Posted on 07/20/2011 8:32:24 AM PDT by Reo
A DESERT sheikh has carved out a big name for himself — by having his moniker etched in capital letters visible from space.
Workmen scoured "HAMAD" into the sand on the orders of Abu Dhabi's Sheikh Hamad Bin Hamdan Al Nahyan.
The name is two miles across — with letters a kilometre high. It is so huge that the "H", the first "A" and part of the "M" have been made into waterways.
The mega-rich sheikh, 63 — a member of the ruling family of Abu Dhabi — in the oil-rich United Arab Emirates — boasts a £14billion fortune that is second only to the Saudi king's.
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkeled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed;
And on the pedastal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works ye Mighty , and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
Hmm maybe Obumbler might actually re-start the US space program to at least take photos of this for the Sheikh :P
Hmm maybe Obumbler might actually re-start the US space program to at least take photos of this for the Sheikh :P
Shovel ready projects of the Middle East.
Interestingly HAMAD is a synonym for dumb sh*t.
at least it is now...
Matthew 7:26
Paid for by suckers filling their car up to get to work, so they can pay for the gas to put in their car, to get to work.
Big deal. I peed and wrote my name in the snow at Chicago and you could read it from the second floor.
Yep. In antiquity it was Ozymandias.
Nice sign, Sheikh. Sorry about your penis.
Interesting that he spelled it in english letters and not squiggles.
Argh!
You beat me to what I was going to reply with your comment #1.
He lives in Yabba Dabba Do.
Yeah. I wonder why he didn’t have it written in arabic...
Uh.....
Someone is really bored.
lulz
Let’s not give the teleprompter wizard any new ideas... he’s liable to carve his name into Illinois and call it a “jobs program”.
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