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Fun with Google Trends...

I note that my town is No. 1 for poison oak:

http://www.google.com/trends?q=poison+oak

...and that Peasanton, CA is the top-ranking US city for dandruff:

http://www.google.com/trends?q=dandruff ... l&date=all

and San Francisco tops the list for food poisoning:

http://www.google.com/trends?q=food+poi ... l&date=all

And Apex, NC tops the list for fire ants:

http://www.google.com/trends?q=fire+ant ... S&date=all

and Tucson edges out NYC for cockroaches:

http://www.google.com/trends?q=cockroac ... S&date=all

Seems to work;

Lisbon, Portugal (where I met my American wife) is #1 in tubas!

Chicago leads the world in intonation. London is most flat, while San Diego is most sharp.

Guess where all the violists and violinists are!?

Anyone care to explain why Zagreb, Croatia leads, by a wide margin, the interest in "Star Trek"?

Well, attending all those conventions in the US sure beats whatever the heck is going on at home!

Chuck(G) wrote:Anyone care to explain why Zagreb, Croatia leads, by a wide margin, the interest in "Star Trek"?

Just a guess after reading the Wikipedia entry on Zagreb:

Zagreb hosts a festival for animated films every year. I'd suspect that a lot of folks who like to make animated films (and watch them) also like Star Trek. Also, the ranking is based on the ratio of specific searches to total searches, and given that there is both an animated film festival and a major research university in the city I'd bet that that ratio is pretty high compared to, say, Metro Atlanta, where most people search for dorn.

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Then again, the top 5 dorn sites are all in the UK!

http://www.google.com/trends?q=baltimor ... l&date=all

Looks like Baltimore ranks #2 in my search for "Baltimore."

Three out of the top 4 cities interested in cheap Viagra are in Italy... the 4th is Moscow!

http://www.google.com/trends?q=cheap+vi ... l&date=all

And the results for "stupidity"

St. Louis ranks number one in "Drunken"
Albany is the most Stoned
London England is most Tonedeaf

Fairhope, Alabama is famous for having the first high school students to get high from eating those Cillicybin mushrooms that grow up out of cow plop.

Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) is the largest Vietnamese speaking city in the world (duh!): 6,000,000

knuxie wrote:Humble has more Texans than Houston. Doc, you see the logic in that?
Ken F.

I'm attempting to decipher your post, Ken. You have a sentence which contains the word "humble" and the word "Texans." How do you explain this? I didn't think this was possible. Never mind how this compares to Houston.

Bill Bell=

Cincinnati, Ottawa, and Toronto!?

TubaRay wrote:

knuxie wrote:Humble has more Texans than Houston. Doc, you see the logic in that?
Ken F.

I'm attempting to decipher your post, Ken. You have a sentence which contains the word "humble" and the word "Texans." How do you explain this? I didn't think this was possible. Never mind how this compares to Houston.

Perhaps the town (or is it a city?) of Humble, just north of Houston on your way to Kingwood?

I live between Mobile, Alabama and Pensacola, Florida. They're both pretty rank.

sc_curtis wrote:

TubaRay wrote:

knuxie wrote:Humble has more Texans than Houston. Doc, you see the logic in that?
Ken F.

I'm attempting to decipher your post, Ken. You have a sentence which contains the word "humble" and the word "Texans." How do you explain this? I didn't think this was possible. Never mind how this compares to Houston.

Perhaps the town (or is it a city?) of Humble, just north of Houston on your way to Kingwood?

Next thing you know, you'll bring in Spicewood or Sugarland. Oh, well....

Philadelphia, PA, USA leads in nothing...

My town isn't even in the running of searching the city name...

tubaguy9 wrote:Philadelphia, PA, USA leads in nothing...
My town isn't even in the running of searching the city name...

This is not necessarily a bad thing.