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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

just heard a great question on TV... how did the person that invented the clock know what time it was?

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By *rincess peachWoman
over a year ago

shits creek

Big yella thing in the sky innit

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"just heard a great question on TV... how did the person that invented the clock know what time it was?"

He asked Alexa

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"just heard a great question on TV... how did the person that invented the clock know what time it was?"

He looked at his watch first

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The position of the sun indicated the time of day as first clocks were sundials. So they looked at that most likely

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

He was doing the ymca and when his hands turned to C, his idea was born.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Big yella thing in the sky innit "

To kill a thread in one message

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By *ex HolesMan
over a year ago

Up North

He probably asked his Mrs

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By *TG3Man
over a year ago

Dorchester

"just heard a great question on TV... how did the person that invented the clock know what time it was?"
by the position of the sun

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"He was doing the ymca and when his hands turned to C, his idea was born."

good job he wasn't doing the macarana

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

By leavening a stick in the ground

And noticing the shadow movie

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Big yella thing in the sky innit "

Aliens? Knew it.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"By leavening a stick in the ground

And noticing the shadow movie "

Was that 'Summer Holiday' with Cliff?

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By *rincess peachWoman
over a year ago

shits creek

"Big yella thing in the sky innit

Aliens? Knew it."

Flying teapots. Had one as a kid but mine didn't fly.

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By *TG3Man
over a year ago

Dorchester

He invented it so what he said the time was was the time....... Who could refute it

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Big yella thing in the sky innit

Aliens? Knew it.

Flying teapots. Had one as a kid but mine didn't fly."

so it was just a tea pot then

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By *rincess peachWoman
over a year ago

shits creek

"Big yella thing in the sky innit

Aliens? Knew it.

Flying teapots. Had one as a kid but mine didn't fly.

so it was just a tea pot then"

Big yellow teapot. Was all the rage.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Big yella thing in the sky innit

Aliens? Knew it.

Flying teapots. Had one as a kid but mine didn't fly.

so it was just a tea pot then

Big yellow teapot. Was all the rage."

The one with spinny top and the slide?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"just heard a great question on TV... how did the person that invented the clock know what time it was?"

They didn't, they just made it up and now we all go by it, his/her mate was probably the first sheep before the covid vaccine thing lol

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By *inaTitzTV/TS
over a year ago

Titz Towers, North Notts

The bigger question, though, is when is Hammer Time?

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By *hePerkyPumpkinTV/TS
over a year ago

Bristol

"just heard a great question on TV... how did the person that invented the clock know what time it was?"

Mankind has been observing the sky, the stars, the sun, the moon and the changing of the seasons for thousands of years.

We had means of telling time long before clocks came along.

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By *rincess peachWoman
over a year ago

shits creek

"Big yella thing in the sky innit

Aliens? Knew it.

Flying teapots. Had one as a kid but mine didn't fly.

so it was just a tea pot then

Big yellow teapot. Was all the rage.

The one with spinny top and the slide?"

If you know you know. And you know.

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By *moothCriminal_xMan
over a year ago

Redditch

"just heard a great question on TV... how did the person that invented the clock know what time it was?"

There was a meeting of international representatives of where the 0 line of meridian would be and Greenwich in London was chosen. Before then time was local - sundials. Time in the north would be different to time in tbe south of England too

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"By leavening a stick in the ground

And noticing the shadow movie

Was that 'Summer Holiday' with Cliff?"

Not shour

But know convtcnal time was developed around London trains

Ie gmt

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By *ickshawedCouple
over a year ago

Wolverhampton

He called out "what's the time Mr Wolf?" and set the clock before it became dinner time

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