[Disgruntled Head of C-3PO]

The landmark hotel, where famed wit Dorothy Parker and fellow literary lights at the Round Table imbibed, offers a $10,000 martini, complete with a loose diamond at the bottom.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TRAVEL/12/01...eut/index.html

[Weezer]

do you just take every cnn story and make a thread about it?

[MilkmanDan]

Probably just the useless ones.

[starman]

Or the ones that make the US look bad.

[Spheric Harlot]

Originally posted by starman:
Or the ones that make the US look bad.

You're wrong if you think you need CNN stories and SWG's posting them here for that.

[MacNStein]

Originally posted by Spheric Harlot:
You're wrong if you think you need CNN stories and SWG's posting them here for that.

You're right there. We have, and probably always will, look better than any other country in the world.

[ManOfSteal]

I remember 10,000 from back in the day.

[Spheric Harlot]

Originally posted by MacNStein:
You're right there. We have, and probably always will, look better than any other country in the world.

Looks are skin-deep, honey - the best nose-job (or nut-job) can't change that.

[MacNStein]

Originally posted by Spheric Harlot:
Looks are skin-deep, honey - the best nose-job (or nut-job) can't change that.

It's all in what you do with it.

[Spheric Harlot]

Originally posted by MacNStein:
It's all in what you do with it.

Exactly.

[turtle777]

Originally posted by MacNStein:
You're right there. We have, and probably always will, look better than any other country in the world.

Mwahahahaha. Good one !

-t

[olePigeon]

Originally posted by MacNStein:
It's all in what you do with it.

U.S. likes waving theirs in the faces of everyone else. If they're not careful, it's gonna get cut off.

[TheBadgerHunter]

Originally posted by MacNStein:
You're right there. We have, and probably always will, look better than any other country in the world.

Yes.

Excluding Canada, most of Europe, Australasia, China, Japan, much of Africa, South America.

[historylme]

Originally posted by ManOfSteal:
I remember 10,000 from back in the day.

Just like old time there GoR I mean ManOfSteal.

[MacNStein]

It's so easy to get "the hive" stirred up.

[Spheric Harlot]

Originally posted by MacNStein:


It's so easy to get "the hive" stirred up.

Indeed.

And all I had to say was that the US didn't need obscure CNN stories to look bad in the world...

-s*

[Disgruntled Head of C-3PO]

Originally posted by Weezer:
do you just take every cnn story and make a thread about it?

I missed the discussion boards on CNN.

Should I just take slashdot headlines like everyone else?

And how self conscious does one have to be to think this story makes the US look bad

[Mithras]

From the article:

Today, [Dorothy] Parker's ode to the martini adorns hotel napkins: "I love a martini -- but two at the most. Three I'm under the table; Four, I'm under the host."

She was a wit, that Dorothy.

[MacNStein]

Originally posted by Spheric Harlot:
Indeed.

And all I had to say was that the US didn't need obscure CNN stories to look bad in the world...

-s*

Yeah, that type of BS will always draw righteous indignation.

[AB^2=BCxAC]

If I were a gad about town, this would be a cool way to propose.

But then, my name will never be Nick Charles.

[Disgruntled Head of C-3PO]

Originally posted by AB^2=BCxAC:
If I were a gad about town, this would be a cool way to propose.

But then, my name will never be Nick Charles.

What would be the difference from just buying your own diamond without a hotel mark-up and throwing it in the glass.

You just have to be damn sure they don't swallow it.

[AB^2=BCxAC]

The difference would be signing the bill for that martini, and all the "prestige" and bons mots that would come from it. How many men have stuffed rings into food to surprise their girlfriend? Plenty enough. But impressing people is often an issue. To understand the difference, you have to look at a $60,000 sports car and a Kia and ask yourself if you want your spendthrift cousin to go "good choice!" or your boss to say "we're paying him too much." Which side you land on says alot about your character.

[Fiend]

Originally posted by Disgruntled Head of C-3PO:
What would be the difference from just buying your own diamond without a hotel mark-up and throwing it in the glass.

You just have to be damn sure they don't swallow it.

Why? It all comes out in the end.

[*not racist*]

On the count of 3, everyone **** off with your passive-aggressive bitchslaps and fight on the internet like grown men.

[Stradlater]

Originally posted by *not racist*:
On the count of 3, everyone **** off with your passive-aggressive bitchslaps and fight on the internet like grown men.

one...

[Kilbey]

2...

[demograph68]

As stupid as the $1,000 omelet.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20040517/D82KAG900.html