Wow, this one if heavily dependent on regional dialects. What is the source, southern?
"For a clock" would be pronounced either "for aye clock" or "for uh clock", where I've lived, which has mostly be above the Mason-Dixon line. "Four o'clock" would be pronounced "for oh clock". I would never have gotten this because everywhere I've lived these would be pronounced differently.
I'm really curious where they're pronounced the same. I believe it, I must can't imagine the accent. Must be southern.
Could be one of those people that never learned to read clocks. Worked with a girl fresh out of high school and had to teach her so she would stop asking me what time it was constantly.
Maybe he has a digital wall clock at home. Though it would be weird he came to a clock shop when those digital clocks usually just need AA batteries he could've found at other common stores.
I ended up misreading this as sort of "Well I don't know if it's a clock, that's why I need the batteries to find out" and found that reasoning to be funnier than the pun which flew over my head initially, simply for being such a comedically unconventional, yet entirely possible situation with several implications that could be made, such as just assuming something must be a clock, and immediately wanting to try using it as such, even though it might not actually be a clock.
Now if only I had something to measure my disappointment like a clock measures time...
19 Comments
Albbi@lemmy.ca · 46 pts · 1y
Oh man, this one took me a while to get! Really good joke!
adeoxymus@lemmy.world · 42 pts · 1y
Help I don’t get it :-(
TootSweet@lemmy.world · 92 pts · 1y
"Is it for a clock" sounds like he's asking "is it four o'clock"
UnculturedSwine@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 22 pts · 1y
sxan@midwest.social · 16 pts · 1y
Wow, this one if heavily dependent on regional dialects. What is the source, southern?
"For a clock" would be pronounced either "for aye clock" or "for uh clock", where I've lived, which has mostly be above the Mason-Dixon line. "Four o'clock" would be pronounced "for oh clock". I would never have gotten this because everywhere I've lived these would be pronounced differently.
I'm really curious where they're pronounced the same. I believe it, I must can't imagine the accent. Must be southern.
davidgro@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
"four uh clock" is pretty standard for both 4:00 and for-a-clock where I am in the North-Western US.
thoughtfuldragon@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 1y
Reduction to shwa!
Biskii@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 1y
One hundred percent southern
adeoxymus@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
OMG of course! Thanks :-)
ABCDE@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
Thank you.
Akasazh@feddit.nl · 5 pts · 1y
The joke gets depreciated by the myriad of clocks on the wall behind the clerk.
Nasan@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 1y
Could be one of those people that never learned to read clocks. Worked with a girl fresh out of high school and had to teach her so she would stop asking me what time it was constantly.
Akasazh@feddit.nl · 2 pts · 1y
What does he need the battery for then?
Nasan@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 1y
Maybe he has a digital wall clock at home. Though it would be weird he came to a clock shop when those digital clocks usually just need AA batteries he could've found at other common stores.
Akasazh@feddit.nl · 2 pts · 1y
Oh ok, yes could be he could only read digital clocks I guess. But a great story to be overly obsessive about details about, never the less :)
GrabtharsHammer@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
peetabix@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 1y
I'm glad it wasn't just me.
rockerface@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 1y
This joke could be spicier, but I can't blame you for not having the thyme
AceCephalon@pawb.social · 5 pts · 1y
I ended up misreading this as sort of "Well I don't know if it's a clock, that's why I need the batteries to find out" and found that reasoning to be funnier than the pun which flew over my head initially, simply for being such a comedically unconventional, yet entirely possible situation with several implications that could be made, such as just assuming something must be a clock, and immediately wanting to try using it as such, even though it might not actually be a clock.
Now if only I had something to measure my disappointment like a clock measures time...
Ephera@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 1y
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