At the race course the bookies use a system of transmitting betting odds, they are known as tic tac men, but what is odd, there's no sound.
It's a sort of semaphore in Tai Chi that only they know about, but it is all done with the hands just like a clock, although they are bell assisted at Angelus.
There is a saying in Ireland the man who made time made plenty of it but the man who made twine made ***** of it, or when time is killed the witness is always the primary suspect.