeril's Essences and, since I am using chicken, 1 tspoon of poultry seasoning. I also used apple cider vinigar rather than regular vinigar. I will let you all know how it turns out. If it turns out really good, I'll even put it in the recipe box.
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The recipe turned out good. I posted it in the recipe box. I forgot to mention that about 25 miles north of where I live is where Butch Cassidy was supposedly buried after he died in the 1940's. He supposedly survived Bolivia and lived in obscurity for the rest of his life. Interestingly enough the Parker family is almost all buried in the cemetary there, and there is an unmarked grave in the family plot. You be the judge.
Living in Paris, France. Mostly known for the amability of its "Cafés" and "Brasseries" employees and traffic jams (slightly ironic...).
But I originated in a small town in south west (close to the Spanish border on the map): Dax. This used to be the only European town enclosed by the walls of a Roman citadel (imagine: roman remparts). Until the town mayor decided to put 90% down to extend the city at the beginning of the previous century...:-(
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Our biggest claim to fame in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada is being the home of the Blackberry.
We were voted the world's Most Intelligent Community by the ICF in 2007.
Prior to this, we also figured prominently in a financing scam for RIM Park development that was supposed to be $112 million over 30 years but really was over $227 million. Apparently our treasurer and city leaders had a problem with math. Go figure :/
You have the Perimeter Institute, as well (in large parrt thanks to RIM and the blackcberry).
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Living in Paris, France. Mostly known for the amability of its "Cafés" and "Brasseries" employees and traffic jams (slightly ironic...).
Words like 'brasserie' are so much more fun when you don't know what they are. My mind immediately conjured the image of an outdoor cafe where all the waitresses were wearing brassieres instead of tops.
Sort of a Parisian Hooters...
Ticonderoga, NY
That's funny, I have a bunch of relatives up there. Well, that and some at Crown Point. I love the Ti area.
My hometown was where Jamie Moyer of the Philadelphia Phillies grew up at.
My town is known for having an out of control meth problem and an undermanned and ill-funded police department with which to deal with the problem.
Oh, and we've got a giant red wagon in one of our parks.
My hometown Limerick is famous for a couple of things:
Being founded by Vikings in the early 800's
The many Sieges of Limerick, the most famous being the siege of 1690.
The setting for Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes.
And right now for being touted by the media as the apex of Gangland warfare in Ireland.
That all said, it's a great town with mighty craic to be had by all.
My town is known for having an out of control meth problem and an undermanned and ill-funded police department with which to deal with the problem.
Oh, and we've got a giant red wagon in one of our parks.
Hey Shadowborn. I did not realize you were so close. Moscow has a "big red rocker" but I doubt we are known for that.
WOOO! gotta love Montreal. been pretty much everywhere else in Canada and none of it even comes close. the view coming in across one of the southeastern bridges at 2AM is a sight I hope I never forget. the lights, the skyline, the mountain. So beautiful.Hey to each their own kess, but Vancouver, Nanaimo, Jasper, Edmonton, Drumheller, Waterton, Tobermory, Ottawa, Toronto, Halifax and Charlottetown amongst others all are great places as well, to me anyway.
Bugs Bunny has been know to take many wrong turns here; not sure why; I-25 and I-40 bisect the city N-S and E-W pretty much right down the middle; best guess is went down into the valley or one got turned around trying to cross the river and ended up in one of many reservations around here....
The town I grew up on and did the high school thing was famous as the Atomic bomb was tested thereabouts close by at Trinity site. Also; the space shuttle landed there at the White Sands runway; I remember hearing the national big wig newscaster; think it was Harry Reasoner; say; " this is a god forsaken place; abomitable; it is a wonder that people live and survive here"; heeh we were haveing a rare sandstorm so bad that it took paint off cars and dulled outside mirrors and generally was pretty bad; hot too if you can imagine that; none of us natives were dumb enought to go out there; when the wind blows 40 to 60 with stronger gusts; you dont want to be standing on 110 degree gypsum sand crystals; hehe and that was a cool day; usually that sand is around 120 to 125 during a day of sunshine in the summer.
Hey Shadowborn. I did not realize you were so close. Moscow has a "big red rocker" but I doubt we are known for that.
You guys have a giant clone of Sammy Hagar in Moscow?
Hmmm, let's see...
Syracuse, NY:
Being Cold & Snowy
The S.U. Orangemen
That's about it.
St. Louis, MO.
Arches. Rap, jazz, blues. Pabst Blue Ribbon. Stag. Budweiser. Fur trappers. 2nd most dangerous city in the country, what what!
The downtown area was used as the set of "Escape From New York". No, really.
Um.
There's also several rivers.
Honestly, though, I've lived here most of my life and I think I know about 75% of the population. It's a crazy town.
Director of Narrative
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St. Louis, MO.
Arches. Rap, jazz, blues. Pabst Blue Ribbon. Stag. Budweiser. Fur trappers. 2nd most dangerous city in the country, what what!
The downtown area was used as the set of "Escape From New York". No, really.
Um.
There's also several rivers.
Honestly, though, I've lived here most of my life and I think I know about 75% of the population. It's a crazy town.
William S Burroughs was born there and lived there as a youth. I've been meaning to get you to snap a picture of the house he grew up in, but I keep forgetting or not remembering the address.
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Nah, Deep Ellum is still weird."Howdy folks, welcome ta Dee eF Dubbya..." (ZZ Top/Big Tex voice). Yeah, I figured only locals would know Deep Ellum and the Cotton Bowl is not, alas, what it once was, but both worth mentions, thanks Ubermensch. Shouldn't have left out The State Fair of Texas or the TX-OU game either.It's been a little over 10 years since I was paid to leave Texas, the only good thing Junior Bush ever did for me, so I wasn't sure if they took a xanix stick to deep ellem and turned it in a copy of west downtown.
I used to live and bartend in deep ellum in the mid-ninties, moved back to Houston just as the Ross Ave. gentrification project was starting up. Went back not too long ago. Deep ellum isn't quite "West End East" yet, but all the cool kids moved to Austin, and the writing is on the wall...
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My hometown is St. Augustine, Florida, home of the newlywed and the nearly dead. It's also famous for being the oldest continually occupied European-founded city in the continental US. "Tis a silly place.
Huh, didn't know that Stickley was a homegrown company. Thanks, that makes us sound a little more refined.
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Syracuse, NY - Home of the Orangemen.
I was born in Syracuse, NY, notable for being the home of both Syracuse University and the University of Syracuse, as well as the ever-expanding Carousel Mall.
Hmmm, let's see...Syracuse, NY:
Being Cold & Snowy
Four of us (possibly five? Bagpuss?) with roots in Syracuse. Nice. I'd like to add "the birthplace of salt potatoes" to the list. Oh, and let's not forget "the birthplace of Rod Serling".
Personally, I live/work in Syracuse now but I was born in Chittenango, NY. Birthplace of L. Frank Baum (we even have yellow brick sidewalks and "Auntie Em's Diner") and Dave Mirra.
Hey Shadowborn. I did not realize you were so close. Moscow has a "big red rocker" but I doubt we are known for that.You guys have a giant clone of Sammy Hagar in Moscow?
Nah we have the original--the one you are thinking of is the clone. O:)
Nah we have the original--the one you are thinking of is the clone. O:)Hey Shadowborn. I did not realize you were so close. Moscow has a "big red rocker" but I doubt we are known for that.You guys have a giant clone of Sammy Hagar in Moscow?
Ah, that would explain a lot...I hear that clones are never quite as good as the original.
I forgot to mention that Spokane also has Bloomsday and Hoopfest, two late spring/early summer events that draw in lots of people who like to run and/or play 3-on-3 basketball, and those who like to watch people run and/or play 3-on-3 basketball.
Me, I like to game on those days...
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Wilmington, Massachusetts is my home town.
Henry Harnden was born in the house I live in. He was a Civil War Officer, present at the capture of Jefferson Davis. He was the first to confirm Davis's identity, and is credited with his capture.
Wilmington is considered a cancer cluster, possibly due to industrial chemical contamination. The movie and book A Civil Action discusses circumstances similar to those found in Wilmington, although the events of both the book and the movie focus primarily on nearby Woburn.
Paul Blart: Mall Cop was filmed near here.
Wilmington is where the Baldwin apple was discovered.
The Boston and Lowell Railroad was built in 1835. The line is now the oldest operating rail line in the U.S.
Wilmington was first settled in 1665 and was officially incorporated in 1730, from parts of Woburn, Reading and Billerica. Minutemen from Wilmington responded to the alarm on April 19, 1775 and fought at Merriam's Corner in Concord. Wilmington men also fought at Bunker Hill.
Wilmington is also home to the Col. Joshua Harnden Tavern, which probably served as a stop on the underground railroad and now houses the Wilmington Town Museum.
William S Burroughs was born there and lived there as a youth. I've been meaning to get you to snap a picture of the house he grew up in, but I keep forgetting or not remembering the address.St. Louis, MO.
Arches. Rap, jazz, blues. Pabst Blue Ribbon. Stag. Budweiser. Fur trappers. 2nd most dangerous city in the country, what what!
The downtown area was used as the set of "Escape From New York". No, really.
Um.
There's also several rivers.
Honestly, though, I've lived here most of my life and I think I know about 75% of the population. It's a crazy town.
I will do that for you.
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Ok.
I was born in Cooperstown, New York, named after James Fenimore Cooper's father. Best known for the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. It was the center of hops growing until a blight wiped out commercial hops production about 100 years ago. The Susquehanna river originates there as well. There's a bunch of other stuff there too, but it's all touristy stuff.
I was (mostly, with side treks to Newark, New Jersey) raised in Oneonta, NY, home of the National Soccer Hall of Fame, the D&H railroad, and Mark May, former lineman for the Washington Redskins and now a college football analyst on ESPN. The biggest thing that happened there in my lifetime was Hartwick College winning the NCAA Soccer championship in '77. It's a nice little town (a lot bigger now than when I grew up there, though), and wasn't a bad place to grow up.
Lived in Altamonte Springs for a couple of years before moving to Houston. It's a suburb of Orlando, so, you know, Disney and stuff.
I've called Houston home since 1987, and I consider it my hometown now, having lived here longer than anywhere else in my life. Houston, of course, is the "Energy Capitol of the World", home of the Johnson Space Center, The Menil Collection (one of the richest private collections of fine art, open free to the public), and the second largest concentration (behind New York) of theater/orchestra seating in the United States. We are also well known, with the exception of two seasons of Rockets' championships, for sports futility.
The Battle of San Jacinto, which resulted in Texas' independence from Mexico, was fought here, and Houston was the first Capitol of the Republic of Texas.
Houston is also well known to international visitors for being one of the friendliest cities in America. Seriously, ask them ;)
Last, but not least, amongst the many famous people from Houston, we are the home town of the late, great Bill Hicks, a man I consider the greatest comedic talent of my generation...
For the sake of completeness, I've also lived in Austin, TX, Dallas, TX and Budd Lake, NJ.
Who are your relatives? I might know some of them.Ticonderoga, NYThat's funny, I have a bunch of relatives up there. Well, that and some at Crown Point. I love the Ti area.
Treadways, Bloods, Beldens.
In fact, related to the Fort, my great-grandfather helped to rebuild it.
I love the view of Mt. Defiance. You ever been up there? (shame about the fire there; I would have loved to see it before the fire!).
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Who are your relatives? I might know some of them.Ticonderoga, NYThat's funny, I have a bunch of relatives up there. Well, that and some at Crown Point. I love the Ti area.Treadways, Bloods, Beldens.
In fact, related to the Fort, my great-grandfather helped to rebuild it.
I love the view of Mt. Defiance. You ever been up there? (shame about the fire there; I would have loved to see it before the fire!).
I actually know people from all of those families. In fact, I went to school with Bill Treadway (he was a few grades ahead of me). Weird.
And yeah, the view from Mt. Defiance is awesome. Back in high school, my cross-country coach had us run up and down the mountain on a few occasions.
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I just found out that I'm friends with this guy's granddaughter. If that's not f*@+ing creepy, I don't know what is.
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I worked with a lady who was descended from this guy.
I told her if I ever pissed her off, just to tell me and I'd stop.
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I worked with a lady who was descended from this guy.
I told her if I ever pissed her off, just to tell me and I'd stop.
Scary, dude.
I was born in Cooperstown, New York, named after James Fenimore Cooper's father.
Is birthplace destiny? Home of the original Pathfinder? Home of great beer?
And kudos for the Texas history. I'm related to Quanah Parker.