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Re: Claims to Fame
Posted By: Howard, on host 209.86.37.108
Date: Saturday, March 31, 2001, at 18:48:46
In Reply To: Re: Claims to Fame posted by Quartz on Saturday, March 31, 2001, at 08:12:08:

> > Every town, village, unincorporated hamlet, road, hill, hole, and hall has one. Sometimes, though, they're a bit of a stretch. I read a pamphlet on a ferryboat on Lake Chelan which was unintentionally absurd. The gist:
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> > "Lake Chelan is the DEEPEST GORGE IN THE WORLD, except for some others, and only if you start from top of the highest nearby mountain."
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> > Personally, I'm fonder of the neighboring town of Oakland's claims to fame: onetime turkey *and* prune capital of the world.
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> > gab"RinkForum: BIGGEST ONLINE FORUM IN THE WORLD that is owned by Samuel Stoddard"by
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> The claim to fame of the town I currently live in (Mount Vernon, Washington) is that it was voted the #1 small town of the country. A librarian that worked at the library (duh) told me that the #2 voted town (some place in Ohio or something) had "WE'RE NUMBER TWO! WE'RE NUMBER TWO!" All over their website. Which made me wonder: why would a town have a website?
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> The claim to fame of my hometown (Lincoln, Nebraska), was the fact I was born there. :^)
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> Qua "It'll be a major spot in 20 years, believe me!" rtz
> ~~*Q*~~

And most important of all, Cushman Motor Scooters were all born at a plant in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Howard