Your hometown....

We are gonna play the hometown game.

What has your hometown given the world?

My hometown spawned Ben Roethlisberger.
All of the sudden everyone hates the browns....

Tom Hanks

Brian Jones.

Also, that polar explorer guy.

Some of Kurt Cobain's first gigs and Sleater-Kinney, a street I used to live on.

carl sandburg

* me (duh)
* Radiohead
* Oxford Universities
* Oxford shoes!
* Lewis Carrol
* me (again)

36 Crazyfists

Jarome Iginla

Matthew Good. Nickleback

jesse james

Nothing. If anyone can find someone of note that actually came from my hometown I will send you a present.

The Ozark Mountain Daredevils
Fried cashew chicken
Brad Pitt

Rachel McAdams
The death of Jumbo the elephant
Joe Thorton
once Railway capital of Canada

Johny Appleseed

I was born on the Fort Ord army base near Monterey, CA. It's now closed as a base, but once on an episode of MASH, Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan said she was born there.

Sorry, that's all I got.

There's supposedly some kind of monster in Lake Hopatcong... Something like the Loch Ness one.

A 'ho lotta jews

Kathy Ireland
and the girl from Island of the Blue Dolphins.

I'm from Brooklyn so there are lots of things. Christopher Wallace to name just one.

My hometown has given you the guy who kidnapped/killed Dru Sjodin.

And really not much else.

Hershey's chocolate

Tom Keifer of 'Cinderella' and Mike Scioscia former LA Dodgers catcher and manager of the Anaheim Angels.

Not bad for a little suburb of Philadelphia.

for this alone, the world is eternally grateful. thank you, Oxford!

my hometown produced Tinker Air Force Base, or more accurately, Tinker Air Force Base produced my hometown. yay.

We had one jewish kid in my highschool. I don't know what he's doing today, but apparently nothing that has gotten his name in the news.

And no I will not be sending him to you in the mail as a prize.


And to answer the other questions... yes, it is an indian name. It means "lake of many coves".

I've been in the lake many times and never encountered a monster. Never heard that story either. However it is the largest manmade lake in New Jersey.