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What else would you have it say?
Because of the ticocrisy?
Why not??
Socrates: And what is “tic”, and what is “toc”?
Clock: “Tic” is doing as I am doing, that is to say, pursuing and marking time or any similar continuum, and not pursuing or marking it is “toc”.
Soc.: May this not be the reason, clock, that I am charged with “toc”? Come then, and let us examine what we are saying. If one twin remains on earth, while the other twin departs on a voyage at near light-speed and then returns, the twin that remains will have aged at a greater rate than the travelling twin, so that upon their reunion, the former may have become an old man and the latter will still be in his youth. How can “tic” and “toc” explain this?
Clock:
Clock: Gotta go.
HCT
Well, if you took your Clonidine like you were supposed to, you wouldn’t have that problem.
Because toc was drunk?
To get to the other side.
Aw crap! This is art again isn’t it? Goddamnit!
TICKIST!!!
Hey Professor Stuffybritches,
When you get done talking about trees in the woods, why don’t you get your ass back here and help me freshen the breath of the 6 million baby-boomers we were working on before you up and left me for that Toc bitch.
Your soon to be ex-partner,
Tac
One of my favorite dialogues is Plato’s “Cockulus,” the basis for Mirandola’s groundbreaking “On the Ignominy of Trolls.”
An unexamined tic is not worth tocking about.
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[Is it just me, or is Sam on Day-by-Day really hot today? . . . for a cartoon of course]
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[Socrates . . . dead greek guy isn’t he?]
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Parkinson’s disease?
Or Lyme disease…
Bloodsucking tic.
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[Von’t toc, eh? Igor, hand me zos pliers!]
toc toc toc toc toc toc toc toc toc…
Well, I was thinking of a grandfather clock.
HOWEVER, a couple other entries lead to:
I don’ wanna toc about it.
Somewhere, Captain Hook is having another nervous breakdown.
Has the clock not gone ‘tic’ in the past?
Yes.
Has the clock ever not gone ‘tic’?
No.
Then can we not surmize that in the future, we can expect that the clock will go ‘tic’?
That seems logical.
Then it would be accurate to say that the nature of the clock is to go ‘tic’.
You’re amazing Socrates!
– If you spent your entire existance sitting in one place, and making the same noise ad nausia, you’d develop a tic too.
TW: Grand Father’s tic sets a good pace, but his bitches whiny toc is winning the race.
Heidegger expands the Socra(tic) ruminations on this in “Zein und Zeit” under the concept of
Daseingespitzenlebenauspesuchensaurkrautlichkeit.
I mean “Sein und Zeit” cause Zein would just be silly.
Heeeere’s your zein.
“Tick” is the sound made by any number of different mechanical interruption mechanisms when they engage. Often, such mechanisms use two brakes in sequence, and if the clock is big enough, the difference in location in the body will result in two slightly different sounds, thus “tick – tock.”
My ex-wife hated it when I did that. Which I explains the “ex” part.
Phone Tech—so, getting back to the original question: what time is it?
Any time whatsoever, as long as everyone agrees on a standard.
For example, my computer resets its clock to an atomic clock, my phone resets its clock to my computer, and my watch is set by radio, and it is so cool to see the same alarm go off on all three at exactly the same moment.
The guy with two watches never knows what time it is? IN YOUR FACE, pre-electronic-synchronizing troglodytes!! By which I mean me, prior to the year 2000 or no. No flying cars, alas, but MY CLOCKS ARE SYNCHRONIZED!