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This completely missed the point of visiting Orloj. You don't go there to see the clock, you go there to see the animated skeleton.

Slovak 80s pop rock band Elan even made a song about her: https://youtu.be/1Gctnn-vCfM

"Tourists, sparrows, school trips, orloj and apostles. Skeleton is standing on the side and everybody is afraid of her..."

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Literally listened to it today in the car (I have a soft spot for Elán). Also, as someone who lives in Prague, I don’t really go anywhere near the clock. That’s tourist land. It doesn’t feel like home.

Lived for some time five minutes walking from the Clock, and so I can heartily appreciate the old Prague joke:

“Daddy, why they call it the tourist season, when we cannot shoot them?”

> [Smrtka] is standing on the side...

I had a moment of cognitive dissonance when skimming through a recent russian WWII series about a group of (Yak-1?) pilots and the romances between them, for at one point there was a SmerSh (Smert Shpionen) agent, and —unlike in Bond flicks– he was a good guy.

EDIT: looks like it was Истребители (2013).

https://math.ru/lib/files/pdf/4kolmogorov.pdf

True. But, it's also a clock, which is presumably difficult to read, hence the simulation.

Eww Elan. I hated that band all my childhood for the music but Lead vocalist Ráž who was voicing support for Mečiar, Fico, Castro, and Putin is not giving me enthusiasm even today.

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