No - it's a joke, you see?
"He got a potato clock" sounds a little bit like "He got up at eight o'clock", pronounced with an Irish accent.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 25 May 2012, 14:21, 3 replies)

I'm not sure that this 'jokes' thing is working out for you.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 25 May 2012, 14:27, closed)

So he got up at 8 o-clock because his potato alarm clock worked!
Ingenious.

I could have done with one of those tuber based wonders the other day when we had a power cut and I was late for work.
( Airman Gabber Living life like a 70's BBC presenter, Fri 25 May 2012, 14:28, closed)

OK, we understand he got up at 8 O'clock, but why
did he get a clock made from a potato?

I'd have thought it's better to make it from metal. Potatoes only last about a week, then they go crinkly, and those sprouty things appear.

I think this whole story is made up.
(username failed moderation, Fri 25 May 2012, 14:36, closed)

That's the whole pointm you see.
A potato clock is a surreal juxtaposition, which invites the audience to consider such an item humourous.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 25 May 2012, 14:38, closed)

Try telling that to the Irish.
Millions of them died during the potato famines.
I think it was something to do with ther potato based time-keeping devices you keep mentioning failing.
( Airman Gabber Living life like a 70's BBC presenter, Fri 25 May 2012, 14:39, closed)

No you're thinking of sheer laziness.

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 25 May 2012, 14:40, closed)

^ pretty much, I grow potatoes in my garden with a minimum of effort

( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Fri 25 May 2012, 14:44, closed)

Do you turn them into clocks?
If so Vagabond may be interested. He's into that sort of stuff.
( Airman Gabber Living life like a 70's BBC presenter, Fri 25 May 2012, 14:47, closed)

Do they go
cock a doodle doo at 8 O'Clock?

Apparently people use them to wake themselves up. News to me.
(username failed moderation, Fri 25 May 2012, 14:51, closed)

The more slutty ones go "Any cock l'do" at 8-o-clock.

( Airman Gabber Living life like a 70's BBC presenter, Fri 25 May 2012, 15:03, closed)

Au contraire.
( Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Sat 26 May 2012, 13:58, closed)