NP: "Dubai-est"
Cometman
cometman_98 at yahoo.com
Tue Oct 16 23:51:59 CDT 2007
They (we, even) could build like, 40 times as cool a place,
with the money that is currently being inefficiently transferred
from Chinese savings to multinational military contractors via Iraq...
...the profit margins for everybody would be higher, too...
Isn't Halliburton moving there? Maybe they will get a clue.
--- robinlandseadel at comcast.net wrote:
> The Gulf Emirate of Dubai is over the top - "Dubai-est" is
> the phrase.
> It contains the world's fastest growing city (strategically
> located
> between the old Western countries and the new Asian
> tigers), the
> world's tallest building (soon to be 151 stories), the
> world's biggest
> indoor ski mountain (with chair lift and Indian ski porters
> dressed as
> downhill racers), and the world's best hotel (not five but
> seven
> indoor ski mountain (with chair lift and Indian ski porters
> dressed as
> stars, featuring an underwater restaurant which is accessed
> by
> submarine.)
>
>
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ned-lamont/traveling-the-polar-extre_b_68631.html
>
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