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Brigid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-11-09 05:46 PM
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OK, who around here has never seen an analog watch or clock?
On another thread, people were talking about never having seen one and not knowing how to tell time on one. I see them all the time. :shrug:
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hippywife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-11-09 05:49 PM
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1. That's a wee bit scary.
There are analog clocks nearly everywhere you go. :hi:
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-11-09 05:54 PM
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2. Let me guess:
These people are all unemployed and sitting in Mom's basement because they are incapable of getting anywhere on time, right?
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texanwitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-11-09 06:01 PM
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3. I tried to train some kids in their early 20's at work and they could not tell time.
They were always late, and could not read a analog clock.

I finally gave up, and they didn't last long anyway.


This isn't true of everyone but these kids were really stupid.

Forget trying to teach them military time.
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tXr Donating Member (312 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-11-09 06:12 PM
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4. Here's an analog clock for ya...


(Augustinian Friar's Astrological Clock, 1679 - one of the hands takes 20,000 years to revolve. At the Clock Museum in Vienna.)

Incredible Astronomical Clocks
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Brigid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-11-09 06:14 PM
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5. Sounds like it might be based on the Mayan calendar.
As I recall it has one cycle that runs 26,000 years. I must visit that museum if I ever visit Vienna.
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texanwitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-11-09 06:16 PM
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6. That is a clock.
Look at all those wheels.
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old mark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-11-09 06:31 PM
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7. Who polishes that brass? nt
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