Third Cellar Field of 64: World Landmarks - Page 3

jinx · 03-15-2005, 11:08 AM

corn palace
largest ball of twine
Carlsbad caverns
Oral Roberts prayer tower
Area 51
Very Large Array, Socorro

lookout123 · 03-15-2005, 11:15 AM

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It's on then. l123, permission to edit the thread title?

do what needs to be done, sir.

mrnoodle · 03-15-2005, 11:24 AM

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Originally Posted by Beestie

Which CD/song represents them the best??

They keep changing their stripes. Depends on your taste, really. I like Images and Words, Falling into Infinity, and Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence best, but there are DT fans who loathe SDIT because it's too orchestral and doesn't have the "progressive" nature of some of the others.

Images and Words has "Pull Me Under" on it, which got quite a bit of radio play and is palatable to most ears that like plain rock without all the mastubatory noodling that we guitar nerds live for. Hollow Years is a good slow song, "As I Am" is a good fast one, "A Change of Seasons" is a good long prog-rock thing.

Asking a Dream Theater geek which song is best is fruitless

More often, we talk about which keyboardist is best (Rudess), debate whether having no vocalist is better than having James LaBrie (it's not, you just have to get used to him), and make bets as to how many more consecutive "Rock Drummer of the Year" awards Portnoy is going to get (I think he's up to like 9). Oh yeah, and wondering why Petrucci has decided to start playing nothing but speedy chromatic runs (hard to play but musically uninteresting).

Yah, so. anyway.

lookout123 · 03-15-2005, 11:27 AM

sorry, i found dream theatre to be completely uninteresting in the mid-90's when a friend of mine thought they were the greatest thing to come along since sliced bread.

BigV · 03-15-2005, 11:34 AM

Experience Music Project
Arriceibo
Pipeline
Bay of Fundy
Mammoth Caves
Bonneville Salt Flats

UT:
The Mississippi?! Which mile? Uh, the part that's a MILE WIDE. Which part of the Amazon is the landmark or the Grand Canyon for that matter? Or the Great Wall of China? I think that you can see it from space qualifies it as a mark on the land. [/soapbox]

mrnoodle · 03-15-2005, 11:54 AM

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Originally Posted by lookout123

sorry, i found dream theatre to be completely uninteresting in the mid-90's when a friend of mine thought they were the greatest thing to come along since sliced bread.

they hit a rough patch there for a couple of albums. is it the style you don't like, or their execution of it?

actually we should wait until the rock band thing comes up. sorry UT.

we now return you to your regularly scheduled thread.

um,

Arches Nat'l Monument
Mesa Verde
Ayers Rock
Mormon Tabernacle or temple or whatever.
Great Salt Lake
the Matterhorn
Stonehenge
Music Row in Nashville
French Quarter, N'awlins
Pirates of the Caribbean
Wall Drug
Bass Pro Shop
Buffalo Bill's grave

ok i think i ran out awhile ago

Elspode · 03-15-2005, 12:49 PM

La Familia Segreda Cathedral in Barcelona
Notre Dame Cathedral
Kill Devil Hill at Kitty Hawk, NC
The Sun Dagger in Chaco Canyon, NM
Big Ben/Houses of Parliament in London
The Kremlin
Devil's Tower, Wyoming
Mount Rushmore, SD
Hoover Dam
Niagara Falls

glatt · 03-15-2005, 12:55 PM

Golden Gate Bridge
Pont du Gard
Millau Viaduct
Great Wall of China
Pompolona Towers
Giza Pyramid
Stonehenge
Hollywood sign

Grand Canyon
Devil's Tower (An actual landmark for wagon trains in the 1840's - 1850's)
Great Barrier Reef
Mount Fuji

glatt · 03-15-2005, 01:03 PM

What would be neat, but obviously a burden for UT, would be a picture of each landmark as they go head to head during the games. Sure, Mt. Everest is the highest and most famous mountain, but most people couldn't pick it out of a lineup of mountains. It's not much of a landmark. Mount Fuji is much more recognizable, I think.

Mount Fuji would probably win in a photo contest, but Mt. Everest would probably win in a text contest.

Trilby · 03-15-2005, 01:05 PM

i heard the snow on Kilimanjaro melted....dang.

Elspode · 03-15-2005, 04:00 PM

That's just a bunch of tree hugger claptrap...there is absolutely no scientific proof that global warming is occurring. At least, that's the Conservative Party line...

Does anyone find it odd that the same people who say that Global Warming is crap firmly believe that the version of Creation as detailed in the Book of Genesis is 100% accurate and proveable?

grazzers · 03-15-2005, 04:05 PM

Hang on, there was something on the front of the Independent newspaper here that said there was definate proof of golabl warming, gimme a while and i might be able to find it...

mrnoodle · 03-15-2005, 04:07 PM

My brother-in-law is an internationally recognized ecologist who has participated in a number of studies on global warming, atmospheric CO2 levels and how they affect soil nitrogen, etc. etc. Plant scientist stuff. He's also a deacon at his Baptist church. He's tried to explain the global warming thing to me, but i'm too dumb.

grazzers · 03-15-2005, 04:09 PM

heres a link, dunno where the whole article is: http://news.independent.co.uk/world/...p?story=612506

glatt · 03-15-2005, 04:23 PM

Landmarks, people. LANDMARKS.

Statue of Liberty.
Hoover Dam
Taj Mahal
Sphinx
Neuschwanstein castle
Disneyworld
Taipei 101
The "Rocky" statue in Philadelphia

03-15-2005, 11:08 AM	#31
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lookout123 changed his status to single Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Right behind you. No, the other side. Posts: 10,308	sorry, i found dream theatre to be completely uninteresting in the mid-90's when a friend of mine thought they were the greatest thing to come along since sliced bread. __________________ Getting knocked down is no sin, it's not getting back up that's the sin

03-15-2005, 11:34 AM	#35
BigV Goon Squad Leader Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Seattle Posts: 27,063	Experience Music Project Arriceibo Pipeline Bay of Fundy Mammoth Caves Bonneville Salt Flats UT: The Mississippi?! Which mile? Uh, the part that's a MILE WIDE. Which part of the Amazon is the landmark or the Grand Canyon for that matter? Or the Great Wall of China? I think that you can see it from space qualifies it as a mark on the land. [/soapbox] __________________ Be Just and Fear Not. Last edited by BigV; 03-15-2005 at 12:52 PM. Reason: tyop

03-15-2005, 12:49 PM	#37
Elspode When Do I Get Virtual Unreality? Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Raytown, Missouri Posts: 12,719	La Familia Segreda Cathedral in Barcelona Notre Dame Cathedral Kill Devil Hill at Kitty Hawk, NC The Sun Dagger in Chaco Canyon, NM Big Ben/Houses of Parliament in London The Kremlin Devil's Tower, Wyoming Mount Rushmore, SD Hoover Dam Niagara Falls __________________ "To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off." - Robert Moog

03-15-2005, 01:03 PM	#39
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	What would be neat, but obviously a burden for UT, would be a picture of each landmark as they go head to head during the games. Sure, Mt. Everest is the highest and most famous mountain, but most people couldn't pick it out of a lineup of mountains. It's not much of a landmark. Mount Fuji is much more recognizable, I think. Mount Fuji would probably win in a photo contest, but Mt. Everest would probably win in a text contest. Last edited by glatt; 03-15-2005 at 01:17 PM.

03-15-2005, 12:55 PM	#38
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	Golden Gate Bridge Pont du Gard Millau Viaduct Great Wall of China Pompolona Towers Giza Pyramid Stonehenge Hollywood sign Grand Canyon Devil's Tower (An actual landmark for wagon trains in the 1840's - 1850's) Great Barrier Reef Mount Fuji

03-15-2005, 01:05 PM	#40
Trilby Slattern of the Swail Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 15,654	i heard the snow on Kilimanjaro melted....dang. __________________ In Barrie's play and novel, the roles of fairies are brief: they are allies to the Lost Boys, the source of fairy dust and ...They are portrayed as dangerous, whimsical and extremely clever but quite hedonistic. "Shall I give you a kiss?" Peter asked and, jerking an acorn button off his coat, solemnly presented it to her. —James Barrie Wimminfolk they be tricksy. - ZenGum

03-15-2005, 04:00 PM	#41
Elspode When Do I Get Virtual Unreality? Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Raytown, Missouri Posts: 12,719	That's just a bunch of tree hugger claptrap...there is absolutely no scientific proof that global warming is occurring. At least, that's the Conservative Party line... Does anyone find it odd that the same people who say that Global Warming is crap firmly believe that the version of Creation as detailed in the Book of Genesis is 100% accurate and proveable? __________________ "To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off." - Robert Moog

03-15-2005, 04:05 PM	#42
grazzers Aim for the Best Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Edinburgh, Scotland Posts: 134	Hang on, there was something on the front of the Independent newspaper here that said there was definate proof of golabl warming, gimme a while and i might be able to find it... __________________ "Only a person who risks all that he cannot keep, to gain that which he can never lose, is truly free." Anonymous Poet

03-15-2005, 04:07 PM	#43
mrnoodle bent Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: under the weather Posts: 2,656	My brother-in-law is an internationally recognized ecologist who has participated in a number of studies on global warming, atmospheric CO2 levels and how they affect soil nitrogen, etc. etc. Plant scientist stuff. He's also a deacon at his Baptist church. He's tried to explain the global warming thing to me, but i'm too dumb. __________________ Sìn a nall na cuaranan sin. -- Cha mhór is fheairrde thu iad, tha iad coltach ri cat air a dhathadh

03-15-2005, 04:09 PM	#44
grazzers Aim for the Best Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Edinburgh, Scotland Posts: 134	heres a link, dunno where the whole article is: http://news.independent.co.uk/world/...p?story=612506 __________________ "Only a person who risks all that he cannot keep, to gain that which he can never lose, is truly free." Anonymous Poet

03-15-2005, 04:23 PM	#45
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	Landmarks, people. LANDMARKS. Statue of Liberty. Hoover Dam Taj Mahal Sphinx Neuschwanstein castle Disneyworld Taipei 101 The "Rocky" statue in Philadelphia

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