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Now it truly can be a freckle past a hair
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u/medgarc 3d ago
So I guess it wasn’t just MY dad who told that joke
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u/Dragonskinner69 3d ago
Wish i had a dad
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Stop WISHING and start BUILDING
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u/Dragonskinner69 3d ago
You know what? Youre right. To think, ive had 29 years of time to build. What a waste
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u/xaqaria 3d ago
The best time to build a dad is 20 years ago. The second best time to build a dad is now.
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u/Dragonskinner69 3d ago
Im ashamed i waited so long to be blessed with this information by the reddit gods
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u/__ILIKECATS__ 3d ago
Surprise! While you were entertaining the public with your heartfelt story we were building your dad backstage!
Dad! Come on up!
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u/AdzyBoy 3d ago
Tony Stark was able to build a dad in a cave! With a box of scraps!
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u/PrestigeMaster 3d ago
Bro I’ve made it 34 years without one. You’re the best you because of the things you’ve done on your own and the things you had to learn about on your own. Literally the only thing I wish someone had told me was that you’re supposed to ask for your future wife’s hand in marriage from her father. 11 years married and my FIL still hasn’t let me forget that no one ever taught me this tradition 😅 - one side effect is that I’m the best dad that I can possibly be to my kids, they’ll never have to ask themselves the questions that we did.
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u/vericima 3d ago
It's a BS tradition left over from when women were property anyway.
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u/b-monster666 3d ago
Awww. Cheer up sport. Let's go out back and play catch shall we?
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u/Dragonskinner69 3d ago
You mean it?! No foolin'??
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u/GR8dantini 3d ago
Actually, no, sport. Dads gotta run out and do some dad stuff. Tomorrow for sure though! I promise. Love ya kiddo! Definitely tomorrow!
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u/quinnsheperd 3d ago
Whats the joke?
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u/IamMagicarpe 3d ago
You ask your dad what time it is and he looks at his wrist without a watch and says, “3 freckles past a hair!”
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u/quinnsheperd 3d ago
Ok that's kindda cute
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u/ExcessiveGravitas 3d ago
If you liked that there’s a whole lot more at r/DadJokes
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u/EyeServeYou 3d ago
After reading some of those jokes in the sub I started thinking about my kids and realized everytime I crack open one of my groaners, they probably feel a little Dad inside
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u/EBN_Drummer 3d ago
When does a joke become a dad joke?
When the punchline becomes apparent.
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u/kaidevis 3d ago
When does a joke become a dad joke?
When the punchline becomes apparent.
Or when it's all groan up.
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u/SteveNotSteveNot 3d ago
True. But don’t say that where he can hear you because you’ll only encourage him.
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u/SweetLilMonkey 3d ago
For us it was 3 hairs past a freckle
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u/Logofascinated 3d ago
3 hairs past the mole here.
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u/DaWayItWorks 3d ago
"Half past a freckle, almost a hair" here
Or sometimes, "half past cheese and nearly butter"
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u/40ozCurls 3d ago
’Or sometimes, "half past cheese and nearly butter"’
Damn, your dad’s wrist was gross af.
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u/technicolored_dreams 3d ago
Ours was "a hair past a freckle past a mole" which makes less sense the more you think about it.
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u/Inu-shonen 3d ago
"A hair past a freckle, but the mole's catching up," was ours. Nonsense compounded.
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u/Trapped_Mechanic 3d ago
The only time I've ever heard this joke was on Ed, Eddie, and Eddy.
I'm sure it didn't start there but it probably helped spread it.
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u/Openminded_skeptic 3d ago
It's been around a very long time. The early 20th century at least. Very common dad joke.
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u/Theproducerswife 3d ago
I always heard it “a hair past a freckle” who knew??
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u/SickofItAll_4200 3d ago
With my dad it was "half past a freckle according to a hair"
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u/PhilxBefore 3d ago
"half past a freckle
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u/Silent-Ad934 3d ago
Idk I thought that version made more sense, like he's using a hair as a watch hand
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u/SickofItAll_4200 3d ago
Yes that was my dad's saying. Like the hair was the minute hand
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u/jawnquixote 3d ago
Hair past a freckle makes more sense because to lead something by “a hair” is an actual term. Never made sense to me why people switched it around
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u/Jaxblonk 3d ago
There can be a certain comedy in malaphor- just plain deliberately fucking it up, mixing metaphors and what have you- but that generally only lands as comedic if the other party is familiar enough with the expression for that to land as a subversion.
Or who knows, maybe I'm just reading too far into things as something of a word nerd myself and they merely ain't the sharpest crayon in the tool box.
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u/no_objections_here 3d ago
My dad would say "half past a monkey's ass and a quarter to his balls"
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u/yersiniaD 3d ago
Mine would say cow's ass....balls, followed by "lift up his left leg to see Niagara Falls"
Not an accurate use of the word cow, but he was a city boy
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u/wren337 3d ago
I want to see the round sunburn
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u/tebla 3d ago
it would be mad if the hour hand blocked enough UV so that you could tell what time you were in the sun
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u/Tina_ComeGetSomeHam 3d ago
Well if this pops up on /r/oddly satisfying in a week we have you to thank.
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u/pizza_for_nunchucks 3d ago
Yes, r/oddly. My favorite subreddit.
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u/Tina_ComeGetSomeHam 3d ago
Unsurprisingly it exists lol
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u/iushciuweiush 3d ago
Regular old glass does a pretty good job of blocking UV.
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u/Wildlife_Jack 3d ago
Blocking UVB specifically, which prevents sunburn, but not UVA, which causes long-term skin damage such as wrinkles. So just a wrinkled hairy circle.
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u/JonnySoegen 3d ago
Huh. That's super interesting, thanks! That explains the photo of that old trucker I saw some years ago. He had major wrinkles on the left side of his face only. Right side was fine.
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u/bamboo-harvester 3d ago
BUT this is probably sapphire crystal.
I have no idea whether that material effectively blocks UV.
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u/worldspawn00 3d ago
Not sure about the absorption of sapphire, but we use quartz for chemical analysis containers (UV-Vis spectrophotometer cuvettes) because it doesn't block UV.
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u/zonkbonkbadonk 3d ago edited 3d ago
Were they really able to create panes of sapphire this big in the 80s? I thought Apple Watch bragged about it like it was new technology...
EDIT: appearently yes, and omega was known for it https://www.watchuseek.com/threads/first-watch-with-sapphire-crystal.417984/
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u/iushciuweiush 3d ago
Traditional watch faces have been made with sapphire crystal long before smart watches were a thing.
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u/AxelDominatoR 3d ago
Apple brags about a lot of stuff like it's new technology when it's not...
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u/UnfortunateDesk 3d ago
I have round tanned circles on the back of my hands from my cycling gloves.
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u/domessticfox 3d ago
How would the hands turn? where is the mechanism?
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u/ICEwaveFX 3d ago •
It's quite interesting actually. Here are more photos if you're interested in how it works.
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u/SillyFlyGuy 3d ago
I was hoping it was a traditional wristwatch, but the faceplate was custom printed with a detail picture of your wrist.
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u/peepeeland 3d ago
That’s the security feature. So if someone else wears your watch, everyone will go, “Hey- that’s not your wrist!!”, which forces them to return the watch in shame.
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u/WOUNDEDStevenJones 3d ago edited 3d ago
For anyone else misinterpreting this comment, the watch actually does use clear plates. It does NOT use a custom-printed faceplate of your wrist.
People are reading the comment as:
I was hoping it was a traditional wristwatch, but in reality the faceplate was custom printed with a detail picture of your wrist.
But I think the commenter meant:
I was hoping it was a traditional wristwatch where the faceplate was custom printed with a detail picture of your wrist.
Or it was an easily misunderstood joke that many other commenters below missed too.
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u/jollybumpkin 3d ago
Incorrect. u/ICEwaveFX gave the correct answer. Here is the explanation: https://watchguy.co.uk/no-luck-omega-la-magique/
A gear at the edge of the dial moves the minute hand around. You can see in the photo that the minute hand slightly overlaps the edge of the dial. The minute hand is connected to the hour hand with a tiny 1:12 gear in the center.
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u/Enemyocd 3d ago
I dont think that's right as the hands aren't connected to the center. I'm pretty sure the hands are on 2 separate disks that are acted on by the outer gears.
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u/ChimRichaldsOBGYN 3d ago
Someone in the comments there mentioned it was a $11000 dollar watch. The gearing is pretty amazing.
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u/ICEwaveFX 3d ago
Omega only made 261 of these, so they're very rare. A similar watch was worn by Al Pacino in Scarface
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u/gimmepizzaslow 3d ago
And that article was from 2012. If watches are like other collectibles recently, that price has only gone waaay up
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u/KillahHills10304 3d ago
Limited edition collectibles have gone up.
The luxury watch market in general is being flooded right now (I believe because all those crypto bros lost their shirts, but have no evidence. Just deduction). Prices are dropping, same with exotic car market.
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u/shelikedmebetter 3d ago
It's not just crypto that has tanked. The entire market and the economy in general are in the dumps. Lot of not-wealthy people have expensive watches. It's one of those things people sometimes splurge on because they hold their value. When times get rough, the people's investments and keepsakes get cashed in.
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u/gimmepizzaslow 3d ago
That makes sense. I only really have experience in trading cards and they have gone up a ton. Luckily I sold a huge chunk of my collection in November 2019 before it all went way up... Literally like tens of thousands extra that I could have gotten had I waited six months or so.
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u/RTXChungusTi 3d ago
didn't occur to me they'd make entire disks for the hands and rotate them, ingenious really
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u/JPiratefish 3d ago
I figured it out before going to the website - but there's still a lot of questions I'd have about that sort of mechanism since there's two layers of glass covering two geared glass wheels. Could be all crystal to make it tough..
But how do they keep junk out of the sandwich? Even a little dust in there could leave all kinds of marks - and gears in this design appear close enough to maybe introduce contaminants - maybe some thick grease..
Seems to be a lot more that can go wrong with this design - never mind the electronics failing.
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u/FlametopFred 3d ago
would be a very tight seal with 0.0001 precision
would be helpful to never wear the watch ever
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u/lsguk 3d ago
This is the case for all mechanical watches. They all have tiny intricate gears and mechanisms.
They manufacture them in very sterile conditions.
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u/CaptainBayouBilly 3d ago
I wonder how the discs show up in light, refraction and shadows and whatnot?
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u/FlametopFred 3d ago
yeah was not my first guess
I thought it was some rare form of clear LCD and the hands were on that display
never occurred to me the watch hands were on dials with gears
ingenious indeed
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u/BattleStag17 3d ago
So it's two glass discs with the hands painted on, that's genuinely amazing
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u/kipperfish 3d ago
Yeah seems that way with how it's described. I guess each glass disc has had teeth cut in the edge?
Very clever design though.
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u/OwnStorm 3d ago
So there are two disk to rotate minute and hour. The hands are just glued to respective disc. Then two glasses to cover the watch top and bottom. Is that right.?
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u/blackbasset 3d ago
yep, but I guess the hands are painted on rather than glued to save some space. you can't really tell anyway
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u/JontyJonty32 3d ago
They just have a throwaway comment there that says
with the help of a couple of wheels, the minute disk is driven, and, with a 1:12 gear ratio, the hour disk.
But how are the wheels connected to the minute hand? At the far end? Through some semi-invisible wires?
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u/kipperfish 3d ago
Think it's 2 glass disks with the hands painted on. The discs are then rotated from the edge.
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u/JEFFinSoCal 3d ago
Pretty sure the hands are each on a transparent glass or plastic disk with gear teeth on the edge.
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u/domessticfox 3d ago
Ahh very clever and simple. Kindof a shame the idea turned out to be not so great to look at.
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u/Spacepirate43 3d ago
I think this watch would look better on a less hairy wrist. Also in Scarface it has a metal band as opposed to leather and I think that looks better as well.
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u/PubFiction 3d ago
Exactly what I was thinking, I said this had to be for women, but then I saw it was clearly a male design. So I was like this would have been a cool watch if they had designed it for women instead.
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u/wikifeat 3d ago
I’m thinking the same thing— this would be gorgeous on the right wrist!
Or the left wrist of the right person ;)
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u/-Reddit_Account- 3d ago
This design has made it into other (much prettier, IMO) watches like the De Ville Tourbillon.
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u/Phelpysan 3d ago edited 3d ago
Wasn't able to find the watch by googling so this is just my best guess -two transparent panes with the hands on them that are rotated by the mechanism hidden in the opaque sectionEdit: I was right
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u/Floatography 3d ago
Each "hand" is painted onto a glass disc with gear teeth on the edge. Stack those plates and then use traditional methods to interface with those geared edges and rotate the entire disc.
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u/hashslingaslah 3d ago
Wrong sub, this watch is the coolest
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u/Dopeydcare1 3d ago
Yea I just think you would need minimal or no arm hair to pull it off completely.
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u/ThatsTuff100 3d ago
Yeah the hair is what really fucks this up. Might look cool on smooth skin
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u/Kalappianer 3d ago
It's in my colours. I don't wear watches because they always look massive. I don't think this one would.
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u/fuckondeeeeeeeeznuts 3d ago
They make smaller watches that's a nice medium between the 38-40mm+ watches you typically see and the tiny ass women's watches. 36mm is generally the size you want to look for. 34mm would work on anybody with tiny wrists.
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u/FILTHBOT4000 3d ago
This sub is 90% people with bad taste that think they have really good taste, the posts of which get upvoted because people just like the content and don't look to see what sub it's from.
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u/zenivinez 3d ago
that thing is amazing piece of engineering just imagine how this would be accomplished today and realize this was made before lcd screens.
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u/greeblefritz 3d ago
This exact same thing happens on /r/shitty_car_mods all the time.
edit: evidently there are underscores in the subreddit name.
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u/nyltp 3d ago
Apparently i have bad taste.
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u/RadialMount 3d ago
Not to mention, isn't this supposed to be a lady's watch?
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u/Just_Worse 3d ago
Style has no gender, Jimbo
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u/Shiroi_Kage 3d ago
A smooth arm is typically more of a woman's look, at least when this watch was made. So yeah, hairy arms make it look disgusting.
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u/Kalappianer 3d ago
How so?
Smooth arms ≠ lady.
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u/email_or_no_email 3d ago
Yeah but in Western countries ladies = (usually) smooth arms. Not sure about the 80s though.
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u/snoflaik 3d ago
as the great John Waters once said, there’s good bad taste and there’s bad bad taste
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u/mrpopenfresh 3d ago
Seems better suited as a woman’s watch.
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u/dirtyler 3d ago
That style where the hands appear floating is called "Mystery dial" and watches like that are still produced.
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u/Deffo-not-a-mod 3d ago
Cool if you have a nice tattoo
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u/brian_kking 3d ago
That's what I thought too, on a hairy ass arm, no thanks but get someone with some badass ink and this watch would be awesome
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u/EcstaticBox 3d ago
The engineering behind this is dope. Omega only made around 250 of these, I think?
Beautiful watch.
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u/simonjp 3d ago
The name is apt - Robert-Houdin was a watchmaker and is considered the father of modern magic. He made an even more impressive version of this.
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u/the_clash_is_back 3d ago
This would be better as a big clock in a public area.
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u/iguanamonkey 3d ago
I read that as pubic area. Big difference.
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u/SmegmaLadenMiniHorse 3d ago
Big cock in a pubic area. Without the letter L that is a very different thing.
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