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this is the second "speaking clock" - in the UK you used to be able to phone a certain number (when we were a kid it was 123) and a very posh woman's voice would say "at the third stroke, the time will be eleven, fifty-seven, and forty seconds" and then three beeps

the woman whose voice was recorded on that drum as the speaking clock was Pat Simmons

we grabbed these screencaps while watching an ep of the Antiques Roadshow, and the bloke who's talking about this device is from the Royal Horological Society, and he told a story of how he walked past this machine one day (which was running full time for visitors to listen to) when it made a really weird noise and then the motor just stopped, and it took a lot of work to get it going again - but he found out a few days later that it stopped on the day that Pat Simmons died

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Peter Blegvad: I remember it as if it were yesterday... the 14th of February-- Valentine’s Day...

Peter Blegvad: That WAS yesterday.

Peter Blegvad: How time flies when your time has come! When you’re having so much FUN!

Peter Blegvad: Things are pretty grim for the rest of us, how come you--?

Peter Blegvad: I thought you’d never ask...

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See, now I just feel bad about that time I told Siri to piss off...

The Speaking Clock

When the speaking clock was first launched calls to the service cost one penny from home. Today a call costs about 40 times that much. 10 things you might not know about the speaking clock.

The first telephone speaking clock went into operation in Paris on this date in 1933. The UK followed suit on 24 July 1936. Here are 10 th

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Finding Friends with the Popcorn Lady

There was a time when, in our particular area in the state of California, if I said I had “called popcorn!” any local would have known exactly what I meant, while anybody from far afield might be baffled as to what I was talking about. “POPCORN” spelled out on a phone dial pad translates to the phone number 767-2676, and if you dialed that number in northern California you would get the speaking…

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Orange announces the end of the speaking clock after 89 years of career

It’s the end of an era and a feature launched in 1933. Indeed, Orange announces the removal of the speaking clock from July 1, 2022. This automated system made it possible to know the time exact in France by calling the paying number 3699. As Charles Aznavour said, this is a service that “those under 20 cannot know”. Since 1933, the French wishing to know the exact time in France could resort to…

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Vangelis - Pulstar (Audio)

At the third stroke it will be 10.03 and 40 seconds [peep, peep, peep] At the third stroke it will be 10.03 and 50 seconds [peep, peep, peep] At the third stroke it will be 10.04 precisely

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I'm so poor that if battleships cost a penny, I couldn't afford the echo of the whistle.

Peter Blegvad

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