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Jasper Alabama: www.jaspercity.com/
Walker County: www.walkercounty.com/
Smith Lake, stretches through Walker, Winston, and Cullman counties: www.outdooralabama.com/fishing/freshwat ... irs/smith/

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Tallulah Bankhead
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Butterbean
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HAHAHA! I sold Butterbean some lumber today, he broke his hand training for a fight in Japan.
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Olympia, WA
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Matt Groening, Creator of the Simpsons.

All the famous people I can think of.
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I have Goober and Butterbean dude, and all you can come come up with is that guy :lol: . Goober has eaten Aunt Bea's pie, and picked and grinned with Roy and Buck, Tallulah was a famous actress and a ho, and Butterbean beat the crap out of Johnny Knoxville in a sporting goods store. Let's see, your guy draws pictures. Really Balon, Olympia must be a craphole compared to Jasper Alabama. :P
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Johannesburg, South Africa.

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Olympia? Yeah.

But Washington? Dude we had Blue Oyster Cult, Nirvana, Sleater Kenny and Three Inches of Blood.

Back off.

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www.perth.world-guides.com/index.html

Famous "Perthies"

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Heath Ledger

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Judy Davis

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Melissa George

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Even though he wasn't born here, he studied at our Drama Academy so WE CLAIM HIM AS OURS! :twisted:
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Concord, New Hampshire
www.ci.concord.nh.us/

Notable inhabitants
J. Stephens Abbot (1804-1871), co-manufacturer of Abbot-Downing Coaches
Joseph Carter Abbott, general & senator
Matt Bonner, American professional basketball player
Lewis Downing (1792-1873), co-manufacturer of Abbot-Downing Coaches
Mary Baker Eddy, religious leader
Paul Hodes, representative to US House of Representatives
Richard Lederer, commentator on the English language
Christa McAuliffe, teacher and first Teacher in Space project winner
Mace Moulton, United States Representative from New Hampshire
Franklin Pierce, U.S. president
Thomas Stickney, soldier & statesman
Dennis R Wood: author, painter, sculptor, poet, musician
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concord,_New_Hampshire
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i freakin LOVE judy davis, EG!!

this guy was born in my hometown but didn't, lucky for him, grow up there.
Lexington, Ky

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Uhm...

Hometown as in where I live now, where I was born, or where I was raised/graduated high school?
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Inverloch...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverloch%2C_Victoria


But I grew up in Yinnar South which, even to this day has a population of about 300. Our farmhouse is to the right. 'dem were the days! :)

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Um...

Rome

I'm afraid if I wrote a list of the famous people born in my home town, we'd take a while :P
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Born in Pasadena, California...Too many to list from there.

Raised in Columbia, Maryland. Famous for...

-Edward Norton (nice guy)
-Jayson Blair (the NYT plagiarist)
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-Linda Lippman (author)
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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Famous people born here: John Candy, Catherine O'Hara, Neil Young, Trish Stratus, and a few others who aren't coming to my head right now...

Also famous for having a hockey team WHO HASN'T WON THE CUP IN NEARLY 40 YEARS!!!!



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Madison WI:

Famous Madisonians
Notable people associated with Madison include:
Butch Vig, Music Producer (Nirvana) drummer (Garbage)
Andrea Anders, actress/comedian
Tammy Baldwin, US Congresswoman
Connie Carpenter-Phinney, road cyclist and ice speed skater
Chris Farley, actor/comedian grew up in Madison
Russ Feingold, US Senator
Beth Heiden, Olympic ice skater
Eric Heiden,Olympic ice skater
Benjamin Heckendorn, creator of many portable video game units
Mark Johnson, 1980 US Olympic Hockey Team, NHL
Robert M. La Follette, Sr., populist, senator, attorney
Aldo Leopold, ecologist
Chris Noth, actor, born in Madison
Vinnie Ream, sculptor of the statue of Lincoln in the Capitol rotunda
Bobby Suter, 1980 US Olympic Hockey Team, NHL
Bradley Whitford, actor, born in Madison
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, popular poet ("Laugh and the world laughs with you"), grew up in Madison
Frank Lloyd Wright, architect
Harrison Ford,actor
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Latitude: 55°48'48.95"N
Longitude: 12°21'32.39"E

All you geo-fetishists out there try entering that into google earth!
My town is in high-res!

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Prebe wrote:Latitude: 55°48'48.95"N
Longitude: 12°21'32.39"E

All you geo-fetishists out there try entering that into google earth!
My town is in high-res!

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None (internationally known at least).
except, you of course. The watch IS international!
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Born in Reno, NV. Grew up (mostly) in Fernley, NV.
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Prebe wrote:Latitude: 55°48'48.95"N
Longitude: 12°21'32.39"E

All you geo-fetishists out there try entering that into google earth!
My town is in high-res!

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None (internationally known at least).
Don't sell yourself short, Prebe, you might be the first and most internationally known person from your hometown :P
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Everett, WA. It's pretty much a hive of scum and villany.

Supposedly (according to Wikipeida, heh) David Eddings and Kenny Loggins both hailed from Everett, although that's not what Eddings' page says... whatever.

Nothing good comes out of Everett. No, I'm not good. I'm mildly passable as a decent human being, really.

God, I hate Everett so much.
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