[Rockhounds] Re:New Bee Gees-Bee Gees

Fri Jan 4 09:07:23 PST 2008

Wow, I thought I was the only one who does the sing to
the Bee Gees thing still.  Karaoke! Karaoke anyone?!
Remembering 1978 my senior year.  Wow!

Keep up the good list work!

Teri J

--- Carol Carter-Wientjes <lavenderfish at cox.net>
wrote:

> Ok Pete, you're forgiven and my official excuse for
> the vague recollection 
> is on being a teenager then and 1977 was the year
> John Travolta & Saturday 
> Night Fever broke loose. So the only rock I was
> paying really close 
> attention to was DISCO! (Bee Gees! Bee Gees!)
> 
> :-o hehe, Carol
> and p.s. I still love Disco, great music to cab to!
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <pmodreski at aol.com>
> To: <rockhounds at lists.drizzle.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 11:58 AM
> Subject: Re: [Rockhounds] Re: South Dakota - Rapid
> City & Calcite vs. 
> Devil'sTower
> 
> 
> > Happy New Year, Rockhounds,
> >
> > Just catching up on reading the past emails, and I
> wanted to add my two 
> > cents' comments about Devils Tower.? I was kind of
> surprised when BK 
> > wrote,
> >
> >
> >
> >> Devil's Tower is cool, but it will probably be
> smaller than you
> >> expect.
> >
> > Because Devils Tower sure impresses one (or, it
> always has me) as being 
> > big and awesome when you see it, especially when
> you get up close to it.? 
> > But this did inspire me to look it up on the
> internet.? I see that the NPS 
> > website claims
> >
> >
> > Devils Tower rises 1267 feet above the Belle
> Fourche River.
> >
> > But that's a bit of a stretch for the height,
> because the river does not 
> > run right by its base by any means.? Looking at a
> map on topozone, with a 
> > summit elev. of 5112', it looks like the base of
> the vertical part of the 
> > tower is around 4500', so the real height of the
> pinnacle is something 
> > more like 600'.? (Another NPS web page says
> > "Devils Tower is 867 feet from its base to the
> summit."
> > It obviously depends from where exactly you
> measure.)
> >
> > Likewise, when (I think) Tim added,
> >
> > "Yes, but there isn't room at the top to park a
> spaceship "
> >
> > I thought, hey, well the top looks pretty big to
> me, I guess it depends 
> > how big your spaceship is.? Viewing things online
> again, the top looks 
> > pretty big when you see pictures taken from the
> land below, as on the 
> > National Monument homepage (the one that
> exaggerates the height), 
> > http://www.nps.gov/deto/
> > But when you look at a topo map, yes indeed, the
> true flat summit is 
> > indeed quite small, it looks like it's only about
> 100x200 feet or 
> > thereabouts.? Another website says that the flat
> summit is "about the size 
> > of a football field"; that sounds about right.?
> You could still certainly 
> > park a medium-sized spaceship there, and a really
> big one if you balanced 
> > it just right.
> >
> > But what first got to me was when Carol C-W?asked,
> >
> > "Was Devil's Tower the famous formation that's an
> integral part of the 
> > movie "Close Encounters of the Third Kind"? "
> >
> > To which I thought, good heavens, doesn't EVERYONE
> know that, second 
> > nature?? Especially "rock people"?? Like asking
> what city the Washington 
> > Monument is in?? But I have to remember, maybe the
> movie hasn't had as big 
> > an impact on everyone,?and plus, can you believe,
> some people who may be 
> > be on this Rockhounds list, might not even have
> been BORN when that movie 
> > was released!? (Tis true, I checked the
> year--1977.? Time flies!)*
> >
> > *And now---to make sure Carol doesn't feel like
> I'm?picking on?her---I'm 
> > going to admit something you'd never know if I
> kept it to myself; that 
> > when I just searched for Devils Tower on
> topozone.com, the first time I 
> > didn't come up with anything, because I searched
> for it as Devils Tower, 
> > state = SD.? Ooops!? Well, it's sure close to SD,
> and people often visit 
> > it as part of a trip to the Black Hills, hard to
> remember that the darned 
> > thing is really in Wyoming (plus that was what was
> in the?heading of the 
> > email thread--lots of excuses!)??????? ? : )
> >
> > Cheers, Pete Modreski
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Alan Silverstein <ajs at frii.com>
> > To: rockhounds at lists.drizzle.com
> > Sent: Tue, 1 Jan 2008 5:05 pm
> > Subject: Re: [Rockhounds] Re: South Dakota - Rapid
> City & Calcite vs. 
> > Devil's Tower
> >
> >
> >
> >> Devil's Tower is cool, but it will probably be
> smaller than you
> >> expect.  They have a paved trail around it and I
> think it took us
> >> about an hour at a leisurely stroll speed to walk
> around it.
> >
> > You can spend more time and get more of a view by
> following some of the
> > climbers' trails up higher on the pinnacle, to the
> point where it really
> > does become technical.  As far as I know, you
> don't need permission or a
> > permit to do this, and it's way cool.
> >
> > Alan Silverstein
> > -- 
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> >
> >
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