3 May 2025 - ticky-tocky

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Weird: The smartphones always know what time it is.
Normal: They're synchronized by GPS.
Weird: What happened to the days when opinions were like watches?
Normal: Time of day is a fact, not an opinion.
Weird: Little watches going ticky-tocky and they all run just the same.
Normal: Um...
Weird: Let's go into a cave and watch stalagmites form. We'll know exactly where we are.
Normal: Please go away.
Weird: Oh yeah, we're gonna rumple that stiltskin!

clue:

"'Tis with our judgements as our watches, none
Go just alike, yet each believes his own."
— Alexander Pope (and the analogy is older)

take oh take this clue away

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