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MiddleFingerMom

(25,163 posts) Sat Apr 28, 2012, 03:43 AM Apr 2012

Tock Alert

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Tock Alert (Original Post) MiddleFingerMom Apr 2012 OP

Thanks for the warning taterguy Apr 2012 #1

I knew it was coming, I just didn't think it would be this soon! A Simple Game Apr 2012 #2

Tick Tock rug Apr 2012 #3

Tik-Tok (Oz) MiddleFingerMom Apr 2012 #5

... one of my favorite characters ... surrealAmerican Apr 2012 #6

Tock? Major Nikon Apr 2012 #4

Wasn't Tock the "watch" dog ... surrealAmerican Apr 2012 #7

taterguy

(29,582 posts)

1. Thanks for the warning

Reply to MiddleFingerMom (Original post)

Sat Apr 28, 2012, 07:10 AM

Apr 2012

A Simple Game

(9,214 posts)

2. I knew it was coming, I just didn't think it would be this soon!

Reply to MiddleFingerMom (Original post)

Sat Apr 28, 2012, 02:53 PM

Apr 2012

So, what do I do, brace myself, hide, stand behind someone I don't like?

rug

(82,333 posts)

3. Tick Tock

Reply to MiddleFingerMom (Original post)

Sat Apr 28, 2012, 03:05 PM

Apr 2012

MiddleFingerMom

(25,163 posts)

5. Tik-Tok (Oz)

Reply to rug (Reply #3)

Sat Apr 28, 2012, 06:21 PM

Apr 2012

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Tik-Tok (sometimes spelled Tiktok) is a round-bodied mechanical man that runs on clockwork springs which periodically need to be wound, like a wind-up toy or mechanical clock. He has separate windings for thought, action, and speech. Tik-Tok is unable to wind any of them up himself.
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Tik-Tok first appears in Ozma of Oz (1907) where Dorothy Gale discovers him locked up in a cave, immobilized.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tik-Tok_%28Oz%29
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surrealAmerican

(11,362 posts)

6. ... one of my favorite characters ...

Reply to MiddleFingerMom (Reply #5)

Sat Apr 28, 2012, 07:03 PM

Apr 2012

... the "machine man" - they hadn't coined the word "robot" yet. He always did what he was "wound up to do", and had a tendency to run down just when he was most needed.