Amanda Dawkins question

[Tuco]

Just reading that Amanda Dawkins is From Manchester (Hey, nobodys perfect).

[Ann Old-Joak]

She can't be Mancunian: she hasn't got webbed feet.
What town is famous for contortionists........?

[Artiste]

Heaven help us - R U lot the Southern Mafia???????????

Manchester is a great place to have given birth to the Gorgeous Amanda - have U also noticed that many girls in film come from Sheffield??????

Now, what else is Manchester famous for.....?

[jj]

Actually, I'm from the North-East: but we've learned to take the brickbats with serenity, safe in the assurance that we are God's Chosen People.
I give up: what else is Manchester famous for?
Surely you can't be referring to that football team of expensive foreign imports? Or an over-rated Beatles tribute band? Or Mick Hucknall, who loves the place so much he lives 1000 miles away in Tuscany?

[Caractacus]

I think Mick Hucknall's home location was Manchester's idea.

Manchester is famous for having no native Manchester United fans.

[jj]

...and Sabrina Johnson stresses that she hails from Leigh......

[Scott Jism]

Not only is this thread increasingly O/T, it has wandered into lazy, urban myth new fan nonsense. Get it deleted before it descends into farce.

[jj]

Glad to see a new (self-appointed) addition to the moderators' team.
And don't react to a bit of inoffensively-meant silliness by being childish.......

[insider]

She is from Kent or Essex, she isn't from manchester.

[jj]

I'd certainly go with that, to judge from her accent. I can't quite place it, but it's borderline Estuary, not at all northern.