# RO: This is totally going to kill Bring Your Clock to School Day **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 16, 2015, 8:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-this-is-totally-going-to-kill-bring-your-clock-to-school-day/731454 "2015-09-16T08:35:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 72
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2015, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-this-is-totally-going-to-kill-bring-your-clock-to-school-day/731454/1421 "2015-11-26T05:42:41Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > This is totally going to revive Bring Your Dismantled Clock To School in a Pencil Case Day. That’s the question I keep coming back to. He dismantled a clock that could very well have come from Wal-Mart and reassembled the pieces into another case. What exactly was he trying to accomplish or demonstrate? I’m pretty sure it wasn’t some Machiavellian plan to wrangle an invite to the white house. ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2015, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-this-is-totally-going-to-kill-bring-your-clock-to-school-day/731454/1422 "2015-11-26T05:52:08Z")
No, probably just an attempt to “go viral” (though not on the scale he actually did) and possibly to sue the school, depending on how things went down. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2015, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-this-is-totally-going-to-kill-bring-your-clock-to-school-day/731454/1423 "2015-11-26T10:23:47Z")
> [@SlackerInc](#): > > No, probably just an attempt to “go viral” (though not on the scale he actually did) and possibly to sue the school, depending on how things went down. Yes, because that totally follows from “bringing a reassembled clock to school”. I don’t know why more people don’t do it, frankly - it’s so obvious! ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2015, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-this-is-totally-going-to-kill-bring-your-clock-to-school-day/731454/1424 "2015-11-26T11:01:54Z")
You’ve got to be Muslim in a less than progressive place like this Texas town for it to have much chance of working. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2015, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-this-is-totally-going-to-kill-bring-your-clock-to-school-day/731454/1425 "2015-11-26T11:36:20Z")
Oh I see. Fiendishly clever, these [del]Chinese[/del] Muslims. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2015, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-this-is-totally-going-to-kill-bring-your-clock-to-school-day/731454/1426 "2015-11-26T15:08:04Z")
> [@SlackerInc](#): > > No, probably just an attempt to “go viral” (though not on the scale he actually did) and possibly to sue the school, depending on how things went down. You know he didn’t bring that clock to school with any intention of getting into trouble for it, don’t you? ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2015, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-this-is-totally-going-to-kill-bring-your-clock-to-school-day/731454/1427 "2015-11-26T21:20:59Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > You know he didn’t bring that clock to school with any intention of getting into trouble for it, don’t you? 😕 I take it you’re new to the thread? ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2015, 9:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-this-is-totally-going-to-kill-bring-your-clock-to-school-day/731454/1428 "2015-11-27T09:52:51Z")
Hang on a minute… Hates a young boy…scared of clocks…well-spoken but with a weird obsession… **SlackerInc** is Captain Hook! ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2015, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-this-is-totally-going-to-kill-bring-your-clock-to-school-day/731454/1429 "2015-11-27T10:03:16Z")
I know you’re goofing around, and that’s fine…but again, FTR: I don’t hate Ahmed, not at all. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2015, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-this-is-totally-going-to-kill-bring-your-clock-to-school-day/731454/1430 "2015-11-27T10:28:25Z")
I am indeed goofing around, but you are imputing a good deal of malign (or at the very least calculatingly self-aggrandizing) intent to his actions. ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2015, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-this-is-totally-going-to-kill-bring-your-clock-to-school-day/731454/1431 "2015-11-27T11:04:52Z")
I’ll cop to your “at least”, but as I said from the beginning, I _identify_ with him. I fully admit to having a penchant for calculatingly self-aggrandizing actions myself, although I have not succeeded to the extent I would ideally like to. 😉 I am _impressed_ by what he pulled off, and I am simply tooting my own horn in noting that I didn’t fall for it, that “I see what you did there, Ahmed”. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2015, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-this-is-totally-going-to-kill-bring-your-clock-to-school-day/731454/1432 "2015-11-27T11:17:43Z")
So you’re projecting. Got it. ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2015, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-this-is-totally-going-to-kill-bring-your-clock-to-school-day/731454/1433 "2015-11-27T12:17:02Z")
Think what you like, but recall that this is a kid who was quoted as telling a favorite teacher “I told you I would be famous on the Internet one day”. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2015, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-this-is-totally-going-to-kill-bring-your-clock-to-school-day/731454/1434 "2015-11-27T12:38:15Z")
Definitely a smoking gun. No other 14-year-old has ever said anything like that. ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2015, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-this-is-totally-going-to-kill-bring-your-clock-to-school-day/731454/1435 "2015-11-27T18:33:52Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Yes, because that totally follows from “bringing a reassembled clock to school”. I don’t know why more people don’t do it, frankly - it’s so obvious! Post hoc, ergo deliberately hoc ! Anecdotically, I’ve been working recently on a 1910s journalist (and I use a very broad definition of the word) who used the same logic. According to him [the Seine overflowed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1910_Great_Flood_of_Paris) because torrential rains hadn’t been absorbed upstream due to deforestation. The deforestation upstream (real thing) had been caused by industrial development. The Rotschilds had invested in those industries. Thus the proud article, big bold letters, page 1 : “The Jews Flood Paris !”. All part of the plot, see ?! Matt Drudge, eat your heart out. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2015, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-this-is-totally-going-to-kill-bring-your-clock-to-school-day/731454/1436 "2015-11-27T20:24:41Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > Post hoc, ergo deliberately hoc ! About an ad hoc clock. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-this-is-totally-going-to-kill-bring-your-clock-to-school-day/731454.md?page=71)