Where be you?

[Wortcov]

I'm from Sweden, the land of snow, blond people and more snow 

[Derf]

And I'm from Texas, the land of rednecks, cowboy wannabes and chili cookoffs.

[trekgeezer]

I live near here.

I actually live just a few miles away, but I was born and raised in Malvern and just moved back here 1996.

You'll notice the notable natives include a few sports folks, plus Frank Bonner (real name Boers) and Billy Bob Thornton.  I went to high school with Billy Bob and though I knew him we weren't friends. My older brothers knew Frank when they were growing up.

I was just in Malvern on Saturday talking to Rick Dial, who said he had just been in California a couple of weeks ago working with Robert Duvall and Jeff Bridges on a movie.

Duvall met Rick when Billy cast him in Sling Blade.  Duvall took a liking to Rick and throws him small acting gigs. Rick owns a big furniture store and is sweating the economic down turn we're having here.  He's stated before that he has no interest in being a full time actor.

[schmendrik]

Delaware County, Pennsylvania, a suburb to the west of Philadelphia.

[Doggett]

A London borough.
Not one of the intresting ones.

[ER]

Walford, doggett?!!! Is your London borough Walford? Do you know the Beales and the Watts and the rest of the gang? 

[Eyesore]

Las Vegas, Nevada. I love the desert!

[Paquita]

I'm from Chicago, but I wish I was from here: http://www.kitchenkettle.com/. HEE!!

[Zapranoth]

Houck, of the places in Alaska I've been, Seward is one of the places I was tempted to work.  One of my rotations as a resident I took working at the ER in Seward.  That was fun.   =)    Remember watching the first Pirates of the Caribbean in the little sticky-floored theater there in town, and almost pulled the weekend of the Mt Marathon race.   That would have been the ultimate for ER weekends.  A fun town, and the doctors in town are mostly friends of mine from my residency days.  Would have been one of the places in rural AK I would have liked to live in.

(Yeah, did a rotation in Bethel, too.  Bethel is a true life experience.  For the non-Alaskans, let me relate you this story:  I was hanging out at the AC store - think generic everything kind of store -- and as I was checking out, I noticed a pallet of blue Lysol behind the counter.  I asked the clerk what was up with that, and she very believably told me that kids would huff the Lysol, so it was kept behind the counter.  I said no way did anyone huff Lysol.  She replied that they liked the blue color cans best.)

For everyone else-- Mt Marathon is a little peak that comes up out of the edge of Seward, and every year a bunch of loons do a race up and down that bastard.  Running down a pretty good grade of slope -- people bounce and bust themselves down that slope, it's pretty amazing.  The ER and four-bed hospital are located conveniently at the foot of the mountain, so that people can basically tumble into a bloody heap right into the ER's door.   

Sorry.  Back to topic.  Didn't know you were in Seward, though, Houck,  What do you do there?

[dean]

The people who answered 'parts unknown' are some lost souls... 


Anyways, I'm from Australia, the land of Hugh Jackman and Mad Max.

[Javakoala]

I be from Topeka, Kansas, the apparently forgotten capital of Kansas.  At least we have a Godzilla film festival every year.

[Doctor Menard]

(Most of my growing up was in Mason, though.)

Growing up? You've never grown up.



I'm from the wonderful, technologically advanced, state of Cantuckee (misspelled by a lot as Kentucky).

[Derf]

I be from Topeka, Kansas, the apparently forgotten capital of Kansas.  At least we have a Godzilla film festival every year.

Hey! I went to grad school in Manhattan (KS) and drove to Topeka fairly often when I wanted to get out of town. I liked both cities quite well. I think this was before the days of any Godzilla film festivals, though  .

[Doggett]

Walford, doggett?!!! Is your London borough Walford? Do you know the Beales and the Watts and the rest of the gang? 

Nope, they're not real.

And even if they were they'd live in an intresting borough.

[ER]

But, Doggett, I've seen them many times on that wonderful reality show EastEnders. The camera follows them around through tragedies, Kevin's accident, Jay's stabbing, Pete's car wreck down under, Cathy and Mr. Wilmott-Brown, Pauline's cancer, Clare and Ian, Den's going on the lam... So much exciting stuff seems to happen to those people!