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11/21/2005 - Showbiz versus the timepiece
« Reply #15 on: November 21, 2005, 11:08:01 pm »
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Particularly when the "sweep" hand only really "sweeps" on your more-expensive watches.  Your typical Swatch will tick.


I don't think that the guy who sent in the "sweep hand" entry to the Encyclopedia Britannica was wearing a Swatch. I think that he might exist in an alternate, bourbon-tinted universe where Swatches don't exist and everyone wears a monocle.
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« Reply #16 on: November 21, 2005, 11:26:46 pm »
Oh, did I fail again? Hahah, yeah I was just post from memory and didn't check my facts when posting about that whole sweep hand thing. I thought the name "Sweep Hand" stuck and still applies to the third hand on any watch. but I could be very wrong.
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« Reply #17 on: November 21, 2005, 11:57:36 pm »
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. . . an alternate, bourbon-tinted universe where Swatches don't exist and everyone wears a monocle.


Also: muttonchops.
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« Reply #18 on: November 22, 2005, 12:06:21 am »
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. . . an alternate, bourbon-tinted universe where Swatches don't exist and everyone wears a monocle.


Also: muttonchops.


And colored servant boys who call you Bwana and hand you your elephant gun!
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« Reply #19 on: November 22, 2005, 04:23:54 am »
I guess being an older guy here finally works to my advantage.  I was well into my 20's or so before the digital watch came into widespread usage, so yeah reading an analog watch is second nature to me.  My only problem reading the watch now is my failing eyesight.  Weeps...

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« Reply #20 on: November 22, 2005, 06:16:18 am »
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...And colored servant boys who call you Bwana and hand you your elephant gun!


Quote from: "Futurama"
Remember when certain people weren't allowed on golf courses? Pepperidge Farms does!
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« Reply #21 on: November 22, 2005, 11:04:06 am »
Quote from: "Futurama"
Remember when certain people weren't allowed on golf courses? Pepperidge Farms does!


Quote from: "MST3K"
er ah we were there first but that is a good reference
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« Reply #22 on: November 22, 2005, 12:26:36 pm »
Was that from Futurama or MST3K? I seriously can't remember.
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« Reply #23 on: November 22, 2005, 12:36:05 pm »
Futurama. That specific quote, anyhow.
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« Reply #24 on: November 22, 2005, 01:46:32 pm »
I'm going to agree with you, it was from a commercial on Futurama. I think they had a part about women voting too something like, "Do you remember a time when women couldn't vote and certain folks weren't allowed on golf courses?" Hell maybe it was on MST3K or something first but I don't remember it!
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« Reply #25 on: November 22, 2005, 01:58:00 pm »
Yep, Futurama.  Season 1, Episode 6, "A giraffeful Of Dollars".

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[He puts a video tape into the VCR.]

Announcer [on tape]: Do you remember a time when chocolate chip cookies came fresh from the oven? Petridge Farm remembers.

Fry: Oh, those were the days.

Announcer [on tape]: Do you remember a time when women couldn't vote, and certain folk weren't allowed on golf courses? Petridge Farm remembers.
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« Reply #26 on: November 22, 2005, 02:06:07 pm »
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I guess being an older guy here finally works to my advantage.  I was well into my 20's or so before the digital watch came into widespread usage, so yeah reading an analog watch is second nature to me.


I think it's second nature to a lot of young people. The ones who passed their elementary school math. Or at least that portion of it.
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« Reply #27 on: November 22, 2005, 02:26:30 pm »
there are a lot of waches "designed" by people with "degrees" that are impossible to read.

"hey boss, this watch that jack designed is unreadable!  give me his promotion instead!"

"timmy, wf!? you are fired!  Tina, get me jack!  Jack, yes, brilliant, can you make it SPARKLIER!?!?"

the problem with free market theory is that, if true, it basically proves without a shadow of a doubt that humanity is a fuck*ng moron.
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« Reply #28 on: November 22, 2005, 02:34:59 pm »
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there are a lot of waches "designed" by people with "degrees" that are impossible to read.

"hey boss, this watch that jack designed is unreadable!  give me his promotion instead!"

"timmy, wf!? you are fired!  Tina, get me jack!  Jack, yes, brilliant, can you make it SPARKLIER!?!?"

the problem with free market theory is that, if true, it basically proves without a shadow of a doubt that humanity is a fuck*ng moron.

Un-fuck*ng-topable

The whole category is pretty messed up but that one is quite possibly the least readable timepiece ever.
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« Reply #29 on: November 22, 2005, 03:23:23 pm »
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there are a lot of waches "designed" by people with "degrees" that are impossible to read.

"hey boss, this watch that jack designed is unreadable!  give me his promotion instead!"

"timmy, wf!? you are fired!  Tina, get me jack!  Jack, yes, brilliant, can you make it SPARKLIER!?!?"

the problem with free market theory is that, if true, it basically proves without a shadow of a doubt that humanity is a fuck*ng moron.

Un-fuck*ng-topable

The whole category is pretty messed up but that one is quite possibly the least readable timepiece ever.

I think I know what I'm getting my History-major, walks-around-campus-in-a-hat-with-a-feather, wears-a-cape friend for Christmas. If it wasn't so humongoexpensive, that is...
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