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World's Largest things
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Tue, May 17, 2005 5:45 PM
An awfully high number of these are in Canada. What's up with that? |
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Tue, May 17, 2005 5:47 PM
small weeners big stuff!!! |
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Tue, May 17, 2005 5:49 PM
My personal favorites |
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Tue, May 17, 2005 6:25 PM
Having gone to college in the city that claims the World's largest Six-Pack, I feel as I have been given the license to condense here a few words from the preface of Karal Ann Marling's classic and scholarly 1984 book 'The Colossus of Roads - Myth and Symbol Along the American Highway'It is the terror of infinite spaces. Hours of straight roads, lined by endless, even fields of beans and corn, or stands of timber merging with the mirror surfaces of shallow lakes scooped from the level surface of the ground. The land is too flat, loudly proclaiming its bigness and its blustering expansiveness and its crude power by that insistent, uninterrupted sprawl. Like a boulder on the highway, the material of the big [fill in name of giant object] stops traffic. A rooted mass at odds with the flight of the road, it vivifies a sense of place. We write postcards for friends back home: "Wish You Were Here!" "Here" is strange and odd, the domain of lurid, monster fauna - dream turned to nightmare, the magical someday becoming a sweltering now, fantasy becomes a dense, disconcerting, impenetrable reality. Seen against the measure of pokey little Main Streets skittering past the shores of placid lakes, they startle by their florid rhetoric, their grandoise aspirations. They brag and boast and holler and stomp, in a wild Amercian orgy of self-assertion and desire. It is a place made for pioneers and pilgrims and tourists, a place for the dramatic arrivals and flamboyant departures that give to the weary transient the assurance of having come to someplace new. The miles and hours 'have' indeed flown by. Roadside monuments mark off the frontiers and boundaries of 'here.' By increments of 'heres,' we feel our way every onward. "Which way to the American dream?" Why, it's up the road, there.Damn, I wish I had written that. Vern |
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Tue, May 17, 2005 6:36 PM
Baltimore once had the distinction of calling "The World's Largest Trashcan" its own! After certification by Guinness the trashcan was hauled off to the landfill and never seen again... Isn't that ironic? Baltimore once owned the world's largest trashcan now the entire city is a trashcan! Let's see Guinness document that! Disclaimer: To all my local TC ohana who call Baltimore and its surrounding areas home - I'M JUST KIDDING! :D |
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Tue, May 17, 2005 6:52 PM
In Australia we have the big: I think all up ther is 20 "big things" in Australia |
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Tue, May 17, 2005 7:18 PM
Hey Monkeyman, that Uniroyal Gal - Go-Go Dancer was the first thing that caught my eye when I first arrived in San Diego-go in 1971. I was immediately reminded of one my favorite grade B sci-fi movies - "Attack of the 50 Foot Woman". |
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Tue, May 17, 2005 7:47 PM
Actually, I only saw a ratio of about 1 Canadian attraction for every US attraction. That fits in well with our population ratios...Or the funny answer: As for Kirby's explanation: |
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Tue, May 17, 2005 7:55 PM
I think the main reason there are so many in Alberta is that the provincial government used to give money to small towns to build things that would attract tourists to places that tourists would otherwise not go and many towns chose to build big things. http://www.swankola.com/bw/bw.html |
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Wed, May 18, 2005 8:02 AM
Don't forget the Big Pineapple! |
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Wed, May 18, 2005 10:54 AM
One of my favorite playgrounds here in Victoria is at Cadboro Bay, There is also a giant salmon and an octopus which are fun to climb. |
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Wed, May 18, 2005 11:22 AM
Shouldn't Danny's "World's Largest Tiki Mug" be in that listing? |
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Wed, May 18, 2005 11:25 AM
The town meeting to decide this would make a great short film. Just imagine: |
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Wed, May 18, 2005 11:52 AM
my mother's elementary school tried to make the World's Biggest Milkshake, but they missed it by a large amount - I think it was just a ploy by the kids to get massive amounts of ice cream in one day. it sure was gross cleaning out our oversized freezer afterwards (the dark side of ice cream...) |
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Wed, May 18, 2005 5:08 PM
There was an episode of Corner Gas (a Canadian sit-com) that was sort of like that. The residents of Dog River decided to build the world's largest hoe (a dirty hoe, no less). |
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Sat, May 21, 2005 8:41 PM
I submit for your consideration....... 1,00 POUNDS BUT WAIT, THAT'S PEANUTS COMPARED TO THE REAL CHAMP WHICH IS NEAR OUR HOME IN THE SMALL TOWN OF BRUNSWICK, MISSOURI. 7 FOOT TALL AND 12,000 POUNDS. When we first met....... [ Edited by: 8FT Tiki on 2005-05-27 20:18 ] |
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Thu, May 26, 2005 3:55 AM
tourists not want to go to places like medicine hat or moose jaw without incentive.. yeah right :wink:
[ Edited by: john on 2005-05-26 03:56 ] |
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Fri, May 27, 2005 11:03 AM
I just passed by a new addition to Roncesvalles Ave in Toronto - 2 massive boxing gloves looking ready to punch ya outside a gym! |
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