Some would show you their watch, and brag about it.
Some might steel your watch!
Some might take your watch, stomp on it, and hand it back.
And some, usually within the first few replies, would tell you the time isn't really what you want to know....
That can happen without malice or deliberate douchebaggery.
I suppose it's a bad thing outside the classroom, but when I'm asked a question my mind often goes into diagnostic mode. Sometimes straightening out what the question should actually be is more informative than the answer to the original question.
One would question why you need a watch living on Urth? Does the sun not rise every day, and is the sparrow's shadow not the same length from one morning to the next? What are we to do once the shadow becomes civilized and time mocks us.?
One would question why you need a watch living on Urth? Does the sun not rise every day, and is the sparrow's shadow not the same length from one morning to the next? What are we to do once the shadow becomes civilized and time mocks us.?
"Say man, you wanna buy a watch? I know you aint gotta watch, Cause if you had a watch you'd know it be night time And night time aint no time to be in this here naybahood. So, come on man, how about a watch?"
One would question why you need a watch living on Urth? Does the sun not rise every day, and is the sparrow's shadow not the same length from one morning to the next? What are we to do once the shadow becomes civilized and time mocks us.?
Damn... You beat me to the 'Gus reply'. Gotta start working on my Mannlicher impression, I guess.
One would question why you need a watch living on Urth? Does the sun not rise every day, and is the sparrow's shadow not the same length from one morning to the next? What are we to do once the shadow becomes civilized and time mocks us.?
Damn... You beat me to the 'Gus reply'. Gotta start working on my Mannlicher impression, I guess.
"I haven't given two shdits about time in years"
Yeah,.."I Hate watches, got no use for em or people that use them.!"
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day Fritter and waste the hours in an off-hand way Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town Waiting for someone or something to show you the way
Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today And then one day you find ten years have got behind you No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun
And you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking Racing around to come up behind you again The sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older Shorter of breath and one day closer to death
Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way The time is gone, the song is over, thought I'd something more to say
One would question why you need a watch living on Urth? Does the sun not rise every day, and is the sparrow's shadow not the same length from one morning to the next? What are we to do once the shadow becomes civilized and time mocks us.?
Damn... You beat me to the 'Gus reply'. Gotta start working on my Mannlicher impression, I guess.
"I haven't given two shdits about time in years"
Yeah,.."I Hate watches, got no use for em or people that use them.!"
"Say man, you wanna buy a watch? I know you aint gotta watch, Cause if you had a watch you'd know it be night time And night time aint no time to be in this here naybahood. So, come on man, how about a watch?"
I tried googling that, forgot the words...
A friend of mine had a stunt he'd pull on new foremen hired into our plant. Someone would hand the new guy a watch which was supposed to be an old family heirloom, ask him to take it up to the toolroom and ask for Larry. Larry did watch repair for a hobby. So the mark seeks out Larry, hands him the watch. Larry goes into a big rant cussing like a sailor, sets the watch down on his work bench, pulls out a big lead hammer and proceeds to smash the schidt outta the watch. The newbee's reaction is usually priceless..
"Say man, you wanna buy a watch? I know you aint gotta watch, Cause if you had a watch you'd know it be night time And night time aint no time to be in this here naybahood. So, come on man, how about a watch?"
"...Time and Number are nothing other than modes of thinking, or rather, modes of imagining."
Spinoza
So, what time do you want it to be?
lol.
when the sun is directly over head, directly above an open well, and the light shines down into the exact bottom of the well onto the surface of the water, is it 12 noon?
"I replaced the original watch parts with some aftermarket Titanium watch parts to make it faster and more accurate. Anybody know the name of a good watch repairman? The local watch repairman F'd me.!"
"I replaced the original watch parts with some aftermarket Titanium watch parts to make it faster and more accurate. Anybody know the name of a good watch repairman? The local watch repairman F'd me.!"
"...Time and Number are nothing other than modes of thinking, or rather, modes of imagining."
Spinoza
So, what time do you want it to be?
lol.
when the sun is directly over head, directly above an open well, and the light shines down into the exact bottom of the well onto the surface of the water, is it 12 noon?
When the sun is directly over head, directly above an open well, and the light shines down into the exact bottom of the well onto the surface of the water, is it 12 noon?
That was true before we were enslaved by railroad time! The corporations enslave us by making us all use the same time!
And daylight savings time is a communist plot. All those extra hours are actually filling all those empty inter-modal containers headed back to China!
"I replaced the original watch parts with some aftermarket Titanium watch parts to make it faster and more accurate. Anybody know the name of a good watch repairman? The local watch repairman F'd me.!"
"You just couldn't leave it well enough alone could you Amigo, you just had to mess with it?
when the sun is directly over head, directly above an open well, and the light shines down into the exact bottom of the well onto the surface of the water, is it 12 noon?
According to my little almanac program, doomsday. Here transit never happens higher than 67° 46'. And that's at 12:29 pm local. Actually between time zones which are irregular and daylight savings which are political and bizarre to calculate, time can be very confusing to figure. Writing that almanac program had me cross-eyed more than a few times. (Find local time given UTC and lat/lon)
"...Time and Number are nothing other than modes of thinking, or rather, modes of imagining."
Spinoza
So, what time do you want it to be?
lol.
when the sun is directly over head, directly above an open well, and the light shines down into the exact bottom of the well onto the surface of the water, is it 12 noon?
Don't think so, Greenwitch latitude is about 51.48° and the Earth's precession is about 23.5°. Let's check: US Naval Observatory says altitude at transit is 66.6°
Don't think so, Greenwitch latitude is about 51.48° and the Earth's precession is about 23.5°. Let's check: US Naval Observatory says altitude at transit is 66.6°
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i just hate it when the sun touches the bottom of the well, and the Dragons begin to emerge and climb the walls of the well. but just as soon as they begin, the sun moves on, the light shifts, and the Dragons re-submerge.
back in the day, i worked with a lady who never wore, nor owned a watch. she didn't know what they were good for.
Be careful there, depends on the size of the well. The Sun moves 15° per hour so you hafta do the trig. Sorta like Eratosthenes. Pretty clever for about 240 BC.
People who wear watches are slaves of time according to one of my English teachers in high school.
That's the ONLY thing I remember from his class.
Did you have to be on time to the class?
I guess that would have been a test of his philosophy, now wouldn't it? I don't recall tardiness ever being a problem though, we came and went by the ringing bells in the hallway. My main concern in those days was keeping a low profile and getting home so I could do something productive before dark.
And God obliged, even to the extent of including it in his verbatim users' manual, the KJV. (Although he did blatantly usurp rights to it by terming it "His Time". He also created milk cows with it built into their DNA.)
