My proposition is simple. An alarm clock which synchronizes its alarm with a rooster monitored at your time zone's Rooster Monitoring Center. The RMC facility houses a rooster and a computer which listens for the "cockadoodledoo". A small fee paid for the service pays for maintenance of the RMC.

Don't be fooled by imitators, our system is the only one which uses genuine free range roosters.
-- Spacecoyote, Dec 31 2007

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Shameless [skinflaps, Jan 01 2008]

Since roosters crow for many different reasons at all hours day and night, being rudely awakened at 2:00 a.m. would be a regular occurance with your system.

My cell phone alarm is very good at understanding that when I tell it to ring at 5:10 a.m., that's all it does. It doesn't seem to care if a wolf arrives before dawn (at a monitoring center as much as 1000 miles away, no less).
-- globaltourniquet, Dec 31 2007


...Indian Rooster Centres, with massive arrays of diurnally-sequenced illuminated soundproof cubicles. All rooster calls arrive at your bedside phone, just as you sit down to dinner...
-- ConsulFlaminicus, Jan 02 2008


...unless you register yourself on the "Do Not Rooster' register.
-- ConsulFlaminicus, Jan 02 2008



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