Best of your best - Your Top 25

I am from South Georgia and Here is my top 15

1. College Football is king in the South. We don't much care about pro sports, maybe because none of ours are any good.

2. Hot humid summers temps regularly reach 99-100 with 99% humidity.

3. Iced tea cools us southern Boys down.

4. Grits, Some folks call it cream of corn, but it grated a bit finer.

5. Coca Cola was invented in Georgia

6. Georgia Peaches

7. Vidalia Georgia Onions

8. Georgia Peanuts. Boiled especially is good.

9. Mustard greens

10. Turnip greens

11. The Masters Golf tournament

12. Quail hunting

13. Ft Benning Army base

14. Joanne Woodward

15. Warm weather almost yearround

Metralla, I hope someone corrects me if I am wrong, but cream cheese may come from Philly. We don't take it too seriously, as New Yawkas embrace it more for their bagels. Perfect weather is nothing to sneeze at. My only question is, does it get boring after a while? We get it so rarely that when it does come we go absolutely batty from not knowing how to handle it.

I should have said "yous guys" like we always do when speaking, but I write better than I speak(so you can tell how badly I speak).

I forgot about ice cream. Philadelphia ice cream is a different process, and people still think it is the best way to make it. Unfortunately, neither Breyer's nor Bassett's are made here any longer.

Gunbei, you got me. Yes, the Executioner is in my opinion, the best boxer of the past 5 years. He wants to prove it too. Says emphatically he will go up and down in weight to straight up knock out all the boxers people talk about more than him - Oscar, Roy Jones, etc. Tip of the hat to Joey Giardello and Joe Frazier(even though he's really from South Carolina) and a long line of Philly left hookers.

Great list Nrchy, I really want to try the brats and cheese of Wisconsin. Diverse ethnicity is just as you said, great restaurants, I know just what you mean as we are also lucky enough to have that here.

Chuck, I love your list, Number 2 excepted. They say you haven't really eaten a peach until you've been to Georgia. While our Jersey peaches are heaven, I have to believe that those from Georgia are on another level.

Which just made me remember - Jersey tomatoes and corn, and to a lesser degree, blueberries and cranberries. That's why they call it the Garden State.

Oh, and on our (Pennsylvania) side, we have the Mushroom Capital of the world in Kennet Square, PA. I guess you could then say we are all full of %$@& around here, as many have said of me here.

I used to live in San Jose. San Jose has more than perfect weather. But, you have to think outside the box, so to speak. In other words, it isn't San Jose so much as all the places you can get to in just a short drive. So, with that in mind, even though I don't live there anymore, I grew up there and feel the need to defend it a little --

1) Santa Cruz -- home of one of the oldest wooden roller coasters, some fine beaches, and vintage hippies.

2) Lake Tahoe -- in just a few short hours, you can be swimming in one of the most beautiful lakes in the world in summer, skiing on some incredible slopes in winter, mountain biking, or gambling.

3) Berkeley -- Lots of great restaurants, Telegraph avenue is like a trip to several countries and states of mind -- vintage hippies, vintage beat-niks,
and you might even see the guy who roller skates around naked except for a
propeller hat.

4) Yoshi's -- Great Jazz club in Oakland.

5) Palo Alto -- Great University town, home of Stanford, great place to meet women who can think circles around your behind, great restaurants, different vibe from Berkeley.

6) San Francisco -- needs no explanation.

7) Santa Cruz Mountains

8) Mt Tamalpais -- amazing mountain biking and hiking trails.

9) Muir Woods -- Just north of SF.

10) Napa/Sonoma Valley -- Wine country.

11) Monterey/Carmel/Pebble Beach -- can you say amazing golf?

12) Yosemite National Park -- Needs no explanation.

13) Winchester Mystery House -- Home of the widow of the inventor of the Winchester Rifle. The woman was said to be haunted by ghosts who told her to "keep building" so she did -- in every direction, with stairways leading nowhere, halls that dead end for no reason, etc.

14) Silicon Valley -- you don't want to visit it -- it is the major industry. This is what happens when other inventions like deep-dish pizza, hot-dish, and soft pretzels, are already taken.

15) Pac Bell Park -- When Barry Bonds homers over the right field fence, the ball goes into the San Francisco Bay. Is that great, or what?

16) 49ers -- no, they don't play in San Jose -- they play at Candlestick Park,
which is just a short drive. Things have quieted down recently, but some guys named Joe, Jerry, and Ronnie used to play there.

17) Raiders -- If you live in San Jose, you can root for either NFL team. Things have quieted down recently, but some guys named Jake The Snake, Plunk, Tooz, Freddie, Lester, Jack, Phil, and The Mad Stork used to play there.

Dweller your #1 being from Las Vegas should be strip clubs they have some excellent clubs there. #2 CES

Gunbei- Really! I live in this town called Kinderhook. Its the home of the not so famous president Martin VanBuren and the story goes like this. When he would sign a bill so it would become a law he would merely right "OK" at the bottom of it which was his nickname Ole Kinderhook. I guess there is a #2 at well which is that the headless horseman(Ichabod Crane) story happened there two, I have seen the bridge that the chaps head was thrown over- it is a true story just a wee bit exagerated.