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  • Brian Ellis
    Super MURCer
    • Sep 1999
    • 9623

    #3721
    Well-known place
    Attached Files
    Brian (the devil incarnate)

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    • Fat Tone
      Super MURCer
      • Aug 1999
      • 7579

      #3722
      Surely not the Andees?
      FT.

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      • Brian Ellis
        Super MURCer
        • Sep 1999
        • 9623

        #3723
        Originally posted by Fat Tone
        Surely not the Andees?
        Surely not, wherever the Andees may be!
        Brian (the devil incarnate)

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        • Fat Tone
          Super MURCer
          • Aug 1999
          • 7579

          #3724
          Surely on the end of your armees?

          Normally if I see a Dam and snow-capped mountains I think of Canada, but I don't see any trees, so how about Asia?
          FT.

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          • Brian Ellis
            Super MURCer
            • Sep 1999
            • 9623

            #3725
            Well, it may happen to be above the tree line. I think this is quite probable as I believe the altitude to be about 2300 m asl.

            Not Asia.
            Brian (the devil incarnate)

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            • Umfriend
              Crabby Smurf
              • Mar 2001
              • 7308

              #3726
              Europe? Alps? Italy?
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              • SitFlyer
                Super MURCer
                • Aug 2002
                • 7178

                #3727
                Switzerland???

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                • Brian Ellis
                  Super MURCer
                  • Sep 1999
                  • 9623

                  #3728
                  Originally posted by SitFlyer
                  Switzerland???
                  Indeed, Switzerland
                  Brian (the devil incarnate)

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                  • gt40
                    This space for rent
                    • Sep 1999
                    • 3973

                    #3729
                    is that the Grande-Dixence gravity dam in Valais
                    Yeah, well I'm gonna build my own lunar space lander! With blackjack aaaaannd Hookers! Actually, forget the space lander, and the blackjack. Ahhhh forget the whole thing!

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                    • Brian Ellis
                      Super MURCer
                      • Sep 1999
                      • 9623

                      #3730
                      'Tis indeed: the world's tallest gravity dam (I think 280 m, if my memory is right) and probably the biggest block of concrete.

                      It is estimated that, if it ever suddenly fails (God forbid!), 90% of the inhabitants of the Bas Valais from Brigue to St Maurice will probably be drowned, as they will have a maximum of 10 minutes to escape to high ground. Below St Maurice, there will also be a considerable number of deaths due to a surge of water and a tsunami about 10 m high will sweep through Lac Léman (Lake of Geneva) causing wholesale destruction (with about 25 min warning) through such towns as Villeneuve, St Gingolph, Montreux, Vevey, Lausanne, Evian, Thonon, Morges, Nyon and Geneva.
                      Brian (the devil incarnate)

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                      • gt40
                        This space for rent
                        • Sep 1999
                        • 3973

                        #3731
                        I was here a few years back:
                        Attached Files
                        Yeah, well I'm gonna build my own lunar space lander! With blackjack aaaaannd Hookers! Actually, forget the space lander, and the blackjack. Ahhhh forget the whole thing!

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                        • Brian Ellis
                          Super MURCer
                          • Sep 1999
                          • 9623

                          #3732
                          Utah?
                          Brian (the devil incarnate)

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                          • gt40
                            This space for rent
                            • Sep 1999
                            • 3973

                            #3733
                            not Utah
                            Yeah, well I'm gonna build my own lunar space lander! With blackjack aaaaannd Hookers! Actually, forget the space lander, and the blackjack. Ahhhh forget the whole thing!

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                            • Brian Ellis
                              Super MURCer
                              • Sep 1999
                              • 9623

                              #3734
                              A neighbouring state, then?
                              Brian (the devil incarnate)

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                              • Marshmallowman
                                Super MURCer
                                • Sep 1999
                                • 3416

                                #3735
                                Obviously just outside of the town of Hell...in texas?

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