Get high at your next meeting

August 15, 2006 11:51 AM

Bored with that same old business meeting? Why not try a dinner in the sky? But if it's a view you're after, you could probably take a few of your clients here for the same price. (flash & sound alert; film clip on main site is slow to load)
posted by madamjujujive (14 comments total)

At first I thought the whole thing was in free-fall with the "umbrella" being a parachute of sorts. Now THAT would be cool. But this is still pretty interesting.

Until someone has to go pee.
posted by GuyZero at 12:01 PM on August 15, 2006

You know that trend where airlines have been giving you less and less food when you fly?

This is the opposite of that.
posted by mkultra at 12:10 PM on August 15, 2006

Until someone has to go pee.

I always drop my napkin :(
posted by Ogre Lawless at 12:42 PM on August 15, 2006

OK, new rule. I think the entire internet world should widen our collective interpretation of "NSFW" to include any links that open with a thunderous blast of music when your system, at work, is set to a full-time monitoring of a national television news channel "subscripted" to your screen's lower right corner. Beginning RIGHT NOW!!!

I'm just saying...
posted by Mike D at 12:51 PM on August 15, 2006

Mike D - try dropping a napkin over your speaker. It does wonders for Ogre Lawless.
posted by Cranberry at 12:56 PM on August 15, 2006

Ba da bodda be da bo buh bo bah (horn blast) bee dah bo dah... (sound of back button click).
posted by hal9k at 1:11 PM on August 15, 2006

I suppose this is as good a time as any to announce my partnership with Allain Ducasse. In the fall of 2007, we plan to unveil our new luxurious vision: patrons will combine the exquisite pleasures of haute cuisine with intesne g-forces in our white tablecloth gravitron, and afterwards retire to our desert coaster,, where they can sip the finest tawny port and a fine selection of single malt scotches at speeds of up to 225 miles per hour.
posted by kosem at 1:13 PM on August 15, 2006

This is a wonderful contraption that the world has been in need of for a long time. Although I rather hope their Suspending-People-In-The-Air-For-Dinner know-how is better than their Making-Websites-That-Are-Easy-and-Speedy-to-Use know-how.

MikeD: Maybe we should just label work Not Safe for Internets.

Metafilter: Until someone has to go pee.

(This would make for an amazing wedding reception. Just pare down your guest list, invite your top-20, and invite Adam Sandler to do the Wedding Singer from the OTHER floating entertainment platform.)
posted by Milkman Dan at 1:15 PM on August 15, 2006

What a glorious idea. I'm guessing, from the product-placement, that San Pellegrino has put a bunch of money behind it so it just might get somewhere. I really hope so.
posted by Hogshead at 1:15 PM on August 15, 2006

dessert, dammit!!!
posted by kosem at 1:18 PM on August 15, 2006

Talk about a captive audience.

Waiter: "If the tip is anything less than a 30%, I tell the crane operator to drop you like a bad habit, capiche?"
posted by Gamblor at 1:20 PM on August 15, 2006

"I'll have a hanger steak and a root beer float, with a shot of Skyy vodka."
posted by brain_drain at 2:33 PM on August 15, 2006

Snakes on a sky dinner.
posted by Tube at 2:40 PM on August 15, 2006

My neighbour had his dinner in the sky recently.
But he didn't know how to light a gas barbecue.
posted by weapons-grade pandemonium at 3:59 PM on August 15, 2006