Credit to Dave McElfatrick | Cyanide and Happiness | explosm
Credit to Dave McElfatrick | Cyanide and Happiness | explosm
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Okay so I got curious and according to wikipedia:
"The Oxford English Dictionary states that the popular 1876 song My Grandfather's Clock is responsible for the common name "grandfather clock" being applied to the longcase clock."
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The wikipedia is an interesting read too cause I think the author was like sitting in a hotel lobby and asked of the old broken clock there. And it was about two siblings I think were twins and when one died the clock was off, then the other died and the clock died.
Some rough memory but that's what I recalled was the story behind it.
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Quite fittingly, the original name of that song was My Grandfather's Cock. Then the clergy complained..
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