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Beverly
03-12-2006, 10:16 PM
I have been wearing a wrist watch for years and years and years. Yes, it's true. I am old :razz:
Anyway, over a week ago, the Timex watch I've been wearing for the last three years stopped working. Don't know if it just needs a new battery, or if it's gone belly up. But I'm so used to wearing a watch that I've been wearing this broken thing every day since it stopped working. And the funny thing is, in all those days, I keep looking at my wrist to see what time it is :lol: :mrgreen: And it's always the same freaking time, which is even funnier, because I sort of expect to be able to tell what time it is whenever I look at this stupid, broken watch!!!!!!! Must be senility setting in :razz:
So, let's make this broken watch make us all laugh. I'm throwing this wide open for any and all to guess at what time my watch stopped. If you guess whether it was AM or PM, I would applaud you even more!
Is there a prize for guessing the right, or nearest to the right, time my watch stopped? Hmmm. Don't know how I could get a reef related prize to someone in, say, Vancouver or Regina. But who cares about prizes, right?
Let the guessing begin :biggrin:
It stopped at 1:15 AM. Am I right?
The prize should be a broken watch. :lol:
Same thing happened to my wife a while back. She went insane untill I went and got her a new super thin swatch. (Same as the dead one.)
Moogled
03-12-2006, 10:22 PM
I write love poetry to G1GY and eat vaseline.
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True story.
I write love poetry to G1GY and eat vaseline.
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True story.
And I love it!!! :lol:
Bob I
03-12-2006, 10:28 PM
I am guessing 7:00 AM.:biggrin:
Beermaster
03-12-2006, 10:37 PM
3:28pm
Johnny Reefer
03-12-2006, 10:38 PM
Timex? Must be the battery then, eh?
Timex! Takes a licking and keeps on ticking!:lol:
Remember the Acapulco cliff divers? Now that's goin' back a ways.
3:43 AM:smile:
Cheers:smile:,
Timex? Must be the battery then, eh?
Timex! Takes a licking and keeps on ticking!:lol:
Remember the Acapulco cliff divers? Now that's goin' back a ways.
I remember those TV adds! :lol:
fishmanty
03-12-2006, 10:40 PM
7:03 am
I have no clue
5:51pm.
If someone gets this bang on....... well, I guess they're lucky.
Quagmire
03-12-2006, 11:34 PM
If its a timex,it must be 10 to 2.Wasn't that what the time was on all those old commercials?
J.Lloy
03-13-2006, 01:09 AM
i'll say 9:42 am or pm i don't know
Beverly
03-13-2006, 01:21 AM
:lol:
I don't know if I should give hints, or say who is closest, or what.
Okay. I've thought about it.
I think folks can have multiple guesses until we get really really close, because I'm going to say that Scott is closest so far, but is still a long way away.
Also, this watch has a second hand. It is very close to the minute hand, if that is of any assistance to all of you great guessers :biggrin: Heck, that's no help at all :razz:
Keep 'em comin' !!!! I hope you're laughing as much as I am. Great posts!
Johnny Reefer
03-13-2006, 01:40 AM
1:00 Pm.
Johnny Reefer
03-13-2006, 01:41 AM
1:01 Pm.
fishmanty
03-13-2006, 01:41 AM
11:59pm
Johnny Reefer
03-13-2006, 01:42 AM
1:02 PM.
Ah nuts. I give up.:smile:
To the winner.... cheers:smile:,
Bob I
03-13-2006, 01:54 AM
8:20PM:question:
Bob I
03-13-2006, 01:55 AM
9:12 PM:question::question::biggrin:
Bob I
03-13-2006, 01:55 AM
10:37 PM:question:
Joe Reefer
03-13-2006, 02:08 AM
4:20
My guess is........... Start at midnight and add one minute 1 440 times untill correct! :)
lil_clownfish13
03-13-2006, 02:32 AM
shouldnt we be doing a waterchange or something???
:D
dreef
03-13-2006, 02:42 AM
I'll say 5:58 .....well :)
EmilyB
03-13-2006, 02:43 AM
I've got to guess 11:11 just because out of the times I look at the clock, 90% of the time that is the time. Then I'm feeling guilty thinking I should get out of bed before noon......:lol: :mrgreen:
robzilla
03-13-2006, 02:47 AM
11.26
Bob I
03-13-2006, 02:56 AM
I've got to guess 11:11 just because out of the times I look at the clock, 90% of the time that is the time. Then I'm feeling guilty thinking I should get out of bed before noon......:lol: :mrgreen:
That is horrible. I thought that happened only to me.:razz:
Beverly
03-13-2006, 03:03 AM
boB,
You're the closest so far, but I can't tell you which post is the close one :wink:
lil_clownfish13
03-13-2006, 03:10 AM
6:38
Bob I
03-13-2006, 03:26 AM
boB,
You're the closest so far, but I can't tell you which post is the close one :wink:
Okay let's try 8:45 PM, and assume that is the one.:mrgreen::mrgreen::mrgreen:
Richard_Dicosimo
03-13-2006, 05:16 AM
1:23pm
Funky_Fish14
03-13-2006, 05:50 AM
Lol I was going to say 8:45, but... now, I'll guess 8:53:26PM.
Should we be guessing down to the second? Haha.
Chris
fortheloveofcrabs
03-13-2006, 06:36 AM
I think Funky is on the right track. Here's what we know...
It's NOT:
1:15 AM
7:00 AM
3:43 PM
7:03 AM
3:48 PM
5:51 PM (Scott)
1:00 PM
1:01 PM
11:59 PM
1:02 PM
8:20 PM
9:12 PM
10:37 PM
10:38 PM
And it's not:
4:20
5:50
9:42
11:11
11:26
1:50
AM or PM for those is out.
Now, Bev said that Scott was *close* in the first few pages, so, it will be *close* to 5:51 PM... Then later she said that Bob was actually close with his posts:
8:20 PM
9:12 PM
10:37 PM
Now, here's an interesting thing about this whole kit and kaboodle... Her watch STOPPED at a specific time and it has a second hand, hence it is an analog watch, not digital, and Timex (to my knowledge) does not make a 24 hr analog watch, AM and PM are indistinguishable... So that narrows down our guessing range from 24 hours to 12.
So......
We know her watch stopped between 5:51 *PM* and 11:59 *PM*. We can take it one step more right now because we know that Bev did NOT say that G1GI was close with 10:38, so Bob was closer with 10:37, so it is now between 5:51 and 10:37.
Finally, Bev said that Scott was sorta close with 5:51, but not really, but Bob was closer with his 3 posts. His posts span about 2 hours, and since OCDP is about 2 hrs away from Bob's, we can omit his all together... So now we are between 8:20 and 10:37... Infact because Bev DIDN'T say that G1GI was close witha guess of 10:38, I would chop off 10:37 and it's around 8:20 - 9:12...
J.L guessed 9:42 (no AM or PM) and Bev didn't say he was close so I would say it is with in twenty minutes of 8:20...
Just a guess, but am I right?
Sorry so long winded, but when I see numbers, I just can't help myself...
-Pauli
Beverly
03-13-2006, 01:35 PM
boB is still closest, but has gone a bit later than the actual time, and he has the PM correct :biggrin:
Reefhawk1
03-13-2006, 03:26 PM
7:55 :mrgreen:
Bob I
03-13-2006, 03:56 PM
What a lovely way to pad posts, and waste bandwidth. I am now thinking 8:33 PM.:biggrin:
Murminator
03-13-2006, 04:32 PM
8:08:08 :biggrin:
Murminator
03-13-2006, 04:32 PM
8:11:11 :mrgreen:
Bob I
03-13-2006, 05:50 PM
I hate to tell Beverley how to run her contest, however, IMHO there should be a cutoff time when the winner is declared. If that is not done the process of elimination will eventually produce a winner. But that is only an opinion.:razz::biggrin:
Joe Reefer
03-13-2006, 06:00 PM
Bob dont you think you have enough posts already?
Murminator
03-13-2006, 07:02 PM
1:23:45 :mrgreen:
Beverly
03-13-2006, 08:38 PM
7:55 :mrgreen:
Correct time :smilecol:
For bonus points, AM or PM?
vanreefer
03-14-2006, 05:08 AM
you said earlier that it was PM.... so I'll guess AM... uh PM
Beverly
03-14-2006, 02:09 PM
7:55 Pm
:BIG: You win the GRAND PRIZE of, umm, gee, I dunno.
But you win it all the same :biggrin:
7:55
Stan wins A VERY CLOSE SECOND PRIZE of, dang, I dunno that either.
CONGRATULATIONS TO YOU BOTH !!!!!
:BIG: You win the GRAND PRIZE of, umm, gee, I dunno.
But you win it all the same :biggrin:
A coffee and a look at your tanks would be a good prize if we ever make it up into your neck of the woods. :)
Beverly
03-16-2006, 01:22 PM
A coffee and a look at your tanks would be a good prize if we ever make it up into your neck of the woods. :)
Excellent! You're a good prize thinker upper :biggrin:
Come in the summer when I would imagine we'd have a few more lfs for you to look through.
Dang I didn't get to guess..
Beverly
03-17-2006, 01:05 PM
Ah, Ryan, you can come over to see my tanks anyway :biggrin:
Beverly
03-20-2006, 09:13 PM
Well, yesterday we walked over to London Drugs to replace the watch's battery. Battery information was so small, the clerk had to get her magnifying glass out to verify number. Get the right battery, put it in the watch, set my watch to (no I'm not going to have you guess what time) 4:10.
Or so I thought .....
Woke up this morning, did various household tasks, then looked at my watch to see how much time I had to get to my appointment at 11:00. Gads!!!!!! It said 10:20, and I hadn't even bathed yet :eek:
Wait a minute (no pun intended :wink: ), I thought, that much time couldn't have gone by so quickly. Sure enough, when I compared watch time to computer time, I had set the watch an hour ahead :rolleyes:
ROTFLMAO!!!
your a few weeks early on the DST Bev. :wink:
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