Third Cellar Field of 64: World Landmarks
 

I think UT is recovering from the last one, so let's get ready for the next one.

I still think television shows would be a good one. or actors/actresses. that could be pretty good.

we could do a favorite investment and wait for tw to tell us why we are all wrong... the possibilities are endless.

We could do favorite sexual position....and that would leave tw out of it completely! :angel:

Comedy or drama (this can apply to either possible topic)?

I was working on World Landmarks, but feel free to come up with whatever category y'all prefer.

Favorite cartoon character.

world landmarks? *sits back to think* ok, i know 2 and a half. who can name 61.5 others?

Scary movies (pants wetting factor, can't finish the popcorn, can't finish the movie, nightmares, easily as many opinions as what qualifies as "funny" and pleeeennnnnty of room for cellar-ly discourse)

World Landmarks: I can think of ten off the top of my head, more if we expand the definition to include manmade structures

Mt Fuji
Grand Canyon
The Amazon River
The White Cliffs of Dover
El Capitan
Mt Ranier
Bridal Veil Falls
Yellowstone National Park (Old Faithful)
The Arches at Cabo San Lucas
Bryce Canyon
Mt Kilimanjaro
Niagra Falls
......

Include man-made and ancient structures.

Machu Picchu (sp?)
Statue of Liberty
Colosseum
Leaning Tower of Pisa
Stonehenge
Eiffel Tower
Big Ben

CN Tower
Sears Tower
La Brea Tar Pits (what happens here, stays here)
Notre Dame (cathedral, not university)

The Underground
The Golden Gate
The White House
The Pentagon
The HOLLYWOOD sign
Christ the Redeemer at Corcovado
Times Square

Sorry, I forgot nominations aren't open...my bad.

When someone says "The La Brea Tar Pits" I always smile, since the phrase translates and unpacks to "The The Tar Tar Pits". Hehehehe

Let's make nominations open and keep it if we can come up with 64 good ones.

I don't think the pits count anyway. Landmark = when you see it you recognize it.

Mount Rushmore
Sydney Opera House
Empire State Building
Arc de Triopmhphhe

m'kay...
Disneyland
Trafalgar Square
Waikiki Beach
The Great Barrier Reef
Taj Mahal
The Vatican
The Las Vegas Strip
The Queen Mary
Buckingham Palace
Auchwitz
The Great Wall of China

The Pyramids
The Parthenon
Death Valley
The Space Needle
Denali
Pamela Anderson
(sorry...how the hell did they slip in there?? Oh yeah, manmade mountains)
The Chunnel
(no cracks :snort::))
Giant's Causeway

The Everglades
The Mississippi
The Andes
Lake Titicaca
Mt Vesuvius
Mt Etna
Chernobyl
The Viet Nam Memorial
The Washinton Monument
The Reflecting Pool
The Lincoln Memorial

67 not counting Pamela Anderson... didn't even break a sweat, but I gotta fly. As Fred Flintstone so eloquently put it:

Yabba Dabba Dooooo! :slides down dinosaur's tail:

C'mon he's a good QB and all but lets give the kid a couple years.

Starruca Viaduct
Great Wall
Leaning Tower of Pisa
Eiffel Tower
Colesseum
Pyramids
Empire State Building
Hagia Sophia
Wailing Wall
Machu Picchu
Easter Island
The Strand
Longbeach Shipyard

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

I would challenge a few in your last set BV. The Mississippi? Which mile?

Others may nominate or second or challenge as they see fit - no limit

The Forbidden City
The Sphinx
St. Peter's Basillica
Mt. Everest
St. Louis Arch

guggneheim bilboa
guggenheim nyc

zzzzzzzzz


shoulda did rock bands. there would have been knife fights.

Howe Caverns, NY

I think there will be time for every category.

We're all still licking our wounds over the bloodbath that was comedy movies.

The Rock Band [google!] field of 64 [/google!] promises to leave the Cellar a smoking pile of twisted wreckage and body parts with only the deep hum of the servers to moderate the silence of the aftermath.

nah, you'll be ok if you vote for dream theater or megadeth. There aren't really any other choices, unless you put in dreck like the stones or nirvana.

Other than from the Cellar, I have never heard of Dream Theatre.

Please recommend somewhere I can listen to their stuff without having to drop $20.00 on a CD that I may not like. Not looking for free downloads - just some samples.

EDIT: I found a bunch of their stuff on iTunes. Which CD/song represents them the best??

Put in a Scottish entry, Edinburgh Castle
And im suprised it took til the 22nd post for someone to mention Mount Everest...

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

do what needs to be done, sir.

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 :D 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.

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.

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]

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. :blush:
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

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

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

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.

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

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?

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...

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.

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

Landmarks, people. LANDMARKS.

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

:lol2: :lol2: :lol2:
/wipes tears/

All the good ones are listed, except the Mary Tyler Moore statue in Minneapolis. Taj Mahal, eat your heart out.

Where's ThreadHijackMan when you need him?

Oh man! I was going to nominate Old Man of the Mountain in New Hampshire as a cool landmark we used to visit while camping as kids but I looked it up just to see where in NH it was and find out it fell down over a year ago! :( Bummer, guess it's doesn't qualify as a landmark anymore, huh?

We have 116 nominations and so I'm gonna build a little voting tool that lets everyone place seconds.

Gentlemen, (and women), start your browsers!

Readyyyyy... Go!

did this idea die, or is it in a new location?

We all had a fun time playing it. The Taj Mahal won. I wondered why you weren't playing too, since you seem to enjoy this sort of thing too. ;)

Can we nominate for a new Cellar field? something FUN this time????
:biggrinba

yeah - good idea. i think we should have the next category be "most sarcastic cellarite". i've got a couple of nominations.

great idea, Lookout! I like! Anyone else want to do another with a cooler category? I think someone once mentioned best comedian? Or best rock band? :band:

Best shot? :apistola:

Best insult from a movie (or just best line, period)
Best makeout scene from a movie (porn excepted)
Coolest technological advancement since 1970 (gee-whiz factor, not usefulness)
Best TV marketing campaign (Mikey eating Life cereal vs. Spongemonkeys, anyone?)
Ugliest car
Worst song
Most horrific fashion trend
Best internet comic strip
Funniest stand-up comedian/enne

there are dozens to do.

mrnoodle-you are a fucking show-off.

It's like he wants to do a field of 64 on what to do a field of 64 on...