Melbourne, Australia.. lots of stuff happened here, here is a few FUN FACTS.

Before Melbourne came to be known as the ‘City of Melbourn’e, it was called Batmania, Bearbrass, Bearport, Bareheap and Bearbury... lol Batmania.

According to the RSPCA, Melbourne is the "Fox Capital" of the western world, with 6-23 foxes every square kilometer in the metropolitan area.

Melbourne's scientists have been pivotal in the development of the world's most innovative biotechnology breakthroughs including Relenza, Relaxin and the bionic ear, which has provided hearing to 20,000 profoundly or totally deaf people in over 55 countries.

The Story of the Ned Kelly Gang, made in Melbourne in 1906, is recognised as the world's first feature film, running to five reels.

The Melbourne-made television soap opera Neighbours recorded its 4,000th episode in May 2002. It screens in 57 different countries to an average daily audience of 120 million viewers. Since it began in 1985 the show has had 18 marriages, 11 deaths and six births. <:: Man, I see the actors from that show all the time, have spoken to 3 of them too :|

Luna Park, in Melbourne's bayside suburb of St Kilda, is the oldest amusement park in the world under private management. (maybe that is why it sucks to much)

Melbourne’s famous beer, Foster’s Lager, was actually produced by two Americans.

who have you spoken to from Neighbours?
IT BETTER HAVE BEEN HAROLD!

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

One of the fastest growing populaces in canada which still tells the world that the opportunity for work and diversity is still booming.

Has 1 of the top 5 deadliest roads in the world.

Petro-Canada is the tallest building outside of toronto, inside canada. (not including towers) Also when encana completes it's 59 floor building it will be taller than the Petro-Canada.

We have had 17 murders in calgary this year already, with a 5 person murder-suicide leaving an infant to survive the family of 5 and the downstairs neighbour being one of the victims.

We have the Calgary Stampede which has been proven as one of the largest and most complete outdoor entertainment show/festival on earth. And is now wanting to become the "greenest" outdoor show/festival on earth.

We have one of the largest concentrations of Oil and Gas companys working our of our city in all of North America. (I haven't check in a long time to see if we are in fact the largest... but I know were are one of the top 10.)

One of the fasting growing populations of homeless and of prositutes. (our homeless percentage has grown because much of the homeless come from both saskatchewan and bc think that we have the ability to help them.... fact is we can't even help ourselves.)

Other than that I don't know any more juicy tid bits that would be too interesting.

i thought osu was in athens???  i don't know much about ohio geography at all that far south but yeah is athens like right by columbus or something?


also i'm sure there's something interesting about cleveland but nothing is really coming to mind.  we have the rock and roll hall of fame, and i think marilyn manson is from around here.  yeah, i got nothing.

heheh Ohio University is in Athens, Ohio State is in columbus. Athens is like 2 hours away down us route 33 to the southeast. culturally that area is nothing like the rest of ohio heh. no real point in going to that area except for the various state parks and crazy shit like the Logan Washboard Company factory and all the country festivals they have out that way

The special thing about the place I live is that my house was built at exactly the place where communities switch. To give you an example:
Our living room belongs to Kifisia
Our garden to Pefki
The other house belongs to Lykovrysi.

It may sound stupid but it actually makes things difficult since we have to go to different places when we want to pay the electricity bill or the water bill or taxes.

These places are in Athens-Greece btw

Regina, Saskatchewan (north of Bismark, ND)
Capital of Saskatchewan

We are still the reigning crime capital of Canada (woohoo).  Maclean's magazine named Regina Canada's most dangerous city, in its 2008 crime report edition.  I think we're also the STD capital of Canada.  North Central neighbourhood (Canada's worst neighbourhood) is a cesspool of crime, drugs, gangs and poverty.  I wouldn't walk through there in the daylight.

Despite that, Regina is the second fastest growing city in Canada (behind Saskatoon, SK), driven largely by a resource boom (mostly oil and natural gas and potash).  Housing prices have gone up like 75% in 2 years.

It is home of the Albert Street Bridge - claimed to the longest bridge over the shortest span of water, although this has never been officially verified (it's 850ft long over about a 10ft creek).

You may have heard about that incident a couple of years ago about the football team's kicker having manure dumped on his front lawn?  Yeah, that happened here.

The RCMP training barracks are in Regina.

Some famous people:
- Dick Assman, gas station attendant facetiously given fame on the David Letterman television show
- T.C. Douglas, CCF premier 1944–1961 and later leader of the federal New Democratic Party
- Leslie Nielsen was born here

We are still the reigning crime capital of Canada (woohoo).  Maclean's magazine named Regina Canada's most dangerous city, in its 2008 crime report edition. 

Really? Great! It was Halifax a year or two ago.

Haha, thanks for stealing the title, man! Now I'll feel a bit safer walking around at night.

From Wikipedia:
Ottawa is a village in and the county seat of Putnam County, Ohio, United States.[3] The population was 4,367 at the 2000 census.

In 1792 Major Alexander Truman[5], his servant William Lynch and guide/interpreter William Smalley were sent by George Washington on a peace mission. Truman and Lynch were killed

Ottawa is the birthplace of Miss Frances, an early television performer famous for Miss Frances' Ding Dong School. A monument for her was erected in Ottawa in 2006 (I have no idea about this...)

Ottawa is the birthplace of professional baseball player and coach Larry Cox

High School Sports junk...  most of our teams have been good since 2004

Seattle has the highest concentration of Asians in any American city.  It also has the highest percentage of people with college degrees in all of America making us the most "well educated" places in the country.  Consequently, Washington also has the highest percentage of atheists and one of the lowest percentage of black people, Jews, and Hispanics.

Everyone here is an arrogant asshat but I've grown to love the state.

oh yeah philly. lots of stuff to do so I'm not gonna name anything but basically

-tim and eric
-eraserhead was based off lynch's time here (thats not really a compliment)

Toronto, Ontario. It's in Canada, yes we have more than one city. We also have this giant penis in the middle of our city, and one giant nutsack where ironically people play with balls. (CN Tower and Roger's Centre)
Jim Carrey was raised here.

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada:

* Home to the (formerly) largest mall in the world (Dubai and Asia have now got us beat).
* Home to the legendary Edmonton Oilers (OK, they kind of suck now, but back in those Gretzky and Messier days...).
* Home of the Edmonton Eskimos (fuck the last 2 seasons, still one of the best teams in the CFL).
* Home of the University of Alberta, which is one of the top universities in Canada.
* Home of me (I am fucking awesome).
* We have tonnes of art and theatre here...
* Home of North America's largest Fringe Theatre Festival (second largest in the world).
* Home to the largest continuous green space in any North American city (bigger, ever, than Central Park in NYC).
* SCTV used to be filmed here (classic TV).
* Decent-but-not-great NBC horror TV show "Fear Itself" is shot here (well, Season 1 was, not sure if they will continue filming here for the next season).
* Our genius scientists at the U of A discovered a cure for diabetes (well...sort of, they developed a procedure that allows people to no longer need to take insulin shots, but it's still in the early stages, and I don't think it works in all cases).

I dunno...I love my city, but a lot of the coolness comes from things that you can only really start to appreciate after living here for a while.

I live in Clarksville, Tennessee and it's mostly important because a lot of famous musicians got there start here or stayed here at one point early on in their career.  It's still beyond me as to why.

I'm talking people like Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Paige, and the Monkees.  Also the guitarist from King Crimson lives in Nashville.

We also have Wilma Rudolph, who was a famous runner in the Olympics and the Fort Campbell military base which is home to the 101st Airborne Division.

Other than that it's a bunch of sinkholes and a shitty college.

Oh shit apparently we also have Otis Key!  He was/is a player and coach for the Harlem Globetrotters.