The Argyle Sweater by Scott Hilburn for August 28, 2022

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    ronaldspence  about 2 years ago

    Wow, Ben really got wound up! Take a second and explain it to her, she might need to take a minute…

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    Ratkin Premium Member about 2 years ago

    Now explain to her why the largest unit has the smallest hand and vice versa.

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    Superfrog  about 2 years ago

    You’ll have to give her the news first hand.

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    sergioandrade Premium Member about 2 years ago

    They don’t sell raspberry berets?

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    Jesy Bertz Premium Member about 2 years ago

    And NO digital timepieces, either!

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    pschearer Premium Member about 2 years ago

    History: The first mechanical clocks were in the towers of buildings and had only one hand which showed the hour in imitation of the shadow on a sundial (in the northern hemisphere which explains why the hands go clockwise).

    But when it became necessary to show smaller units of time than an hour, another hand was added to show more minute /mi-NOOT/ divisions. The word attached itself to both the “minute hand” and the units it showed.

    But eventually it became necessary to subdivide minutes. The first hand added was for minutes, so the second hand added was to display, of course, seconds.

    (If you want citations and footnotes, go look them up yourselves. I have comics to read.)

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    Bilan  about 2 years ago

    The store is for clocks that need a second second hand.

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    Jayalexander  about 2 years ago

    Second hand is around the corner from The First Mates Ambidextrous School of Palmistry.

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    Buoy  about 2 years ago

    Times up! Actually he’s just trying to wind her up.

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    backyardcowboy  about 2 years ago

    Gimme a second and let me think!

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    iggyman  about 2 years ago

    Took me a while, Very good!

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    iggyman  about 2 years ago

    If they had bugs climbing all over the clocks, they could call the bugs “Time Flys”!

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    Doug K  about 2 years ago

    Does Stan also have a separate Minute Hand and Hour Hand stores?

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    gammaguy  about 2 years ago

    The Second-Hand Store has since been shut down by DeSantis, because he believes that it’s mainly for “lefties”.

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    Sir Ruddy Blighter, Jr.  about 2 years ago

    “Do you know what a balm is?” —Jackie Chiles, Seinfeld

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    bigger Nate  about 2 years ago

    He should make a video and explain it on tick-tock

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    uniquename  about 2 years ago

    I read the caption before I processed the picture and my initial thought was to wonder whether it was the left or right hand. Gruesome!

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    William Bednar Premium Member about 2 years ago

    I already have two hands. What good would a “second hand” do me?

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    joe piglet Premium Member about 2 years ago

    Well he didn’t call her a “Ding Ding Dong”

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    Zebrastripes  about 2 years ago

    Second hand Rose…

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    pathamil  about 2 years ago

    I recognise that clock! He was on the Captain Kangaroo show…

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    tee929  about 2 years ago

    She must be a Tic-Toc user!

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    jr1234  about 2 years ago

    Funny :D

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    prrdh  about 2 years ago

    Arrrr!

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    paranormal  about 2 years ago

    Apparently not…

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    the lost wizard  about 2 years ago

    Let’s tock about it. :)

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    fishbulb239  about 2 years ago

    Ha! I passed by a store in Brooklyn a few weeks back that called itself a “second hand store”, and my thought at the time was that it must be something like what is depicted in this ‘toon. (The security gate was down over the store at the time, so I couldn’t verify.)

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    stamps  about 2 years ago

    I hope she’s not looking for sloppy seconds.

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    The Brooklyn Accent Premium Member about 2 years ago

    Bugrit, millennium hand and shrimp!

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    zeexenon  about 2 years ago

    As for this geezer, a second hand on a grandfather clock was either hilarious or irritating. But I became an engineer anyway.

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    Lablubber   about 2 years ago

    How insulting. I challenge you. My second shall be calling on you.

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    WF11  about 2 years ago

    I remember being very confused as a child when a teacher asked someone if their watch had “a second hand”. To me all clocks and watches had two hands, i.e., the first hand showed the hour, and the second hand showed the minutes. A clock or watch with only one (the first) hand wasn’t near as useful as one having both a first and second hand! It was only later I learned that this referred to another hand showing the seconds! In other words, the seconds were shown by a third hand (the second hand was actually the third hand). Of course now there are watches that display all sorts of things, so it could be argued that these have fourth, fifth, and perhaps even more hands.

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    Stephen Gilberg  about 2 years ago

    A related pun I drew long ago: https://www.deviantart.com/deckardcanine/art/Secondhand-Lion-77242687

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    Realimaginary1 Premium Member about 2 years ago

    Selling second hands is not the same ‘ting as selling second-hand items, unless you’re talking second-hand second hands!

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    Hoosier Poet  about 2 years ago

    Technically, it’s a “seconds hand”.

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    gopher gofer  about 2 years ago

    his second hand shop is second to none…

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    briggs.roy078  about 2 years ago

    Oh boy . . . .

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