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World's Biggest Clock Begins Ticking in Mecca
Times of India ^
| Aug 12, 2010
Posted on 08/12/2010 2:46:26 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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This proves, they are more advanced than other countries...
To: nickcarraway
proof they have really small peckers
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posted on
08/12/2010 2:47:45 PM PDT
by
normy
(Don't take it personally, just take it seriously.)
To: nickcarraway
I wonder who told them how to build it.
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posted on
08/12/2010 2:49:05 PM PDT
by
Abathar
(Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
To: nickcarraway
In order to be on Mecca time you have to set your watch back 1,500 years.
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posted on
08/12/2010 2:51:07 PM PDT
by
So Cal Rocket
(We will remember in November)
To: nickcarraway
I have my Mecca Cola and my Mecca Compass and the Mecca Watch makes it a perfect trio!/s
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posted on
08/12/2010 2:51:20 PM PDT
by
Jack Hydrazine
(It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
To: nickcarraway
I hope a crazy Amish person doesn’t commandeer an airplane and crash into it. That would be bad.
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posted on
08/12/2010 2:51:35 PM PDT
by
BipolarBob
(Even the earth is bipolar.)
To: So Cal Rocket
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posted on
08/12/2010 2:51:36 PM PDT
by
normy
(Don't take it personally, just take it seriously.)
To: nickcarraway
I found out the inner workings of this clock:
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posted on
08/12/2010 2:51:42 PM PDT
by
C210N
(0bama, Making the world safe for Marxism)
To: nickcarraway
We hear that terrorism is due to poverty. After dropping $3 BILLION on a clock tower, of course they are broke.
To: nickcarraway
Big improvement on their sundials...
To: C210N
To: nickcarraway
A clock that ticks? I had no idea that the Saudis were into steampunk. We keep time with atomic clocks that uses cesium masers to maintain an accuracy of 10−9 seconds per day. They have successfully caught up with the Victorian Era
To: nickcarraway
This has stampede potential though. After all million+ of them become quiet and they hear it ticking the first thing that will come to most their minds is it’s wired to blow.
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posted on
08/12/2010 2:54:25 PM PDT
by
Abathar
(Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
To: nickcarraway
Will the Hour Hand or Minute Hand be the $h-tty Brown Hand ?
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posted on
08/12/2010 2:54:58 PM PDT
by
GOYAKLA
(Flush Congress in 2010 & 2012)
To: jmcenanly
I’m kinda into steampunk myself, actually.
But this clock is a special kind of stupid. Are we sure it’s not a doomsday clock? “When the clock hits midnight, kill the infidels. And yourself. Because that is how we kill infidels.”
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posted on
08/12/2010 2:56:27 PM PDT
by
HushTX
(quit whining)
To: nickcarraway
"The clock tower is higher than the minarets of the Grand Mosque, which will take attention away from the mosque even though it is obvious the mosque is more important," she added. I wonder, when the plane flies into the building, will it go above or below the clock? Because certainly they wouldn't fly into Allah...
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posted on
08/12/2010 2:56:38 PM PDT
by
kingu
(Favorite Sticker: Lost hope, and Obama took my change.)
To: So Cal Rocket
Ha ! Best line I’ve seen today...
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posted on
08/12/2010 2:56:56 PM PDT
by
Mopp4
To: nickcarraway
Wow. And Dubai just finished the Burj Khalifa Sundial.
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posted on
08/12/2010 2:57:10 PM PDT
by
Psycho_Bunny
(Hail To The Fail-In-Chief)
To: nickcarraway
To: jmcenanly
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posted on
08/12/2010 2:59:42 PM PDT
by
barb-tex
(November 2! Dia de los Muertas. ( Day of the Dead), Them or Us. Nov 5, Guy Falkes Day)
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