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Barmymoo:
101 times every night? That would drive me up the wall. I thought our fire alarm was bad enough.
pwhodges:
As well as the hours.
When the pianist Artur Schnabel played a concert in Ch Ch in the 1920s, he came back after the interval at about 9pm, and hearing the bell striking, as he thought, the hour, he waited for it to stop. When he had counted up to forty, he gave up and started playing. I dare say that's happened to others.
I was a chorister at Christ Church Cathedral (for those who don't know, Oxford Cathedral and Christ Church college chapel are the same building). The original college foundation had included eight choristers - so we liked to think that the last eight strokes represented us. We used to lie awake and count the strikes - if the number was wrong, we reckoned the porter had had a bit to drink (more likely, even then they were automated and it was our miscounting).
The 101 strokes are said to represent the original 101 members of college returning at the time of the evening curfew (which is pretty unlikely, it seems to me). 9.05pm represents 9pm actual meridian time - for the same reason the cathedral services all start at five minutes past the hour, being the hour at the Oxford meridian.
Mister D Nomms:
I used to live accross the street from a fire station and every day at 7 pm they fired off an air horn that could be heard all the way accross town. If you were outside when it went off, your whole body would vibrate for a few minutes after.
Carl-E:
Makes me think of this comic.
DrPhibes:
I have a fear of my running senseo appartus
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