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Title: What describes a BIG LAKE?
Post by: kaysha on December 03, 2004, 03:48:39 am

Would you consider this a BIG LAKE???

(http://www.ceruleantown.com/albums/album33/DSCN0694.sized.jpg)

(http://www.ceruleantown.com/albums/album33/DSCN0696.sized.jpg)

(http://www.ceruleantown.com/albums/album33/DSCN0697.sized.jpg)

(http://www.ceruleantown.com/albums/album33/DSCN0701.sized.jpg)

Title: What describes a BIG LAKE?
Post by: emmy on December 03, 2004, 03:49:52 am

YES!!!!!!!!!
I cry at night because you all mock me!

Title: What describes a BIG LAKE?
Post by: kev222 on December 03, 2004, 04:14:56 am

Nah. That's pretty small for a lake.

-Kev

Title: What describes a BIG LAKE?
Post by: Kiya on December 03, 2004, 05:13:22 am

damn that looks like a pretty big lake to me  8O

Title: What describes a BIG LAKE?
Post by: illogical on December 03, 2004, 05:17:06 am

Big pond maybe.

Title: What describes a BIG LAKE?
Post by: Scotty on December 03, 2004, 08:08:16 am

yeah, it's pretty small for a lake.

Title: What describes a BIG LAKE?
Post by: Mountaineer on December 03, 2004, 08:37:29 am

That looks like a pond :?

Title: What describes a BIG LAKE?
Post by: Steavis on December 03, 2004, 08:44:18 am

yeah, I'm thinking pond

Title: What describes a BIG LAKE?
Post by: jlmusicchick on December 03, 2004, 09:50:20 am

nope.

Title: What describes a BIG LAKE?
Post by: Chloe on December 03, 2004, 10:16:38 am

not at all.... I'd go with pond too.

Title: What describes a BIG LAKE?
Post by: amberbeads on December 03, 2004, 10:29:27 am

big pond

Title: What describes a BIG LAKE?
Post by: Manda on December 03, 2004, 01:54:14 pm

thats one hell of a big lake.  :wink:

Title: What describes a BIG LAKE?
Post by: Jophess on December 03, 2004, 02:17:07 pm

No. That's more of a pond. A big lage is more like :

Lake Barkley - KY (My favorite lake)
(http://www.ky-homes.com/_images/FSBO/Calvin_Ramey/Lake_Barkley_Property_Calvin_Ramey.jpg)

Lake Charlevoix - MI
(http://filelibrary.myaasite.com/Content/4/4309/931016.jpg)

Lake Cumberland - KY
(http://www.finitesite.com/vchesney/lake_cumberland.jpg)

Those are big lakes that I've been to. Barkley is awesome. Just curious... has Zuriel or Andrew or Cece ever been to Barkley or Cumberland.

Title: What describes a BIG LAKE?
Post by: Xenophanes on December 03, 2004, 05:04:04 pm

I say no. I must ask, though...what's with the Admin making all the random polls? :razz:

Title: What describes a BIG LAKE?
Post by: emmy on December 03, 2004, 05:11:35 pm

Lol well if you haven't heard the story behind this poll, then let me tell you about it...

The above LAKE (not pond, it is called MIRROR LAKE) is on the UConn campus.  Nicole and Katia were nice enough to go out of their way to come here to take me to the Boston show with them.  While giving them directions on how to find where I was, I directed them to go around "a big lake" which in my defense was more of a differentiation from the rest of the lakes that we have on campus (there is one called Swan Lake I ought to go take pictures of, that really is a joke)... so maybe its not a big lake, but it is the biggest on campus  :wink:

Anyways, they thought the whole way I described it as a big lake was funny.  It wasn't THAT funny.

Title: What describes a BIG LAKE?
Post by: kaysha on December 03, 2004, 05:15:24 pm

we're driving along looking for a HUGE lake...waiting patiently... driving... waiting some more... driving... and we see this pond... and we look at each other and think "could this be the BIG LAKE that emmy was talking about?"

:)

Title: What describes a BIG LAKE?
Post by: emmy on December 03, 2004, 05:28:03 pm

well its good you didn't see swan lake, you would have really laughed at that.

Title: What describes a BIG LAKE?
Post by: zurielshimon on December 06, 2004, 07:25:09 am

I am submitting this reply before reading any of the other replies because I want this response to be unaffected by the discussion that followed the original post.

Based on the information provided - the pictures - I would have to say no.  It is most certainly a large pond, but unless there is a considerable part that is not shown in these pictures, I couldn't say it qualifies as any kind of lake.

I wonder why you ask.  (Now I shall read the discussion.)

Title: What describes a BIG LAKE?
Post by: zurielshimon on December 06, 2004, 07:31:52 am

Okay, now I've read the discussion and I'm glad to see that, aside from a few who seem to be smoking, most people agree.  Maybe it is a small lake.  Some people's definition of a lake requires the amount of light reaching the bottom not to exceed a certain level.  I wouldn't expect a much larger lake to be contained within a university campus.

And, to answer Jophess's query, yes, I have been by Lake Barkley, but most of my lake hours have been logged at its next-dam neighbor, Kentucky Lake.  These two are certainly large lakes, among the largest artificial lakes in the world.

Title: What describes a BIG LAKE?
Post by: Steavis on December 06, 2004, 08:39:31 am

my real idea of a big lake would be "Michigan, Huron, Erie, Superior, Ontario" :wink:

Title: What describes a BIG LAKE?
Post by: Vultch on December 06, 2004, 12:19:22 pm

Quote from: "Steavis"

my real idea of a big lake would be "Michigan, Huron, Erie, Superior, Ontario" :wink:

those are Great Lakes, not Big Lakes.

Title: What describes a BIG LAKE?
Post by: zurielshimon on December 08, 2004, 07:11:35 am

One little testicality! :razz:

Title: What describes a BIG LAKE?
Post by: Steavis on December 08, 2004, 02:43:31 pm

Quote from: "beevee"

Quote from: "Steavis"

my real idea of a big lake would be "Michigan, Huron, Erie, Superior, Ontario" :wink:

those are Great Lakes, not Big Lakes.

oh.........good point

Title: What describes a BIG LAKE?
Post by: vt on December 08, 2004, 02:54:21 pm

Big Bear Lake (Big Bear, CA) is a rather large lake.  My family and I always spend Christmas in BB.  :lol:

Title: What describes a BIG LAKE?
Post by: NESSAussie on May 15, 2008, 04:38:07 am

Quote from: "Vultch"

Those are Great Lakes, not Big Lakes.

Michigan & Huron are counted for statisical purposes as a sinlge lake; 2nd
largest surface area in the world (even Erie comes in easily at 10th place)

Australia's Lake Eyre is a mere 9690 square kilometres but the basin that
feeds it is 1,140,000 square kilometres. You can also walk across it as its
rarely full of water. When it is, it definately counts as a 'Big Lake'. I figure
if you can't see across it and attempting to paddle/row across it is means
using up the better part of a day to do it then its a Big Lake. Noteworthy
that the 'Great Lakes' were Big Lakes by North American records of 1615

(http://img.blogabond.com/UserPhotos/75/580/DSCN1175.jpg)

No debate over the world's most photographed lake though! Nice sunset!!


Peace

Aaron