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Strange picture from Reuters
Topic Started: Dec 24 2007, 06:01 PM (729 Views)
Radu
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This is the picture:
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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 ... :biggrin:

Can anyone explain ?

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Frank_W
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Who knew that they had an Eiffel Tower! :blink: Weird, man...
Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin."
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John D'Oh
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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
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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
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I didn't know... It just seems so surreal.
Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin."
Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!"
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ivorythumper
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
Mao must be spinning at about 34,000 rpm in his mausoleum.
The dogma lives loudly within me.
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JBryan
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I have seen that structure on one or two of my many trips to Hangzhou.
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Radu
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Mystery solved. They've built a mini-Paris residential area.

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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
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It looks like she's fighting a losing battle with the wind! LOL! :lol2:
Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin."
Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!"
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