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DAB
07-20-2011, 7:46pm
Billionaire sheikh carves out his name in desert in capital letters visible from space | The Sun |News (http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3703941/Billionaire-sheikh-carves-out-his-name-in-desert-in-capital-letters-visible-from-space.html)

Workmen scoured "HAMAD" into the sand on the orders of Abu Dhabi's Sheikh Hamad Bin Hamdan Al Nahyan.
The name is two miles across — with letters a kilometre high. It is so huge that the "H", the first "A" and part of the "M" have been made into waterways.
The mega-rich sheikh, 63 — a member of the ruling family of Abu Dhabi — in the oil-rich United Arab Emirates — boasts a £14billion fortune that is second only to the Saudi king's.
His fleet of more than 200 cars — including seven Mercedes 500 SELs painted in different colours of the rainbow — is housed in a custom-built pyramid.
His name is etched on to an island he owns called Al Futaisi.


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Rob
07-20-2011, 7:48pm
thats nothing, I wrote my name in the snow once.
G8rDMD
07-20-2011, 7:54pm
I'm expecting my thank you note in the mail at anytime now from him, thanking me for helping him amass his fortune :toetap:
Jeff '79
07-20-2011, 7:56pm
thats nothing, I pissed my name in the snow once.

fixt...:dance:
NB2K
07-20-2011, 8:08pm
Is there anyone in America that doesn't think we should just take the oil?

Give 'em some Spam and some water distillation units and call it even.

Serious.
C5Nate
07-20-2011, 8:10pm
thats nothing, I wrote my name in the snow once.


Odd that it was in Jo's handwritting.
DukeAllen
07-20-2011, 8:21pm
Unfortunately, "Hamad" is the worst insult in the Alpha Centaurian language. We're in deep now.
DAB
07-20-2011, 8:21pm
Odd that it was in Jo's handwritting.

good steady hand... :hide:
Nemesis
07-20-2011, 10:39pm
That's leaving your mark...
Mike Mercury
07-20-2011, 10:55pm
Workmen scoured "HAMAD"

and if you're looking at it from the wrong direction, it appearss to spell "D'mass"