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by **Dr Percival RP Pound** » Apr 4th, '13, 07:42

Would a braille watch secreted in one's pocket not suffice for this effect?

by **Mr_Grue** » Apr 4th, '13, 07:50

Shush!

by **Le Petit Bateleur** » Apr 4th, '13, 09:21

How about creating a device for this?

Most likely you will already know what the hour is. If you were in a torpor - at work for example :lol:

- you can get away with it by saying "x minutes" past or "x minutes" to.

So the only thing you need is the minute hand on a watch.

I wonder if you could buy an inexpensive wrist watch, remove the mechanism from it, and attach a shirt button to it on which you would indent a mark.

Then the watch mechanism would be hidden behind your shirt, leaving the button to protrude.

Or could the same principle be applied to a circular lapel pin, with the mechanism hidden behind the lapel?

by **Yaniv Deautsch** » Feb 2nd, '15, 09:49

Vanderbelt, it's from Crocodile Dundee. But he didn't had a watch under his hat, simply looked at his friend's wrist watch to impress the lady.

by **bmat** » Feb 3rd, '15, 19:03

When somebody asks me if I know the time I simply say 'yes' and walk away. but I'm a butt head.

by **Mandrake** » Feb 3rd, '15, 22:05

Know the time? I hardly know what day it is!

by **TSHINDO** » Mar 31st, '15, 14:56

Jerome Finley in one of his works, Random acts of kindness, talks about an effect called Godspeed, where time appears to speed up for a participant. Its a bit of a long play and you are not there to see the pay off and in effect you are taking credit for a natural phenomenon before it actually happens, like cloud bursting or even picking which lift will arrive first I guess.