# Happy Cranks-giving! (November mini-rants)

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-cranks-giving-november-mini-rants/1024477
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Tags:** monthly-mini-rant
**Created:** [November 1, 2025, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-cranks-giving-november-mini-rants/1024477 "2025-11-01T14:32:21Z")
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### Author: ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2025, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-cranks-giving-november-mini-rants/1024477/71 "2025-11-05T14:37:26Z")

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> [@Discussion thread for the "Polls only" thread (Part 2)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/9121):
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> Time-telling devices that “failed to automatically adjust”? None that I know of.
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> Time-telling devices that didn’t even _try_ to automatically adjust? Several, including a wristwatch, a car clock, a stove, a microwave, and a decades-old alarm clock.

Sigh, knew the _Semantic Nitpicker’s Chapter of the Straight Dope Message Board_ would be along very shortly to bestow their august wisdom on us all. Tell you what, next time I decide to make a poll I’ll sit on it for several decades first, going over and over and over in my head every _possible_ permutation of how I could phrase the question in such a way that it could not **possibly** ever be misinterpreted. Will that make you happy? 🙄

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