What's your country/state famous for?

[zoozilla]

Oregon,
Dumb hippy's who ride bikes
The Not quite as good as Washington state.

Oh, Oregon's not that bad.

From the "hippy" comment, I assume you live in Eugene?

Lots of free-thinkers and the like; better than being stuck with a bunch of moronic sheep, though.

 

[Frank_Sinatra_]

Being fat.

Colorado, skinniest state in the US!

 

[Vohn_exel]

Being Texas

 

[Hey Joe]

Perth is famous for being the most isolated city in the world and producing Hugh Jackman and Heath Ledger. That's about it.

 

[Fruitloops89]

10,000 lakes, Prince, Bob Dylan, MST3K.

And if one more person on voice chat on Xbox or PS3 makes fun of my accent, or when I am out of state and it comes into question, I will hunt you down with a spork!

 

[HPoirot]

Washington
Rain,rain,rain,rain,rain,rain,rain,rain,rain,rain,rain
Apples
Grunge
Microsoft
Salmon
Jimi Hendrix
and sadly Twilight(the author hasn't even visited here)

 

[samurai_jeff]

or for knowing how to spell tolerant

 

[samurai_jeff]

Being fat.

Colorado, skinniest state in the US!

but the state with the highest incidence of multiple sclerosis

 

[Iskenator67]

Illinois is famous for Lincoln and nothing else.

 

[stormcaller]

Australia- Poisoinous things and boomerangs

A.C.T- Fuck all

 

[Quantana]

netherlands
drugs whores and woodenshoes

 

[monalith]

australia: sex with women
Northen Territory: salt water crocodiles that prefer germans and crocs that kill sharks

 

[big_shaq12]

British Columbia, Canada. let's see...

The California roll was invented here.

Trees

Cutting down trees

Beatles that kill trees

and some great weed

 

[Hey Joe]

Oh, I forgot Western Australia.

HOLES IN THE GROUND

 

[AbstractD]

Belgium has..
Waffles!
And chocolate.
And waffles with chocolate.

All else is irrelevant.

 

[ioxles]

Being a big rock made from billions of dead creatures that has coalesced over millennia into limestone.

Shrine of ancient civilizations (including carthaginians, phoenicians and romans).

Having a main road which crosses a runway.

Being the only place I know of in which you have to use your Passport on almost a daily basis.

Being a hub for online gaming company's (yes partygaming, 888, and pretty much all the rest are based here for tax benefits).


A pillar of Hercules (for all thats worth).

I basically live in a tourist attraction. Dammit Gibraltar.

 

[Ben Jamin]

Australias is one of the Worlds most culturally diverse places so we pretty much
get everything you people have mentioned.

Also Kangaroos and Koalas.

 

[Areani]

Sweden is famous for the Gothenburg metal, have shot a man up in space (Krister Fuglesang), having sexy women, and...well, that's all I've got so far. I'll come up with more later.

Don't forget meatballs, IPRED, The Piratebay, being a SOCIALIST NIGHTMARE, tunafish and so on

ABBA, IKEA and having the first hockey team ever to win both the World Championship and the Olympics in the same year.

 

[manaman]

Oregon,
Dumb hippy's who ride bikes
The Not quite as good as Washington state.

Yay Washington! I had a chance to visit Portland not to long ago. Reminded me of Seattle, with a little less to do, and no giant octopi in the waters around it.

Then again how can it be nice to say your state is known for rain, no sun, overpriced coffee, and the worst of all - sparkling vampires.