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Anti-Clock
A novelty item for those of us who like to confuse our friends | |
The Anti-Clock would be a simple wall clock, but with the numbers reversed. This is to say that the numbers would grow larger in an anti-clockwise direction instead of a clockwise direction.
This would be a great novelty item at parties- at least for those of us like myself who love eclectic decorations.
I can just imagine guests staring at the clock and thinking "There's something wrong with that thing, but I can't tell just *what* it is".
WARNING- Not for use by the habitually inattentive, ignorant, or absent-minded.
(?) Backward Clock
http://www.mcphee.c...ts/top12/10570.html
Baked. $12.95 from Archie McPhee. [bookworm, Aug 31 2000, last modified Oct 17 2004]
(?) Gizmo and Widget Good Gifts
http://www.gizmoand...t_Good_Gifts_1.html
A slightly more elegant backward-running clock for £10.99. [bookworm, Aug 31 2000, last modified Oct 17 2004]
(?) Mirror image clock
http://www.jutenhoo...tore/product78.html
Mirror image clock [mwburden, Aug 31 2000, last modified Oct 17 2004]
Antique Lock
http://www.antique-locks.com/
Oh well - never mind.. [energy guy, Jan 05 2005]
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I have seen these clocks in barber shops...where you are mostly looking in the mirror..you can easily see a clock hanging on the wall behind you. |
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Thanks for the links, bookworm. I like the Gizmo and Widget one better, and I just placed an order for one. |
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Just to let Bigthor know, she sells sanctuary was done by The Cult, didn't know how to mail you direct.... |
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They have one of these in the pub I drink in. When inebriated, its damn near impossible to work out how long you have to get drunker in. |
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PeterSealy: No mirrors in the pub, none in the toilet either. Presumably they've all been stolen by people trying to work out what the time is |
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Good sounds. Up people f**k let's. |
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I have a better idea: combine this (baked) backwards/mirror image clock with another (baked) novelty clock I once saw: it had the numbers in random positions. |
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Now it gets REALLY hard to tell the time, numbers in random positions with hands moving the wrong direction! |
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The true anti-clock would, of course, just face the wall. |
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The author is from Great Britain or Australia, perhaps? They say "anticlockwise" when Americans would say "counterclockwise". |
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Wouldn't an anti-clock do the opposite of what a regular clock does? Thus instead of dividing a day into seconds minutes and hours it would multiply seconds, minutes, and hours, by days. |
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[krelnik] - at least they don't say "widdershins." |
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Dude, this is totally baked, my social studies teacher in high school had a clock with the numbers reversed and a picture of bullwinkle in the center saying "I'm so confused" or something. |
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My Girlfriend has one of these on her wall, and it has caused me to unlearn how to tell the time on a conventional clock.
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Baked. Actually, I am staring at one right now. It's sort of like reading manga for the first time-weird at first, but you get used to it. |
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Wow, I just annotated a [BigThor] idea! Hope you return. You are truly the Halfbakery's King Arthur! |
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