It’s that time of week again! I’m excited to tell you all about my hometown: Port Charlotte, Florida! Holla Pirates!
But, before I move on to the Monday List I have some other business to handle. The fabulous Stasha at The Good Life is allowing me to pick the question for next week’s list! I’ve chosen to take you all Inside The Actor’s Studio With James Lipton. You’ve seen this program, right? Every celebrity interview ends with these 10 questions. Now it’s your chance to play celebrity and answer them too! Link up and enjoy!
1. What is your favorite word?
2. What is your least favorite word?
3. What turns you on?
4. What turns you off?
5. What sound do you love?
6. What sound do you hate?
7. What is your favorite curse word?
8. What profession other than yours would you like to attempt?
9. What profession would you not like to do?
10. If heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the pearly gates?
Now, on to this week’s list. I was born in Ohio, but we moved to Florida when I was 12. I guess since I graduated from high school there I consider it my hometown. Also, I can’t think of 10 things to say about my Ohio town.
10. Growing up we referred to our little town as Port Chuckles or Port Toilet.
9. A lot of people confuse it with Port Charles from General Hospital. If that were true I would be married to Rick Springfield.
8. Famous people from Port Charlotte include John Hall, former kicker for the Washington Redskins and members of the ska band Less Than Jake. I attended high school with these guys. Due to my nerdy awkwardness they didn’t know I existed.
7. Port Charlotte was voted the best place to retire by Forbes Magazine. It was also voted God’s waiting room by teenagers.
6. Hurricane Charley hit Port Charlotte and the neighboring city Punta Gorda in 2004. It sucked. Not Katrina level suck, but lots of suck. I didn’t live there at the time so all I could do was watch on TV and send good vibes. That also sucked.
5. There is only one high school there, Port Charlotte High, home of the Pirates. Across the river in Punta Gorda is Charlotte High, they’re very creative with school names in Florida.
4. Even though there is a beach in PC most people drive to Englewood to go to the beach, ours is gross.
3. Port Charlotte is unincorporated so there is no mayor or city government. Just a bunch of wild anarchists.
2. When the wind is just right the smell of saltwater overcomes the smell of moth balls.
1. When I was a kid it was the winter home of the Texas Rangers. I watched hundreds of games in the blazing sun and got to see Sammy Sosa play on their farm team. I hate baseball.
Sorry about the hundreds of games in the sun but I love baseball
Port Chuckles had no MTV when we moved there because the old people kept voting against it. Port Chuckles is home to the world’s worst drivers. Port Chuckles is the one place I swear never to live again 
Me neither!
Hey there, fellow Floridian!! I lived in Ft. Myers for a long time, and witnessed what Charley did to Port Charlotte first hand. LOADS of suck. I still notice the broken trees that you can see from the interstate.
It looks completely different now. It’s sad.
Your hometown sounds pretty fascinating. Well, I live halfway across the world so anywhere that you can smell saltwater, is pretty awesome to me.
And next weeks’s list? I’m so doing it.
I can’t wait to read everyone’s responses:)
hehe man now i can’t get Port Charles and General Hospital outta my head. remember when John Stamos was on there??? Blacky?? hahah wow i’m old.
I’m old too! General Hospital was awesome back then!
So maybe Port Charlotte is the source of the Florida retirement jokes? LOL Hurricane damage really sucks. Fortunately I’ve never been in one, just watch on tv, but terrible, all the same.
It might be the source of all the jokes. At least that makes it semi-famous!
Fabulous questions for next week! Love the Lipton 10! I just tune in to watch this part most times.
And now I have Jesse’s Girl playing in my head for the rest of the day
You’re welcome:) For Jesse’s Girl that is!
Sounds like an interesting town. Port Toilet is so funny! So is that old lady lighting a cigarette. And what a fun prompt for next week!
I am looking forward to seeing all the responses:)
Feel the need to google how many Chalotte highs are in Florida total
great list and I cannot wait to do next weeks Listilce!!
There are probably loads of them! Embarrassing!
Do you know how cool you are to have a Pirate be your mascot? And next week’s Listicle topic is great!
The pirate is pretty cool isn’t he?
Oddly enough, I always dreamed of retiring in Alaska – any city with the most bars. Florida seemed kind of dangerous ever since my best friend’s grandmother drove her car on the sidewalk and insisted on keeping her license. And I hate baseball, too.
That’s how all the old people drive in Port Charlotte. It’s way more dangerous than moose and bear.
Almost neighbors, well, at least in the same state … we are in Boca.
And we just had a girls night to go and see none other than Rick Springfield – and he was awesome.
Shame you didn’t marry him
It is a shame isn’t it? I could have been Jesse’s Girl.
Port Toilet does NOT make me want to visit. However, I am totally making the connection to Port Charles from General Hospital…which is intriguing.
It’s almost worth visiting, but you could save some cash by just watching SoapNet.
Love your theme for next week’s list!
Ahh, Florida and old people, they sort of go hand in hand do they not?
More like walker and walker.
Ha! I love #2. That’s classic. I also live in an unincorporated town. And by “town”, I mean “cluster of less than a dozen houses”. Exciting stuff.
That’s how it was when we first moved there. It’s grown, there’s a Wal-Mart and everything now!
Ohh you Pirates! GO TARPONS! GO TARPONS! I used to call it Port Boring! My mom is still over there. Not the best place to visit. We would always drive to Sarasota beach instead of Englewood! Charlotte High rules! GO TARPONS! had to put that in!
HA! I totally thought of you when I was writing this!!
GO PIRATES!!!!!!!!!!
Nicely done! “I hate baseball” – love it!
I could have loved it, if I hadn’t had to sit through it for so many years.
We drove hwy 1 from Jacksonville to Palm Beach Gardens a few years ago, some of the sand is just rocks, looks like that’s what you have there, can’t build a cool castle with gravel.
That’s actually Englewood, the nicer beach:) Port Charlotte Beach is even worse, brackish water. Yuck.
Bridget, I love how you said you’d have married Rick Springfield! HA!
Looks like you grew up in quite a place!
I still wish I had married him. Not forever, just for a week to see what it was like.
I agree about baseball. It’s one of those non-sport sports, in my opinion.
I’m looking forward to answering your questions next week!
I’m looking forward to reading them!
You were an awkward nerd in high school ??? I don’t believe it !
Next week’s questions look like fun ! Can I join in ???
P.S Did you know that Rick Springfield’s Australian ???
Ah Rick Springfield…that brought back memories and I had to laugh at God’s waiting room! I grew up in AZ so I can relate to the hundreds of baseball games in the sun.
Unincorporated? That’s where you get your non-conformity!
Sounds like a place I should retire to. Maybe in a month?! Its sunny there in January right?
What’s your Ohio town? I want to know! OH and I’ve always wanted to do the 10 questions from Inside the Actors Studio!
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