Euro Shootout? Why are you guys so hung up on a bunch of rocks?

JusticeiroJusticeiro Registered Users Posts: 1,177 Major grins
edited January 5, 2009 in The Big Picture
Fer real. How many photos of orange rocks does one really need?

It would be awesome to organize (not as an alternative, but as a supplement) a Dgrin Shootout in the old world. Not only does it have intrinsic awesomeness, Europe being full of all sorts of culture and whatnot (just ask, Europeans wil gladly tell you how cool they are), it would be (appealing to your hard nosed business side) an excellent way of promoting the brand in Europe.

They have castles here. Lots of them. Some big, others small, but they are all incredibly old. I am told that some of them date back to the mists of the beginning of time itself, meaning before 1965.

If you can't tear yourselves away from nature to take time to drink a beer and oogle a pretty slovak chick, there are always great mountains (the Alps, The Tatra, The Balkans, etc.) Has this ever been considered before?

Please, don't leave me alone amongst the Germans. Help.
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  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited July 12, 2008
    2009: no orange rocks, promise.
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  • DonnaLuDonnaLu Registered Users Posts: 69 Big grins
    edited July 12, 2008
    Red Rocks of Scotland??
    Last event was in Scotland. Not CONUS last time I checked. mwink.gif
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  • DoctorItDoctorIt Administrators Posts: 11,951 moderator
    edited July 12, 2008
    DonnaLu wrote:
    Last event was in Scotland. Not CONUS last time I checked. mwink.gif
    That wasn't a real Dgrin shootout, more of a MM special.

    I'm holding Andy to his 2009 promise :D
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  • davevdavev Registered Users Posts: 3,118 Major grins
    edited July 12, 2008
    Andy wrote:
    2009: no orange rocks, promise.


    Let the guessing begin. :D

    Alaska.
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  • gusgus Registered Users Posts: 16,209 Major grins
    edited July 13, 2008
    davev wrote:
    Let the guessing begin. :D

    Alaska.
    Blue rocks & some trees & maybe a stream..thats my bet.
  • JusticeiroJusticeiro Registered Users Posts: 1,177 Major grins
    edited July 13, 2008
    they have good rocks in Europe as well:

    http://www.horydoly.cz/pictures/ceskosaske_skala1_t.jpg

    http://www.phototravels.net/czech-republic/crbs1/cr-np-bohemianswitzerland-p-016.3.jpg

    http://www.math.utep.edu/esco_2008/gfx/brana3.jpg

    http://www.math.utep.edu/esco_2008/gfx/b0358.jpg


    All of this, about 3 hours by train outside of Prague. Urban Safaris are a possibility as well.

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    It's a whole continent man. I'm just sayin'
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  • Antonio CorreiaAntonio Correia Registered Users Posts: 6,241 Major grins
    edited July 14, 2008
    Justiceiro wrote:
    Fer real. How many photos of orange rocks does one really need?

    It would be awesome to organize (not as an alternative, but as a supplement) a Dgrin Shootout in the old world. Not only does it have intrinsic awesomeness, Europe being full of all sorts of culture and whatnot (just ask, Europeans wil gladly tell you how cool they are), it would be (appealing to your hard nosed business side) an excellent way of promoting the brand in Europe.

    They have castles here. Lots of them. Some big, others small, but they are all incredibly old. I am told that some of them date back to the mists of the beginning of time itself, meaning before 1965.

    If you can't tear yourselves away from nature to take time to drink a beer and oogle a pretty slovak chick, there are always great mountains (the Alps, The Tatra, The Balkans, etc.) Has this ever been considered before?

    Please, don't leave me alone amongst the Germans. Help.


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  • DoctorItDoctorIt Administrators Posts: 11,951 moderator
    edited July 17, 2008
    Where is this?
    http://www.math.utep.edu/esco_2008/gfx/b0358.jpg

    (I was born in Prague, been back countless times, and I can't place this location for the life of me. I feel like I should recognize something this cool!)
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  • gusgus Registered Users Posts: 16,209 Major grins
    edited July 17, 2008
    DoctorIt wrote:
    Where is this?
    http://www.math.utep.edu/esco_2008/gfx/b0358.jpg

    (I was born in Prague, been back countless times, and I can't place this location for the life of me. I feel like I should recognize something this cool!)
    Saechische Schweiz ...bastei.

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  • schmooschmoo Registered Users Posts: 8,468 Major grins
    edited July 17, 2008
    I know this issue's been discussed before, and I can't find the thread for some reason but I know that like the little shootouts that happen amongst Dgrinners, there's no reason why one couldn't be arranged as a grassroots operation if there were enough willing people. thumb.gif
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  • Awais YaqubAwais Yaqub Registered Users Posts: 10,572 Major grins
    edited July 17, 2008
    Yes man i agree i will love to see historic places of Europe which are so beautiful iloveyou.gif
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  • DoctorItDoctorIt Administrators Posts: 11,951 moderator
    edited July 17, 2008
    gus wrote:
    Saechische Schweiz ...bastei.

    What did i win ?
    Huh?

    Mom told me I was an idiot for not knowing - Prachovske skaly.
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  • gusgus Registered Users Posts: 16,209 Major grins
    edited July 17, 2008
    DoctorIt wrote:
    Huh?

    Mom told me I was an idiot for not knowing - Prachovske skaly.
    But im just a box of rocks.
  • JusticeiroJusticeiro Registered Users Posts: 1,177 Major grins
    edited October 19, 2008
    schmoo wrote:
    I know this issue's been discussed before, and I can't find the thread for some reason but I know that like the little shootouts that happen amongst Dgrinners, there's no reason why one couldn't be arranged as a grassroots operation if there were enough willing people. thumb.gif

    Well, I'll be back on the board now since my house in Der Vaterland is all set up, and after christmas I am ready to roll. If anybody wants to do a wildcat shootout, I'm in.
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  • EyefulEyeful Registered Users Posts: 389 Major grins
    edited October 19, 2008
    Sure, a real shoot out in the Old World. Meet the best of dgrin in he flesh. If that could only be true. I'll jump right in ! I'd even settle for some orange rocks, if we could find any.

    Would this be any good ? ( me in the middle in Andorra)
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  • EyefulEyeful Registered Users Posts: 389 Major grins
    edited October 19, 2008
    Or..more city...like ...Paris !

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  • JusticeiroJusticeiro Registered Users Posts: 1,177 Major grins
    edited January 5, 2009
    I just got back from Porto and Northern Italy. Tomorrow I'm off to Stuttgart. I'm burning this place up man! Summer Train trip from Budapest to Istanbul- anybody else up for it?
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  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited January 5, 2009
    Justiceiro wrote:
    I just got back from Porto and Northern Italy. Tomorrow I'm off to Stuttgart. I'm burning this place up man! Summer Train trip from Budapest to Istanbul- anybody else up for it?
    No comments about 2009 Shootout NOT IN THE RED ROCKS?
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  • LlywellynLlywellyn Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 3,186 Major grins
    edited January 5, 2009
    Justiceiro wrote:
    Summer Train trip from Budapest to Istanbul- anybody else up for it?

    Um, when and how much? I'd just about given up getting out of the country this summer, but I hate to let go of a tradition I've upheld the past three years if I can actually manage to scrounge up the cash for it. mwink.gif
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