We Should Have A New Thread

Nomad · Post by **Nomad** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 9:41 am

Lets say hmmm...................GREATNESS

This thread will be about greatness

Just plain old great things we have accomplished on any level.

Im picking the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Not because theyre Mormons but because of the way they fill a room with beauty in song.

pantsonfire321@aol.com · Thu Nov 30, 2006 9:45 am

Oi twerp get over to the club you got some splaining to do :yh_wait

Nomad · Post by **Nomad** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 9:47 am

pantsonfire321@aol.com;472887 wrote: Oi twerp get over to the club you got some splaining to do :yh_wait

You called me a twerp.....:-6 :-6 :-4

Bez · Post by **Bez** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 9:53 am

I nominate David Attenborough for bringing the wonders of the planet right into my living room..

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/animals/planetearth/

pantsonfire321@aol.com · Thu Nov 30, 2006 9:57 am

Nomad;472891 wrote: You called me a twerp.....:-6 :-6 :-4

Dipstick

Nomad · Post by **Nomad** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 10:02 am

pantsonfire321@aol.com;472905 wrote: Dipstick

((((shudder & shiver)))) :-4

minks · Post by **minks** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 10:04 am

Cool thread, really GREAT!!!

Greatness hmmmm well what the heck, Mountains exude greatness

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sunny104 · Post by **sunny104** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 10:15 am

TEXAS :-6

Post by **spot** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 10:20 am

There should be something properly lifelong-obsessive about greatness, I think.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/st ... 35,00.html

Fred Dibnah, then. "An incorrigible English eccentric in an age in which it was thought they had all long since passed away", as his obituary put it. A great man. I speak as someone utterly nauseated by heights. Watching him at work on top of a factory chimney was enough to make me close my eyes and just listen to him talk.

guppy · Post by **guppy** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 10:25 am

spot;472942 wrote: There should be something properly lifelong-obsessive about greatness, I think.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/st ... 35,00.html

Fred Dibnah, then. "An incorrigible English eccentric in an age in which it was thought they had all long since passed away", as his obituary put it. A great man. I speak as someone utterly nauseated by heights. Watching him at work on top of a factory chimney was enough to make me close my eyes and just listen to him talk.

i am scared of heights.......whoooooooooo.

Galbally · Post by **Galbally** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 12:37 pm

Greatness, well there are a lot of things considerable for candicacy I suppose, to pick out some of my personal favorites from a few fields of endevour.

Science: Erastothenes, Democritus, archimedes, Galileo Galilei, Robert Hooke, Issac Newton, Charles Darwin, Gregor Mendel, James Clerk Maxwell, Werner Heisenberg, Albert Einstein, Paul Scrodinger, Richard Fenyman, Erwin Hubble, Maire Curie, Paul Dirac, Anton Lavousier, and a few more I could mention but it would get too long.

Music, Bach (the master), Handel, Vivaldi, Mozart, Beethoven, Bramhs, Carolan, Chopin, Wagner, Mahler, Tchoikovsky, Stravinsky, Rachmaninoff, Schostakovitch, Gerswin, Joplin, Armstong, Sinatra, Miles Davis, Elvis, Guthrie, Holly, Lennon&McCarntney, Dylan, Young, Bowie, Wonder, The Floyd, Prince.

Literature-philosophy, Homer, Plato, Aristole, Cicero, Virgil, Tacitus, Livy, Chaucer, Shakespeare (the greatest), Gibbon, Peyps, Descartes, Voltaire, Jane Austin, Kant, Balzac, Nitchze, Chekov, Twain, Dickens, Goethe, Poe, Kipling, Popper, Joyce, T.S. Elliot, W.H. Auden, Samuel Beckett, Henry Miller, Graham Greene, Tolkein (yes Lord of the Rings and the Silmarillion is literature).

Art, All of the masters, of the modern bunch Van Gogh, Picasso, Mondrian, Pollock, and Warhol are the most influential I think.

Politics-military, its hard to be subjective on this but in terms of greatness, Alexander, Ceasar, Hannibal, Augustus, Trajan, Marcus Aurelius, Mohammed, Charlemange, Phillip II of spain, Elizabeth the first of England, Louis XIV of France, Fredrick the great Prussia, Peter the Great of Russia, Washington and Jefferson of the U.S.A, Napoleon, Nelson, Queen Victoria, Bismark, Lenin, Ghandi, Churchill, F.D.R, Trueman, Eisenhower, Mandella. I am sure this the list that most will argue about.

Religion figures, Buddah, Jesus, Mohammed.

I know that I will have ineviatble left some deserving ones out that I've forgotten, but I get forgetful sometimes. Its hard to tell with the more modern ones as time is the true test of Greatness really.

Who is the greatest of them all?, well I would probably say God really, if you believe in him that is.

Colette · Post by **Colette** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 12:56 pm

A really great dipstick is, well, great!

Also Kellogg's Frosted Flakes. They're Grrrrrrrrreat!

Post by **spot** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 12:59 pm

Colette;473040 wrote: A really great dipstick is, well, great!Can dipsticks be female? It sounds a bit limiting otherwise.

Sheryl · Post by **Sheryl** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 1:03 pm

A shower undisturbed by kids is great!

cherandbuster · Post by **cherandbuster** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 1:36 pm

LOVE is great :-4

DesignerGal · Post by **DesignerGal** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 2:38 pm

The Great Grape Ape is great!

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Saffron · Post by **Saffron** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 5:22 pm

cherandbuster;473077 wrote: LOVE is great :-4
I Agree, love is greatest.

Marie5656 · Post by **Marie5656** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 5:45 pm

The Great Wall of China is pretty great!!

CARLA · Post by **CARLA** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 8:27 pm

This La Jolla Shores part of the 36 miles of beautiful GREAT coastline of San Diego California. :-6

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Lulu2 · Post by **Lulu2** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 8:43 pm

Ask Jerry Lee Lewis...."GREAT BALLS OF FIRE!"

Nomad · Post by **Nomad** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 9:38 pm

*Music, Bach (the master), Handel, Vivaldi, Mozart, Beethoven, Bramhs, Carolan, Chopin, Wagner, Mahler, Tchoikovsky, Stravinsky, Rachmaninoff, Schostakovitch, Gerswin, Joplin, Armstong, Sinatra, Miles Davis, Elvis, Guthrie, Holly, Lennon&McCarntney, Dylan, Young, Bowie, Wonder, The Floyd, Prince.*

I live just a couple minutes from Paisley Park. Its quite an interesting bldg. He invites people from his local gigs once in awhile.

Lulu2 · Post by **Lulu2** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 10:52 pm

And so is the GREAT barrier reef!

Nomad · Post by **Nomad** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 11:00 pm

Red Skelton was truly great at his craft.

Elvira · Post by **Elvira** » Fri Dec 01, 2006 2:30 am

I'm great!

No, really.....I am.

Seriously, ask anyone who knows me.....I'm great.

They say it to each other when I walk down the corridor!

"see her? She's great!"

Point proven.

Really? You think so? Ah, stop it, you're making me blush!

ps - I'm great, when I blush..

pps - or when I don't....

cherandbuster · Post by **cherandbuster** » Fri Dec 01, 2006 5:52 am

Sitting on my porch at sunset with a glass of champagne in my hand

Buster and Rusty playing together

A firery orange sun sets slowly behind the hazy clouds

Blue jays and cardinals chirp at my birdfeeder

Hubby's grilling a couple of steaks on the lawn below

Yeah . . . life can be GREAT :guitarist

Galbally · Post by **Galbally** » Fri Dec 01, 2006 11:14 am

Nomad;473494 wrote: *Music, Bach (the master), Handel, Vivaldi, Mozart, Beethoven, Bramhs, Carolan, Chopin, Wagner, Mahler, Tchoikovsky, Stravinsky, Rachmaninoff, Schostakovitch, Gerswin, Joplin, Armstong, Sinatra, Miles Davis, Elvis, Guthrie, Holly, Lennon&McCarntney, Dylan, Young, Bowie, Wonder, The Floyd, Prince.*

I live just a couple minutes from Paisley Park. Its quite an interesting bldg. He invites people from his local gigs once in awhile.

Prince rocks, and always has. :guitarist