Little help with...Russian architecture??

Van · Post by **Van** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 12:15 am

Those Classically Russian onion shaped domes such as these on St Basil's Catherdral...those cupolas...

...they have a formal name. That name is escaping me, and I can't locate it on the 'net, and my drawing a blank on their name is bothering the fuck out of me!!

What in the hell are they called again??

:x

Mikey · Post by **Mikey** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 12:28 am

Legoland

Y2K · Post by **Y2K** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 12:28 am

Spires

Van · Post by **Van** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 12:45 am

No no no...

There's a formal name for those bastards!

"Spires"...Sheeash.

Mikey · Post by **Mikey** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 12:50 am

Could you maybe be thinking of

allium cepa

The Assassin · Post by **The Assassin** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 12:54 am

Last time I saw a building like that I was hittin a golf ball through it before the trap door closed.

Y2K · Post by **Y2K** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 2:27 am

Mikey wrote:Could you maybe be thinking of

allium cepa

Hey now....
Nobody likes the smart guy mmmmkay?

I still think "Spires" is at minimum "Semi-Formal"
I was robbed.

BSmack · Post by **BSmack** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 2:33 am

Mikey wrote:Could you maybe be thinking of

allium cepa

If he was, he wouldn't have had to ask us.

Now would he?

Mikey · Post by **Mikey** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 2:48 am

Y2K wrote:
Mikey wrote:Could you maybe be thinking of

allium cepa
Hey now....
Nobody likes the smart guy mmmmkay?

I still think "Spires" is at minimum "Semi-Formal"
I was robbed.

I think this would be more along the lines of a "semi-formal" onion.

Rack Fu · Post by **Rack Fu** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 4:54 am

Roach wrote:Dins?

Van · Post by **Van** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 4:57 am

Really, Roach, good point.

Dins, get the fuck in here and come up with something! This is so right up your alley.

I wanna say the word I'm thinking of sounds French, like "minuet", but obviously that's not it.

Van · Post by **Van** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 4:59 am

Fu, c'mon, you're in the KGB or some shit...

Your wire taps, up inside those onion domes, when you put out the order to tap that place...

C'mon!!

:fuck!!:

Mikey · Post by **Mikey** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 5:00 am

"Minaret" is definitely not what you're looking for.

That's a (ahem) Muslim thing (not Russian Orthodox)

Van · Post by **Van** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 5:06 am

Mikey, thanks, but nope, it's definitely not "minaret" either...

Dammit. Man, this is pissing me off. I know I'm thinking of something much more formal sounding than just "onion dome".

Rack Fu · Post by **Rack Fu** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 5:10 am

Wikipedia calls 'em onion domes. Wikipedia knows everything. :D

RadioFan · Post by **RadioFan** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 5:15 am

Wikipedia's link

Mister Bushice · Post by **Mister Bushice** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 5:23 am

Van wrote:

Those Classically Russian onion shaped domes such as these on St Basil's Catherdral...those cupolas...

...they have a formal name. That name is escaping me, and I can't locate it on the 'net, and my drawing a blank on their name is bothering the fuck out of me!!

What in the hell are they called again??

:x

Excalibur:

Van · Post by **Van** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 5:28 am

Fuckabuncha Wikipedia!!

Hell, I could've come up with....onion dome!!

This is going to bug me for the rest of my life, or at least until it suddenly comes to me while I'm reading Dilbert or something.

My new amp which was supposed ot arrived by now instead got mistakenly shipped to freaking Alaska, my new Strat didn't show up either, the new hottie at work sent me a link to her Hawaiian Tropic pics and the link didn't work for shit and now I'm stuck with an onion dome. Wednesdays suck balls.

Van · Post by **Van** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 5:32 am

Hey! That hotel is where I first met my current wife.

Neither of us got laid that weekend either. Total bullshit.

M2 · Post by M2 » Thu Mar 30, 2006 5:45 am

Van, why do you give a shit?

Seriously, if this is gonna bug you the rest of your life... how did you put up with Annie for so long?

m2

Van · Post by **Van** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 5:52 am

m2, you've never had one of those moments when you just blank on something, and you know it's just going to bug the cuntsnifter out of you until you dredge it back up again??

Maybe that's not you.

That's just how I'm wired. Pebble-in-my-shoe stuff like that...it kills me when I can't recall something.

M2 · Post by M2 » Thu Mar 30, 2006 6:14 am

Sure, we all have those moments.

I'm just asking the question, why?

Why do you have the interest in the name?

m2

Moving Sale · Post by **Moving Sale** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 6:17 am

I know the word you are looking for... but you're such a fucking asshole that I am going to keep it to myself.

******s

Dumbass.

M2 · Post by M2 » Thu Mar 30, 2006 6:26 am

TVO,

If you had to do it over...

Would you choose being a lawyer?

I'm just wondering... since I talked to my Uncle(a doctor) the other day, and he said he would choose another profession if he had to do it over again.

I ask this... because you're a smart guy, but seem bitter.

m2

Van · Post by **Van** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 6:36 am

e wrote:hey, fucker!!!! i said.....

e wrote:amrud?

"amrud" isn't even a word (backed up by both Merriam-Webster and American Heritage) and even if it were it's definitely not the one.

Van · Post by **Van** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 6:51 am

m2 wrote:Sure, we all have those moments.

I'm just asking the question, why?

Why do you have the interest in the name?

m2

Long story short...

Me, to my co-worker: "Victoria, B.C., is the prettiest city I've ever seen. Paris doesn't suck either."

My co-worker: "Paris sucks dog balls compared to St Petersburg, Russia. St Petersburg is way prettier."

Me: "Okay, fine, St Petersburg has lots of ornate churches and lots of those buildings with those....those....fuck...those cupolas...those...."

Him: "I know what you mean."

Me: "What are those things called, the cupolas that look like Hershey's Kisses?"

Him: "Dunno. Domes?"

Me: ~google~

~no luck. fuck.~

~call my wife at home to ask her, since she's the Crossword Puzzle player...she doesn't know. fuck...she also managed to lock her keys in the car today, for the first time in the twelve years I've known her....chuckle....but still...fuck. don't care about her stupid car keys right now...mock her about it later...want my answer....fuck.~

~on a lark, I call the Russian Embassy in San Francisco...they can't even figure out what it is I'm trying to ask 'em...fuck...~

~i know!!...one of YOU monkeys will surely know!...people from this place claim to be everything from professional dodge ball players to CEOs of Fortune 400 companies to East German Stazi to Olympic pole smokers...surely one of you here will know...~

~fuck~

Van · Post by **Van** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 6:52 am

e wrote:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taj_mahal#Dome

Because of its shape, the dome is often called an onion dome (also called an amrud or apple dome).

wikipedia is the devil.

(Again though, thanks, but nope, "amrud" ain't the one.)

M2 · Post by M2 » Thu Mar 30, 2006 7:22 am

Van, you could end it all by telling the truth...

This is the most beauiful "City" in the World!!!

and it's not even close.

I left out the "Cable Cars" and the "Redwood trees"...

over kill can be a bitch!

m2 is the truth

Screw_Michigan · Post by **Screw_Michigan** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 7:45 am

piss on san francisco.

Mister Bushice · Post by **Mister Bushice** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 7:50 am

Take a halfway decent thread bordering on humorous, add a few M2 and moving sale posts, and a total piece of unreadable shit brought to a screeching halt is what you end up with.

M2 · Post by M2 » Thu Mar 30, 2006 8:02 am

Screw_Michigan wrote:piss on san francisco.

Good luck with that...

:twisted: :twisted: :twisted:

m2

Moving Sale · Post by **Moving Sale** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 10:36 am

Van wrote: "amrud" isn't even a word (backed up by both Merriam-Webster and American Heritage) and even if it were it's definitely not the one.

Seven letter word, ends with "s."

That Van is too dumb to remember something, even with a hint, surprises me not.

The Whistle Is Screaming · Thu Mar 30, 2006 2:08 pm

[rant]Dear Van,

Fuck you!

Yea, that's right I said "Fuck You!". I just wasted the last 1/2 hour googling all sorts of shit in order to find your mystery word. Guess what Bucko? It doesn't exist. All roads lead to ...

A pointed bulbous domelike roof, used especially in parts of Russia and eastern Europe.

...or a variation of that.

Next time you THINK a word exists for some stupid topic you happen to be sussin about, just make one up. Whoever is listening to you is gonna believe anything you say anyway (I just did), so just pull some non-sense out of your vast vocabulary and run with it. Sneak away for a minute and edit a wikipedia page as your proof.

[/rant]

I did find this link that you may enjoy ... :D

http://www.theoniondome.com/

Goober McTuber · Post by **Goober McTuber** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 2:42 pm

Van,

Try http://www.edmunds.com.

Van · Post by **Van** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 3:16 pm

edmunds.com?

Cars?

:?

m2, I'd agree that SF is America's most beautiful city. No argument there.

The world's? I don't think I'd go that far. Right off the bat I think I'd take Victoria over SF. SF is at least definitely in the conversation though.

TWiS, yep, I already tried the hour's worth of googling thing too. I also struck out.

But sure, let's just come up with or own word for it. It's....a...

......ummm...

....it's...a..

...~nipplov~

The Whistle Is Screaming · Thu Mar 30, 2006 3:21 pm

makovki

Van · Post by **Van** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 3:26 pm

That'll work for me.

Sounds like a Russian hot pocket sammich though.

The Whistle Is Screaming · Thu Mar 30, 2006 3:29 pm

By the way, what is an onion dome called in Russian? Wile E. Heresiarch 03:40, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)

They are called "makovki", i.e. poppy heads. Gene K

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Onion_dome

Mikey · Post by **Mikey** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 3:31 pm

ЛУКОВИЦА КУПОЛ

Dinsdale · Post by **Dinsdale** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 3:35 pm

Van wrote: Neither of us got laid that weekend either.

Don't be so sure.

Chalk up another vote for "onion dome" - btw.

T1B

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