cornerstone

Wow - astounding watch! That small improvement makes the world of difference.

Chase Durer

Impressive!! What do you think it might be worth now? i.e. is that another way to earn a few bob, or was it just a "mission"?

He'll probably get a big hug from Ferguson! England out, and Rooney safe from injury! I thought the word was that C Ronaldo wants to move Spain anyway.

Happy days! I was beginning to worry that England might actually improve and do the unthinkable....phew! No great, amusing "calamities" of previous years, but I'll take my Scolari wins as I find them! Nice work Rooney - I think someone said on an earlier thread that they hoped he was fit for the WC in order to get sent off at a crucial stage. It did seem that Sven was beginning to get deluded - talking up their Final appearance before negotiating his way through the quarters. Shattered after staying up until 4am to watch that one! Good work France! I said they were a good money bet! Brazil were on stupid odds to win, especially when the record books say that they don't do especially well when the WC is on European soil (compared to when it isn't). Ronaldinho had an utterly hopeless World Cup, along with Lampard. Now it gets interesting....any one of the remaining teams can win this thing, and they know it.

Goal!!

Love this! This is actually pretty handy for my work - consider the idea stolen (or "repped") !!

Cheers! For a fun 'out there' watch the Casino one looks hard to beat!

Day Two: Game on!!

Today's the day! The competition is all out watching football!! Either that, or cut of your Dad's nuts and make your own! Have a good one! Cheers!

Northeagles!

Any pics?

The castration by Cronus of his father (Uranus) out of whose severed testicles sprang Aphrodite. And Heaven came, bringing on night and longing for love, and he lay about Earth spreading himself full upon her. Peeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee... Then the son from his ambush stretched forth his left hand and in his right took the great long sickle with jagged teeth, and swiftly lopped off his own father's members and cast them away to fall behind him. Peeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee... And not vainly did they fall from his hand; Peeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee... . And so soon as he had cut off the members with flint and cast them from the land into the surging sea, they were swept away over the main a long time: and a white foam spread around them from the immortal flesh, and in it there grew a maiden. Peeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee... Her gods and men call Aphrodite, and the foam-born goddess and rich-crowned Cytherea, because she grew amid the foam, and Cytherea because she reached Cythera, and Cyprogenes because she was born in billowy Cyprus. Peeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...

Laks

Happy Canada Day!!!

Fantastic post, and fantasy shopping list!! I HAVE ALREADY FORWARDED THE WATCHES I WANT TO THE GATES FOUNDATION......WHY WON'T THEY LISTEN?????!!!!!!!! Santa Claus? Tooth fairy?...

This joke actually has an interesting history. I say this, well, in case anyone is interested! The person who originally did this was the inspiration for the character Sherlock Holmes. Dr Joseph Bell was a medical professor at the University of Edinburgh Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, was from Edinburgh and studied medicine under Bell, and later worked with him (I believe) at the Royal Infirmary. He said that Bell was his inspiration. Anyway, since at least the 1930's, the original version of this anecdote has been attributed to Bell, as something he would tell his medical students: One day, in the lecture theatre, he gave the students a long talk on the necessity for the members of the medical profession cultivating their senses — sight, smell, taste, and hearing. Before him on a table stood a large tumbler filled with a dark, amber-colored liquid. "This, gentleman," announced the Professor, "contains a very potent drug. To the taste it is intensely bitter. It is most offensive to the sense of smell. Yet, as far as the sense of sight is concerned — that is, in color — it is no different from dozens of other liquids. "Now I want to see how many of you gentlemen have educated your powers of perception. Of course, we might easily analyze this chemically, and find out what it is. But I want you to test it by smell and taste; and, as I don't ask anything of my students which I wouldn't be willing to do myself, I will taste it before passing it round." Here he dipped his finger in the liquid, and placed it in his mouth. The tumbler was passed round. With wry and sour faces the students followed the Professor's lead. One after another tasted the vile decoction; varied and amusing were the grimaces made. The tumbler, having gone the round, was returned to the Professor. "Gentlemen," said he, with a laugh. "I am deeply grieved to find that not one of you has developed this power of perception, which I so often speak about; for if you had watched me closely, you would have found that, while I placed my forefinger in the medicine, it was the middle finger which found its way into my mouth."

Okay, a list of used entries!! BTW we used 2 'X's for one turn, which seems a wee bit extravagant! Audemars Piguet breitling Cartier Doxa ETA Franck Muller Girard Perregaux Hublot. IWC Jaeger-LeCoultre. Krieger Lemanina Maurice de Mauriac Officine Panerai... Nike NOMOS Patek Phillipe ROLEX South Bend Watch Company Tourbillon Ulysse Nardin Vacheron Constantin Wakmann Xemex Yema Zenith A. Lange and Sohne bulgari Chopard DUBEY & SCHALDENBRAND Ebil Frederique Constant Glycine hamilton Ikepod Jaquet Droz Klaauw, Christiaan van der Locman Movado Nina Ricci Oris Philippe Charriol QUINTING Raymond Weil SWIZA TITONI United Colors of Benetton Vincent Calabrese Wenger X-Data Yes Zodiac Arbutus Bedat and Co. Calibre Doxa Emile Chouriet Fortis Gerald Genta Hampden Invicta Baby JÖRG SCHAUER KOBOLD Laco by Lacher Mount Royal Nivada Orient POLJOT Q&Q Revue Thommen Saint Honore Technomarine UZI Vostok Wittnauer X Japan Watch XACT Yantar Zodiac Auguste Reymond Blancpain Carl. F. Bucherer deLaCour Ernest Borel Fender Grovana Hugo Boss INDUCTA Jacques Lemans Kolber Last entry was Kolber, next letter: L !!

Okay, beginning to scrape the barrel with the X's! This is an 'X-Data' watch that, well, you put on your belt and hang your keys off. Fugly! Google for it, you'll see it's a quartz.

Sigh. It would be a lot easier if you just explained it like a four dimensional cube... See the corner bottom left? That represents the Thai postie running as fast as he can!

Who else but TITONI ?!! Oh, it's a watch

And it's based in that financial powerhouse of, no wait, er, it's Skipton, North Yorkshire!

The Google thing is only good for the US too.