What is a man-made mechanism that is designed to be stopped as soon as it starts working?

McGruff

An alarm clock. Dec 28 04, 8:19 AM

Miss G

YAY! I was reading Michael Palin's 'Hemingway's Chair' and this was mentioned so I thought it'd be a great question! Dec 28 04, 8:52 AM

MaggieG 5

Oh! What a great question! I was looking for something much more complicated than that, but when you see the answer it sounds awfully like something that might have come out of a cracker! Dec 28 04, 8:53 AM

Flynn_17

'Everyone agreed that Bernard was right to break his alarm clock. And to do it with a Flugelhorn was so imaginitive...' Dec 28 04, 4:19 PM

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