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Britain's Big Ben to fall silent for four years
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| 14 Aug 2017
| Staff
Posted on 08/14/2017 6:27:33 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Dr. Sivana
You can.
People always lie on their resume........
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posted on
08/14/2017 6:54:46 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
To: Daddaroo
They could replace it with a digital clock with atomic precision accuracy for about 5 million...............
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posted on
08/14/2017 6:56:52 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
08/14/2017 7:01:14 AM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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posted on
08/14/2017 7:02:50 AM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: slimjim12
Soon to become not-so-Great Britain’s tallest minaret.
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posted on
08/14/2017 7:03:54 AM PDT
by
elcid1970
("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
To: Steely Tom
Big Ben survived the blitz, the V1 and V2 rockets and still rings.
It will be a sad day when the goat humpers silence It for good when they take over.
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posted on
08/14/2017 7:04:02 AM PDT
by
oldvirginian
(I must've made a wrong turn at Albuquerque!)
To: Sacajaweau
The Chimes Of Big Ben was a really good episode of The Prisoner.
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posted on
08/14/2017 7:04:18 AM PDT
by
wally_bert
(I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
To: Steely Tom
“It can be replaced with loudspeakers issuing the five-times-daily call to prayer.”
First thing I thought of. I bet London’s mayor dreams of doing it.
To: Red Badger
What’s the over/under that it will ever ring again? Maybe Mayor Khan can be consulted on the British future in 4 years.
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posted on
08/14/2017 7:20:42 AM PDT
by
Truth29
To: stylecouncilor
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posted on
08/14/2017 7:33:02 AM PDT
by
onedoug
To: Red Badger
Crap, I thought Roethlisberger was giving up his horrible radio gig.
To: Daddaroo
Four years isn’t bad, considering the world-wide shortage of qualified watchmakers. I’d love to take on the job, but I’m too far behind wih the American pocket watches here in the shop. Sorry
To: smokingfrog
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posted on
08/14/2017 8:27:20 AM PDT
by
GreenLanternCorps
(Hi! I'm the Dread Pirate Roberts! (TM) Ask about franchise opportunities in your area.)
To: Red Badger
Steve Jaggs, whose official title is "Keeper of the Great Clock"In other words, he is the Bongmaster.
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posted on
08/14/2017 8:53:16 AM PDT
by
Tolerance Sucks Rocks
(April 2006 Message from Dan http://www.dansimmons.com/news/message/2006_04.htm)
To: GreenLanternCorps
He probably over-stressed the gears and springs doing that. No wonder Big Ben needs to be overhauled.
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posted on
08/14/2017 9:24:46 AM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: Red Badger
A couple of years ago I watched some program about the rich young Arabs and their “summer season” in London, making a general nuisance of themselves in their gaudy supercars. At one point one of those arrogant slugs was driving past Big Ben as it chimed, and he said to his co-driver that “once the place is fully ours, it will be silenced.” The hatred was tangible.
And here we are...
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posted on
08/14/2017 9:46:15 AM PDT
by
Moltke
(Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building)
To: Red Badger
To: minnesota_bound
Government workers...................
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posted on
08/14/2017 10:37:51 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
To: Daddaroo
It’s always harder to fix things than to break things.
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posted on
08/14/2017 10:38:30 AM PDT
by
discostu
(Things are in their place, The heavens are secure, The whole thing explodes in my face)
To: Red Badger
“My cousin’s gay, he went to London......He was so disappointed. He found out that Big Ben was a clock.” - Rodney Dangerfield.
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posted on
08/14/2017 10:39:58 AM PDT
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dfwgator
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