This watch (digital, shirley) goes blank between hours you select during the setting process.

This way, when someone says, "you need to be there at 5:00 AM" you can rightfully say that according to your watch, there IS no 5:00 AM.

When you arrive "on time" (by virtue of the other clocks in your home or car, probably), you can prove it.
-- shapu, Jan 23 2008

If you want a film, [marklar], here's the closest http://www.imdb.com...le/tt0110588/quotes
... but I don't think they managed to work that one-liner into it. [pertinax, Jan 24 2008]

time-twigs Uses opportunity to promote own idea for average time. I actually made one of these, and it's on my wall. [xenzag, Jan 24 2008]

What's wrong with the present and accepted technique of when someone says "you need to be there at 5:00am" you can rightfully say "well you can fuck right off".
-- Ian Tindale, Jan 23 2008


"Holy crap, I never knew there were two 5 'o clocks"

I can't remember the film or the exact quote.
-- marklar, Jan 24 2008


Time is an unpleasant illusion caused by depressed levels of ethanol in the bloodstream.
-- 8th of 7, Jan 24 2008


It was Dorothy Parker, [marklar], way back when people were sometimes unscriptedly witty in real life... and I think it was *eight* o' clock.

Mmm... Dorothy Parker...
-- pertinax, Jan 24 2008


Wasn't she the mother of Lady Penelope's Butler/Chauffeur ?
-- 8th of 7, Jan 24 2008


I read that as: //Wasn't she the mother of Lady Penelope's Butter Chafer?//
-- shapu, Jan 24 2008


I like the idea. I want this watch. Leave out those dumb boring hours. [+]
-- TahuNuva, Jan 24 2008



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