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Famous people from your area.

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Famous people from your area.
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RE: Famous people from your area.
April 11, 2012 at 10:05 pm
-Errol Flynn
-Joseph Lyons (Aust Prime Minister, also my paternal grandmother's grandfather)
-Ricky Ponting
-David Boon
-Princess Mary of Denmark
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RE: Famous people from your area.
April 11, 2012 at 10:37 pm
Falwell. Oh, wait this isn't a thread about infamous people. Unfortunately, he's the only person I can think of. Tongue
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RE: Famous people from your area.
April 11, 2012 at 10:38 pm
Edward Abbey
Zane Grey
Stephanie (ugh) Meyer
Susan Sontag
Frank Lloyd Wright
Alice Cooper
Waylon Jennings
Stevie Nicks
Cochise
Geronimo
Cesar Chavez
Reggie Jackson
Phil Mickelson
Jim Palmer
Hugh Downs
Steve Allen
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Famous people from your area.
April 11, 2012 at 11:32 pm
Bon Scot, I win Big Grin
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#15
RE: Famous people from your area.
April 12, 2012 at 12:23 am
No one.
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RE: Famous people from your area.
April 12, 2012 at 1:03 am
(April 11, 2012 at 11:32 pm)Zen Badger Wrote: Bon Scot, I win Big Grin

Worship (large) Indeed you do, my man. Indeed you do. (Although NoMoreFaith's list is pretty cool too!)
"No-one who decides that scientific evidence is not for him and that his own experience or the stories of others is the be all and end all of deciding what's true ever has the right to call people searching for reliable, repeatable evidence narrow-minded. That is hypocrisy of the most laughable kind." Derren Brown - Tricks of the Mind.
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RE: Famous people from your area.
April 12, 2012 at 12:57 pm (This post was last modified: April 12, 2012 at 1:00 pm by Cyberman.)
Quite a few famous figures were born and/or have lived in my hometown. This is just a sample:

- Jerome K Jerome (3 Men In A Boat)

- Tom Major-Ball a.k.a. John "Oh yes, Norma" Major's dad

- Noddy Holder, Slade frontman ("IT'S CHRIIIIIIIIIISTMAAAAAAAAAS!") - incidentally, my Dad tells me how he used to help Slade set up for their early gigs

- The Honourable Sue Nicholls, actress (Corrie's Audrey Roberts, but forever in my heart as the sternutationally-challenged Miss Popov from Rentaghost)

- Don Gilet, actor (Runaway Bride Donna's fiancé and, later, EastEnders' homicidally duplicitous preacher Lucas Johnson)

- Rob Halford of Judas Priest

- Meera 'Kumars At No 10' Syal

- Frank 'Z-Cars' Windsor

- Drum 'n' Bassman Goldie

An interesting little aside: although not from around here, John Wesley of Methodist fame was almost lynched by an angry mob who took exception to the tone of one of his sermons, close to the old Court House just down the road from where I'm sitting.
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#18
RE: Famous people from your area.
April 12, 2012 at 4:31 pm
Warren Buffet
Fred Astaire
Malcolm X
Gerald Ford
Marlon Brando
Bob Gibson
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#19
RE: Famous people from your area.
April 12, 2012 at 5:03 pm
I can only think of one and that's Charles Dickens.
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RE: Famous people from your area.
April 12, 2012 at 10:32 pm (This post was last modified: April 12, 2012 at 10:34 pm by R-e-n-n-a-t.)
I like to think that Charles Darwin lives within my soul. Does that count?







(not really)
For the record, I don't believe in any of the "soul" nonsense.
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