Alert: The Maps Thread

I had a scholarship offer at Georgetown but my back injury took that away. Ended up playing club ball at Liberty where we behaved ourselves except for the "Holy War" rivalry game against Messiah College where the police had to be brought in to stop the fights in the 1997 game.

Again, no smartphones, so nobody can prove that.

 

The first DVD release of the first three movies had unmodified movies on a second disk.

 

Definitely a higher level than I played at, which was a second-tier USILA/MCLA club program in Texas. Great times, though.

Honestly I'm surprised that a school like Liberty was involved in aggro like that. Doesn't seem like a WWJD kinda thing.

 

Han shot first.

 

esp. with Messiah. A perennial DIII soccer power, incidentally.

 

Yep. I literally hadn't heard of it, and at that time it was still a school of about 3,000 students.

 

Highest elevation in each US county. I like the color spectrum of the Hawaiian islands.

 

I remember being impressed by how tall the Rockies were, especially in comparison to the Appalachians. Then I saw the Himalaya and, well ...

 

Nice to see a MLS team make the cut, even if I doubt the veracity of the results! Also worth noting four different teams from Washington state on the map (Gonzaga? In two different states that don't play them in conference games? Really?).

 

As far as I could tell, the only within-state/province hate shown on the map is the Calgary Flames in Alberta.

 

It came on the TV once when I was in the study. Don't Stop Believing was borderline, but HSM pushed it over the edge.

 

Orgasme

 

At least the Dallas Cowboys are still relevant in one thing, number of fans who hate them.

 

I saw butt & lax and assumed some kind of asslaunchers were involved

 

Meh, white sox fans like the cardinals, only to the point of them beating the scrubs. Green Bay is far more hated in IL than they are.

 

When I went trekking in Nepal I met a guide who asked where I was from. When I told him he went “Ah, California. Very small mountains!” I felt a little dissed but he wasn’t wrong, relatively speaking.

 

In my old age, I've been fascinated with how different mountain ranges are. I mean the Alps are completely different from the Coastal Range. I used to chuckle at what my East Coast family called "mountains". The hill that I live on in Pinole would be the highest point in a lot of countries!

 

Well you tell mountain snob that the Appalachians were probably higher than the Himalayas...200 million years ago. Talk about recency bias.

 

Well Olympus Mons is normally just measured in kilometers since it is 22 kilometers high.

 

Yeah, just north of the Kathmandu valley they had some things that sure looked like mountains to me but, being only about 15,000 feet above sea level and still having some trees on them, I was told that they were "hills". Seems crazy, but when the clouds clear up and you can see Langtang towering over them, it makes sense.

The starkest thing I've ever seen was in Pokhara, which is about 800m above sea level and is no more than 50k from Annapurna, which is over 8000m. So, a roughly 10x increase in height in 30 miles. Unreal.