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SpunGirl
10-17-2006, 12:23 PM
He's good at making hotels, I'll give him that. But he fucked up royally this time (and no, I'm not talking about his decision to take the dealer's tokes away).

The Picasso painting, Le Reve, has been part of the Wynn's private collection for awhile now. He bought it for 40 million, and recently made a deal to sell it for 140 million. Not bad, right? Except for the fact that the other night while he was showing it off to friends, he stumbled, put is elbow through the painting, creating a 2'' gash.

Oops.

-K
Latrinsorm
10-17-2006, 12:35 PM
Yes but now he can become a wrestler and use the finisher "The Hundred Million Dollar Elbow".
DeV
10-17-2006, 12:37 PM
Ouch.
HarmNone
10-17-2006, 12:39 PM
How's his elbow? :whistle:
SpunGirl
10-17-2006, 12:53 PM
I heard he had it gunned down in the middle of the night and buried in the desert somewhere. He was like, "ELBOW I'M TAKING YOU TO THE DESERT. WHERE THINGS HAPPEN."

-K
Gan
10-17-2006, 12:57 PM
:rofl:
El Burro
10-17-2006, 12:58 PM
I blame shoddy workmanship and inferior materials
Stanley Burrell
10-17-2006, 01:06 PM
2'' gash.

In a perfect world...
Warriorbird
10-17-2006, 01:17 PM
Eh. That'd hurt.

:snickers:
AnticorRifling
10-17-2006, 01:38 PM
Eh. That'd hurt.

:snickers:

Not if you're Stanley.
Sean of the Thread
10-17-2006, 02:14 PM
He took away the dealer tokes? WTF
Stanley Burrell
10-17-2006, 04:03 PM
Not if you're Stanley.

...

>cman wangslap

Ngght. Hooray for maturity! :roll:
Doyle Hargraves
10-17-2006, 04:32 PM
He's good at making hotels, I'll give him that. But he fucked up royally this time (and no, I'm not talking about his decision to take the dealer's tokes away).

The Picasso painting, Le Reve, has been part of the Wynn's private collection for awhile now. He bought it for 40 million, and recently made a deal to sell it for 140 million. Not bad, right? Except for the fact that the other night while he was showing it off to friends, he stumbled, put is elbow through the painting, creating a 2'' gash.

Oops.

-K

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a162/DoyleHargraves/DavePWNEDSteveWynn.jpg
Snapp
10-17-2006, 07:04 PM
Yikes... I know I'd be half-suicidal if I did something like that. Of course, if you already have hundreds of millions, it's a different story.
Tisket
10-17-2006, 07:56 PM
Eh. That'd hurt.

:snickers:

Yeah, I'm sure he didn't have it insured. I'm also sure he'll end up a pauper as a result...
SpunGirl
10-17-2006, 08:40 PM
I'm just hypothesizing here, but I'd imagine insurance doesn't cover what happens to the painting when it's outside of its lovely protective world of glass and alarms. Unless, of course, it's in transit and protected in some manner that's laid out in the policy.

SW was known for wandering into the gallery at odd hours, demanding that all the alarms be turned off and the glass lowered, so he could get right up close to the paintings (makes sense, being damn near blind and all). It can be restored, but it ain't gonna be cheap.

-K
AnticorRifling
10-18-2006, 08:28 AM
Yeah, I'm sure he didn't have it insured. I'm also sure he'll end up a pauper as a result...

He was talking about the 2" gash in reference to...nevermind.
Stanley Burrell
10-18-2006, 08:55 AM
He was talking about the 2" gash in reference to...nevermind.

We must revel in our sophistication.
AnticorRifling
10-18-2006, 08:56 AM
Yar!
Skirmisher
10-18-2006, 03:20 PM
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061018/od_nm/picasso1_dc
Artha
10-18-2006, 03:23 PM
What'd he say when he did it?

"Oh shit, look what I've done. Thank God it was me."

Eye witness (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nora-ephron/my-weekend-in-vegas_b_31800.html).


edit: "This has nothing to do with money. The money means nothing to me. It's that I had this painting in my care and I've damaged it."

I want to be that rich one day.
Daniel
10-18-2006, 03:56 PM
if you looked at it carefully (which I did, for the first time, although I'd seen it before at the Bellagio) you could see that the head of Marie-Therese was divided in two sections and that one of them was a penis.


^

Lol.
Tisket
10-18-2006, 05:36 PM
It's an ugly painting that leaves me with the feeling that Picasso didn't much care for women as a whole. I'd say the elbow was well done.
Doyle Hargraves
10-18-2006, 06:28 PM
The left half of her face looks like a dick. I bet that was intentional.
AestheticDeath
10-18-2006, 06:56 PM
I dont see how anyone can value a painting like that over 100 bucks or so. $140 million? WTF
SpunGirl
10-18-2006, 07:52 PM
Of course it was intentional. She's touching herself with six fingers while she's got penis on the brain. Hence the dream, which just sounds arty because it's in French.

-K
Artha
10-18-2006, 08:06 PM
There's also some nip-slippage going on.
TheEschaton
10-18-2006, 10:37 PM
Are you kidding? Not worth 100 bucks?

I'd give one of my testicles for that painting, on top of 140 million, if I had it.

-TheE-
Sean of the Thread
10-18-2006, 10:47 PM
Are you kidding? Not worth 100 bucks?

I'd give one of my testicles for that painting if I had it.

-TheE-

:whistle:
TheEschaton
10-18-2006, 10:51 PM
Damn you and your quote fixing.

-TheE-
Doyle Hargraves
10-18-2006, 11:38 PM
Are you kidding? Not worth 100 bucks?

I'd give one of my testicles for that painting, on top of 140 million, if I had it.

-TheE-

Why?
Ignot
10-18-2006, 11:46 PM
id give a nut for 140 million.