I figured I would start off with a video from you-tube.
Ashland, KY - Staple Gun Stickup
A couple interesting facts about it;
1) It used to be home to the only stop light in the county. It was taken down because there wasn't enough traffic to justify its existence.
2) Republic used to have the only functioning elevator in the county, but when the mine closed it stopped getting used. The freight elevator in the court house is pending repairs.
Rainy Day Railfanning Ashland, KY, Part 1.
note 1. There really is a part 2.
note 2. C&O used to operate one of the largest switchyards in the world in nearby Raceland/Russell before merging into CSX.
It brings me much shame.
-The Begals (funny as in laughable). Highest incidence of 7-figure felons.
-Existing subway tunnels from back in the day, but, in true hometown fashion, bungled (all manner of rumors, many corruption-based). Now, a traffic nightmare (I-75 come rush hour is truly purgatory) and a local govt. that can't get it together. Oh, let's entertain a trolly from here to the ghetto (swear to God)! No! We had the ways and means, but they always f' it up...
-Frisch's Big Boy. He's kinda' funny; hometown icon (ah, an American fat ass :rolleyes
.-GoettaFest (weird-o German food). Long story, alright w/ eggs & bacon.
-Jammin' on Main (as in Main St.) Nothing like watching a crowd of lukewarm drunk ppl rockin' out to Seven Mary 3 (I know, I know :rolleyes
and then getting promptly tear gassed (try YouTube).-April ('03 IIRC) riots...again, YouTube, it's messed up.
The next time we saw the speed limit sign, it was raised 3 feet higher up the pole.
Fortunately, it was just a joke played on us by the city council. We didn't know whether to laugh or riot! Within a week we had our 45 mph speed limit and all ended well.
The piece of paper was posted by the owner of the store. It was a death pool where people could bet on when they thought Obama would be assassinated. I had no idea that the sign was up because I shop at a different store. Well there was a lot of outrage and our town ended up making national news. We even got visits from the secret service and there was all kinds of news vans parked out across the street from the store. The owner took the death pool down and ended up taking a "fishing vacation" while the media was outside of his shop.
Ha!
I live in Pittsburgh... a drinking town with a football problem.
I'm originally from Cleveland ... a drinking town without football. We don't even have a team. I swear. ;) Oh, we also don't have any sort of baseball team any longer, either. Basketball? Yeah, we got us some of that. :P
I live in Standish Maine. It's a bit west of Portland. Standish is a pretty small town as far as population goes. Shortly after Obama was elected president a piece of paper appeared on the front door of a convience store here in town.
The piece of paper was posted by the owner of the store. It was a death pool where people could bet on when they thought Obama would be assassinated. I had no idea that the sign was up because I shop at a different store. Well there was a lot of outrage and our town ended up making national news. We even got visits from the secret service and there was all kinds of news vans parked out across the street from the store. The owner took the death pool down and ended up taking a "fishing vacation" while the media was outside of his shop.
Around here he would have seen his business increase dramatically and plenty of betting. He and the Governator are not popular in this area! (Don't blame me, California, I voted for Butch!)
Back to funny hometown stories, in my actual hometown of San Jose, a man pulled a four-year old girl into an alley off of 4th street and was just starting to sexually assault her. Her crying caught the attention of a guy walking by. He went to her rescue, but the creep hit him with a brick and took off running. From out of other places, some other men came out to see what the ruckus was about. The first guy told them the story and pointed the fleeing perv out to them. That bunch of guys took off running after him, pursuing him over backyard fences like a pack of wolves with their kill in sight. Finally the perv tries to force his way through the back door of a house. The lady who lived there saw the chase coming over her fence, didn't know what was going on, and met the party at the back door with her broom. She beat the hell out of the perv, the pursuers grabbed him and... uh... "held him for the police", shall we say. The lady called the cops, and when they got there he had two eyes swollen shut, a busted jaw, several missing teeth, multiple broken ribs and a broken leg.
The police report read that he had injured himself while climbing over the fence.
You do know why Toledo doesn't have a pro team right?....
Because then Cincy and Cleveland would want one!!!
Ahhhh
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!
Hey. That's only funny cuz ... cuz ... cuz it's totally true. Dammit.
:D
ZB... you are a cool dude...
Oh, I know. :P
Cleveland is a sad, sad place to call your home town. It truly is. We've got the Rock Hall, but they hold the induction ceremonies in NY. And we've got ... well, that's about it. ;) The Great Lakes Brewing Co is pretty damn good, though. I actually live closer to Akron now (which, by comparison, is experiencing a resurgence of sorts), but C-Town will always be my town. For better or worse. Oh, who am I kidding? For worse it is. :D
I've been to Pittsburgh many times. I actually like the place and found the people there to be pretty damn nice overall. Even when they found out where I was from, it was all good. 'Course I've never been there during the NFL season. ;) When I did go, it was during a certain period where a certain culture was pretty popular amongst the younger people of our respective cities. The Cleveland kids and the Pittsburgh kids always got along. Like I said, though, football was never involved. Though where Cleveland is concerned, football hasn't been involved with anything for a long, long time.
If I am interpreting this correctly, we might have something in common...;)
It's quite possible. Those were some ... blurry days. ;)
Ahhhh..
Then we do have something in common!:D
Heh. Feels like such a long time ago now. Man, who the hell was I back then? :P
Heh. Feels like such a long time ago now. Man, who the hell was I back then? :P
Living_Babies?
Living_Babies?
Interesting theory, sir. Consider it considered.
Hey. That's only funny cuz ... cuz ... cuz it's totally true. Dammit.
This little emoticon will spare you pages of explanation.Yeah. There was a time...
Once upon a time, 1tg was born in Columbus (scarlet is for the blood trail in my wake, gray is for the gray area I've fostered in confusion :rolleyes
. Having moved all over the f'ing state, I found himself in Cleveland (North Olmsted specifically), uh, '85-'88 IIRC. And I'll be damned if Kosar and the Browns didn't kick ass (then). Well, until it got to AFC time and Denver...well, you know how this ends. But yes, I do remember sort of an era of good feelings w/ Pittsburg (
, Hated). Very similar mindset, nice ppl. Oh, and it's Zombietown too (Romero, represent yo!)...3 rivers and non-bouyant corpses ahoi.Fastforward, another move, another "my roots have been torn assunder" moment to Cincinnati (again) in '88. Just in time for an actual good season for the Bengals (Superbowl vs. 49'ers). And, they blew it, of course...
Thing is, they have this weirdo grudge w/ Pittsburg, which I still don't understand, but would talk trash about Cleveland...a lot. While ago, fans were tossing crap onto the field, Benglas coach, "Hey ppl, chill out, etc., this isn't Cleveland!" Oh, man, the outrage up North got bad quick...then the Battle of Ohio, and comically, Cleveland beat the Hell out of them. Good. Poetic.
Anyway, what I have come to learn: still dig the Indians and always liked the Reds since childhood (thanks to grandparents in Cincy then). I used to love the Browns...then Art Modelle , that bastard, well, you know what he did. Still, I wish them well. Benglas, I just can't respect a team of thugs and gold-plated egos. Laughingstock. Stealers though, solid, good guys. I take a page from my dad in Columbus basically; Buckeyes diehard, no questions asked. Despises Bengals, kind of gave up on Browns "after", but swears by the Penguins (hockey is always gold) and a kind nod to the Steelers.
Oh, and Kitty, loved that righteous "chase scene". I wish we had some action down here like that to dispel bystander apathy. Apparently, this section of ghetto real estate down here (Over the Rhine), in terms of density and square footage, has like the highest incidence of violence in a recent poll.
Magical mystery curses?
National Interscholastic Basketball Tournament, 1917-1930
Year Champions Runners-Up Score
1928 Ashland (KY) Canton (IL) 15-10
Also, going way back in football...
High School Football National Championship
Year Champion(s) Record Coach Selector(s)
1931 Ashland, KY 10-0 Paul Jenkins NSNS
How many small towns can boast of both the national championship of football and of basketball. These awards were not broken down by size of school.
That's 1 bar for every 384 people. We also have Country Thunder here once a year, but that's sadly leaving this year.
those charity fun-runs? the little ones? well, ours are like 10 MILES LONG....:O
well, where i live now, redstone arsenal, we blow up stuff out of boredom sometimes. like, on the fourth of july, we took some extra C4 we had and lit that s*** up! sometimes, living on base, is like being in our own little world...
those charity fun-runs? the little ones? well, ours are like 10 MILES LONG....:O
Umm. If you 'lit up' C4, nothing would have happened. Something every aspiring bomb-tech should know. :P
1) A lake that (theoretically) has as many corpses as fish.
2) A Chinese Taoist temple dedicated to a Water God. Still (infrequently) used as a place of worship.
3) A series of underground tunnels that connect a number of older buildings.
Is your town owned by the Triad or something?
Nope...no Triads here...well...there was a large Chinese population back in the day. But I know for a fact that we do have a number of ancient Fraternal Organizations that gather here.
Oh, I can't believe I almost forgot about the cemetery (oldest city owned cemetery west of the Mississippi and burial site of over 10,000 people.)
Most of the funny stuff we get is from the local paper's headlines, like a few years ago when the front page was dedicated to an article following the headline "Dead body found in graveyard". However, it was actually some bloke who'd been stabbed several times and dumped there.
We are also part time home of "celebrity" Sir Jimmy Saville, who once entered the confectioner's shop owned by the brother of one of my dad's friends, and walked up to the counter, supposedly disguised, and pretended to be a foreign dignitary.
The old 'gay bar', more a gay-friendly bar, 'Bacchus', can only be entered through the door in the side alley next to it as, being a very old gay bar, it needed a secret entrance and knock to enter due to the illegality of such places in times past, and until a year or so back, had a sign saying 'Entrance at rear'.
Finally (I will shut up some time this week), Robert Palmer of 'Addicted to Love' fame, used to live there and work in the local newspaper, and upon the day he revealed his intent to leave and focus on his music career, his boss told him he'd 'never make it in music'.
Umm. If you 'lit up' C4, nothing would have happened. Something every aspiring bomb-tech should know. :P
Spoken like someone who needs to blow things up more often.
Finally (I will shut up some time this week), Robert Palmer of 'Addicted to Love' fame, used to live there and work in the local newspaper, and upon the day he revealed his intent to leave and focus on his music career, his boss told him he'd 'never make it in music'.
So you're sayin' you've got a prophet living there? :P
Spoken like someone who needs to blow things up more often.
Well, I do. But I'm also right. C4 needs intense heat and pressure to detonate. That's why it's usually set off using det cord. Fire alone won't do it. During Vietnam, guys would use small chunks of C4 to heat their meals. Cuz when set on fire, it doesn't boom. It burns. One of the major plusses of the stuff is that it is so stable.