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El Pinko (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-02-08 09:51 AM Original message |
Forbes: "Inside the World's First Billion-Dollar Home" |
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Horse with no Name (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-02-08 09:56 AM Response to Original message |
1. ummm why? |
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Deja Q (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-02-08 09:58 AM Response to Reply #1 |
3. Because Yahoo turned down Microsoft's $40 billion offer? |
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Deja Q (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-02-08 09:57 AM Response to Original message |
2. And this is the world's first billion-penny home |
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El Pinko (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-02-08 09:58 AM Response to Reply #2 |
4. Strangely, they look VERY similar to me! |
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frogcycle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-02-08 10:27 AM Response to Reply #2 |
15. ha! |
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AlphaCentauri (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-02-08 10:01 AM Response to Original message |
5. must be hard for this lady to find how to spend her fortune |
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mainegreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-02-08 10:01 AM Response to Original message |
6. Nothing like living like a god surrounded by a sea of sqaulid suffering to show your true self. |
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sinkingfeeling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-02-08 10:03 AM Response to Original message |
7. Ugliest thing I've ever seen. I wouldn't pay $125K for it. |
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liberal N proud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-02-08 10:04 AM Response to Original message |
8. Obscene |
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DS1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-02-08 10:05 AM Response to Original message |
9. It looks like stacked shipping containers |
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KamaAina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-02-08 03:42 PM Response to Reply #9 |
32. I've been pushing that for NOLA for some time now |
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Highway61 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-02-08 10:11 AM Response to Original message |
10. Gross...n/t |
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alcibiades_mystery (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-02-08 10:13 AM Response to Original message |
11. Take THAT, Snoop Dog! |
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gollygee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-02-08 10:23 AM Response to Original message |
12. We're in a new gilded age |
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AlphaCentauri (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-02-08 10:26 AM Response to Reply #12 |
13. or a new aristocratic society |
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ladjf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-02-08 10:27 AM Response to Original message |
14. Is this a joke? |
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El Pinko (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-02-08 10:30 AM Response to Reply #14 |
16. If only it were... |
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ladjf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-02-08 02:36 PM Response to Reply #16 |
27. It might be a good idea to wear a parachute at all times. The |
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Orwellian_Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-02-08 10:30 AM Response to Original message |
17. Disgusting |
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hughee99 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-02-08 12:02 PM Response to Reply #17 |
26. Yes, it is... Except these people are from India. |
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Blue_Tires (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-02-08 10:32 AM Response to Original message |
18. but you still have to look at it!!! |
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high density (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-02-08 10:37 AM Response to Original message |
19. It is hard to live in a house without nine elevators |
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AlCzervik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-02-08 10:53 AM Response to Original message |
20. yikes, the decorator should be exiled. Once again, money doesn't equal taste. |
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Deja Q (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-02-08 11:09 AM Response to Original message |
21. Wow. Lots of rooms to hide johns in. |
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coriolis (691 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-02-08 11:31 AM Response to Original message |
22. Squalor isn't nearly as depressing viewed from way up there. |
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LibertyLover (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-02-08 11:52 AM Response to Original message |
23. That is truly ugly |
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otohara (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-02-08 11:56 AM Response to Original message |
24. 9 Elevators |
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Arugula Latte (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-02-08 12:00 PM Response to Original message |
25. The architects and designers are creating as they go, altering floor plans, design elements and |
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ray of light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-02-08 02:49 PM Response to Original message |
28. digusting! They couldn't PAY me to live there! |
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napi21 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-02-08 03:00 PM Response to Original message |
29. I agree the exterior is pretty ugly, but the inside????? It's BEAUTIFUL! |
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mitchum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-02-08 03:30 PM Response to Original message |
30. I can only hope there is a lamppost outside of the place |
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Uncle Joe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-02-08 03:40 PM Response to Original message |
31. While the outside seems rather grotesque the inside is beautiful in a funeral home sort of way. n/t |
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hatrack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-02-08 03:57 PM Response to Original message |
33. Further proof that money and taste don't necessarily go together . . . |
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