Name That Place!

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Re: Name That Place!

Post by psyper » 30 Jul 2008 18:25

AngelBaby wrote:Lake Baikal in Siberia, the deepest lake in the world and the largest freshwater lake by volume. :D

It's also the world's oldest lake (25 million years) and contains more water than all the Great Lakes combined. :ohnoes:
I knew this one as I only just read the article on bbc online. Its the only one on this thread I could probably of guessed right on! Damn you angelbaby ::waves fist::
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Re: Name That Place!

Post by smash » 30 Jul 2008 20:53

Easy one, Angelbabe. I'll let someone else answer it!

FYI - if you think about that Lake Baikal one, the comment 'contains more water than all of the Great Lakes combined'... if any of you have had the pleasure of seeing the great lakes...this is completely mind blowing. First off, if you look at any of the pictures of Lake Baikal, you can EASILY see to the other side. Not so with any of the Great Lakes. Also, I think all of the Great Lakes, save maybe Ontario and definitely Eerie are longer than Baikal. So it all comes down to depth. And somehow that means that the depth of that Lake is something like way more than stacking all the great lakes on top of each other. Lake Superior is fairly deep to begin with.

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Re: Name That Place!

Post by exelis » 31 Jul 2008 08:17

Yeah, AB's clue gave that one away for me.

Still, I didn't know what it looked like. Cool beans.

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Re: Name That Place!

Post by AngelBaby » 31 Jul 2008 09:20

Well, someone might as well give the answer and post a new one. :?

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Re: Name That Place!

Post by smash » 31 Jul 2008 22:50

I nominate Bob or Dex or Psyper to solve.


One of you... figger it out!

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Re: Name That Place!

Post by exelis » 01 Aug 2008 04:13

I hope you and I aren't the only ones old enough to get the clue, Smashy.

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Re: Name That Place!

Post by AngelBaby » 01 Aug 2008 04:20

exelis wrote:I hope you and I aren't the only ones old enough to get the clue, Smashy.
Hey!

I'm not (that) old, and I GAVE the clue. I didn't realize it would be so obvious, however.

iFail.
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Re: Name That Place!

Post by exelis » 01 Aug 2008 04:25

Yeah, but you gave it, and one would assume you were going for obscure, since you don't want to give it away right away. Maybe you succeeded, except in the case of us oldsters.

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Re: Name That Place!

Post by psyper » 01 Aug 2008 17:04

smash wrote:I nominate Bob or Dex or Psyper to solve.


One of you... figger it out!
I'm 32 is that still not old enough for this one - even google doesnt seem to be helping me with this one much!!!
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Re: Name That Place!

Post by exelis » 01 Aug 2008 20:19

Fuck. You're old, too.

We should rename this board to "AB & the Geezers".

32 is old enough to get the reference, though, especially where AB is the one that offered it.

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Re: Name That Place!

Post by smash » 01 Aug 2008 22:25

*Cough**hint* hoochie coo! /hint /cough

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Re: Name That Place!

Post by psyper » 02 Aug 2008 17:50

exelis wrote:We should rename this board to "AB & the Geezers".
Sounds like the start of a porn movie!!!! - buggsy the bottom half


smash wrote:*Cough**hint* hoochie coo! /hint /cough
Funny enough I googled those hints too and still coming up blank. maybe im just an epic fail! I'm stuck at work all weekend so will probably give this another try in a bit
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Re: Name That Place!

Post by psyper » 02 Aug 2008 19:32

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum!!

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&safe= ... 8&t=h&z=19
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Re: Name That Place!

Post by psyper » 02 Aug 2008 21:00

Funny enough somehow my searching the other day got me onto Cleveland and i was scanning the lake shore for hours - mustve missed it!!

Guess its my turn - this is probably gonna be really easy - here goes:

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This Building = This Building
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Colour = Color
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Re: Name That Place!

Post by AngelBaby » 03 Aug 2008 00:56

The Government Communications Headquarters building in England. However, the GCHQ is more analogous to the NSA in the US. The British equivalent to the US building (CIA Headquarters at Langley) that you used as a photo clue would be the headquarters building of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). ;)

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