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The Kitchen Junk Drawer, Exchanges that need to be put somewhere
brellis
post Oct 11 2010, 05:54 PM
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Re: SF Valley -- My McMansion will be on the approaching side of Endeavour. In Mars gravity, maybe I could hit a golf ball all the way to Stu's Crater! laugh.gif
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post Oct 14 2010, 07:13 AM
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QUOTE (ElkGroveDan @ Oct 11 2010, 09:43 AM) *
r (maybe Doug will take a gigapan for us from Van Nuys on a clear day.)


http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=34....354.38,,0,16.61

That sort of place Dan?
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post Oct 14 2010, 01:24 PM
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Ah yes, a shot from the Southern rim. What I meant was a a pan from the CENTER of the Valley. But you'd have to get on a tall building to see over all the other structures. Honestly though, Van Nuys is an unpleasant place to visit unless you are getting some body work done on your car or arranging a large printing job.


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post Oct 14 2010, 04:08 PM
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Re: Van Nuys Giga Pan

100 jokes are swirling through my tiny brain. laugh.gif
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post Oct 14 2010, 04:54 PM
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Ned Kelly! Funny... yes, it looks just like him!

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post Oct 14 2010, 09:35 PM
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Nice try rolleyes.gif Phil but that's Crocodile Dundee and you must have Photoshopped him in in your photo. I hate to disagree with a senior member but here's the empirical (Aus style) proof that it was Ned Kelly in my undoctored wink.gif photo.

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(Death of Sergeant Kennedy by Sydney Nolan)
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post Oct 14 2010, 11:19 PM
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That's no Crocodile Dundee! A virtual Mars Bar for the first person to correctly identify the shadow in my picture.

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post Oct 14 2010, 11:31 PM
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Phil my gut reaction was that your's was a nod to Freddie Krueger but his hat was a Fedora - that shadow looks more of like an Abe Lincoln style to me but the rim is a bit weird.
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post Oct 14 2010, 11:37 PM
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Oh no, there's a strong Aussie connection. In fact, I once told an Australian woman that this person (the shadow) was my main source of information about Australia. She was very deeply offended (as I had anticipated).

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post Oct 14 2010, 11:41 PM
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rolleyes.gif

Whatever happened to "Keeping UMSF at an 'impressively high level"?
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post Oct 14 2010, 11:48 PM
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Oh yeah, I forgot about that...

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post Oct 14 2010, 11:53 PM
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Wild guess -- it's the hat of Sherlock Holmes?

***and yes, this thread is side-tracked -- for scientific investigations smile.gif
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post Oct 15 2010, 12:12 AM
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What else can we do when there are no pictures from Mars?

Sherlock Holmes? What's antipodal about him?

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Okay, gotta beg a hint: Is this related to a media and/or cultural figure in the UK or Canada? I'm totally at a loss here!


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post Oct 15 2010, 01:02 AM
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British... with Ozzie roots... and there's a clue in the filename...

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