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Clocks (don't drop the 'l')
I don't really own any clocks now that I think about it. I use my cell phone as an alarm... my dvd player is still flashing instantly 12:00, 12:00, 12:00.
A digital alarm clock, and the clock on the stove and microwave are digital. We have one clock in the living room with hands, that really is neat looking.
Call me crazy but I have an analog clock in every room. I'm one of those people who need to know the time all the time ( no pun intended). I also feel lost without my watch on. I have this awesome Michael Godard clock in the living room, I'm obsessed with all things Martini.
I love analog clocks, and I have several. Yes, I agree, they are much more elegant than red or blue glowing numbers. But my alarm clock is digital, with a radio, and I've had it since college. Must have a radio, you know. :)I LOVE it, because it has a lever for setting the clock either forward, or backward. It makes resetting the clock after the power goes out so much easier.
I have a digital clock to help me wake up, and i use my cell phone for the time when I'm out, but my dad has a whole bunch of old clocks, like tiny grandfather clocks and stuff.
I have two analog clocks, both given to me by my best friend on different Christmases and both Nightmare Before Christmas. One is a wall clock with numerous characters on it but I've never hung it up. The other one I love; it's one of those clocks in the glass dome with a pendulum that swings left then right and it has Jack and Sally on the fact.
And RA, for the record, I like that we talk about all kinds of random (not stupid!) things here!
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Only three new comments in as many hours?
We have a big analog clock in our living room and a smaller, pretty one I bought for some ridiculous sum at Anthropologie once upon a time in the kitchen. Other than that all of our clocks are old digital ones, two old alarms in our bedroom, and a clock on the VCR.
Tick tock. This reminds me of going into the jewelry stores of one of my aunts and one of my uncles when I was a kid. They were both also trained watch/clockmakers. Each store had a whole bunch of clocks on the wall, for sale or otherwise. I always liked the sounds of multiple clocks ticking and chiming. They each sold cuckoo clocks, too.Thanks for the memories, RA.
i have an analog clock, but never wear a watch. i use my cellphone to wake me up or when i'm not at home. i have to be able to know what time it is or i might go crazy. because of this i know all the good places to get the time from public clocks.
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Janine, I also usually just check my cell phone when I need the time and I'm out of the house. Watches are cool, but I can't justify the expense when I'm already carrying a device that shows me the time. I also know I can check the clock on the mall tower near Brown Deer Road on 43 on the way home, but only before sundown, as the face isn't lighted. But now that I a clock in the car that's not necessary.
clocks? really now? what a great idea to discuss. maybe drop the l and then we have a topic. All my clocks are base 60. I can't seem to find a metric clock anywhere.
Allan wrote: "clocks? really now? what a great idea to discuss. maybe drop the l and then we have a topic. All my clocks are base 60. I can't seem to find a metric clock anywhere."Drop the l, drop the l....I don't get-----OH!!!
::blushes furiously at the thought of discussing you-know-whats with complete strangers as if this were a naughty chatroom, which is where *some people* might be better off::
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I like grandfather cocks. I mean clocks.
Nice clock KD, the only thing I didn't like about that is keeping them wound, because if you forgot, then you had to reset the clock too.
And welcome to TC Allan.
And welcome to TC Allan.
don't give a hoot about clocks but i love watches. i am a watch guy. i will buy a cool watch every chance i get. man i gotta lot of them. i have to avoid looking at ebay for watches and if i am somewhere where they sell them i gravitate that way. i have a great watch case to hold them all in. think i will look at watches online this morning....
I don't allow clocks into my bedroom. I used to have a major bout of insomnia and having a clock in my bedroom made it significantly worse. Somehow, knowing how many hours of sleep I was missing and how many hours I had left just made it more impossible to fall asleep. So I now use my cell phone as my alarm clock, which I place on my dresser on the opposite side of the room. Oddly enough, it cured my insomnia and I no longer have to worry about finding the "right" clock to sit on my nightstand.
Digital clocks are ugly but essential for alarm clocks. I'm certain my semi-conscious morning brain would purposely misread an analog clock so I could go back to sleep. Additionally, I can trick myself better with digital. "look, it's only 6:12. I don't have to get up until 6:15. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz". 6:12 and 6:15 look way closer to the same time on an analog dial.
p.s. I can't stop dropping the l when I read each post. I know, I'm so immature. Also, I have to wear a watch every day. HAVE TO.
gotcha on the watch gretchen. me too.as for digital clocks, i am ok with them when i need to know the time. when i want to know the time i like a clock with character
(did that make any sense?)
It did. That's just what I'm saying, too. We are simpatico.
Bunny, it's because you're super-human.
what about a big necklace clock bun? could you sport this look and not make it go SPROIIING!! ?
I think if you sport that look, someone might make it go SPROIIING!! for you.
i do know a guy who cannot wear a watch either bun. they stop when he wears them. some kind of magnetic deal? your thoughts?
My mom can't wear watches, she says it is some kind of body magnetism or something. They all just stop working when she wears them.
A friend of mine wears a device that looks like a watch when she flies but it actually shocks her to keep her from barfing. I may have mentioned this a couple years ago on MiniAm.http://www.motionsicknesswatch.com/
interesting bun. when you walk thru the cutlery section at target do spoons and forks fly off the shelves and stick to you?
yeah, i prob wouldn't walk thru sears either
but on the plus side you prob make guys with pacemakers double clutch a bit when you walk past. a girl has to like that
Okay, I'm now going to think of Bun as "Electro-Woman" for awhile...
wait! is the one on the right wearing a big ol watch?
I believe that is her Electracomp. from Wikipedia:
Electracomps were the bulky, wrist-based devices worn by the title characters. One of their functions is as two-way radios with video capabilities akin to those Dick Tracy used. Much like Batman's utility belt, they serve a variety of other specialized functions allowing the duo to escape a variety traps devised by their enemies.
i think her magnetic powers are working as i am strongly attracted to her
Hard as steel is just a saying Kevin :-)
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I break watches too, but also most electronic devices tend to go splonky on me too. Cell phones can't keep the right day/time, my iPod thinks we are on Baltimore time despite my many attempts to reprogram it, etc.
And streetlamps always go off when I drive under them.
I can't keep watches, that's why I always buy super cheap ones... like the 75% off ones at Steinmart. I can justify spending $12 on a watch that'll last me maybe 3-4 weeks. Same thing... batteries go wonky fast or the little house gnomes steal it off the table where I left it (because Robby wouldn't eat it). When I moved, I expected to find at least 4 of my watches that disappeared near my couch, but NONE of them showed up.
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I still hate him and avoid him when we see him at parties.
You should mess with him, Sally... and ask him how his left ear's been lately... and then hint to him that you happen to have a doll with his face on it. But make sure you end it with a vague remark like "just checking, just checkin' - that's all..."
Oh, that's kind of mean Heidi, I like it!
I've decided I no long like digital clocks. They're not as elegant, if you will, as clocks with hands. And almost all the clocks I are cheap, so I got a slightly cooler one (ten bucks, whoo!) at Target yesterday...
What kind of clocks, if any, do you prefer?
(The people who say we talk about stupid things are probably rollin' their eyes about now...)