Monday, June 12, 2006

What Time Is It

I love when people use the old adage that "even a broken clock is right twice a day." That is, like, the best backhanded compliment ever.

But how come nobody ever points out the corollaries to this?


  1. A non-broken clock is right all of the time.

  2. If the clock is broken because the minute hand fell off, it will never be right in a million billion (a quadrillion) years.

  3. If the clock was set for 24-hour days, it will only be right once a day

  4. If it's a digital clock and the battery died, it will always be [blank] o'clock and thus never correct.

  5. There is no such time as 12:00.

5 comments:

Unknown said...

now that you mention it - a "working" analogue clock is probably never right - in that it is probably at least an eency weency bit off at any given moment... and because it is “working” it stays that way - unless it runs fast or slow in the right direction and "passes by" the correct time... in which case it is still right less often than a non-working clock.

kate said...

What am I missing about your last point there?
*scratching head*

[REDACTED] said...

Um, the 12:00 should be blinking.

Rebecca said...

That's pretty cool looking. Blinking clock thing. Next thing you're going to have flash on your blog.

[REDACTED] said...

Oh, don't worry. I'm not going to flash anyone on my blog. You're safe.