"Now, everyone is suffering a huge hangover.
After a huge party you get a huge hangover, and a hair of the dog just draws out the recovery.
During dinner at a fashionable restaurant here, six investment bankers lapped up £44,000 ($62,700) in fine wines, and now they are suffering from a huge hangover.
They have to deal with everything from burst pipes to sexual betrayal, from clearing up mountains of trash to coping with huge hangovers.
It's a huge Stalinist hangover with a cavernous, gloomy lobby holding oversized furniture, rooms that haven't been refurbished for decades, doors that don't close properly, and water that takes about half an hour to heat up.
Another investor nursing a huge financial hangover is the Dallas-based money manager Barrow, Hanley Mewhinney & Strauss, which had a 9.7% stake in Bear Stearns at the year-end, which has lost $991m in value.
He says: "I remember a huge cultural hangover in early '91.
A Twitter user named Psgalex in Paris wrote of waking at noon, "enjoying my huge breakfast, still hangovered".
Even the best guidance counselors, parents, friends, bosses, and well-intentioned strangers can relay some absolute stinkers about things both tiny (how to cure a hangover) or huge (your entire career!).
But either way, it is likely that at some point they will attend a meeting, tradeshow or conference in this desert fantasyland of gargantuan hotels, gigantic convention halls, cavernous casinos, huge meals and massive hangovers.
"It is true that we are living a hangover of a huge real estate binge," said Marcos Vaquer, who was the under secretary of the Housing Ministry until a government reshuffle last week.
