Seven Wonders Redux

[Pindar]

The 'they' have a move to site a new Seven Wonders. Here is a list of the 21 prospectives: The New Seven?

[Sasaki Kojiro]

Aren't they the "seven wonders of the ancient world"? List doesn't really make sense. Are we supposed to be voting for most impressive? By what standard? Arg.

[Adrian II]

This appears to be the source:

The New 7 Wonders of the World will be announced during the Official Declaration ceremony in Lisbon, Portugal on Saturday, July 7, 2007

On September 5, 2006, in Athens during the launch of the New7Wonders World Tour, the location of the Official Declaration of the New 7 Wonders of the World was announced: Lisbon, Portugal. The Portuguese event agency Realizar Impact Marketing, known for its innovative, international multimedia, will create and produce the event on July 7, 2007, which will be broadcast around the world.

Left to right: Bernard Weber, Founder
and President, N7W; Manuel Vaz, CEO,
and Paulo Pereira, Presidente, Realizar;
Jean-Paul de la Fuente, Head of Value
Development, N7W

Linky

[Sasaki Kojiro]

What? How is this in any way official?

I think I'll just declare my own 7 wonders. No, make it 8 wonders. 8 1/2.

[Kralizec]

Agra (Taj Mahal)
Acropolis
The Great Wall
Pyramid of Cheops
Hagia Sophia
Machu Picchu
Angkor Wat

The whole idea seems a bit odd, but for what it's worth the above ones are my personal selection. There are some buildings missing from the poll that should have been included IMO, like St. Peters basilica

[Lorenzo_H]

keep them what they already were...

[Pindar]

Aren't they the "seven wonders of the ancient world"?

No. This is the Seven Wonders Redux.

Are we supposed to be voting for most impressive? By what standard? Arg.

The standard is whatever man made objects incite awe or wonder in yourself.

[Pindar]

There are some buildings missing from the poll that should have been included IMO, like St. Peters basilica

Personally, I would have added St. Peters as one of the options.

[Incongruous]

Well at least Stonehenge is there! Yuss.
As is the Colloseum! Yuss.

We should build something In London thats greater than the Eifell pen- thingy just to piss the French off. Mmmm the greatest Curry ever known, mmmmmmmmmm, we could dry freeze it in the biggest Sainsbury's or Tesco's ever known. mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Not only would it be a wonder, but also an instrument of fear! No longer deos the Nuclear bomb pse the greatest threat to human nature, but a Londoner who's just eaten the worlds Largest Vindaloowoooohooo!
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

[Reverend Joe]

IT'S NOT CHEOPS! IT'S KHUFU!

Damn Greeks.

[Adrian II]

After pondering the whole thing for a while, I think it has to be Timbuktu and nothing but Timbuktu.

Timbuktu must be the only beautiful spot in the world that has not been totally trampled and spoilt by mass tourism like all the others. That is what I call a true wonder of today's world. Eccolo:

[KukriKhan]

I was 20 before I learned that Timbuktu was an actual, geographic place, and not an imaginary, mythical one, invoked to suggest 'someplace so far away as to be unreachable'. (Note: not proud of that ignorance).

"I'm gonna knock you to Tim-Buck-Too" was a playground threat to hit somebody really hard, back in the stone age of my youth.

I'm still undecided on my 7 picks of the ones provided.

Great Wall. Yep.

For the other 6, I kinda want to lean toward manmade works that are not reproducible (or not easily, anyway). Maybe Hollywood's ability to create facsimilies has me too jaded.

[Orb]

The Palazzo dei Normani in Palermo
The Parthenon
The Hagia Sophia

[The Wizard]

I'm missing the Istanbul skyline as you travel down the Bosporus on your way to the Ionian. That's a sight to behold

Went for the Taj Mahal, Chichen Itza (saw Copán myself, this should be even more impressive), the Alhambra, Aya Sofia (beautiful), the Colosseum (incredible to behold as you first emerge from the subway), and Angkor [Wat].

Also missing (perhaps) St. Peter's in Rome, and also Mecca, Isfahan (`Ali Qapu, and perhaps the main avenue), and the N.Y.C. skyline.

Also, Rotterdam

[MSB]

I was 20 before I learned that Timbuktu was an actual, geographic place, and not an imaginary, mythical one, invoked to suggest 'someplace so far away as to be unreachable'. (Note: not proud of that ignorance).

Wow! That sounds amazingly familiar!

[yesdachi]

I picked my 7 but I am not 100% happy with the choices and the fact we haven’t made anything completely fricking sweet in years.