**potpourri thread '03**

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Rallispec

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Originally posted by: Fausto1
Originally posted by: Gage8
Originally posted by: Fausto1
Originally posted by: Rallispec
How many steps in the washington monument?

228


yeah, that's more like it. I was beginning to feel very young. REM was before my time
Okay. I'll do something else.

What is the name of the man who was more or less solely responsible for resurrecting Triumph Motorcycles after they had folded in 1984?


no baton for you! you stll havent answered my question. :evil:
 

Rallispec

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okay-- the answer was john bloor--
(for fausto's question.. mwuhahaha. (thats what you get for giving me the answer))

gage, you have the baton.
 

Gage8

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here it is:

what is the world's largest bronze statue featuring a group of people and where is it located?
 

Cerebus451

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Crap, now I have to come up with a question......

How about.....

What is the world's tallest tree?
 

Cerebus451

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Originally posted by: DrPizza
Which particular tree? Or just the tallest type? (Redwood?)
I am thinking of the particular tree deemed to be the tallest, not just the type of tree.
 

DrPizza

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It used to be the Libby tree or something like that... but the top of that one broke or something and another that was shorter by a few inches is the tallest now.

edit: Okay, I cheated.... I looked it up. Mendocino tree.
 

Encryptic

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Originally posted by: DrPizza
It used to be the Libby tree or something like that... but the top of that one broke or something and another that was shorter by a few inches is the tallest now.


General Sherman tree in Redwood National Forest?

 

Gage8

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"Towering 367.5 feet, the "Mendocino Tree" at remote Montgomery Woods State Reserve has been officially decreed the tallest living thing by state park rangers"

:)

i luve google
 

Cerebus451

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Originally posted by: Gage8
"Towering 367.5 feet, the "Mendocino Tree" at remote Montgomery Woods State Reserve has been officially decreed the tallest living thing by state park rangers"

:)

i luve google

You probably typed the same thing into Google that I did (I just wanted to make sure I remembered it correctly). The baton is yours.
 

Gage8

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ok, anybody up for some odd trivia?

what did Sigmund Freud have "a morbid fear" of?