Is this supposed to be funny? In a sever…
Is this supposed to be funny?
In a severe case of clock envy, Saudi Arabia has erected a nearly 2,000-foot-high timepiece intended to stake a symbolic claim for Mecca as the world’s center. Islamic scholars have proposed that the Royal Mecca Clock Tower supplant the observatory in Greenwich, England, to set the new global standard time. It is the latest form of Muslim global outreach – taking control of time itself.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/aug/11/no-time-for-islam/
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Pretty Pink Ponies, and 2 others are discussing.
Tec15 9:05 pm on August 11, 2010 Permalink
I don’t know. Is linking to the moonie times supposed to be funny?
thabet 6:24 am on August 12, 2010 Permalink
Sorry to be so blunt, but when you blog/comment on Saudi you a sound like a loon.
AA 7:17 am on August 12, 2010 Permalink
I am not sure which blog/comment of mine on Saudi you are perceiving as loony, but anyways, do you have a comment on this clock? The news is out there on several sources, I just happened to have clipped from the first I came across (so what if it is from moonie times).
Pretty Pink Ponies 10:26 am on August 12, 2010 Permalink
LOL, clock envy. *snicker*
TAKING CONTROL OF TIME ITSELF!!!!1!!!!1! ZA WARUDOOOOOOO!
AA 2:21 pm on August 12, 2010 Permalink
Another “time” issue and solution
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jKIMRsHBHYKkAmRh6F70lmnrFWWQD9HI4BV00
Yakoub 11:52 pm on August 12, 2010 Permalink
The Daily Fail cover this story, too. As one reader’s comment astutely notes, “Daily mail obsession with the Saudi’s continues…………whether its the expensive cars getting clamped outside Harrods or big clocks they contruct in their own country………. Must be a slow news day.”