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This elegant timepiece is a wallclock designed to give managers and teaching staff a bit of revenge on clockwatchers.
Bear in mind that most coffee-breaks, lunches and quittin-times are scheduled for either the hour or the half hour. To take unfair advantage of this, the Clockwatchers' Clock's minute-hand
is mounted on an elliptical (not circular) gear. Thus equipped, time will appear to be moving along at an almost unbelievably good pace around the :15 and :45 marks, buoying the hopes of clockwatchers; as it approaches the :00 and :30 marks it slows down to a crawl.
You can *almost* tell.
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Hm... a nice compliment to my Joke Clock idea. Good one, FT. [+] |
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[21Quest] If it was upside down like your clock then you could probably stretch the time discrepancy more without people catching on, but being upside down it would be obvious that there was something wrong with the clock to begin with. |
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I was thinking more along the lines of surreptitiously (sp?)
replacing people's clocks with 'em as a prank, rather than
combining them into a single clock. |
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Love it. Flying time. Yay. Crawling time...not so good.
Well thought out thee Toasted one. |
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Oh yeah...but I'm not one of *those* people.
(remembers potential employers are now searching all
social-networking web sites before hiring new staff.) |
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People with wristwatches would notice. Is there any way (electrical fields etc) to remotely affect the speed of a quartz osscilator? |
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Then only people with mechanical wristwatches would notice... |
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Well, the people who aren't clock-watchers are in on the joke even if they don't realize it; if someone states "that clock's off" (and the most the Clock will be off is a few minutes at any given time) most people won't bother checking until it actually *is* lunchtime or whatever... at which point the clock is correct so what's that idiot yammering on about anyways. |
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