Every Monday morning for years, at about 11:30 am, the telephone operator in a small Sierra-Nevada town received a call from a man asking the exact time. One day the operator summed-up the nerve to ask him why the regularity. “I’m foreman of the local sawmill,” he explained.
“Every day, I have to blow the whistle at noon, so I call you to get the exact time.”
The operator giggled, “That’s really funny,” she said. “All this time, we’ve been setting our clock by your whistle.”
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A man has to drive for a few days to get to his new house. After a long and tiring drive throughout the night, the driver decides to pull over on the side of the road to take a nap.
A man knocks on the car’s window and this wakes the driver from his sleep. The man asks the driver what time it is. The driver looks at his watch and replies, “It’s 8 AM” and goes back to sleep.
After a while, another man knocks on the car’s window and wakes the driver from his sleep. This man also asks the driver what time it is. The driver replies “It’s 8:05 AM” and goes back to sleep.
Sure enough, after a while, again, another man knocks on the car’s window and asks the same question. The driver, now annoyed, replies, “It’s 8:07 AM”. He picks up a piece of paper and writes in bold letters “I don’t know what time it is!”, sticks it on the car’s window and goes back to sleep.
The driver is again woken from his sleep by a knock on his window. The man knocking on the window says, “It’s 8:10 AM, you’re welcome!”
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Jake is struggling through a bus station
with two huge and heavy suitcases when a stranger walks up to him and asks, “Have you got the time?”
Jake sighs, puts down the suitcases and glances at his wrist. “It’s quarter to six,” he says.
“Hey, that’s a pretty fancy watch!” exclaims the stranger. Jake brightens a little. “Yeah, it’s not bad.
Check this out!”
He shows him a time-zone display for every time zone in the world. He hits a few buttons and from somewhere on the watch a voice says, “The time is eleven past six.”
Jake continues, “I’ve put in regional accents for each city. The display is of unbelievably high quality and the voice is simply astounding.”
The stranger is struck dumb with admiration.
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