But my complete lack of self-respect and morbid voyeurism eventually got the better of me and I caught one of the show's final performances before it became consigned to the annals of "adult pantomime" history forever.
Despite its natural properties — "it's very durable, very beautiful, and sustainable," al-Sabouni says — it has become consigned to history, replaced by the concrete blocks that have come to define, blandly so, the landscape of Homs.
As more of our lives are transferred online, certain rituals become consigned to the pre-digital past.
There is no room for words like humanity, or heart, or empathy -- it is simply "us versus them" -- and "them" becomes consigned as "not human, not life, but anti-life".
Or is there a danger that the rich diversity that makes up Britain becomes consigned to a few stereotypes?
For example, word "consigned", after stemming becomes "consign".
It became fashionable to consign the past to the dustbin of history - ideology, left, right, socialism, capitalism, imperialism (hopelessly old-hat) and the rest - while the future seemed a cornucopia of possibilities.
When the generation involved and their children are gone, it will become another event consigned to the history books - like the Battle of Hastings.' Sportsman Sir Geoff Hurst, 62, England World Cup hero in 1966, now director of football for McDonald's 'My father-in-law, Jack Harries, was in the 9th Parachute Battalion which landed on D-Day to attack the German Merville Battery.
A German dealer bought it and in turn consigned it to Sotheby's in October.
In doing that and subsequently what he has always done best, Allen at least temporarily quelled the inevitable speculation that Miami's Big Three will by next summer become Balkanized, consigned to league archives.
Other papers followed where Murdoch went, Fleet Street's so-called "Spanish practices" were consigned to history, and for a while it became risky to be too openly pro-union in many British newsrooms.Another reason is cultural.
