Oddities in your hometown

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feeds@yuku.com (Kitten Gloves) — Sat, 03 May 2008 19:04:25 GMT

In my hometown there is a huge marine supply base and a (now abandoned) nike missle base, so many older homes there have bomb shelters in the back yard. You can always tell because the town is flat as hell and these particular homes have rows of hills in the yard. I wrote a story about it for the HS paper and got to go down in one, veddy creeepy.

You can also (illegally) as a teenager go have parties at the nike base, you can opentrap doors in the tops of the hills and go down...

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feeds@yuku.com (holeesmoke) — Sat, 03 May 2008 18:55:04 GMT

I work across the street from this.

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feeds@yuku.com (Lobsters) — Sat, 03 May 2008 18:54:24 GMT

Not necessarily oddities.....but Ma Barker was born in my hometown, and Nathan Boone (son of Daniel) is buried there.

The whole damn town is an oddity in and off it's self. that's why I got the hell outta there.

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feeds@yuku.com (lilnubber) — Sat, 03 May 2008 18:44:01 GMT

I still live in my hometown, so I don't dare post the oddest oddity which was named in Ripley's Believe It Or Not.

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feeds@yuku.com (Vegazguy) — Sat, 03 May 2008 16:54:42 GMT

we have a couple that i know of. there's a really cool house made of all kinds of stuff. it's really hard to describe so i'll have to take a picture of it the next time i'm close to it. then there's that one house that is completely underground and NOBODY knows it's location except the owner. i guess it was built in the 60's back when they were scurred of all that scary shit that was going on back then so they built it as a bunker type house. pretty cool. that i...

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feeds@yuku.com (Dharmit) — Sat, 03 May 2008 16:14:12 GMT

The Big Ragu?!! Nooooo!!

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feeds@yuku.com (Shag) — Sat, 03 May 2008 13:43:12 GMT

So um what exactly do they do with that rock?

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feeds@yuku.com (Tritonsrod) — Sat, 03 May 2008 13:40:39 GMT

The Phallic Rock:

Unquestionably a fertility symbol, this six-foot high carved stone, according to legend, will assist women wishing to become pregnant if they leave offerings and spend the night. Located at the top of a hill, and very close to the cliffs overlooking the ocean, Phallic Rock and the stone circle nearby seemed to be rich with energy - truly one of earth's powerful sacred...

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feeds@yuku.com (Shag) — Sat, 03 May 2008 13:24:41 GMT

kinghouseplant wrote:

Bahahahahaha. Fuckin khp. You rule.

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feeds@yuku.com (Shag) — Sat, 03 May 2008 13:19:07 GMT

A tale of human oddity from my hometown:

My friends and I were standing at the bar in a dimly-lit music hall, waiting to see our favorite local pothead band. A heavyset Mediterranean-looking older man was moving slowly around the room, sipping a beer and bopping slightly to the music. He had wild curly hair like a homeless person, and a general air of oiliness. He approached the bar and clumsily pushed aside my friend Mary Kate in his haste to order another beer. With a shocked...

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feeds@yuku.com (GoodNeighborgirl) — Sat, 03 May 2008 13:18:27 GMT

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feeds@yuku.com (CBRetriever) — Sat, 03 May 2008 12:41:46 GMT

what about the Miss Ima Hogg Mansion?

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feeds@yuku.com (SmrtAss) — Sat, 03 May 2008 12:38:23 GMT

Is there a wight way?

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feeds@yuku.com (merkyl) — Sat, 03 May 2008 12:28:17 GMT

Not necessarily an oddity but we have some dude named Daniel Wong running for mayor of Sugar Land. And ya, he pronounces it like you think he would.

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feeds@yuku.com (Jenny du Jour) — Sat, 03 May 2008 12:27:33 GMT

WeekiWacheeGirl wrote:

I used to go there when I was little!!

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feeds@yuku.com (The Electric Witch) — Sat, 03 May 2008 12:25:33 GMT

This is our mayor. Her name is Hazel McCallion and she is 182 years old and still in fine fettle.

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feeds@yuku.com (The Electric Witch) — Sat, 03 May 2008 12:21:57 GMT

Hamdingers wrote:
For fuck's sake. That's a statue of the Greek God Gamerous, God of the Amphibian Phallus. That's his powerful Turtle Cock. Why do you think sperm look like Tadpoles? Didn't you people go to High School?

All Hail to the Omnipotent Turtle Cock!!!
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feeds@yuku.com (WeekiWacheeGirl) — Sat, 03 May 2008 12:21:15 GMT

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feeds@yuku.com (Kimbob the Magnificent) — Sat, 03 May 2008 12:17:55 GMT

All we have that's weird is about 6-7 rug stores on the main strip. Nobody here buys the rugs, nobody is ever IN the rug stores, the same fading carpets have been in the windows for years and years.

I'm not sure what actual business is taking place there, but I don't think it has much to do with rugs.

Oh, we also have the dolphin topiaries. In the center of the main street are all these dolphin-shaped bushes. For every holiday, they "decorate" or...

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feeds@yuku.com (SmrtAss) — Sat, 03 May 2008 12:13:28 GMT

Cute little art piece:

Oddities in your hometown

feeds@yuku.com (Shag) — Sat, 03 May 2008 10:17:24 GMT

This statue is on the common in my hometown. There is no logical explanation for why the people in charge of statuary would decided that THIS was a good idea. Here's two angles so you can see it's not an optical illusion.