A Puyallup man exploring London for the first time announced he’s named the towering clock he discovered today all on his own “Tahoma” after his favorite mountain back home almost 5,000 miles away.
“I just thought – hey this thing is so cool it deserves a name, so I named it ‘Tahoma’ after another big, tall, beautiful thing I love back home an entire continent and ocean away,” said Puyallup resident and tribe member Jason Satiacum while on his first trip to Europe. “Some people here have gotten mad at me for calling it that because apparently it already had a name—Big Ben or something if I’m pronouncing that correct—but that’s just what the natives who have lived here for thousands of years call it. Obviously, it finally needed a real name.”
The renaming of Big Ben as “Tahoma” has indeed caused confusion and conflict both in the United Kingdom and abroad as people argue over what it should really be called now.
“Some people say it’s actually not Tahoma or Big Ben—it’s the Great Bell of the Great Clock of Westminster while still others say it’s Elizabeth Tower,” said one exhausted London resident. “I think when the fog parts, we’re just gonna say something like ‘the Clock is out.’”
Reached for comment, Tahoma said that although she’s honored to have something named after her that she’s never seen and never will see in her lifetime, she was honestly still confused about why anyone would ever do that.
