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Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 9:41 am
by Nomad
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.
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Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 9:45 am
by pantsonfire321@aol.com
Oi twerp get over to the club you got some splaining to do :yh_wait
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Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 9:47 am
by Nomad
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
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Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 9:53 am
by Bez
I nominate David Attenborough for bringing the wonders of the planet right into my living room..
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/animals/planetearth/
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Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 9:57 am
by pantsonfire321@aol.com
Nomad;472891 wrote: You called me a twerp.....:-6 :-6 :-4
Dipstick
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Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 10:02 am
by Nomad
pantsonfire321@aol.com;472905 wrote: Dipstick
((((shudder & shiver)))) :-4
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Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 10:04 am
by minks
Cool thread, really GREAT!!!
Greatness hmmmm well what the heck, Mountains exude greatness
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Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 10:15 am
by sunny104
TEXAS :-6
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Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 10:20 am
by spot
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.
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Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 10:25 am
by guppy
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.
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Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 12:37 pm
by Galbally
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.
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Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 12:56 pm
by Colette
A really great dipstick is, well, great!
Also Kellogg's Frosted Flakes. They're Grrrrrrrrreat!
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Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 12:59 pm
by spot
Colette;473040 wrote: A really great dipstick is, well, great!Can dipsticks be female? It sounds a bit limiting otherwise.
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Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 1:03 pm
by Sheryl
A shower undisturbed by kids is great!
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Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 1:36 pm
by cherandbuster
LOVE is great :-4
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Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 2:38 pm
by DesignerGal
The Great Grape Ape is great!
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Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 5:22 pm
by Saffron
cherandbuster;473077 wrote: LOVE is great :-4
I Agree, love is greatest.
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Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 5:45 pm
by Marie5656
The Great Wall of China is pretty great!!
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Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 8:27 pm
by CARLA
This La Jolla Shores part of the 36 miles of beautiful GREAT coastline of San Diego California. :-6
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Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 8:43 pm
by Lulu2
Ask Jerry Lee Lewis...."GREAT BALLS OF FIRE!"
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Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 9:38 pm
by Nomad
*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.
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Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 10:52 pm
by Lulu2
And so is the GREAT barrier reef!
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Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 11:00 pm
by Nomad
Red Skelton was truly great at his craft.
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Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 2:30 am
by Elvira
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....
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Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 5:52 am
by cherandbuster
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
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Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 11:14 am
by Galbally
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