Big Ben Falls Silent

[davefoc]

London's famous clock, Big Ben, has been shut down for repairs.

This will be good news to people who have doubtlessly been worried about the clock since learning about a problem with it from Mycroft's early thread on Big Ben:

http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=39827&highlight=clock

And yes to the pedants out there, Big Ben is actually the name of the bell and not the name of the clock. But if the clock is known most commonly as Big Ben doesn't that mean that a name for the clock is Big Ben?

Wikipedia article
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Ben

[Gord_in_Toronto]

[URI GELLER]
I predict that sometime this month Big Ben will stop working and that it will start working again shortly after I wave my hands at it.
[/URI GELLER]

[andyandy]

Dong!

[Zep]

Whose dong?

[webfusion]

Bong.

[Big Les]

Wait, I thought the whole thing blew up a year or so ago, around the time that slightly naughty government was replaced. Stop messing with my mind!!!