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He probably thinks that the lack of skyscrapers in Istanbul is down to there being too many pilots of the Islamic faith.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Sat Jan 24th, 2009 at 01:44:29 PM EST
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Erm (none / 0)

List of the tallest buildings of Istanbul

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Sat Jan 24th, 2009 at 02:00:43 PM EST
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Re: Erm (none / 0)

I know, but if he's that surprised to find people who aren't American on Aircraft, he cant have been looking at anything higer than his shoes in the period he's been there.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Sat Jan 24th, 2009 at 02:12:37 PM EST
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Re: Erm (4.00 / 4)

Obsessively looking at his shoes? Get him off the plane!

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Sat Jan 24th, 2009 at 02:19:31 PM EST
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Re: Erm (none / 0)

Well those shoe bombers are tricky

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Sat Jan 24th, 2009 at 02:24:54 PM EST
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Re: Erm (none / 0)

That's probably close to the average on big American cities.

Penis-envy!

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Sat Jan 24th, 2009 at 02:15:51 PM EST
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