OPA!'s Silly Survey

no guru · **Posted:** Fri Feb 25, 2005 10:49 pm

Means "nearly an island." I assume because there's rivers around it. But there's rivers around lotsa places.

gong-li · **Posted:** Fri Feb 25, 2005 11:13 pm

born and bred in colombo, sri lanka

wenchlette · **Posted:** Sat Feb 26, 2005 2:07 am

Emerson, New Jersey

The Dreaded Marco · **Posted:** Sat Feb 26, 2005 2:32 am

Seattle, WA

duckyboy · **Posted:** Sat Feb 26, 2005 3:57 am

San Diego, CA

Sketch · **Posted:** Sat Feb 26, 2005 7:16 am

Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia

MontyTheMongoose · **Posted:** Sat Feb 26, 2005 12:22 pm

Sketch Wrote:

Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia

As well, distinctly absent [sic] from area in '96, when the Towers were exploded. You have something to hid, punk?

FT · **Posted:** Sat Feb 26, 2005 11:35 pm

Galveston, Texas

88 years after Jack "Unforgivable Blackness" Johnson

[img][367:500]http://graphics.jsonline.com/graphics/news/img/aug04/johnson082204.jpg[/img]

72 years after King "The Fountainhead" Vidor

32 years after Katherine "Mona from 'Who's the Boss'" Helmond

23 years after Valerie "MISS TESSMACHER!!!" Perrine

[img][650:321]http://www.comicbookhotties.com/images/valerie-perrine/large/valerie-perrine-07.jpg[/img]

23 years after Kay Bailey "Hillary ain't got nothin' on me" Hutchinson

22 years after Barry "Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe" White

14 years after Ron "'Bleeding Gums' Murphy" Taylor

9 years after Bill "Most expendable member of the Blue Collar Comedy Tour" Engvall

5 years after John "Cougar from 'Top Gun'" Stockwell

Lambchop · **Posted:** Sun Feb 27, 2005 1:16 am

Springfield, OH (Springfield, Springfield, it's a hell of a town...)

Birthplace of:
Vibes player Johnny Lytle
comedian Johnathan Winters
Boxer Davey Moore (subject of a Dylan song)

I think I'll stop there....

e-stone · **Posted:** Tue Mar 01, 2005 2:40 pm

warshington, dc

d · **Posted:** Tue Mar 01, 2005 2:43 pm

Atlanta, Georgia
South Fulton Hospital to be exact.

d · **Posted:** Tue Mar 01, 2005 2:52 pm

Yail Bloor Wrote:

Hmm, sorta, East Point and College Park used to be the preeminent south suburbs of Atlanta. My dad is from College Park and says that during the 50's and 60's it was basically like Peachtree City or any other suburb.

In the 70's the white-flight thing happened first in the city, then moved its way outward. The construction of the airport also wiped out about half of C.P. which caused alot of folks to "have" to get the fuck out.
These areas for sure got rougher (if you mean blacker? i'm not sure), but they have always maintained some pretty nice, old school neighborhoods where a lot of old white and black folks kept there streets up and maintained the identity that kept them from following the herd in the first place.

Since the late 90's this and most of Atlanta has been completely reinvested and is now home to middle class white and black yuppies and lots and lots of gaylords (butty-men if you will)

So to answer your question, East Point has never been close to the roughest part of ATL. Some places you may not wanna go, but I've bought beer at that Texaco (if you are talking about the one right on the main drag) at 4:00 am, payed my two-beer tax to the homeboys on the sidewalk and hustled my ass back to my homeboy's house who used to live down the street.

Sorry you got jacked shawty; at least you have your health.

I just read all this... I said Atlanta, not East Point, but same area. My mom's family was involved in a lot of politics/community stuff back in the 40s in College Park, and it was a really nice area at the time. Not a scary neighborhood by any means, esp. now with all the gentrification. It just turned more blue-collar, I guess. There are definitely worse areas in Atlanta, like Techwood Homes (r.i.p.-- first public housing ever, torn down for high-rise dorms for 96 Olympics) which was conveniently located next to Georgia Tech campus, and proudly displayed gunshot marks on the outside of our single dormitory building that resided on "that side" of North Avenue.

DHRjericho · **Posted:** Tue Mar 01, 2005 3:01 pm

Fairchild AFB, WA

two guns holla · **Posted:** Tue Mar 01, 2005 5:23 pm

robotboy Wrote:

MandyMoore..Fvdge? Wrote:

Yea, the weekend between the two work weeks of training I will be coming up to Chi-town. Do you guys drink alcoholic beers?

OH SNAP

Yea, I will mos def be in touch with Chitown folks closer to September.

mutty · **Posted:** Tue Mar 01, 2005 5:31 pm

FT Wrote:

Galveston, Texas

88 years after Jack "Unforgivable Blackness" Johnson

[img][367:500]http://graphics.jsonline.com/graphics/news/img/aug04/johnson082204.jpg[/img]

72 years after King "The Fountainhead" Vidor

32 years after Katherine "Mona from 'Who's the Boss'" Helmond

23 years after Valerie "MISS TESSMACHER!!!" Perrine

[img][650:321]http://www.comicbookhotties.com/images/valerie-perrine/large/valerie-perrine-07.jpg[/img]

23 years after Kay Bailey "Hillary ain't got nothin' on me" Hutchinson

22 years after Barry "Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe" White

14 years after Ron "'Bleeding Gums' Murphy" Taylor

9 years after Bill "Most expendable member of the Blue Collar Comedy Tour" Engvall

5 years after John "Cougar from 'Top Gun'" Stockwell

You always have to outdo us, don't ya!

Pagoda · **Posted:** Tue Mar 01, 2005 5:33 pm

Grand Rapids, MI

ouch!

nacho · **Posted:** Tue Mar 01, 2005 5:45 pm

Buffalo, NY

Elvis Fu · **Posted:** Tue Mar 01, 2005 8:09 pm

elephantstone Wrote:

warshington, dc

Why I oughta...

Yail Bloor · **Posted:** Tue Mar 01, 2005 8:35 pm

dnorwood Wrote:

Atlanta, Georgia
South Fulton Hospital to be exact.

same hospital sweety; my brother as well-----a true sign that you are from the South side of the ATL, South Fulton was comparable to Northside (the hospital with the most babies born in the US).

Now, after Grady and Southern Regional, it would rank as the least desirable hospital i would go to in Greater Black Hollywood.

Sketch · **Posted:** Wed Mar 02, 2005 5:14 am

FT, all those folks were born in Galveston on that date?

Monty, if by absent you mean "in class at Penn State," then I would agree. I have nothing to hide, copper. You got nothin' to book me on.

np: Garrison Starr - "Together"

FT · **Posted:** Wed Mar 02, 2005 11:52 am

Sketch Wrote:

FT, all those folks were born in Galveston on that date?

All born in Galveston, but not on the same date. It would just be their birthyear compared with my birthyear (1966). I knew a couple of them had been born in Galveston, but after doing some additional research, I stumbled upon such brilliance as the guy who did the voice of "Bleeding Gums" Murphy.

Gold, Jerry...GOLD!

almost · **Posted:** Wed Mar 02, 2005 12:01 pm

Austin, Tejas raised in Round Rock.

paladisiac · **Posted:** Wed Mar 02, 2005 12:29 pm

milwaukee, wisconsin, usa, north american continent, earth, milky way, universe-in-general, god's bung

FT · **Posted:** Wed Mar 02, 2005 1:59 pm

almost Wrote:

raised in Round Rock.

Cool. I grew up in San Marcos, and had a friend from Pflugerville.

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