- jim Young 20180312 “Hickory, dickory dock, three mice ran up the clock, The clock struck one but the other two escaped injuries.” Clocks are funny people. Clocks are funny people. I call them people because we share a lot in common with clocks. Like people, clocks have a face and hands and often get wound up and wound down. They can run, work, stop, strike, quit and tell time. Sometimes you can even pull their chains. Clocks also have grandfathers, grandmothers and anniversaries. Clocks can be right or they can be wrong but like people, seldom will any two clocks agree. One of the things that’s funny about clocks is their hands. Most clocks have at least two hands but some have three. When a clock has three hands however, we call their third hand the second hand. An anniversary clock, sometimes known as a 365-day clock, is so named because it only has to be wound once a year. The funny thing about that is they really only have to be wound every 400 days. Many moder...