Remember when Garfield was always trying to ship Odie to Abu Dhabi? I remember thinking as a kid that Abu Dhabi was a made-up place, some fictional desolate country in the middle of nowhere.
Later I realized Abu Dhabi was in an actual country. But if Garfield was trying to send Odie there, it had to be a desert wasteland. Right?
Later still (a.k.a. "now") I realized that Abu Dhabi is in fact, not a desolate desert wasteland. In fact, if Garfield were to send Odie there now, Odie would have resort living, uber-modern architecture and ostentatious palaces to welcome him.
Frankly, Garfield probably couldn't afford to send Odie to Abu Dhabi these days.
Also as two signs of the times,
1) The legendary Louvre of Paris is opening a satellite museum Abu Dhabi and,
2) Halliburton is moving their headquarters from Houston, Texas to Dubai, next door to Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates.
The irony is that Abu Dhabi was a desolate desert wasteland not 50 years ago. Oh Globalization...how you turn the pauper into a prince overnight, and vice versa...
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Oil will do that for you.
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