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http://xkcd.com/1040/large/

This is an interesting page that illustrates the depth of various bodies of water to scale along with some interesting facts. You'll need to scroll over & up/down to see the whole thing.
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Mr Munroe is amazing, I even have a bookmark.

He beat me, I had to look up Andrea Gail. And I don't believe the door.

His how big is big chart should be on school walls.
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Fascinating..................David Bowie and Freddie Mercury ????
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Bruv;1391926 wrote: Fascinating..................David Bowie and Freddie Mercury ????


Under Pressure. [1]

Can I drop https://xkcd.com/364/ in here?







[1] - and may I copy a comment on this off youtube?This song = 8 million views

Justin Bieber = 730 million views

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spot;1391930 wrote: Under Pressure


Of course......I feel silly now
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Bruv;1391932 wrote: Of course......I feel silly now


I never thought the day would come when I would even think Queen out-Beatled the Beatles much less say it but honestly, A Night at the Opera trumps even Abbey Road. And so does Aladdin Sane, come to that. But nobody out-Stones the Stones.

We could post a Ten Best Groups list if we had a thread for it and I bet we'd all start Stones Kinks Queen ELP.
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spot;1391935 wrote: I never thought the day would come when I would even think Queen out-Beatled the Beatles much less say it but honestly, A Night at the Opera trumps even Abbey Road. And so does Aladdin Sane, come to that. But nobody out-Stones the Stones.

We could post a Ten Best Groups list if we had a thread for it and I bet we'd all start Stones Kinks Queen ELP.Bah! The Band

And what do you mean by out-Beatle the Beatles?
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Ahso!;1391940 wrote: Bah! The Band

And what do you mean by out-Beatle the Beatles?


I've gone through my entire collection and none of them have The Band in big letters anywhere. They played on a few Dylan albums?

What the Beatles did was ordered their tracks in so coherent a manner that the side was more than the sum of the tracks, and I think they did that before anyone else. Looking back over each group's output, The Kinks after their first three albums and ELP especially with Tarkus and screeds of the Stones ended up doing it even more impressively, as did mid-period Queen, and I enjoy listening to albums. Listening to tracks is far less satisfying.
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spot;1391935 wrote: I never thought the day would come when I would even think Queen out-Beatled the Beatles much less say it but honestly, A Night at the Opera trumps even Abbey Road. And so does Aladdin Sane, come to that. But nobody out-Stones the Stones.

We could post a Ten Best Groups list if we had a thread for it and I bet we'd all start Stones Kinks Queen ELP.


What ?????

Have you been on the wacky baccy ?

You have out spotted spot with that one.
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Bruv;1391944 wrote: What ?????

Have you been on the wacky baccy ?

You have out spotted spot with that one.
I'm right, you wretch, and you know it.

Here's my top ten groups, now you show me yours. And note that mine's not limited to British groups neither.

Stones, Kinks, Queen, ELP, Jethro Tull, Rainbow, Tangerine Dream, Fairport Convention, Moody Blues, Yes, Steeleye Span, Roxy Music, Black Sabbath, Thin Lizzy.
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Thanks for sharing that.
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spot;1391946 wrote: I'm right, you wretch, and you know it.

Here's my top ten groups, now you show me yours. And note that mine's not limited to British groups neither.

Stones, Kinks, Queen, ELP, Jethro Tull, Rainbow, Tangerine Dream, Fairport Convention, Moody Blues, Yes, Steeleye Span, Roxy Music, Black Sabbath, Thin Lizzy.


What has that to do with the Mariana Trench ?

I doubt if I have ten favourite bands, but if I did the Beatles would rank somewhere............probably at number one.

I shall give this some thought, and get back to you.
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After all these years I find I've plain gone off the Beatles. And, come to that, the Who. It even distresses me that it's happened.
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spot;1391952 wrote: After all these years I find I've plain gone off the Beatles. And, come to that, the Who. It even distresses me that it's happened.


When you get to your age that only natural, so many years of praise heaped upon them, and then you re-listen to their lesser known stuff, and you can see what all the fuss is about.

Just throwing some random groups you left out, a group is more than a solo artist isn't it ?

Pink Floyd

Abba

Simon and Garfunkle

Beach Boys

U2

Police

The Eagles
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This should really be taken to another thread. Tabby's threads deserve respect.
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I left out Pink Floyd and U2 and the Police and the Eagles - and Genesis - because I never listened to them and still for the most part haven't on the grounds that life would otherwise be too short. And yes, groups is bands is different to Wakeman Cohen Dylan Oldfield Bowie Hackett etc. On the other hand I left out Deep Purple because I rate Rainbow higher and Led Zeppelin because they slipped my mind.

Abba would be there on any sane list but. Can't a chap carry a bias against sheer bouncy popularity around with him? And I count S&G as solo artists, for no good reason at all.
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Ahso!;1391957 wrote: This should really be taken to another thread. Tabby's threads deserve respect.


"The depth of various bodies of water to scale along with some interesting facts" should indeed be resurrected. We have been remiss and unsportsmanlike. On the other hand it's keeping the thread afloat and besides, I always thought threads should be robust enough to cope with digression so long as it's not harassment aimed at closing off discussion (though goodness knows FG's suffered enough from that over the years).
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It's okay by me! In most social gatherings, the subject of favorite music groups will trump that of ocean and lake depth every time! :cool:
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Since it's okay with Tabby.

The Rolling Stones were good musically but how ever did Jagger ever survive as a singer? The man is atrocious. Incidentally, Sticky Fingers is one of my all time favorite albums, as is Goats Head Soup.
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Shun, shun the non-believer. Avaunt, heretic. Call out the Inquisition.
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What is this?

It looks like rotting tomato slices.
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SnoozeAgain;1391981 wrote: What is this?

It looks like rotting tomato slices.It's a mirror, mouldypants, nobody sees tomato slices except you cos.
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SnoozeAgain;1391981 wrote: What is this?

It looks like rotting tomato slices.You don't see the person with the huge mouth in the forefront and another person peeking out from behind his shoulder and the green hamburger sitting on a table with the pink monster ready to devour it in the back? It's either that or my best impression of a Jackson Pollock.

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There's just no fooling you, is there.
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spot;1391958 wrote: I left out Pink Floyd and U2 and the Police and the Eagles - and Genesis - because I never listened to them and still for the most part haven't on the grounds that life would otherwise be too short. And yes, groups is bands is different to Wakeman Cohen Dylan Oldfield Bowie Hackett etc. On the other hand I left out Deep Purple because I rate Rainbow higher and Led Zeppelin because they slipped my mind.

Abba would be there on any sane list but. Can't a chap carry a bias against sheer bouncy popularity around with him? And I count S&G as solo artists, for no good reason at all.


How do you know if life is too short, have you got your logging out date ?

Reminds me of the comedian Steve Wright who when asked by a bum, if he had any spare cash replied "I don't know yet"

As to the anti popular bias.......balderdash......how can you get more popular than Queen, with the third best seller of all time in the UK. My thread about whether popular is necessarily bad was aiming at discussing that sort of pretension.

As we are off topic and meandering......I shall recall a conversation about Abba way back and how that gorgeous female floated our respective boats.

To cut a long story short it just happens we were lusting after a different one of the two. Agnetha was my dream girl while my friend was bowled over by Anni-Frid ...............no accounting for taste I suppose.....or hormones.
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