# Coo Clocks **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 9, 2009, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coo-clocks/505866 "2009-08-09T20:58:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Chez\_Guevara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2009, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coo-clocks/505866/1 "2009-08-09T20:58:25Z")
The clocks to be found [in here](http://headsupco.com/clocks.html) are supposed to be for kids, but that isn’t going to stop me getting one for Christmas, subject to the generosity of a third party. The sound effects are probably NSFW, unless you work on a farm, or maybe a game reserve. Essentially they are cuckoo clocks, but without the cuckoo. Instead, you can have the choice of various animals, complete with appropriate noises. I heard one at a friend’s house yesterday for the first time. Imagine my surprise when, at 8pm sharp, a cow shot out of the clockface and issued a moo-type noise before disappearing back to whence it came. I have since read some reviews on Amazon concerning these clocks. Some customers have several of them, synchronised to sound like a barnyard every hour, on the hour. Personally I’m going for the elephant, just so I can listen to people talking about the elephant in the room. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2009, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coo-clocks/505866/2 "2009-08-09T22:17:47Z")
I misread the title as ‘ **Goo** Clocks’. Actually, that would be pretty cool; a clock that oozes green slime on the hour. Maybe with some sort of sound effect. ---
**Author:** ![SurrenderDorothy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/surrenderdorothy/32/1221_2.png) [@SurrenderDorothy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SurrenderDorothy)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2009, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coo-clocks/505866/3 "2009-08-09T22:48:32Z")
very cute! I wonder how well-made they are. After reading this thread, I decided I kind of want just a regular cuckoo clock for myself and looked them up. Holy crap, are they all that ornate? And expensive? ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2009, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coo-clocks/505866/4 "2009-08-09T22:51:50Z")
Just by the way, did you see the article in today’s New York Times? The most expensive apartment in Brooklyn is in the Clocktower Building. In the clocktower. It is three floors, the first floor has four glass walls with a freaking huge clock facing out from each one. ---
**Author:** ![belladonna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9fc29f/32.png) [@belladonna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/belladonna)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2009, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coo-clocks/505866/5 "2009-08-09T23:07:07Z")
> [@SurrenderDorothy](#): > > very cute! I wonder how well-made they are. > > After reading this thread, I decided I kind of want just a regular cuckoo clock for myself and looked them up. Holy crap, are they all that ornate? And expensive? Crazy, eh? They’re a pain in the butt too. My father bought my mother one about ten years back and he’s forever having to fiddle with the chains and synchronize the chiming. My mom loves that clock though, so Dad perseveres. As to the Coo clocks, I want the orangutan. Hoo, Hoo. ---
**Author:** ![Chez\_Guevara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2009, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coo-clocks/505866/6 "2009-08-10T03:24:08Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > I misread the title as ‘ **Goo** Clocks’. I should have titled the thread **Coo Clocks Clan**. Less scope for misinterpretation. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2009, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coo-clocks/505866/7 "2009-08-10T03:51:17Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > I misread the title as ‘ **Goo** Clocks’. Actually, that would be pretty cool; a clock that oozes green slime on the hour. Maybe with some sort of sound effect. Available from Miskatonic Novelties, which imports them directly from R’lyeh. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2009, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coo-clocks/505866/8 "2009-08-10T03:55:28Z")
> [@Polycarp](#): > > Available from Miskatonic Novelties, which imports them directly from R’lyeh. Hey, it’s three o’clock! _Yog-Sothoth! Yog-Sothoth! Yog-Sothoth!_