The French Speaking Clock

The french speaking clock was created by an astronomer who was annoyed that members of the public kept phoning his office to for the time. A hundred and forty thousand people called up, or rather recalled up, trying to hear it. It's the oldest speaking clock in the world, i think, or it was. And on its very fryy tero, thatits true. But a ya ye ad, very, very lonely people on valentine saturday that year. So that might have been one person just recoiling, just desperate to hear it - but I love the idea that maybe he spotted an oncoming comet, you know, crashing into earth, and he just wasn