I pretty much figure it will be about 3 more seasons before we see them with a winning record again..
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I pretty much figure it will be about 3 more seasons before we see them with a winning record again..
From the wiki.
Overland Park has consistently ranked in the top 10 of CNN/Money and Money magazine's 100 Best Cities to Live in the United States. [4] In the 2008 rankings, Overland Park placed 9th[5]. Additionally, the city was ranked as one of "The Best Places to Raise Your Kids in 2009"[6] and was ranked 3rd for "America's 10 Best Places to Grow Up" [7]. It is also the setting for the Showtime series The United States of Tara.
Its a suburb of Kansas City for those of you that don't know.
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Originally Posted by ABakker
Isnt kansas city boring?
Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.........Quote:
Originally Posted by Ashley39
Don't tell anyone. lol
Its gotten a bit better with the Power and Light District and the completion of the Sprint Center, but yeah....... Not a whole lot ever occurs in KC.
We have fountains and shopping...... but thats more the Plaza........ not a guys city.
[edit]Entertainment
Owen Aaronovitch, actor
Lesley Ash, actress
Ray Ashcroft, actor
Derek Bailey, musician, writer[14]
Nick Banks, musician, drummer for Pulp
Matthew Bannister, BBC Radio 5 Live presenter
Carol Barnes, newsreader [2]
Keith Barron, actor
Josephine Barstow, opera singer
Arthur Baynes, aka Stainless Stephen, Music hall comedian[15]
Dave Berry, musician
Sean Bean, actor
J. Stuart Blackton, film producer
Gavin Bryars, musician
Alastair Burnet, news reader
Marti Caine, comedienne
Tony Capstick, comedian, actor, musician and broadcaster
Paul Carrack, musician, formerly of Ace and Squeeze
Joanne Catherall, musician, singer in The Human League
Steve Clark, musician, late Def Leppard guitarist
Jessica-Jane Clement, actor, model
Jarvis Cocker, musician, lead singer of Pulp
Joe Cocker, singer
Maurice Colbourne, actor
Christopher Colquhoun, actor
Jamie Cook, musician, guitarist for the Arctic Monkeys
Henry Coward, choral conductor
Richard Coyle, actor and comedian
Thomas Craig, actor
Stephen Daldry, film director
Bruce ****inson, musician, lead singer of Iron Maiden
Candida Doyle, keyboard player with Pulp
Steve Edwards, singer.
Joe Elliott, musician, lead singer of Def Leppard
Graham Fellows, comedian, actor, best known as "John Shuttleworth"
Martin Fry, pop singer with ABC
Mark Gasser, Concert Pianist
Peter Glossop, opera singer
Brian Glover, actor & wrestler
Michael Grandage, Theatre director
Richard Hawley, musician, formerly of The Longpigs
Paul Heaton, musician, formerly of The Beautiful South
Matthew Helders, musician, drummer for the Arctic Monkeys
Charlotte Hudson, television presenter
Robert Hudson, actor
Jayne Irving, television presenter
Eddie Izzard, comedian [3]
Stephen Jones, musician and novelist, formerly of Babybird
Bobby Knutt, actor & comedian
Tim Lever, music producer
James Lomas, Olivier award winning actor
Steve Mackey, bass player with Pulp
Patricia Maynard, actor
Jonny Maudling, composer
James McCourt, television presenter
Richard McCourt, television presenter
Patrick McGoohan, actor
Róisín Murphy, musician, formerly lead singer of Moloko
Philip Oakey, musician, lead singer of The Human League
Tony Oxley, musician
Judy Parfitt, actor
Michael Palin, comedian, actor, and travel presenter
Nick Park, Animator & Film Director [4]
Mike Percy, music producer
Donald Pleasence, actor
Martin Powell, former keyboardist of heavy metal band Cradle of Filth
Ian Reddington, actor
Rony Robinson, broadcaster and writer
Rick Savage, musician, bassist of Def Leppard
Russell Senior, musician, former guitarist for Pulp
David Slade, film director
Linda Smith (comedian)
Susan Ann Sulley, musician, singer in The Human League
Oliver Sykes, musician, vocalist in Bring Me The Horizon
Alex Turner, musician, vocalist and songwriter for the Arctic Monkeys
Anna Walker, television presenter
Martyn Ware, musician Heaven 17
Mark Webber (guitarist), guitarist with Pulp
Dominic West, actor
Frank White, musician
Mark White, musician with ABC
[edit]Politics
Nick Ainger, politician
Clive Betts
David Blunkett, former Cabinet minister (Education Secretary, Home Secretary, and Work and Pensions Secretary)[16]
William Broadhead, early trade unionist[16]
Richard Caborn, Minister for Sport
Brent Charlesworth, former Lord Mayor of Nottingham and also Sheriff of Nottingham
John Christopher Cutler, second governor of the State of Utah
William Dronfield, early trade unionist
George Hadfield, 19th century politician
Evan Harris, Liberal Democrat politician
Roy Hattersley, politician
Samuel Holberry, Chartist[16]
Isaac Ironside, Chartist[16]
Oona King, politician
Helen Jackson
J. Batty Langley, politician and trade unionist
Nicholas Liverpool, President of Dominica
Frederick Mappin, cutler and politician
J. T. Murphy, leader of the Shops' Stewards Movement and the Communist Party of Great Britain
John Parker, 19th century politician
Samuel Plimsoll, politician and advocate of the Plimsoll line
Joseph Pointer, politician and trade unionist
Mark Serwotka, trade unionist
Derek Simpson, trade unionist
Angela Smith
Henry Stephenson, politician and businessman[9]
Samuel Danks Waddy
Cecil Henry Wilson, politician
G. H. B. Ward, campaigner for access to moorland[16]
Hugo Young, journalist and political commentator
[edit]Religion
John Balguy, divine and philosopher[2]
Geoffrey Blythe, Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry 1503–c1530
John Blythe, Bishop of Salisbury 1493–1500
Alexander Kilham, founder of the Methodist New Connexion church
James Moorhouse, Bishop of Manchester 1886–1903[9]
Robert Sanderson, Bishop of Lincoln 1660–1663[9]
[edit]Science and Engineering
Richard Bentall, clinical psychologist
Henry Bessemer, engineer[17]
Thomas Boulsover, inventor of Sheffield Plate
Harry Brearley, inventor of Stainless steel
Leonard Cockayne, botanist
Samuel Earnshaw, mathematician
Mark Firth, steel manufacturer
Sir John Fowler, railway engineer and co-designer of the Forth Railway Bridge[18]
Robert Hadfield, innovator of steel alloys
Professor David Hughes, astronomer
Benjamin Huntsman, inventor and steel manufacturer[19]
Amy Johnson, pioneering female aviator
Pieter Kok, co-developer of quantum interferometric optical lithography
Hans Adolf Krebs, biochemist, winner of the 1953 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine[20]
Sir Harry Kroto, chemist, winner of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry[21]
Joseph Locke, railway engineer
David Mellor, cutler
Juda Hirsch Quastel, biochemist
Frederick Brian Pickering, metallurgist
Helen Sharman, astronaut (first Briton in space)
Henry Clifton Sorby, microscopist and geologist
Richard J. Roberts, biochemist
John Roebuck, inventor[2]
Ian G Walker, electrical engineer
John Paul Wild, astronomer
[edit]Sport
John Amaechi, former NBA basketball player
Gordon Banks, footballer
Dave Bassett, football manager
Steven Bellamy, British Karate Team
Danny Bergara, footballer and football manager
Jon Brown, marathon runner
Gary Cahill, footballer
Lee Chapman, footballer
Charles Clegg, former England footballer and Chairman of the Football Association
William Clegg, former England footballer and politician
Sebastian Coe, athlete
Tommy Crawshaw, footballer for England and Shefffield Wednesday.
Derek Dooley, footballer
Malcolm Elliott, Professional cyclist
Jessica Ennis, athlete
David Ford, Footballer, scored in 1966 F.A. Cup Final
William Foulke, aka "Fatty" Foulks. Goalkeeper
Trevor Francis, footballer and football manager
Redfern Froggatt, former England footballer
Paul Goodison, sailor
Herol 'Bomber' Graham, boxer
Andrew Griffiths, field hockey forward
Keith Hackett, football referee
Naseem Hamed, boxer
Ernest Harper, former Olympic athlete
Donna Hartley, Olymic sprinter & Commonwealth gold medalist
David Hirst, former England footballer
Emlyn Hughes, footballer and football manager
Brendan Ingle, boxing trainer
Don Megson, footballer
Gary Megson, footballer and football manager
Ben Moon, rock climber
John Motson, football commentator.
Johnny Nelson, boxer
Carlton Palmer, former England footballer
Tony Parkes, assistant football manager
Steve Peat, Professional cyclist. Three time UCI downhill world cup overall series champion
Albert Quixall, former England footballer
Jamie Reeves, Former winner of World's Strongest Man
Uriah Rennie, Football referee
Ryan Rhodes, Boxer
Dave Richards, Chairman of the FA Premier League and former Chairman of Sheffield Wednesday
Mark Roe, professional golfer, coach and commentator
Alan Rouse, mountaineer
John Sadler, sports writer
Jackie Sewell, former England footballer
Billy Sharp, Footballer
John Sherwood, International 400 metre Hurdler.
Sheila Sherwood, International Long Jumper 1962 - 1974.
David Sherwood, tennis player
Ron Shudra, former NHL Ice Hockey player
Joe Simpson, mountaineer
Jim Smith, footballer and football manager
Ron Springett, former England goalkeeper
Mel Sterland, former England footballer
Roger Taylor, tennis player, Wimbledon semi-finalist 1973
Geoff Thompson, chairman of the Football Association
James Toseland, motorcycle racer, 2004 and 2007 Superbike World Champion
George Ulyett, former Test cricketer
Michael Vaughan, Captain of the England cricket team from 2003 to 2008
Chris Waddle, former England footballer
Edward Wainwright, former Test cricketer
Neil Warnock, footballer and football manager
Nicky Weaver, goalkeeper
Howard Wilkinson,ex England football manager
Justin Wilson, motor-racing driver
Dennis Woodhead, footballer 1947 - 1959
Chris Woods, former England goalkeeper
Clinton Woods, boxer
Nigel Worthington, footballer and football manager
Harry Wragg, jockey & trainer
Harry Wright, major league baseball player[22]
[edit]Business and others
Charles Boot, of Henry Boot & Co., developer of Pinewood Studios
John Brown, industrialist[2]
John George Graves, entrepreneur and philanthropist
Arnold Loosemore, World War I soldier awarded the Victoria Cross
Mary Queen of Scots, held under house arrest in Sheffield for 14 years
Charles Peace, notorious murderer[23]
Peter Stringfellow, multi-millionaire businessman and footballer
George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, Earl Marshal and gaoler of Mary Queen of Scots
Joseph William Thornton, confectioner, founder of Thorntons
Do I win? We have the founder of Thorntons!
(The list is to long...:p)
Do I win? We have the founder of Thorntons!
(The list is to long...:p)[/QUOTE]
I think the last execution in an entire country wins.
I'm the most famous from my city, as I have written several controversial books, that are know in great parts of europe.
Call it a draw...;)Quote:
Originally Posted by StormSurge
Explain.... What sort of controversial books?Quote:
Originally Posted by Zumbar
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Where I live: (Leicester, UK)
Home of the Leicester Tigers, one of the best Rugby Union club teams in the world
Famous people:
Simon de Montfort, founder of the British Parliament
Lady Jane Grey, Queen for 9 days
Richard III, King of England
Thomas Cook, yes that one...
Kasabian
Gok Wan
Engelbert Humperdinck
Richard Attenborough (Jurassic Park)
David Attenborough (broadcaster and naturalist)
Gary Lineker
Emile Heskey
Peter Shilton
Dion Dublin
Martin Corry
Martin Johnson
Mark Selby
Joseph Merrick (The Elephant Man)
And a whole lot more.....
Then Eindhoven, the Netherlands, the place I originate from.
Philips Electronics
DAF (car manufacturer, now trucks & part of Paccar)
As most people aren't famous in the world I'll try to name just those who can be known by some of you.
Rik Smits (Professional Basketball player Indiana Pacers)
Paul Haarhuis (Tennis)
Philip Cocu (Football)
Frits Philips (of the company)
Rick van den Hurk (baseball)
And then a whole list of singers, actors, politicians, sportspeople famous only in the Netherlands.
Oh and PSV of course, the best football team of the Netherlands of the last 30 years.
don't mind him he always post non sense stuffsQuote:
Originally Posted by EduLeics I