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[Voryn]

A new $1-billion theme park in Dubai – featuring over 100 animatronic dinosaurs of 40 different species – promises to take you closer to a prehistoric world than you've ever been before.

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I think I found the setting for the next forum game.

[Finlay]

Where do they get the money to do this from? Oh, right... us

[nathan_birch]

I think I'll pop into this new park next time I'm in Dubai.

[DeadSnake]

So long as the place gets endorsed by Jeff Goldblum, I'm sure nothing can go wrong.  Unless Newman is working the system.

[Lopez]

Or, if Yul Brynner is one of the dinosaurs.

[Quellish]

I vote we push Michael Crichton through the gates first.  If it's safe, no problem, and if he gets eaten by a robot dinosaur the double irony would be a beautiful thing to see.

[JabberBody]

I say OK to that idea, and would like to suggest we also add Stephen King, Daniel Brown, and Michael Bay (why not).  We shove them in there without any food or water and observe how soon it takes them to resort to cannibalism.  The last one alive gets the movie contract.

We rid ourselves of some superfluous pop culture and get an awesome movie with tragedy, action, and robot dinosaurs.  Win/win/win.

[DearMe]

Where do they get the money to do this from? Oh, right... us

That's just silly, it is the other way around. Foolish Americans. 

UAE ---> GDP (ppp) pr. Capita= over $49000
                                                                                                   
 USA----> GDP (ppp) pr. Capita= $43000     

Dubai just might be the coolest place in the world right now.

[HyperGlavin]

No, that's Antarctica.

[DearMe]

Ok, The Hottest place in the world then. <--- probably not far from the truth.

On a sidenote- I hate the word hot now, Even when used in correct context.

[Werty]

Of course, wikipedia makes it look like the UAE has a bit over half the population of New York...  so by that standard we're being totally hammered by Ireland or Luxembourg... but then I guess wikipedia has been wrong before...

Or I could just be misreading it.

Also, they list UAE's PPP as 34,109....

I demand that we build a bigger one, here in the US. It'll be great, and if we build it big enough nobody will realize that they had the idea first! Then, next time we're all hanging out in the UN, we can be all like "Hey guys, have you seen my dinosaur park?" and Dubai will be all like "Actually, we ma-" and we'll be all "Shut up, nerd! So hey guys how about it?" and France will be all like "That sounds pretty cool, mind if I come over?" and all the other countries will say "Damn America, always stealin' the hot babes!"

~THE END~

[Angry Baboon.]

Actually, being in the Southern Hemisphere its the height of summer in Antarctica, the weather is probably hovering around 0c. It's really not that cold there at all, you could even like, skinny dip and stuff.  Heck, it's probably colder right here in Sloane Square, although it's probably my fault that i'm feeling it because i'm just wearing a tight fitting thin cashmere jumper and a Russian sailor's t-shirt. But hey, it's worth risking hypothermia to look like a sexxxy motherfucker, right? Am I right? Anyway, just wanted to point out that Antarctica is most certainly no the coldest place in the world right now. Just saying. Bye!

Dinosaurs?

[hubris]

i'm just wearing a tight fitting thin cashmere jumper and a Russian sailor's t-shirt.

What did you have to do to him to get the T-shirt?

[nakedmoses]

Heh yeah they should build one here and Disney can endorse it and so can myspace, Scary mickey mouse dinosaurs would be awsome.

[metastasis_d]

Dubai has some cool shit... and they're kicking a lot of ass in the competition to have tallest buildings.  Trying to become a worldwide vacation destination.  Problem is, location location location.  I wouldn't go to the middle east even if you paid me, until I get ordered there.

[DearMe]

Of course, wikipedia makes it look like the UAE has a bit over half the population of New York...  so by that standard we're being totally hammered by Ireland or Luxembourg... but then I guess wikipedia has been wrong before...

Or I could just be misreading it.

Also, they list UAE's PPP as 34,109....

I demand that we build a bigger one, here in the US. It'll be great, and if we build it big enough nobody will realize that they had the idea first! Then, next time we're all hanging out in the UN, we can be all like "Hey guys, have you seen my dinosaur park?" and Dubai will be all like "Actually, we ma-" and we'll be all "Shut up, nerd! So hey guys how about it?" and France will be all like "That sounds pretty cool, mind if I come over?" and all the other countries will say "Damn America, always stealin' the hot babes!"

~THE END~

Dear Sir

You are absolutely right, Wiki has, is currently and will in the future be wrong. A much better option for researching such matters is CIA World Factbook.   https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ae.html#Econ 

Also, The exchange would most likely sound a bit more like this;

Hey Guys! We got this really awesome dinosaur park- cause we're like SWIMMING in Oil! HAHAHAHAHAH!! What'cha gonna do about it Yankee-bastards? Bomb us?
KABLAM!!!!

[Werty]

Ba'h, we only listen to the CIA when it tells us we should be blowing people up.

Also, oil is yucky, and dinosaurs are dumb!

Poop-heads, you should be giving us that oil for free, because we invented freedom.

[nakedmoses]

They make islands woo0o0ooo0o

[1234]

I know why they're making all these dinosaurs.  So they can kill them and harvest their precious oil!

Greedy A-rabs.

[metastasis_d]

Y'all think their theme music will be that catchy little jingle from the films?  Because I like that catchy little jingle.