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BadNick · 03-26-2009, 01:09 PM

not india or mongolia...go west, young man, go west...you too, unc.

I'm trying to remember if Cure ever had a song about Kyrgyzstan? < not a clue, I'm not there, btw, I just like saying Kyrgyzstan Kyrgyzstan Kyrgyzstan Kyrgyzstan

uncle phil · 03-26-2009, 01:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BadNick

go west, young man, go west...you too, unc.

i'm gonna get you for that, nick...

lebanon?

MacGuyver · 03-26-2009, 03:37 PM

and Iran... I ran so far awaayyyy.

BadNick · 03-26-2009, 06:44 PM

Wow, now you are both a lot closer. I can almost smell the Cedars of Lebanon from where I am though I'm not in Lebanon or Iran. This place I am is another "superlative" kind of place.

Quote:

Originally Posted by uncle phil

i'm gonna get you for that, nick...

yeah, I'm looking forward to that

PS: GO WILDCATS!!! <<< that's for Villanova, not a clue

MacGuyver · 03-27-2009, 12:18 AM

what a night. Mizzou and Nova wow. Syracuse is next number 3 to beat a number 2.

and Iraq... I raq so far a-waayyy.

Tully Mars · 03-27-2009, 02:22 AM

Are you in Israel?

BadNick · 03-27-2009, 03:33 AM

Mac, I'm not arock.

Shalom, Tul...yes Israel.

uncle phil · 03-27-2009, 03:40 AM

gaza?

Tully Mars · 03-27-2009, 03:50 AM

Dome of the Rock?

BadNick · 03-27-2009, 03:58 AM

neither of those...think of something superlative in that area

Tully Mars · 03-27-2009, 04:23 AM

Qumran Caves?

uncle phil · 03-27-2009, 04:31 AM

the dead sea?

BadNick · 03-27-2009, 10:21 AM

you got me unc, you're up, bud.

I was at this spot which is the lowest "dry" spot on the face of the earth...only exceeded in depth by deep ocean rift valleys and that real low depression under Antarctica but that's covered by about 2 miles thick ice (Bentley Subglacial Trench Bentley Subglacial Trench - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ).

When I think that the Dead Sea area is over 1500 feet below sea level, it makes me dizzy!

Dead Sea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The 'Dead Sea (Hebrew: יָם הַ‏‏מֶ‏ּ‏לַ‏ח‎, Yām Ha-Melaḥ, "Sea of Salt"; Arabic: البَحْر المَيّت‎, al-Baḥr l-Mayyit, "Dead Sea") is a salt lake between Israel and the West Bank to the west, and Jordan to the east. It is 422 metres (1,385 ft) below sea level, and its shores are the lowest point on the surface of Earth on dry land. The Dead Sea is 378 m (1,240 ft) deep, the deepest hypersaline lake in the world. It is also one of the world's saltiest bodies of water, with 33.7% salinity. Only Lake Assal (Djibouti), Garabogazköl and some hypersaline lakes of the McMurdo Dry Valleys in Antarctica (such as Don Juan Pond and perhaps Lake Vanda) have a higher salinity. It is 8.6 times as salty as the ocean. This salinity makes for a harsh environment where animals cannot flourish, hence its name.

A tourist (on the Jordanian side) demonstrates the unusual buoyancy caused by high salinity.

Tully Mars · 03-27-2009, 10:26 AM

Holy crap! 1291ft below sea level? I had no idea. Wonder if people dive it and if they do how do they calc. out the atmo. bars?

BTW- does that headline read "This Paper is Waterproof!" in Hebrew?

BadNick · 03-27-2009, 10:40 AM

Tul,
I have to think you're right about the diving technicalities but I don't know the answer...a short story that's close to the Dead Sea but actually in the Red Sea/Suez Canal area, and something you would appreciate since you're a diving expert: a retired Navy diver buddy of mine back years ago, I guess it had to be a couple years after the 1967 war in the Middle East, got a high paying job diving in the Suez & Red Sea and tagging mines...he just had to mark the mine locations with a bouy without blowing himself up so they could be removed later so shipping wouldn't be endangered...back then he was paid like $1000/day and that was real money back then!

uncle phil · 03-27-2009, 11:57 AM

wow, me again?

ok, where am i?

BadNick · 03-27-2009, 12:39 PM

Cape May, NJ?

coldhands · 03-27-2009, 12:51 PM

Punta Gorda, Belize, Central America?

Tully Mars · 03-27-2009, 02:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BadNick

Tul,
I have to think you're right about the diving technicalities but I don't know the answer...a short story that's close to the Dead Sea but actually in the Red Sea/Suez Canal area, and something you would appreciate since you're a diving expert: a retired Navy diver buddy of mine back years ago, I guess it had to be a couple years after the 1967 war in the Middle East, got a high paying job diving in the Suez & Red Sea and tagging mines...he just had to mark the mine locations with a bouy without blowing himself up so they could be removed later so shipping wouldn't be endangered...back then he was paid like $1000/day and that was real money back then!

I take it you're using the term "expert" in it's most liberal meaning.

$1000 a day is real money to me today. Still not sure I'd take that job. Dead men tell no tales and spend no cash.

Ok Unc...

Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean?

uncle phil · 03-27-2009, 04:15 PM

no, no, and yet again, no...

BadNick · 03-27-2009, 05:32 PM

negative phil....

NH?

uncle phil · 03-28-2009, 02:34 AM

nh...

Tully Mars · 03-28-2009, 04:30 AM

BadNick · 03-28-2009, 08:24 AM

way to waste a precious guess, Tul! Some young people have no sense of values.

WH?

Tully Mars · 03-28-2009, 08:28 AM

I'd make some excuse about the W and S being near each other but the fact is I just fucked up.

So...

EH? lol

uncle phil · 03-28-2009, 09:22 AM

wh...

(note the lack of negativity here...)

Tully Mars · 03-28-2009, 03:46 PM

uncle phil · 03-28-2009, 03:58 PM

us...

Tully Mars · 03-28-2009, 04:04 PM

East O'Miss?

BadNick · 03-28-2009, 06:41 PM

wow, nice, I like all this positiveness GO VILLANOVA!!! <<< was a tough exciting game against Pitt

along the coast?

uncle phil · 03-29-2009, 03:16 AM

two negatories...

Tully Mars · 03-29-2009, 03:57 AM

In a state on the Pacific Ocean in the cont. US?

BadNick · 03-29-2009, 09:34 AM

Idaho? <<< well I'm not really, but I mean the potato place

uncle phil · 03-29-2009, 12:08 PM

no no...

MacGuyver · 03-29-2009, 03:46 PM

Bordering another country? (Canada/Mexico)

uncle phil · 03-29-2009, 03:58 PM

no...

MacGuyver · 03-29-2009, 04:59 PM

East of Rocky Mountains

BadNick · 03-29-2009, 07:32 PM

unc, you're not aspiring to be a dental floss tycoon in Montana, are you?

uncle phil · 03-30-2009, 02:13 AM

no, no...

Tully Mars · 03-30-2009, 02:18 AM

North of 40?

03-26-2009, 03:37 PM	#5083 (permalink)
MacGuyver You're going to have to trust me! Location: Massachusetts	and Iran... I ran so far awaayyyy. __________________ We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit. ---Aristotle Deeds, not words, shall speak [for] me. ---John Fletcher

03-27-2009, 12:18 AM	#5085 (permalink)
MacGuyver You're going to have to trust me! Location: Massachusetts	what a night. Mizzou and Nova wow. Syracuse is next number 3 to beat a number 2. and Iraq... I raq so far a-waayyy. __________________ We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit. ---Aristotle Deeds, not words, shall speak [for] me. ---John Fletcher

03-27-2009, 02:22 AM	#5086 (permalink)
Tully Mars Living in a Warmer Insanity Super Moderator Location: Yucatan, Mexico	Are you in Israel? __________________ I used to drink to drown my sorrows, but the damned things have learned how to swim- Frida Kahlo Vice President Starkizzer Fan Club

03-27-2009, 03:40 AM	#5088 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	gaza? __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

03-27-2009, 03:50 AM	#5089 (permalink)
Tully Mars Living in a Warmer Insanity Super Moderator Location: Yucatan, Mexico	Dome of the Rock? __________________ I used to drink to drown my sorrows, but the damned things have learned how to swim- Frida Kahlo Vice President Starkizzer Fan Club

03-26-2009, 01:09 PM	#5081 (permalink)
BadNick Riding the Ocean Spray Location: S.E. PA in U Sofa	not india or mongolia...go west, young man, go west...you too, unc. I'm trying to remember if Cure ever had a song about Kyrgyzstan? < not a clue, I'm not there, btw, I just like saying Kyrgyzstan Kyrgyzstan Kyrgyzstan Kyrgyzstan

03-27-2009, 03:33 AM	#5087 (permalink)
BadNick Riding the Ocean Spray Location: S.E. PA in U Sofa	Mac, I'm not arock. Shalom, Tul...yes Israel.

03-27-2009, 03:58 AM	#5090 (permalink)
BadNick Riding the Ocean Spray Location: S.E. PA in U Sofa	neither of those...think of something superlative in that area

03-27-2009, 04:23 AM	#5091 (permalink)
Tully Mars Living in a Warmer Insanity Super Moderator Location: Yucatan, Mexico	Qumran Caves? __________________ I used to drink to drown my sorrows, but the damned things have learned how to swim- Frida Kahlo Vice President Starkizzer Fan Club

03-27-2009, 04:31 AM	#5092 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	the dead sea? __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

03-27-2009, 10:21 AM	#5093 (permalink)
BadNick Riding the Ocean Spray Location: S.E. PA in U Sofa	you got me unc, you're up, bud. I was at this spot which is the lowest "dry" spot on the face of the earth...only exceeded in depth by deep ocean rift valleys and that real low depression under Antarctica but that's covered by about 2 miles thick ice (Bentley Subglacial Trench Bentley Subglacial Trench - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ). When I think that the Dead Sea area is over 1500 feet below sea level, it makes me dizzy! Dead Sea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The 'Dead Sea (Hebrew: יָם הַ‏‏מֶ‏ּ‏לַ‏ח‎, Yām Ha-Melaḥ, "Sea of Salt"; Arabic: البَحْر المَيّت‎, al-Baḥr l-Mayyit, "Dead Sea") is a salt lake between Israel and the West Bank to the west, and Jordan to the east. It is 422 metres (1,385 ft) below sea level, and its shores are the lowest point on the surface of Earth on dry land. The Dead Sea is 378 m (1,240 ft) deep, the deepest hypersaline lake in the world. It is also one of the world's saltiest bodies of water, with 33.7% salinity. Only Lake Assal (Djibouti), Garabogazköl and some hypersaline lakes of the McMurdo Dry Valleys in Antarctica (such as Don Juan Pond and perhaps Lake Vanda) have a higher salinity. It is 8.6 times as salty as the ocean. This salinity makes for a harsh environment where animals cannot flourish, hence its name. A tourist (on the Jordanian side) demonstrates the unusual buoyancy caused by high salinity.

03-27-2009, 10:26 AM	#5094 (permalink)
Tully Mars Living in a Warmer Insanity Super Moderator Location: Yucatan, Mexico	Holy crap! 1291ft below sea level? I had no idea. Wonder if people dive it and if they do how do they calc. out the atmo. bars? BTW- does that headline read "This Paper is Waterproof!" in Hebrew? __________________ I used to drink to drown my sorrows, but the damned things have learned how to swim- Frida Kahlo Vice President Starkizzer Fan Club

03-27-2009, 10:40 AM	#5095 (permalink)
BadNick Riding the Ocean Spray Location: S.E. PA in U Sofa	Tul, I have to think you're right about the diving technicalities but I don't know the answer...a short story that's close to the Dead Sea but actually in the Red Sea/Suez Canal area, and something you would appreciate since you're a diving expert: a retired Navy diver buddy of mine back years ago, I guess it had to be a couple years after the 1967 war in the Middle East, got a high paying job diving in the Suez & Red Sea and tagging mines...he just had to mark the mine locations with a bouy without blowing himself up so they could be removed later so shipping wouldn't be endangered...back then he was paid like $1000/day and that was real money back then!

03-27-2009, 11:57 AM	#5096 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	wow, me again? ok, where am i? __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

03-27-2009, 12:39 PM	#5097 (permalink)
BadNick Riding the Ocean Spray Location: S.E. PA in U Sofa	Cape May, NJ?

03-27-2009, 12:51 PM	#5098 (permalink)
coldhands Addict Location: The next town over	Punta Gorda, Belize, Central America? __________________ "All it takes to make a difference is the courage to stop proving 'I was right' in being unable to make a difference, to stop assigning cause for my inability to the circumstances outside myself, to be willing to have been that way, and to see that the fear of being a failure is a lot less important that the unique opportunity I have to make a difference." -Werner Erhard

03-27-2009, 04:15 PM	#5100 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	no, no, and yet again, no... __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

03-27-2009, 05:32 PM	#5101 (permalink)
BadNick Riding the Ocean Spray Location: S.E. PA in U Sofa	negative phil.... NH?

03-28-2009, 02:34 AM	#5102 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	nh... __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

03-28-2009, 04:30 AM	#5103 (permalink)
Tully Mars Living in a Warmer Insanity Super Moderator Location: Yucatan, Mexico	SH? __________________ I used to drink to drown my sorrows, but the damned things have learned how to swim- Frida Kahlo Vice President Starkizzer Fan Club

03-28-2009, 08:24 AM	#5104 (permalink)
BadNick Riding the Ocean Spray Location: S.E. PA in U Sofa	way to waste a precious guess, Tul! Some young people have no sense of values. WH?

03-28-2009, 08:28 AM	#5105 (permalink)
Tully Mars Living in a Warmer Insanity Super Moderator Location: Yucatan, Mexico	I'd make some excuse about the W and S being near each other but the fact is I just fucked up. So... EH? lol __________________ I used to drink to drown my sorrows, but the damned things have learned how to swim- Frida Kahlo Vice President Starkizzer Fan Club

03-28-2009, 09:22 AM	#5106 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	wh... (note the lack of negativity here...) __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

03-28-2009, 03:46 PM	#5107 (permalink)
Tully Mars Living in a Warmer Insanity Super Moderator Location: Yucatan, Mexico	US? __________________ I used to drink to drown my sorrows, but the damned things have learned how to swim- Frida Kahlo Vice President Starkizzer Fan Club

03-28-2009, 03:58 PM	#5108 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	us... __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

03-28-2009, 04:04 PM	#5109 (permalink)
Tully Mars Living in a Warmer Insanity Super Moderator Location: Yucatan, Mexico	East O'Miss? __________________ I used to drink to drown my sorrows, but the damned things have learned how to swim- Frida Kahlo Vice President Starkizzer Fan Club

03-28-2009, 06:41 PM	#5110 (permalink)
BadNick Riding the Ocean Spray Location: S.E. PA in U Sofa	wow, nice, I like all this positiveness GO VILLANOVA!!! <<< was a tough exciting game against Pitt along the coast?

03-29-2009, 03:16 AM	#5111 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	two negatories... __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

03-29-2009, 03:57 AM	#5112 (permalink)
Tully Mars Living in a Warmer Insanity Super Moderator Location: Yucatan, Mexico	In a state on the Pacific Ocean in the cont. US? __________________ I used to drink to drown my sorrows, but the damned things have learned how to swim- Frida Kahlo Vice President Starkizzer Fan Club

03-29-2009, 09:34 AM	#5113 (permalink)
BadNick Riding the Ocean Spray Location: S.E. PA in U Sofa	Idaho? <<< well I'm not really, but I mean the potato place

03-29-2009, 12:08 PM	#5114 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	no no... __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

03-29-2009, 03:46 PM	#5115 (permalink)
MacGuyver You're going to have to trust me! Location: Massachusetts	Bordering another country? (Canada/Mexico) __________________ We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit. ---Aristotle Deeds, not words, shall speak [for] me. ---John Fletcher

03-29-2009, 03:58 PM	#5116 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	no... __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

03-29-2009, 04:59 PM	#5117 (permalink)
MacGuyver You're going to have to trust me! Location: Massachusetts	East of Rocky Mountains __________________ We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit. ---Aristotle Deeds, not words, shall speak [for] me. ---John Fletcher

03-29-2009, 07:32 PM	#5118 (permalink)
BadNick Riding the Ocean Spray Location: S.E. PA in U Sofa	unc, you're not aspiring to be a dental floss tycoon in Montana, are you?

03-30-2009, 02:13 AM	#5119 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	no, no... __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.