A lot of blackouts during that war to help prevent enemy bombers to know where precisely to drop their loads, like a firestrike toileting session. Tracy’s looking good ! :-)
Ah, I apologize for saying the clock face was too large. I was assuming it had a clock-face on all four sides. Off the top of my head I can’t recall the largest singular clock-face.
(Wikipedia’s list of largest clock faces include a lot of things that aren’t on towers – freestanding or horizontal rather than vertical, but the 1933 Duquesne Brewery clock is interesting for being wider than the tower it’s on and is still the largest single-sided clock tower in the US.)
1- INSPECTOR: We’ll probably still go ahead and blow up the clock tower even though our demolition expert was murdered under the watchful gaze of that Transit Cop. Kids today can’t read an analog clock anyway. Say – did you know that…
2- : …that the clockface is coated in uranium to make it glow at night? That’s why it hasn’t worked for years…
3- : …The last 3 repairmen that tried to fix it died from radiation poisoning within hours of being up there to look it over. DT: But you were going to blow it up??? INSPECTOR: We were going to have Sprengstoff use enough explosive to spread it all over town. That way there wouldn’t be dangerous concentrations anywhere. It would a been years before the impact on kid’s health would’ve been noticed. And prevailing winds would’ve kept it from the important folks’ neighborhoods. DT: Like Tracyville Gardens where I live?
INSPECTOR: Yeah. Would’ve. But now we’ll have to take it down by hand and we’ve got permission to bury it in the gardens that give that area its name! Should make for some interesting plant life. Or none – ever again… DT: Excuse me. I gotta call a realtor…
avenger09 about 1 month ago
This story is slower than a weekend at Firestrike’s place!
avenger09 about 1 month ago
Speedy Gonzalez couldn’t help this story move faster!
avenger09 about 1 month ago
Forget “Back to the Future”, this story is “Back to Sleep!”
SHAKEDOWNCITY about 1 month ago
A clock that “stops” a face.
WelshRat Premium Member about 1 month ago
The ‘big war’. I feel I’m missing something here…
Brian Premium Member about 1 month ago
Tracy’s not buying this obvious lie! “Durn it, that clock should work!! I remember it!”
BreathlessMahoney77 about 1 month ago
Too bad the tower clock isn’t an alarm clock. This story needs something to wake everybody up.
Gweedo -it's legal here- Murray about 1 month ago
firestrike1 under rated my product 42 minutes ago
@Gweedo it’s legal here Murray
along with macular degeneration to go with it…
I’ll have you know, “sir”, that my elixir causes macronukuler regeneration !
Gweedo -it's legal here- Murray about 1 month ago
Good morning™, Dead Time Pieces !
A lot of blackouts during that war to help prevent enemy bombers to know where precisely to drop their loads, like a firestrike toileting session. Tracy’s looking good ! :-)
Neil Wick about 1 month ago
Good morning™, all!
If the clock hasn’t worked since World War 2, it’s been broken since before the clock in Back to the Future.
iggyman about 1 month ago
A factory I worked at years ago had the skylights painted over for that reason!
iggyman about 1 month ago
In other words, time stood still!
Gent about 1 month ago
Me still no get what the tick tock is going on in this so called story.
jonahhex1 about 1 month ago
I wonder if that device that unidentified man was caressing in the clock tower is a “dirty bomb”????
LawrenceS about 1 month ago
Ah, I apologize for saying the clock face was too large. I was assuming it had a clock-face on all four sides. Off the top of my head I can’t recall the largest singular clock-face.
(Wikipedia’s list of largest clock faces include a lot of things that aren’t on towers – freestanding or horizontal rather than vertical, but the 1933 Duquesne Brewery clock is interesting for being wider than the tower it’s on and is still the largest single-sided clock tower in the US.)
General Trelane (Ret.) Premium Member about 1 month ago
This story is slower than the twelve days of Christmas .
Don Bagert Premium Member about 1 month ago
The inspector changed shirts between strips.
[Unnamed Reader - 14b4ce] about 1 month ago
MOVIE QUOTE
(Studying business card)—-“Bills also collected?”
“That’s in case I don’t get enough murders”
Sidney Toler&Victor Sen Yung—-CHARLIE CHAN IN HONOLULU—1928
[Unnamed Reader - 14b4ce] about 1 month ago
That means the tower could be used to blink code signals.But to which side of the law?
[Unnamed Reader - 14b4ce] about 1 month ago
Meanwhile,Ray Toler is on his fourth trip to the unlimited buffet…..
Another Take about 1 month ago
1- INSPECTOR: We’ll probably still go ahead and blow up the clock tower even though our demolition expert was murdered under the watchful gaze of that Transit Cop. Kids today can’t read an analog clock anyway. Say – did you know that…
2- : …that the clockface is coated in uranium to make it glow at night? That’s why it hasn’t worked for years…
3- : …The last 3 repairmen that tried to fix it died from radiation poisoning within hours of being up there to look it over. DT: But you were going to blow it up??? INSPECTOR: We were going to have Sprengstoff use enough explosive to spread it all over town. That way there wouldn’t be dangerous concentrations anywhere. It would a been years before the impact on kid’s health would’ve been noticed. And prevailing winds would’ve kept it from the important folks’ neighborhoods. DT: Like Tracyville Gardens where I live?
INSPECTOR: Yeah. Would’ve. But now we’ll have to take it down by hand and we’ve got permission to bury it in the gardens that give that area its name! Should make for some interesting plant life. Or none – ever again… DT: Excuse me. I gotta call a realtor…
orbenjawell Premium Member about 1 month ago
….all those cartoons where someone, somewhere yells “TURN OUT THAT LIGHT!!!”….must’ve been afraid to turn it back on after the Big War was over………
oakie9531 about 1 month ago
the plot thickens
jrankin1959 about 1 month ago
Just an observation, but shouldn’t Tracy be wearing the yellow hard hat?
jim_pem about 1 month ago
Sigh…