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I've seen some weird corporate pivots in my day, but pivoting from "fire and rescue emergency services in the Middle East" to "wealth management" is possibly the weirdest. Also, nothing says trust us with your money like "litigation against our former auditors".
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The guys and gals are Miniatur Wunderland have been a bit bored during lockdown it seems.
Anyone who watched the video all the way through will get a sense of the scale of the place, i.e. that it is vast - two whole floors of a dock warehouse. Hamburg's no.1 tourist attraction... yes, even including Minigolf im Stadtpark.
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Crikey, that Hamburg place is quite something indeed. Reminds me I'm long overdue a trip to Hamburg to visit friends there. I lived there for a year in 84-85 and went back umpteen times up to around the turn of the millenium but quite possibly haven't been there for 20 years. I think my youngest daughter would love the Minatur Wunderland.
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Originally posted by Evariste Euler Gauss View PostCrikey, that Hamburg place is quite something indeed. Reminds me I'm long overdue a trip to Hamburg to visit friends there. I lived there for a year in 84-85 and went back umpteen times up to around the turn of the millenium but quite possibly haven't been there for 20 years. I think my youngest daughter would love the Minatur Wunderland.
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It says something about my own dear leader that i was relieved he didn't gurn to the camera, try to do a wheelie, or fluff a scripted gag at the end.
It appears i am ready for slow-motion post-Soviet choreography and an expressionless dictator in Saint-Etienne knockoff trackie bottoms.
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Sorry, slight tangent, but I see that the president's name is Gurbanguly M?likguly?ewi? Berdimuhamedow, which seems to include a Russian style patronymic as middle-name: not just the fact that the middle name is a patronymic (I don't know whether there was any local tradition of that or whether the custom was a Russian import), but the ending of the patronymic is linguistically clearly Russian. Obviously the Pres was born and named way back in Soviet times. I wonder whether that naming custom vanished pretty quickly with independence.
Edit: the final two letters of his surname also appear to be Russian-inspired. I think that was very common around the Tsarist empire/USSR, e.g in Azerbaijan the Aliev clan.Last edited by Evariste Euler Gauss; 08-04-2021, 09:06.
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Speaking of gems in the attic, my dad also found a game program from the 1968 Penn State-Navy game. The local ads are a blast from the past - especially one for a "supper club" that lists its location as "across from the girls dormitories." A lot of ads for contractors that clearly bought an ad as a favor to Penn State, their biggest client.
Not many black players on either team, but none at all on Navy. I was surprised about that.
That PSU team went undefeated - including a win at UCLA - but didn't get a chance to play for a national title.
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- The House with the Golden Windows
- Fast falling out of love for football.
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Originally posted by Hot Pepsi View PostMy dad found our old copy of "Lion Country," a monopoly-based game with local businesses from State College. It's from the mid-80s, so it's fun to see which businesses bought in. Most of them aren't there any more, of course.
Anyone remember it, and how many are still extant?Last edited by Guy Profumo; 13-04-2021, 15:54.
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- Mar 2008
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- The House with the Golden Windows
- Fast falling out of love for football.
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Life's a Bitche, isn't it?
Facebothered delete French town's page
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-56731027
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Originally posted by Guy Profumo View Post
wasn't there something similar in the UK in the early 80s featuring leading UK companies?
Anyone remember it, and how many are still extant?
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