(Sorry I can't make a moving gif thing for you, but I do have work to do you know.)
All right, I have just devoted several minutes to making a moving Schlick-Schleck Clock.
I can't find a way to get it here on the page, so I do apologise but you'll have to follow the link.
When you get there, do please click on "like" as it only takes 6 "likes" to make it to the front page of the website....
Don't say I don't do anything for you....
And if you want to know who to blame for this little oddity, blame Figgy for putting the idea into my tiny little head!
And in answer to demand: it's the Jakob-Clock! Err, the Feegl-Fugl-Clock? You can make up your own names for it.
The gif is once again at The Gif Site, please click on "like" as many times as possible in order to get it on the front page! I've put it in the category "funny" this time, to avoid that girl with the pierced nipples (ugh! shudder!).
And please note that I have removed the horrible tail and have gone for a simple Trek bike motif instead.
Good lord - having just gone back there to check that the link works - those eyes really are quite hypnotic, aren't they?
I wanted to be nice, so I clicked "yes, I like".
ReplyDeleteBut, I would never, never have this thing in my house. It gives me nausea, especially the tail. That thing resembles a giant maggot. BRRRRRR.
LOL! I know, the original things are pretty horrible, aren't they? Even the ones with eyelashes are quite creepy. And as for those mad, wide, staring eyes: I'm with you, I would never have one of these in my house.
ReplyDeleteBut thank you for the "yes", you are applauding my efforts to make a moving gif, not the actual content, and I appreciate it. Anything to get rid of that girl with the enormous pierced nipples, ugh, shudder, honestly, the things people put on the internet.
So, the Tour of Lux is approaching, is anyone going?
Coug
I admit it, I want a Schleck cuckoo clock for Christmas. Except when it's time for the clock to chime the hours, I don't want some bird squawking, but a miniature Andy Schleck, on a bicycle, telling me the hours in Luxembourgish.
ReplyDeleteCome on, be honest people, don't tell me you wouldn't buy a Schlick-Schleck clock, or any other Schleck bootleg novelty item if you saw one in a dodgy Chinatown market. Of course you would.
I would probably engage my Schlick-Schleck clock in a staring contest, and go quietly mad... hee hee!
I like! though I think I would like a little bike as a pendulum rather than a tail that looks a little weird.
ReplyDeleteCan you make Jakob clock as well?
Is it a tail... or something else?? ;P
ReplyDelete*skips off to the naughty corner*
Leelu
TeeHeeHee
ReplyDeleteThats what I was thinking Leelu ;)
You bad children! I am shocked! (*pulls shocked face*)
ReplyDeleteJust for that, you can't have my next blog entry until 6pm, and it has a picture of a hunky young cyclist with long blond hair..... no, you'll have to wait. I shall send you all to the Naughty Corner if you're not careful. (BikeGirl, have you found the "pages"? If not, check out the one called "in-jokes" for more on the Naughty Corner.)
Now: Figgy, the thought of you competing with your Schlick-Schleck Clock is hilarious, but I can't imagine you going "quietly" mad: I think there'd be some screaming.
I quite like the idea of the Schleckoo Clock... except of course that I don't have any clocks in my house at all.....
OK, a bike as a pendulum would be several stages nicer than the rather horrible tail. No, I don't think it looks like a maggot. No, I don't think it looks like anything RUDE (you bad children, now I do) and yes, I think it would nicer with almost anything else hanging down from it!
So you want a Jakob clock, too, huh? (*rolls eyes*) And here's me with several jobs to do: ok, I'll have a go. If I can find a nice pic of Jakob to use. (*hops merrily over to JustFuglen to check out the latest pics. Wow. Jakob in a very very see-through Leopard jersey, with Nim adding a touch of eyeliner. That is you, Nim, isn't it?
Coug
OK, OK, I've done it! Are we all happy now?!
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(*Feeling guilty for playing about with gifs instead of doing jobs*)
(*and for not closing the bracket in my comment above! Wups! More haste, less speed, as they say.*)
(*and for missing out the word "be" before "nicer", I'm trusting that you are all intelligent enough to work out what I meant...*)
I appreciate your creativity, Coug, but I'm afraid that the clocks look a bit creepy... :P
ReplyDeleteBtw, here's a pic of Menchov trying to pretend he's OGL: http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/giro-ditalia-his/stage-14/photos/175071 . What do you think of his 'tuftiness'? ;)
Fede
(I'm afraid I've broken Blogger, it doesn't let me comment things from my account anymore!)
The Jakoo-koo, or whatever it is, isn't nearly as scary as the one with Unndy.
ReplyDeleteBoth of them are on the front page now :D I liked both of them twice but I don't think it counts. It didn't seem to make any difference...
And I'm not even going to comment on that creepy tail.
Fede, Menchov probably did that to get your attention (and force it away from OGL) :P
*climbs out of bean-bag in naughty corner*
ReplyDeleteI'm amazed the Schleckoo and Jakoo-koo clocks are not flying off the shelves really... :P hahaha thanks Coug :)
Oh no i had cofee in my mouth when i open your blog and satw the tail you have given Andy "down there"...Now coffee all over, thanks for the laugh lotte..
ReplyDeleteA Schleckoo clock? Awwwww, now I’m going to have to track down some clockmaker who specializes in making Black Forest house (Schonachbach) cuckoos. I don’t think Andy will much appreciate seeing a miniaturised, Bavarian version of himself in a clock, wearing lederhosen, but he’ll prefer it to my more diabolical plan of having him permanently take residence in one of the world’s largest cuckoo clocks:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.flickr.com/photos/linksmanjd/2730370009/sizes/l/in/photostream/
I think the Fugl-Clock should have shifting eyebrows, rather than eyes. Shifty eyebrows just seem very saucy, and pert, and thus very Jakob :P
* shakes head at people in the naughty corner, from the crazy corner *
Schleckoo clock, prototype 1:
http://individual.utoronto.ca/montag/schleckoo.jpg
I like the Jakoo-koo clock!
ReplyDeleteYes Coug i did find those "pages", I must say that I do tend to get carried away when I see Andy/Jakob, so i have punished myself (1hrs worth of sprint intervals should do it) and promise to not have naughty thoughts again (until the next pic you post hehe)
Figbash, I like your prototype 1, but it would be better without the Toblerone tail. Better replacing it with e.g. a golden chain?
ReplyDeleteCoug, I can't imagine some of the girls were really meaning anything not proper. (Lee, you're married, aren't you....?). So, I don't think they deserve to go to the naughty corner, or are there maybe some other tails hidden?
Oh Barbara, how can you say such things? You know perfectly well that they were being RUDE and deserve to go to the Naughty Corner. (It's not so bad there, Leelu has installed bean bags.)
ReplyDeleteFiggy, I LOVE your Shleckoo clock, brilliant! I particularly liked the ketchup bottle hands... and the Toblerone! I didn't think of Toblerone! (*hits self around the forehead*) (*ouch... should have put down the stapler first*)
Aww, I really like the World's Largest Cuckoo Clock, I could so live there. Is it in Switzerland? Do the occupants have to time their exit and entry to avoid the pendulum? Shades of Windy Miller! (Camberwick Green)Err, does anyone apart from me remember Camberwick Green?
Anyway, your clock is brilliant and far surpasses my feeble Schlick-Schleck clock efforts. Especially as you are correct, the Fugl-Clcok should have had moving eyebrows, damn, I should have thought of that, too.
Ah well, at least I gave Lotte a "coffee moment", sorry sweetie! (*but secretly proud, as that is my mission in life, to give as many people coffee moments as possible.*)
Coug
Aesthetically, I like your golden chain idea barbara, especially for a proper cuckoo clock--my mum has one of those Schonachbach clocks, and the poor bird hasn't told the right time in about 7 years.
ReplyDeleteBut this is Schleckoo clock, with an actual Toblerone bar. So you could theoretically eat the pendulum! Besides, almost all the food on the thing is in some way an homage to Andy's eclectic dietary preferences. Notice how the little lederhosen-ed men are drinking Rivella, rather than from beer steins. Incidentally, has anyone here tried Rivella, and is it any good? Alas, they don't sell the stuff here.
Coug, you'll be proud to know that when I went to the opera last light night, I was thinking about that staring contest with my Schlick-Schleck clock. :)
I think that particular cuckoo clock is located in Triberg, Germany, in the Black Forest region--which sounds like something out of a fairy tail. I wouldn't mind living in a small village with the World's Largest Schonachbach, and barring going quite deaf from the hourly ringing, I wouldn't mind living in the clock itself. Residence of the clock house would each have a turn being the cuckoo bird as it were, and announce the hours. :P
Coug, I know very well that it's not so bad in the naughty corner and that it's always fun when Leelu is around, but I still think that you must have been doing/saying something really naughty to be send there. (Forgive me for not always understanding English prudency.)
ReplyDeleteFiggy, I understood your point about Toblerone, but my problem is that it is far too dominant. If you just glare over the clock, it's the first thing that catches your eye and it makes you ignore the other (much more subtle and creative) parts and that's a pity.
(just coming into my mind: 39 seconds/39 steps delay in time?)
Okay barbara, I tried to improve the clock a bit. The gold chains are there, but instead of the traditional pine cone weights, I used Toblerone wrappers, and now the actual chocolate functions as a pendulum :)
ReplyDeletehttp://individual.utoronto.ca/montag/schleckooalt.jpg
If I could only get a good side angle picture of a group of cyclists climbing Mont Ventoux, or any mountain for that matter, I would love to add them to the roof of the clock...
If I was making a Contador clock, I would design it so that a miniature Alberto came out of the clock at the 39 second mark, and do a little jig / dance. Or, the gold chain that keeps the clock working will pop, and a miniature Alberto will cycle around the clock really fast, as if nothing has happened. :P
WOW Fig, this new clock is WONDERFUL. Whenever you find a way to produce it, I want to buy it!
ReplyDeleteGreat idea about Cont. clock too, you could even add little parcels for the presents he hands out.
Ohh I'm overflowed now with possible little things to add to clocks. Coug you started something again :). And no, I don't want to go to the naughty corner.
"you could theoretically eat the pendulum"... this does not bode well re my first comment on this post!
ReplyDelete*returns to naughty corner*
Leelu
*regrets unfortunate choice of words*
ReplyDeleteLeelu, double entendres wake up my pug :P
http://www.flickr.com/photos/11279315@N07/5776714205/in/set-72157626031087178
D'aaaw, Figgy, I thought your Pug was a virtual one! (We'd been talking about scissors, if you remember.) I didn't realise he was real!
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Oh Coug, you must have thought I was criminally insane (I mean more so) when I was talking about walking my dog in the afternoons. :P
ReplyDeleteBut yes, that's my pug Bard.
The virtual pet scissors I was talking about can be found here:
http://www.widgetbox.com/widget/bunnyhero-labs-pet
Yes, I thought you meant you were going for particularly detailed and lucid virtual "walks" with your virtual Pug, taking your pet scissors with you in case anything needed cutting on the way.
ReplyDeleteIt's a compliment!
Coug