Quiz: What did the desk clerk know of Peoria? (UPDATED)

I was recently on vacation with my family when we stopped at a hotel in Atlanta, Georgia. The front desk clerk asked me where I was from, and I told him Peoria. What question do you think the desk clerk asked me next?

A. “Peoria? Isn’t that Richard’s home town?”
B. “Peoria? Isn’t that the place people like to make fun of?”
C. “Peoria? Do you work for Caterpillar?”
D. “Peoria? Home of Big Al’s?”
E. “Peoria? Is that where they’re building that new Global Immersion Theater?”

UPDATE: The answer is A. The conversation went like this:

“Where are y’all from?”

“Peoria, Illinois.”

“Peoria? Isn’t that Richard’s home town?”

“Yes, yes it is. He wasn’t too proud of his home town, though.”

“Yeah, born in a whorehouse he said, but was that true or just part of his act?” he asked rhetorically. “He was a very multi-talented man.”

21 thoughts on “Quiz: What did the desk clerk know of Peoria? (UPDATED)”

  1. Future home of Anthony Weiner’s Thunder-Down-Under, Peoria’s Chippendale answer for the horny housewife.

  2. I do know that Peoria is famous for Big Al’s. I’ve had people mention that to me from faraway places.

  3. I have to guess D. It’s the second thing a guy said to us in Lake of the Ozarks once he found out where we were from. At least the first thing he mentioned was the Peoria Chiefs.

  4. When can we start the debate about the newly proposed 4-year state university starting up in Peoria?

  5. I heard that Peoria’s big porn king-pin moved his illegal whorehouse too close to the nursery school daycare. Does big national disgrace wash his john’s semen off the sidewalk before kiddies step in it?

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