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Abu Dhabi 'leaning tower' now beats Pisa (see for yourself)
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| 06/06/10
Posted on 06/06/2010 7:44:03 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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To: mnehring
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posted on
06/06/2010 7:57:24 AM PDT
by
vladimir998
(Part of the Vast Catholic Conspiracy (hat tip to Kells))
To: GoCards
22
posted on
06/06/2010 7:58:09 AM PDT
by
americanophile
(November can't come fast enough....)
To: SoftwareEngineer
Why is this bankrupt country spending huge sums of money building islands, Formula One racetracks and towers like this?
“If you build it they will come?” Ehhh...
23
posted on
06/06/2010 7:58:44 AM PDT
by
GOPsterinMA
(I suffer from B.S. - Barack Syndrome!)
To: SoftwareEngineer
Agree. The exteriors, at least, are beautiful. Often the interiors are tacky Islamic Rococo.
24
posted on
06/06/2010 7:58:53 AM PDT
by
LS
("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually." (Hendrix))
To: SoftwareEngineer
Maybe the UAE will be the middle east’s Detroit in the future.
To: GOPJ
I would call it “overhanging” or “cantilever”, not “leaning”.
To: TigerLikesRooster
cantilevered is not the same as leaning. Cool building concept though.
27
posted on
06/06/2010 8:00:20 AM PDT
by
jz638
To: BigBobber
One wonders what the uproar would be if, oh I don’t know, Major Garrett said all Muslims need to leave the US?
28
posted on
06/06/2010 8:00:30 AM PDT
by
rintense
(God bless Israel!)
To: luvbach1
The usual: money, different concepts and government red tape. The Port Authority actually owns the land, so everything is by committee...it’s just a sad commentary abnout our country. All the innovation, the can-do spirit has moved to the new economic growth centers - Shanghai, Dubai, etc.
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posted on
06/06/2010 8:01:17 AM PDT
by
americanophile
(November can't come fast enough....)
To: MCH
I would say “Bloody Stupid Johnson.”
30
posted on
06/06/2010 8:01:58 AM PDT
by
razorback-bert
(Some days it's not worth chewing through the straps.)
To: SoftwareEngineer
31
posted on
06/06/2010 8:02:16 AM PDT
by
americanophile
(November can't come fast enough....)
To: GOPsterinMA
That’s something for Helen Thomas to sit on.
32
posted on
06/06/2010 8:02:33 AM PDT
by
fieldmarshaldj
(~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Amber Lamps !"~~)
To: SeaHawkFan
33
posted on
06/06/2010 8:03:07 AM PDT
by
GnuHere
To: americanophile
Except for the coming Cordoba mosque to be built across the street from ground zero site.
34
posted on
06/06/2010 8:04:13 AM PDT
by
John S Mosby
(Sic Semper Tyrannis)
To: LS
“Islamic Rococo” Ahahaha! A think you’ve coined a new phrase.
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posted on
06/06/2010 8:05:13 AM PDT
by
americanophile
(November can't come fast enough....)
To: mnehring
Does this really count as leaning? I'm leaning towards "no".
36
posted on
06/06/2010 8:05:32 AM PDT
by
digger48
To: americanophile
Good answer re failure to replace WTC. Thanks.
37
posted on
06/06/2010 8:06:01 AM PDT
by
luvbach1
(Stop Barry now. He can't help himself.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Let's say I'm a banker in a commercial real estate division of an international financial institution.
And let's say a developer comes to me and wants to build a 35 story high rise. Even more interesting, he wants it to lean at an 18 degree angle. And to make things more interesting still, he tells me he wants to build it on sand.
Gee, I think to myself, I wonder if it would be wise to make such a loan? I wonder what the underwriting committee will think? And what will the bank president and the Board of Directors think when they hear of this loan? And what will our investors think of us for having made such a loan.
38
posted on
06/06/2010 8:06:15 AM PDT
by
SonOfDarkSkies
(Did you plug the hole yet, Daddy?)
To: OCC
looks like a womans boot.
39
posted on
06/06/2010 8:06:30 AM PDT
by
digger48
To: John S Mosby
Yes, that will be a nice pilgrimage site for the purveyors of death...they can all go pray at the site of a great Islamic victory. I can’t believe this is happening.
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posted on
06/06/2010 8:06:39 AM PDT
by
americanophile
(November can't come fast enough....)
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