May 22, 2007

• This will be a day long remembered.
• Do you suppose it's just a coincidence that Halliburton is moving its corporate HQ to Dubai?
• I've got a bad feeling about this.
• I find your lack of fire exits disturbing.
• Those UAE guys are taking "tacky" to places it's never been before.
• Now witness the rechaud power of this fully-operational convention centre..!
• The interior view, with the gardens and specially the birds, makes it look like a humongous nest... and I can just imagine the nightmare that big gaping hole plus sandstorms will create for maintenance.
• But why are the people so tiny? Some short of shrink ray at the door?
• Is this the Star Wars equivalent of a Godwin?
• Those wacky mid-easterners. Time for a game of terrifying tennis. The only place in the world where the ball-boys need parachutes.
• Red 2: Look at the size of that thing. Red Leader: Cut the chatter, Red 2.
• That's no convention center...
• For all of the crazy architecture designs, there are a few absolute gems. Talk about a view - it is a view too!
• WHOA!! *attempts to pick up tower to carry over to the Chernobyl thread for demo
• They shouldn't be so proud of their technological conventional terror...
• You can't win. But there are alternatives to conventions . . .
• You can't win. But there are alternatives to conventions . . . While there may be alternatives to conventions, I'm afraid we're in for more of the same. MonkeyFilter: I've got a bad feeling about this.
• Electorate?! In our hour of triumph? I think you overestimate their chances!