[Axa]

Just come back from a few days spent holidaying in the mountains - Boon, Gatlinburg, and Pigeon Forge, and had to take a pic of this place in Pigeon Forge, TN. I knew it existed, but forgot it was in Pigeon Forge.
Buford, this is for you !!...oh yeah, and the handsome chap is me.


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[Robert E. Lee]

Where is that in Pigeon Forge, I'll be up there in about a month. Did you see the car?
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[The Nanite]

Stupid Question but then I'm not from the Confederacy. Who's Buford Pusser and why is seeing his death car an event?
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[Robert E. Lee]

http://www.midsouthwrestling.com/BUFFORD-PUSSER.html
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[BitterBeerFace]

Doh! Here this whole time I thought Buford's pic was actually him... well, the Buford in the pic is Buford himself, but that's actually the Buford from back then, and not OUR Buford...

Ok, too many Bufords

[Cadman]

Confedercy, car? There were cars in the Confedercy? I missed that during history class.


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[three_gunn]

"life" outside of california amazes me...i have a culture shock everytime. i want to see the world...someone stop by my office and take me on a magical carpet ride.



-dont mind me...we ran out of coffee.

[The Nanite]

uh...3G...didn't we talk about putting down that crack pipe once in a while? Also just to dispute Cadman's fact that their weren't cars in the Confederacy I give you the following dialog:

I was at a party the other day when the battle of Hastings came up. A bunch of us guys were standing around in the kitchen hoping some girls would come through to get a beer or something.

"The Battle of Hastings was in 1066," one guy said. Just then, Shannon Ross walked in, so I corrected him.

"Actually, it depends on which battle you're talking about," I said, making sure she was listening, "Hastings was attacked several times, but most notably in 1750BC, 310BC, and another time in 1545. That's AD, of course. But if you're talking about the really big Battle of Hastings, well, that was in 2008. And man, what a mother of a battle that one was. Thank god for my mechanized infantry. Those Aztec tanks didn't stand a chance."

They immediately disputed this. We checked the Internet. All I can say is, thank god Shannon Ross had gone into another room to talk to some guy who I'm thinking was her boyfriend. Needless to say, I left the party shortly thereafter to check my saved games. Maybe it's a bug. I've tried to explain my side of the story to Shannon Ross, but she hasn't returned my calls yet.

As if that weren't bad enough, I have since found out that the Iroquois did not discover electricity in 1450 and trade it to the English. The Germans were not the first to learn space flight and they weren't narrowly beaten by the Egyptians in the race to launch an interstellar spaceship. Speaking of which, did you know the Great Pyramids are in Egypt and not Detroit?

I guess Civilization III is like an alternative history. Okay, fair enough. I've read Harry Turtledove. But I'm starting to have my suspicions about other things as well. In 3000BC, did it really take 500 years to march from New York to Boston? My people, the English, get upset when I cut off their incense supply. I can understand them getting upset if I stop running Benny Hill, but what's the deal with incense? Are they all hippies? I say 'my people', because I've learned from Civilization III that I'm the King of England. However, I don't seem to be getting the appropriate amount of press coverage, which gives me pause.

My English get all bent out of shape if they don't have silk. This makes sense to me, because I also learned about history from Imperialism II. In that game, if you couldn't get enough furry hats for your workers to wear, they would stay home and sulk. I always thought it was strange that 19th century laborers were so fashion conscious. Now I'm wondering if this is untrue. Maybe some of them didn't even wear hats.

In Civilization III, I have to use a mouse and keyboard, even when I'm the King of Ancient Rome. This is so unrealistic because I'm pretty sure the mouse wasn't invented when Caesar was in charge. I believe he used some sort of voice-activated empire management dealie. "You guys, go conquer Gaul," he'd say and some guys would go conquer Gaul. If he failed, he'd just reload. "Ctrl-L," he'd say. But me? Firaxis makes me press buttons because they don't care one whit about realism. When will these game designers learn that we want realism? Just ask any flight sim developer. As far as I'm concerned, the game is hopelessly broken. Hopefully, Firaxis can fix some of these things in a patch.

For instance, I thought battleships had fallen out of favor in the modern navy because we found out phalanxes could sink them. But it turns out no one's even building phalanxes anymore, because they've all discovered gunpowder. These sorts of unrealistic game mechanics are particularly dangerous for children who might be misled into thinking pollution doesn't matter as long as we keep about twenty workers handy to clean up those unsightly brown spots. I see kids today throwing candy wrappers on the ground and I wonder if they're playing too much Civilization for the good of our planet. Sid Meier, when our planet is choked with Skittles wrappers and those brown paper cups from Reese's Peanut Butter cups, it'll be all your fault. If only you had made a more realistic game.
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[PondScum007]

hey didnt know about the real sheriff pusser before, thats csome cool stuff, and interesting story there fog...
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