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Slow time of year; any Mt. Rushmore's you care to offer up? Could be super specific (Mt. Rushmore of Eastern PA Microbreweries) or very general (Mt. Rushmore of Best Places to Visit) So, it's the top four of whatever category you decide. I'll go first....

Mt. Rushmore of American Muscle Cars

Shelby Cobra 427 Super Snake



1969 AMC AMX/3



1969 GTO Judge Convertible



1971 Plymouth GTX




Have fun!
 
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Nitt1300 said:
Mt Rushmore of guitar players
Jeff Beck


Mark Knopfler


Jimi Hendrix


Rory Gallagher

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My dad must have went down a Jeff Beck rabbit hole on YouTube recently because I've never heard him mention Beck and then while visiting this past weekend, he couldn't wait to show me some videos. Also, he says Beck is the best ever (in his opinion).
 
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Midnighter said:
My dad must have went down a Jeff Beck rabbit hole on YouTube recently because I've never heard him mention Beck and then while visiting this past weekend, he couldn't wait to show me some videos. Also, he says Beck is the best ever (in his opinion).
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If he wasn't, I don't know anyone better. I only saw him live once, but he was astounding- and I've seen most of the great ones.
 
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Mount Rushmore of American mathematicians:

1. Bill Thurston. Nobody else who has set foot on Earth had better geometric imagination than did Thurston.
2. John Milnor. He and Nash were contemporaries, graduate students at Princeton at the same time. Nash was Nash but Milnor was better. (Nash dealt poorly with this fact.) Nobody wrote like Milnor, what Jeff Beck is to guitar playing, Milnor and Serre are to mathematical exposition.
3. Mike Artin. My advisor was his postdoc. Emil Artin was one of the greatest algebraists ever, but Mike was much better than his father, according to my advisor.
4. Steve Smale.
5. John Tate.
 
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LionJim said:
Mount Rushmore of American mathematicians:

1. Bill Thurston. Nobody else who has set foot on Earth had better geometric imagination than did Thurston.
2. John Milnor. He and Nash were contemporaries, graduate students at Princeton at the same time. Nash was Nash but Milnor was better. (Nash dealt poorly with this fact.) Nobody wrote like Milnor, what Jeff Beck is to guitar playing, Milnor and Serre are to mathematical exposition.
3. Mike Artin. My advisor was his postdoc. Emil Artin was one of the greatest algebraists ever, but Mike was much better than his father, according to my advisor.
4. Steve Smale.
5. John Tate.
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Ironic that this is the group that messed up the whole "counting to 4" part of Mount Rushmore.
 
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My list of best American Novels.

1 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
2. The House of Mirth. Wharton.
3. The Sound and the Fury. Faulkner.
4. U.S.A. Trilogy. John Dos Passos. Very very highly recommended, a very easy and unique read.
4. Updike’s Rabbit books. Rabbit Redux is the best.
5. Blood Meridian. McCarthy. The true history of the American West.
 
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Mount Rushmore of aliases of our favorite Rivals board troll...
  1. MilesKauffman - early days when he did a lot of trolling, but also mixed it in with some actual serious posts. He was a troll, but not a completely unsufferable troll.
  2. 21Guns - Just all out trolling, day after day. This was the point where he was so aggressive that he was looking to throw down in the Champs parking lot.
  3. Larryrise/Psugo823/Psubiomed - several aliases he used over a year long span where he kept making outlandish predictions, would be wrong, then would disappear and come back as a new person for a fresh start. Considering all of them one since there was so little time moving from one to another.
  4. Delcolion915 - his current handle. I spend very little time over on that board these days, but it took me about 10 minutes to pick him out. He's been mostly much more passive, but does suddenly fly off the handle with outlandish stuff when he can't control himself. If he keeps it up, he might actually make it more than a year of posting under the same alias (which hasn't happened since the Gunnsie days).
 
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Mount Rushmore of whatever I want


1. First thing I want - to drive


2. Second thing I want - to fly


3. Third thing I want - for my favorite football team


4. Fourth thing I want - my favorite football coach to get his reputation back.
 
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Midnighter said:
Slow time of year; any Mt. Rushmore's you care to offer up? Could be super specific (Mt. Rushmore of Eastern PA Microbreweries) or very general (Mt. Rushmore of Best Places to Visit) So, it's the top four of whatever category you decide. I'll go first....

Mt. Rushmore of American Muscle Cars

Shelby Cobra 427 Super Snake



1969 AMC AMX/3



1969 GTO Judge Convertible



1971 Plymouth GTX




Have fun!
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You can not have a discussion about iconic American muscle cars without including the 1969 Camaro or 1963 split window Corvette.
 

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LB99 said:
You can not have a discussion about iconic American muscle cars without including the 1969 Camaro or 1963 split window Corvette.
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'69 Camaro was cut in favor of the ultra rare AMC AMX; and Vette is likely first out. All fantastic though.
 
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Midnighter said:
'69 Camaro was cut in favor of the ultra rare AMC AMX; and Vette is likely first out. All fantastic though.
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Them’s fightin words. 1963 split window Corvette is also very rare, as is the 1969 Camaro Z28 with the 302. Granted not as rare as the AMC, but MUCH better looking cars than the AMC. And that Mopar…..🤮
 
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LB99 said:
Them’s fightin words. 1963 split window Corvette is also very rare, as is the 1969 Camaro Z28 with the 302. Granted not as rare as the AMC, but MUCH better looking cars than the AMC. And that Mopar…..🤮
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There was a reason the split window was only produced for the 63-model year, rear visibility was horrible.
 
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Nitt1300 said:
There was a reason the split window was only produced for the 63-model year, rear visibility was horrible.
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Doesn’t matter. It’s a rare American Icon. I’m guessing the fastback Mustangs had bad rear visibility as well, but nobody cares because they are bad azz cars.
 
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Sandwich Shops

Lio's Pizza & Subs Linglestown - GONE



The Sandwich Man



Jackson House



Best available in Tampa Bay

Delcos



Best Cubans - GONE

Their Cuban hot sauce made the sandwich.

 
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LB99 said:
Them’s fightin words. 1963 split window Corvette is also very rare, as is the 1969 Camaro Z28 with the 302. Granted not as rare as the AMC, but MUCH better looking cars than the AMC. And that Mopar…..🤮
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Only 5 AMC AMX/3 produced.
 
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