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The Clockwork Orange Clock consists of a large
stylised orange, exquisitley hand-carved from
tropical hardwood painted with orange lacquer
and actually about 200mm in diameter. It stands
on a polished ebony plinth, the major axis of the
Orange (represented by the bits at each end) is
tilted
to match the Earth's axial inclination.
Rising from the plinth is a silver pointer in the form
of a chased and engraved flick-knife; the pointer
can be removed from its holder for use as a letter
opener. The tip of the blade indicates a point on
the equator of the "orange", around which are
marked twenty-four divisions. The disc on which
the divisions are marked turns once a day; the disc
above it, once an hour, giving minutes indication
(there is no second hand).
[LATER] It is also possible that the complete upper
and lower hemispheres could contrarotate or
corotate, one bearing the hours digits, the other the
minutes. An equatorial disc could then indicate
seconds but would be optional.
The setting controls for the alarm/chime are
comcealed under the base.
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The clock is wound by insering a brass key into the
hole concealed uner the "north pole".
A chiming mechanism can be set to play brief
selections from the works of Ludvig van Beethoven,
either as an hourly indication; the alarm sound (to
tell you that it's time for you to put on your bowler
hat and go out to meet your Droogs at the Moloko
Bar for some Milk Plus and maybe a bit of the old
Ultra Violence) is of course "Singing In The Rain" .
(?) Terry's chocolate orange
http://www.candystand.com/terrys/
My favourite chocolate. Man I love this stuff. [madradish, Oct 05 2004, last modified Oct 21 2004]
The Clockwork Orange
http://www.clyde-va...gow/under.htm?12345
You cannot set your watch by this. [my face your, Oct 05 2004, last modified Oct 21 2004]
Homebrew Clock: A Clockwork Orange
http://www.amug.org...omas/clockwork.html
From IEEE magazine. [oldvan, Oct 05 2004, last modified Oct 17 2004]
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Tasty. Clockwork orange always makes me think of chocolate orange. I'd like the clock. Nice work 8th...the collective is proud. |
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"Bliss, bliss and heaven... it was gorgeousness and gorgeosity made flesh...Oh, it was wonder of wonders... And then, a bird of like rarest spun heavenmetal, or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now... " |
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Zircon: at twelve o'clock the clock could fall open revealing its chocolaty goodness within. The association of time-pieces and cocoa is sadly lacking for eleven months of the year, outside the December-only chocolate advent calendar. |
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wish I had the vision of FJ or 8th to do a chocolate orange clock, I can imagine each segment falling open to reveal the hour. not sure how the minutes would work but there would be lots of melting and chocolate and orange goo. come to think of it a toblerone clock would be nice too, and an aero bubbly one. and... |
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apologies [kro] I didn't read yours, so sorry. |
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Another bl***y clock, mutter, mutter, mutter... |
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// I would prefer a clock to some annoying
little prick telling us we're all geeks and
losers. How about you? // |
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That would probably be a "Dr Curry" clock,
we presume ? |
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[CrumbsDM] - yes, nice idea. Maybe the clock
could play a tinny musical-box version of
"Singing in the rain" while Alex puts the boot
in to a bell in the shape of a middle-aged
author. |
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<Wail of despair> Chocolate Orange !
Chocolate Orange ! Ooops, there goes our
diet ..... |
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We never thought of it as a chocolate version,
that would be the Chocolate Clockwork
Orange Clock of course. Over to you, [FJ]. |
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[Madradish], do you know that Terrys now do a White Chocolate "snowball" orange ? |
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"Quick nurse, the screens !" |
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// ...has a "Droog" come out with a cane and give the bell "Lashings of Ultraviolence" // |
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Or chase it around with a giant penis. |
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[8th] yeah and if some one carved a non working model of the same out of sandstone it would be a chocolate clockwork orange mock clock in rock |
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[8th of 7] Yes...uh...we...umm...["we'll do the best we can"]...yeah, we'll do the best we can. |
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Fine, fine ..... just one request - no lightning rods, OK ? |
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What can I say – I like clocks. + |
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<overused cliche> Is the color orange named after oranges, or are the oranges named after the color orange because they're orange? </overused cliche> |
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"The history of the word orange keeps step with this journey only part of the way. The word is possibly ultimately from Dravidian, a family of languages spoken in southern India and northern Sri Lanka. The Dravidian word or words were adopted into the Indo-European language Sanskrit with the form nraga. As the fruit passed westward, so did the word, as evidenced by Persian nrang and Arabic nranj. Arabs brought the first oranges to Spain, and the fruit rapidly spread throughout Europe. The important word for the development of our term is Old Italian melarancio, derived from mela, “fruit,” and arancio, “orange tree,” from Arabic nranj. Old Italian melarancio was translated into Old French as pume orenge, the o replacing the a because of the influence of the name of the town of Orange, from which oranges reached the northern part of France. The final stage of the odyssey of the word was its borrowing into English from the Old French form orenge." Orange as color comes from the color of oranges. |
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Yes it is, all the bananas have died out. |
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so what did they call the colour orange before they got oranges? |
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is there a new colour out there that we are all blind too because the fruit has not arrived yet? :) nice one fj |
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If an orange falls in the woods..... |
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there's a hole in the rainbow zone |
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Up here, they call that color literally "fire-yellow". |
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Silly little po - keep up with the plot there. Meow. |
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That actually may make some sense [FJ]. Historically there were colors associated with natural forces. – The five elements: azure=wood, red=fire, yellow=earth, white=metal, and black=water. Fire was typically the sun (red) and anything that grew was typically earth (yellow). sun+earth=orange. When it gets hot (seasonally) you get fire-yellow (oranges). Of course that assumes that the etymology can be linked to a place where there were oranges. Just a HB thought. |
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I just went to post my own clockwork orange idea and figured that I had better search first. Yours kicks the snot outta the one I had in mind. (+) |
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That doesn't sound quite right to me, [Shz]. The first things you notice about colour words in ancient texts are that (a) there aren't very many of them and (b) they don't map one-to-one to modern colour words. |
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The enumeration of natural forces (in Europe, at least) was, I think, mostly done by philosophers, rather than the general public and, significantly, was done differently by different philosophers, so that there was no one universal system. |
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The colour/element mappings you give look to me as though they might have been made up by Renaissance occultists with nothing better to do (Elizabethan half-bakers, perhaps?), and not part of mainstream culture. |
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Of course, maybe this is a non-European system from a non-European culture, but I doubt this, because of the use of the word 'azure', rather than 'blue'. If you were going to translate from, say, a Japanese tradition, why wouldn't you say 'blue'? |
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By all means post some links to prove me wrong; this could be interesting. |
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