BROOKS and FARCES

I had an extremely strange... lingering sleep-thought thing last night (I can't really call it a dream) - I woke up absolutely convinced that in Britain, the words "BROOKS" and "FARCES" were used to refer to the alarm times on any clock that had two of them. Our bedside alarm clock, for example, has two separate alarms set to 7:00 and 7:15 - this morning when the second one went off, this strange new knowledge had been implanted into my head overnight and I knew in my sleepy daze that it was the FARCES alarm. A few hours after getting up, the words now seem as nonsensical to me as they do to you now, but just after waking I was sure that I'd known this information from somewhere in the back of my mind and tried to Google them in an attempt to confirm that my brain hadn't just invented these terms. Which it somehow had.

Even with no sign of them used by anyone in the world, though, I suppose I could have just adopted them and started saying to people in America that these were just the words we used for them in Britain - it would hardly be considered less believable than a lot of the things I've told them so far.