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| Tweet Topic Started: Dec 24 2007, 06:01 PM (729 Views) | |
| Radu | Dec 24 2007, 06:01 PM Post #1 |
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This is the picture:![]() and the caption reads:"Workers shower at a construction site in Tianducheng, a residential area on the outskirts of Hangzhou in east China's Zhejiang Province September 1, 2007. REUTERS/Aly Song" To me it looks like Las Vegas ... Can anyone explain ?
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| Frank_W | Dec 24 2007, 06:04 PM Post #2 |
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Resident Misanthrope
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Who knew that they had an Eiffel Tower! Weird, man...
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Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin." Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!" | |
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| John D'Oh | Dec 24 2007, 06:37 PM Post #3 |
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MAMIL
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It's constructed completely of lead. |
| What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket? | |
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| Qaanaaq-Liaaq | Dec 24 2007, 06:58 PM Post #4 |
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Many cities have a replica of the Eiffel Tower including this one in Paris, Texas that's topped with a cowboy hat. So why shouldn't a city in China have one?
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| Frank_W | Dec 24 2007, 06:59 PM Post #5 |
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I didn't know... It just seems so surreal. |
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| ivorythumper | Dec 25 2007, 07:19 AM Post #6 |
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
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Mao must be spinning at about 34,000 rpm in his mausoleum. |
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| JBryan | Dec 25 2007, 07:37 AM Post #7 |
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I am the grey one
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I have seen that structure on one or two of my many trips to Hangzhou. |
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"Any man who would make an X rated movie should be forced to take his daughter to see it". - John Wayne There is a line we cross when we go from "I will believe it when I see it" to "I will see it when I believe it". Henry II: I marvel at you after all these years. Still like a democratic drawbridge: going down for everybody. Eleanor: At my age there's not much traffic anymore. From The Lion in Winter. | |
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| Radu | Dec 25 2007, 10:33 AM Post #8 |
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Mystery solved. They've built a mini-Paris residential area. Hangzhou, China: A woman walks through wind and rain past a replica of the Eiffel Tower at a commercial and residential project resembling a mini-Paris Photograph: Frederic J Brown/AFP |
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| Frank_W | Dec 25 2007, 10:34 AM Post #9 |
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It looks like she's fighting a losing battle with the wind! LOL!
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Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin." Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!" | |
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Weird, man...



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