Sheikh Carves Name Visible From Space

The Sun ^ | 7-20-2011 | Harry Haydon

[Poison Pill]

Probably more people read english.

I think that's true but only slightly. Mandarin is 3x more popular than English and he didn't use Chinese characters.

[blueunicorn6]

Well, ahem, not to brag or anything. Come on! With the wind in Chicago, there’s no way I could’ve peed from the second story and written my name in the snow. It would’ve looked like yellow morse code.

[Persevero]

“using american oil”

Where can I shop for American only oil?

[6SJ7]

Looks like they failed to leave enough room for the left margin seeing that the “H” starts out in the water.

[stuartcr]

Slightly is fine. I imagine more people will be exposed to this, that read english.

[stuartcr]

Should we query the pump when we put our card in to fill up, as to where it’s fuel comes from?

[driftdiver]

good question

[Brass Lamp]

That is the finest advertisement for ham I have ever seen!

[xrmusn]

Big deal. I peed and wrote my name in the snow at Chicago and you could read it from the second floor
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The ‘story’ went that MLK had peed a message in the White House Lawn “LBJ SUCKS” and when asked why everyone thought it was a big deal, LBJ was told it was Lady Bird’s handwriting.

[blueunicorn6]

Oh, my......but, that is a good one.

[Ax]

When ya got it, flaunt it.

[shawnlaw]

It did have margin till global warming (oops global climate change) melted the polar ice caps and deleted the left margin...

Alternate BS:

Arabic is written right to left, Habib the contractor started Hamid's name too far to the left

[rottndog]

Still not as big as John Hancock’s....

But seriously...if’n he flooded the whole thing very shallow he could turn it into a salt farm....

[America_Right]

Mandarin is 3x more popular than English and he didn't use Chinese characters.

I wonder how many of those people actually are able to read and write Mandarin. Aren't there like 30,000 characters in the alphabet?

[jmcenanly]

I don't see what the deal about being 'visible from space' is. Using Google Earth, I can see the picnic table in our back yard. Looking up from Earth, I can make out the general shape of the Space Station as it passes over.He seems to be doing what people have doe for millenia, leaving his mark on the world.

[haywoodwebb]

Gen 11:4

". . . so that we may make a name for ourselves . . ."

[Amberdawn]

Probably Phillipino’s.

[Gena Bukin]

Probably Phillipino’s.

Nah... Filipinos work in the hospitality and service industries. They're usually female. The back-breaking phyisical labor over there is performed by Pakistanis and Bengalis. And these workers are totally expendible and treated as such.

[Grizzled Bear]

We all (us guys) “wrote” our names in the snow sometime before puberty. Then we grew up. I guess wealthy desert dwellers feel a bit inadequate.