that insane Dubai over-the-top extravagance would reach its apotheosis if they somehow had finagled hosting the Winter Olympics concurrently with the Summer Olympics, also hosted by Dubai, on an Olympics Rings-shaped man-made archipelago. But went bankrupt seconds before the opening ceremony featuring the Olympic torch being lit by the reentry of a satellite made of diamonds plunging to Earth leaving NBC stuck with an Apolo Anton Ohno reality show filmed on the moon.
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I’d say something clever here but it would detract from the zardozed thread.
I have tired of the Dubai ski slope ever since they stopped permitting people to ski down it wearing traditional local garb. Before they did that, I was almost tempted to buy a dishdasha, learn how to ski and get on a plane to Dubai.
The meteor flyover would have been cool.
I believe the venn diagram of “things that tempt Tintin” and “things that tempt fish” would not be instructive.
it’s only truely accurate if the archipelago was actually made out of men.
or Kevin Smith
bada bing!
Oh no she didn’t!!! SNAP!!!
Now that’s some entertainment I would watch.
VON IS BACK!!!
it’s only truely accurate if the archipelago was actually made out of men.
Would they all need to be named Archie?
How about this: the archipelago starts out small, but when anyone who doesn’t medal then has to form part of it for the remainder of the games.
Any of the SF readers around here read Julian May’s The Golden Torc? In it, there’s an organized ritual war game called the Grand Combat that consists of a series of competitions and ends ultimately in an event called the Great Retort. At the Retort, the losers at the Combat events a placed in a glass cage, and a bonfire is lit underneath…
Brando’s idea for the loser-archipelago kind of reminded me of it.
I would watch Ohno on the moon. But only if they don’t give him a space suit.
I doubt NBC could afford one.
G.E. can afford any and everything, P.P.
But their calculations boil down to:
1) Blow up stuff and foreigners: Make giggity-zillion$$$!!!!
2) Inform the public on their TVs and such as about the truth: Lose money as an informed public realizes that their miserable lives are devoted to killing innocent people and making filthy lying tycoons at G.E. even richer.
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SHe shoots, she scores!!!!
as in
She comments, it’s not spam!
NBC could afford one, but Leno would only ask for it back.
Cob loggers so crazy:
But at least one blogger hopes to see him fall flat on his face: “He should fall down on the ice and have (figure skater) Kim Yu-na land on his disgusting face after she performs a triple axel.”
Ohno you’re not the loneliest…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrpindPrm6s