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eamo



Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.

PostPosted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 12:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

rayjoy wrote:
Duluth, Minnesota - USA

Though I'm really only "hometown proud" of Minneapolis.


Hey! Duluth!!

Do you know Robert Zimmerman/?
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Fat Sam



Joined: 05 Dec 2005
Location: Gyeonggi-do

PostPosted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 2:53 am    Post subject: Re: State your hometown! Reply with quote

evilive wrote:
bejarano-korea wrote:
I never know where anyone is from apart from the fact they are from one of the generic 7 countries. So I will go first!

Wigan, Lancashire/Greater Manchester, England


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wigan


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackburn

..Pretty close to Wigan.


I'll split the difference, if you don't mind?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorley

I'd never looked up my hometown on wikipedia before, but it seems my family name comes from a bunch of bones buried there in 1442.

As for the name of the town, it apparently meant "peasants' clearing" in Anglo-Saxon. Time moves on, but it's funny how some things stay the same.
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MANDRL



Joined: 13 Oct 2006
Location: South Korea

PostPosted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 2:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Rae wrote:
San Diego, CA Very Happy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Diego


My wife and I are from Mira Mesa, what part are you from?
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Stormy



Joined: 10 Jan 2008
Location: Here & there

PostPosted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 3:03 am    Post subject: Re: State your hometown! Reply with quote

Fat Sam wrote:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorley

I'd never looked up my hometown on wikipedia before, but it seems my family name comes from a bunch of bones buried there in 1442.

As for the name of the town, it apparently meant "peasants' clearing" in Anglo-Saxon. Time moves on, but it's funny how some things stay the same.


And would your family name be Fat or Sam?
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WoBW



Joined: 07 Dec 2007
Location: HBC

PostPosted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 3:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Portsmouth, Hampshire, UK.

Craphole. Except the footy team.
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rayjoy



Joined: 19 Jan 2008
Location: Dynamic Busan

PostPosted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 9:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

eamo wrote:
rayjoy wrote:
Duluth, Minnesota - USA

Though I'm really only "hometown proud" of Minneapolis.


Hey! Duluth!!

Do you know Robert Zimmerman/?


Haha, I DO. He went by Rob Zimmerman, and he lived in Wisconsin. He had long hair, loved metal, and was an all around Bob Dylan hater.

... and no, I don't know that other guy...
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missty



Joined: 19 Feb 2008

PostPosted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 11:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynsham
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Tiger Beer



Joined: 07 Feb 2003

PostPosted: Fri Dec 26, 2008 8:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Oreovictim wrote:
Rockford, Illinois, U.S.A.

But it's so much easier to tell people that I'm from Chicago.

I'm from Michigan...and often I say 'Detroit' to more blank stares...then I say 'it is kinda near Chicago'. Wink

Ahh...
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bjonothan



Joined: 29 Apr 2003
Location: All over the place

PostPosted: Fri Dec 26, 2008 9:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

There aren't many Australians on here.

I am from the most beautiful place in the world. Very Happy

It is an Island state in Australia called Tasmania.

Home to the cleanest air in the world, the Tasmanian devil and weirdos.

I come from Devonport.

I only ever met one other Taswegian in Korea.

I reckon the people are too backward (or stupid) to venture too far out.

I am now settled in the best city in Australia (Melbourne).
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Rae



Joined: 10 Oct 2007

PostPosted: Sat Dec 27, 2008 12:31 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

MANDRL wrote:
Rae wrote:
San Diego, CA Very Happy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Diego


My wife and I are from Mira Mesa, what part are you from?


I used to live in Mira Mesa for a few years but my family's from Chula Vista. I know this is late but at least I made it before 09 Very Happy Are you watching the game in a few days? I'm trying to find that sucker streaming!!!
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wondobern



Joined: 14 Oct 2008
Location: Yangjae2Dong

PostPosted: Sat Dec 27, 2008 3:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

East Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA

Home of 38th President of USA, Gerald Ford

Adam Hertz, a fellow alumnus, based his American Pie movies on his days at EGRHS

Go Pioneers!

Some Korean Christians know of Grand Rapids, because of its Christian Book Publishers (Zondervan, Baker, Kregals, Eerdmans) as well as Calvin College and Seminary.

Yes, my hometon was a suburb of Dutch Deformed Grand Rapids, but I'm not Dutch, and I'm not Christian Reformed (I'm German and Lutheran Church Missouri Synod).
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mistermasan



Joined: 20 Sep 2007
Location: 10+ yrs on Dave's ESL cafe

PostPosted: Sat Dec 27, 2008 5:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

fairmont city, illinois (pop. 3000). that gets blanks from most folks. then i say east st.louis and get some "oohs". but the asians don't know. so i tell them st.louis. they don't know that so i more often than not tell them chicago. they all know chicago.
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T-J



Joined: 10 Oct 2008
Location: Seoul EunpyungGu Yeonsinnae

PostPosted: Sat Dec 27, 2008 7:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Rochester, N.Y. (not Minn.)

Home of Kodak. Anyone remember film?
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saw6436



Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Daejeon, ROK

PostPosted: Sat Dec 27, 2008 7:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Born: Spokane, Washington USA.
Raised: Asheboro, North Carolina, USA.
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mekku



Joined: 22 Jul 2006
Location: daegu, korea

PostPosted: Sun Dec 28, 2008 1:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

eagle river, alaska Very Happy
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