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Ourcrazymodern? · 03-18-2011, 07:56 PM

"Our" side of the planet?

BadNick · 03-19-2011, 08:29 AM

no

And not just because I feel like any part of this planet is as much mine as a planet circling Alpha Librae, the second brightest star in the constellation Libra, which in endearing human terms has also been called Zubenelgenubi, from Arabic الزبن الجنوبي (al-zuban al-janūbiyy), meaning "southern claw", and alternate names Kiffa Australis and Elkhiffa Australis, partial Latin translations of Arabic al-kiffah al-janūbiyy, another name used in ye olde astronomy texts was Lanx Australis

so no.

Ourcrazymodern? · 03-19-2011, 09:31 AM

So...somewhere in the Middle East?

BadNick · 03-19-2011, 10:14 AM

in that part of the world, but not the "Middle East"

Lindy · 03-19-2011, 12:23 PM

If I took flight toward you from the Island of Malta, would my heading be somewhere between 180° and 270°?

BadNick · 03-19-2011, 12:50 PM

Just to make sure my compass bearings are correct, I'll say "no" if you mean 180 as heading due south and 270 heading due west from Malta. So if that, no.

Ourcrazymodern? · 03-19-2011, 01:07 PM

Are you in eastern Europe?

BadNick · 03-19-2011, 04:10 PM

I hate to say "no" to you again, Ocm?, but no.

Ourcrazymodern? · 03-19-2011, 07:34 PM

I'm just guessing - "no" is tantalizing.

Are you in one of the 'stans?

BadNick · 03-19-2011, 08:18 PM

no-go-istan...nope

I might suggest you go back to visit Lindy in Malta and lube your bearings a bit

Ourcrazymodern? · 03-19-2011, 09:13 PM

When not west or south, but in the neighborhood of the middle east...

Are you in Greece?

BadNick · 03-19-2011, 09:21 PM

just about due south of there

Ourcrazymodern? · 03-19-2011, 09:27 PM

Benghazi?

BadNick · 03-20-2011, 07:07 AM

I'm less than 100 miles from Benghazi at an archeologically important site that you will have to name.

Ourcrazymodern? · 03-20-2011, 10:04 AM

Did you leave a big visual in ABC?

BadNick · 03-20-2011, 02:35 PM

yes

I'm amazed at how interconnected our world is.

Ourcrazymodern? · 03-20-2011, 02:52 PM

Howzabout a little drink first?

BadNick · 03-20-2011, 02:59 PM

absolutely. While we're sipping the refreshment, let's lay back, kick up our feet, and enjoy this place for a while. I hear a cricket chirping...I'm gonna try to find it.

Ourcrazymodern? · 03-20-2011, 03:09 PM

Was it this one?

BadNick · 03-20-2011, 07:01 PM

Maybe. It looks sort of familiar. Let it go and when it makes its chirp maybe we can tell if that was the one.

Ourcrazymodern? · 03-21-2011, 07:04 AM

Cricket's eye view?

BadNick · 03-21-2011, 11:21 AM

Now that's cricket with an appreciation for history! And dandelions.

You found me so it's your turn to hide, Ocm?.

I am at the Temple of Zeus in Cyrene in Libya. The fact that this temple is larger than the Parthenon in Greece is a reflection of the wealth and importance of Cyrene in the ancient Greek world.

The Temple of Zeus dates back to the 5th century BCE, but restored by the Romans around year 0. It was destroyed during a Jewish rebellion in 115, and restored a second time in 120. In the great earthquake of 365, it was crushed and then not rebuilt before British and Italian archaeologists partially put it back together in modern times.

Ourcrazymodern? · 03-22-2011, 09:41 AM

Consider a little hiding going on here...

parental interpretation is advised.

BadNick · 03-22-2011, 01:23 PM

are you hiding behind a tree?

BadNick · 03-22-2011, 04:49 PM

wait...can you see me but I can't see you?

uncle phil · 03-24-2011, 04:47 AM

did you bury a wienie?

Ourcrazymodern? · 03-24-2011, 10:22 AM

Heh. No & no. Very few trees, & I am a wienie. I'll be back in the morning, I predict.

uncle phil · 03-24-2011, 01:02 PM

are you north of the arctic circle?

BadNick · 03-24-2011, 04:49 PM

are you hiding in a soft bread roll with chopped onions, relish, mustard and ketchup? Any bacon?

---------- Post added at 08:49 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:33 PM ----------

unc, how was your vacation?

uncle phil · 03-25-2011, 02:35 AM

last year's was better...

BadNick · 03-25-2011, 07:17 AM

does that mean it was sort of very good vs excellent? any souvenirs?

Ourcrazymodern? · 03-25-2011, 11:05 AM

...I have a Maori toe-bone. Through the planet, to the left.

BadNick · 03-25-2011, 11:36 AM

in China?

Ourcrazymodern? · 03-25-2011, 11:56 AM

No, directly through the core, & then a little to the left, & down. (Don't make me misguide you again, please. Visualizing directions & trying to put a clue in every phrase is problemmatical enough.)

uncle phil · 03-25-2011, 11:56 AM

asia?

Ourcrazymodern? · 03-25-2011, 01:50 PM

& here I was feeling bad about saying "a little to the left". I guess it depends on which way you're facing. It's farther to the left than I was thinking, but not that far.

uncle phil · 03-25-2011, 01:51 PM

Ourcrazymodern? · 03-25-2011, 01:56 PM

But, of course!

uncle phil · 03-25-2011, 02:00 PM

Ourcrazymodern? · 03-25-2011, 02:37 PM

No, that's why I was sorry about the little.

03-18-2011, 07:56 PM	#12681 (permalink)
Ourcrazymodern? still, wondering. Location: South Minneapolis, somewhere near the gorgeous gorge	"Our" side of the planet? __________________ BE JUST AND FEAR NOT

03-19-2011, 09:31 AM	#12683 (permalink)
Ourcrazymodern? still, wondering. Location: South Minneapolis, somewhere near the gorgeous gorge	So...somewhere in the Middle East? __________________ BE JUST AND FEAR NOT

03-19-2011, 01:07 PM	#12687 (permalink)
Ourcrazymodern? still, wondering. Location: South Minneapolis, somewhere near the gorgeous gorge	Are you in eastern Europe? __________________ BE JUST AND FEAR NOT

03-19-2011, 07:34 PM	#12689 (permalink)
Ourcrazymodern? still, wondering. Location: South Minneapolis, somewhere near the gorgeous gorge	I'm just guessing - "no" is tantalizing. Are you in one of the 'stans? __________________ BE JUST AND FEAR NOT

03-19-2011, 09:13 PM	#12691 (permalink)
Ourcrazymodern? still, wondering. Location: South Minneapolis, somewhere near the gorgeous gorge	When not west or south, but in the neighborhood of the middle east... Are you in Greece? __________________ BE JUST AND FEAR NOT

03-19-2011, 08:29 AM	#12682 (permalink)
BadNick Riding the Ocean Spray Location: S.E. PA in U Sofa	no And not just because I feel like any part of this planet is as much mine as a planet circling Alpha Librae, the second brightest star in the constellation Libra, which in endearing human terms has also been called Zubenelgenubi, from Arabic الزبن الجنوبي (al-zuban al-janūbiyy), meaning "southern claw", and alternate names Kiffa Australis and Elkhiffa Australis, partial Latin translations of Arabic al-kiffah al-janūbiyy, another name used in ye olde astronomy texts was Lanx Australis so no.

03-19-2011, 10:14 AM	#12684 (permalink)
BadNick Riding the Ocean Spray Location: S.E. PA in U Sofa	in that part of the world, but not the "Middle East"

03-19-2011, 12:23 PM	#12685 (permalink)
Lindy Junkie	If I took flight toward you from the Island of Malta, would my heading be somewhere between 180° and 270°?

03-19-2011, 12:50 PM	#12686 (permalink)
BadNick Riding the Ocean Spray Location: S.E. PA in U Sofa	Just to make sure my compass bearings are correct, I'll say "no" if you mean 180 as heading due south and 270 heading due west from Malta. So if that, no.

03-19-2011, 04:10 PM	#12688 (permalink)
BadNick Riding the Ocean Spray Location: S.E. PA in U Sofa	I hate to say "no" to you again, Ocm?, but no.

03-19-2011, 08:18 PM	#12690 (permalink)
BadNick Riding the Ocean Spray Location: S.E. PA in U Sofa	no-go-istan...nope I might suggest you go back to visit Lindy in Malta and lube your bearings a bit

03-19-2011, 09:21 PM	#12692 (permalink)
BadNick Riding the Ocean Spray Location: S.E. PA in U Sofa	just about due south of there

03-19-2011, 09:27 PM	#12693 (permalink)
Ourcrazymodern? still, wondering. Location: South Minneapolis, somewhere near the gorgeous gorge	Benghazi? __________________ BE JUST AND FEAR NOT

03-20-2011, 07:07 AM	#12694 (permalink)
BadNick Riding the Ocean Spray Location: S.E. PA in U Sofa	I'm less than 100 miles from Benghazi at an archeologically important site that you will have to name.

03-20-2011, 10:04 AM	#12695 (permalink)
Ourcrazymodern? still, wondering. Location: South Minneapolis, somewhere near the gorgeous gorge	Did you leave a big visual in ABC? __________________ BE JUST AND FEAR NOT

03-24-2011, 04:47 AM	#12706 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	did you bury a wienie? __________________ "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.

03-24-2011, 01:02 PM	#12708 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	are you north of the arctic circle? __________________ "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.

03-25-2011, 02:35 AM	#12710 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	last year's was better... __________________ "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.

03-20-2011, 02:35 PM	#12696 (permalink)
BadNick Riding the Ocean Spray Location: S.E. PA in U Sofa	yes I'm amazed at how interconnected our world is.

03-20-2011, 02:52 PM	#12697 (permalink)
Ourcrazymodern? still, wondering. Location: South Minneapolis, somewhere near the gorgeous gorge	Howzabout a little drink first? __________________ BE JUST AND FEAR NOT

03-20-2011, 02:59 PM	#12698 (permalink)
BadNick Riding the Ocean Spray Location: S.E. PA in U Sofa	absolutely. While we're sipping the refreshment, let's lay back, kick up our feet, and enjoy this place for a while. I hear a cricket chirping...I'm gonna try to find it.

03-20-2011, 03:09 PM	#12699 (permalink)
Ourcrazymodern? still, wondering. Location: South Minneapolis, somewhere near the gorgeous gorge	Was it this one? __________________ BE JUST AND FEAR NOT

03-20-2011, 07:01 PM	#12700 (permalink)
BadNick Riding the Ocean Spray Location: S.E. PA in U Sofa	Maybe. It looks sort of familiar. Let it go and when it makes its chirp maybe we can tell if that was the one.

03-21-2011, 07:04 AM	#12701 (permalink)
Ourcrazymodern? still, wondering. Location: South Minneapolis, somewhere near the gorgeous gorge	Cricket's eye view? __________________ BE JUST AND FEAR NOT

03-21-2011, 11:21 AM	#12702 (permalink)
BadNick Riding the Ocean Spray Location: S.E. PA in U Sofa	Now that's cricket with an appreciation for history! And dandelions. You found me so it's your turn to hide, Ocm?. I am at the Temple of Zeus in Cyrene in Libya. The fact that this temple is larger than the Parthenon in Greece is a reflection of the wealth and importance of Cyrene in the ancient Greek world. The Temple of Zeus dates back to the 5th century BCE, but restored by the Romans around year 0. It was destroyed during a Jewish rebellion in 115, and restored a second time in 120. In the great earthquake of 365, it was crushed and then not rebuilt before British and Italian archaeologists partially put it back together in modern times.

03-22-2011, 09:41 AM	#12703 (permalink)
Ourcrazymodern? still, wondering. Location: South Minneapolis, somewhere near the gorgeous gorge	Consider a little hiding going on here... parental interpretation is advised. __________________ BE JUST AND FEAR NOT

03-22-2011, 01:23 PM	#12704 (permalink)
BadNick Riding the Ocean Spray Location: S.E. PA in U Sofa	are you hiding behind a tree?

03-22-2011, 04:49 PM	#12705 (permalink)
BadNick Riding the Ocean Spray Location: S.E. PA in U Sofa	wait...can you see me but I can't see you?

03-24-2011, 10:22 AM	#12707 (permalink)
Ourcrazymodern? still, wondering. Location: South Minneapolis, somewhere near the gorgeous gorge	Heh. No & no. Very few trees, & I am a wienie. I'll be back in the morning, I predict. __________________ BE JUST AND FEAR NOT

03-24-2011, 04:49 PM	#12709 (permalink)
BadNick Riding the Ocean Spray Location: S.E. PA in U Sofa	are you hiding in a soft bread roll with chopped onions, relish, mustard and ketchup? Any bacon? ---------- Post added at 08:49 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:33 PM ---------- unc, how was your vacation?

03-25-2011, 07:17 AM	#12711 (permalink)
BadNick Riding the Ocean Spray Location: S.E. PA in U Sofa	does that mean it was sort of very good vs excellent? any souvenirs?

03-25-2011, 11:05 AM	#12712 (permalink)
Ourcrazymodern? still, wondering. Location: South Minneapolis, somewhere near the gorgeous gorge	...I have a Maori toe-bone. Through the planet, to the left. __________________ BE JUST AND FEAR NOT

03-25-2011, 11:36 AM	#12713 (permalink)
BadNick Riding the Ocean Spray Location: S.E. PA in U Sofa	in China?

03-25-2011, 11:56 AM	#12714 (permalink)
Ourcrazymodern? still, wondering. Location: South Minneapolis, somewhere near the gorgeous gorge	No, directly through the core, & then a little to the left, & down. (Don't make me misguide you again, please. Visualizing directions & trying to put a clue in every phrase is problemmatical enough.) __________________ BE JUST AND FEAR NOT

03-25-2011, 11:56 AM	#12715 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	asia? __________________ "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.

03-25-2011, 01:50 PM	#12716 (permalink)
Ourcrazymodern? still, wondering. Location: South Minneapolis, somewhere near the gorgeous gorge	& here I was feeling bad about saying "a little to the left". I guess it depends on which way you're facing. It's farther to the left than I was thinking, but not that far. __________________ BE JUST AND FEAR NOT

03-25-2011, 01:51 PM	#12717 (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.

03-25-2011, 01:56 PM	#12718 (permalink)
Ourcrazymodern? still, wondering. Location: South Minneapolis, somewhere near the gorgeous gorge	But, of course! __________________ BE JUST AND FEAR NOT