longshot

This slang term originated in about 1970. At that time, i.e. pre the widespread use of the Internet, slang terms often circulated at street level for many years before being adopted by anyone who felt inclined to write them down. That's clearly not the case any longer of course and any word or phrase that is widely known is dateable quite precisely via website logs.

The first citation in print is C. Wielgus and A. Wolff's, 'Back-in-your-face Guide to Pick-up Basketball', 1986:

"My bad, an expression of contrition uttered after making a bad pass or missing an opponent."

'My bad' came into widespread popular use in the mid to late-1990s in the USA via the 1995 movie

Sure would....love their more advanced movements but save the divers that I love all the watches look like they were also designed by conservative engineers and not by artists

this were designed by 'conservative engineers'?

actually pretty much every single seiko diver from the first 62MAS and 6105's to the marine master 300m was designed primarily by one man. tokunaga-san. one man who was kind enough to actually post and answer questions on the seiko forum until recently. he was involved in the design of the 600m springdrive diver (and said that it actually easily surpasses 800 meters in pressure testing) and i believe the new sumo was the first seiko diver he was not heavily involved in the design of.

here is a link to the seiko dive watch museum web page his son maintains:

http://www.tokunaga.ne.jp/en/museum/index.html

i have a gen MM300 that i sold an SMP to buy and have never regretted it

i did get a chance to try on the 600M springdrive diver at a seiko meet up once and it's an awesome watch!

yes, there are rep seiko's. there are a few ebay dealers who are known to sell fake 007 divers and fake black/orange monsters. i even have a link to a web page somewhere that shows how to tell if your 007 is a fake. weird that they rep a watch that sells for $150US or so but they do...

OK don't listen to me. The crappy rep strap with the crappy rep deployment does fit like [censored].

Get a gen strap, for the Heritage. and the watch will fit better than any Pam 44mm on a smaller wrist.

A leather 24 mm Pam style strap with buckle on the Heritage, or the OR or PD rubber strap with buckle or deployment fits a smaller wrist PERFECTLY.

But don't believe me.

Buy a 40mm or 42mm, by 16mm thick chrono hockey puck instead.

Dude.

dude, it's just opinion. here is the big heritage rep on my 7" wrist. and i tried it on pam straps also. i also own a gen seawolf with the gen rubber strap, and you know what? the gen blue breitling rubber strap is too long and not comfortable on me either

i bought the rep in brown/bronze and even with a much nicer softer leather strap it was too big for my 7" wrist. part of the problem was that the deployment is so long that there was almost no curve to the strap. it sat very square on my wrist

i've raced at laguna a half dozen times or so. all back in the 70's - 80's before the track layout changed. there was an AMA national there most every year and when roberts and spencer were in europe riding the GP circuit they would come back during the mid season break and spank everyone at the AMA national

even on a 250 yamaha the corkscrew is... awesome scary. as you come over the hill it looks more like a 3000 foot drop than a 300 foot drop!

i have not been to see the moto-gp bikes there even though it's only a few hours away. i guess i want to keep the memories of the two stroke 500's with no traction control and skinny tires fresh

shame about that canon pinion. you would think that panerai hong kong might have fixed that for him

americans are generally spoiled, and lazy

when i was young and seriously racing motorcycles my family owned smallish dodge vans, with 6 cylinder engines and a three speed manual trans. we covered all of the west coast and every year made trips to daytona, talledega in alabama and loudon new hampshire, all from northern california. it was not totally comfortable but was an adventure and part of the fun!

now i race some vintage motocross (in the +50 class) and when i go out to the OHV park about 35 miles away i see families with a 30' 'toy hauler' towed behind a double cab 1 ton four wheel drive truck, or a giant suburban or expedition. hauling two bikes and gear? and everyone is complaining about races they can't afford to go to because of gas cost?

i haul my CZ and husky on a lightweight open 2 rail trailer behind my... saab

not as comfortable as carrying your whole house with you. and i eat sandwiches and fruit instead of cooking a meal. and have to change into and out of my riding gear outside(!!!!!). and i get 30mgp wherever i go

these people have better gear and more 'stuff' than the world and national champions did in the 70's, just to go playride...

dumb

i picked up an 'ultimate 104' this week from another member, and i love this watch. as good a pam rep as i have ever owned

i got it at a great price because it had been partially brushed, then partially re-polished. it is wearable as is, but i've been thinking of doing something a little different than just having it re-finished. i'm fairly good friends with a well known watch restorer/modder (who does NOT work on reps) who is best known for his lume work and his satin beadblast finish. it's different than a lot of the beadbllast you see, more of a smooth satin finish without much 'texture'. i talked to him yesterday and he is willing to do the pam as a favor for me. i'm thinking of just having the case blasted and leaving the crown/crown guard and bezel polished.

what do you guys think?

here are a couple pics of other watches he has done for me to give you an idea of the finish

looks like his smp is black?

cause that is the coolest one

Go back to your bong, hippie.

for you information, my only nephew, who was a gifted athlete and a climber and a cyclist, lost almost the entire use of one leg and one arm when his bradley burned on the drive to baghdad.

i see that and deal with that 3-4 times a week for 5 years now.

so the opinion of a 15 year old sitting in his parents basement in canada jacking off to john wayne and die hard movies really does not mean [censored] to me...

you can shove your little "god bless our troops" sig line up your not an american citizen, never served this country ass.

tool.

It honors the victims of one of the most brutal military attacks to occur on U.S. soil. The only way somebody could NOT like it is if they are a terrorist.

coming from someone who:

• is NOT an american citizen
  
• does NOT live in america
  

i really hope that is an attempt at sarcasm? if not it's among most moronic and jingoistic statements i've ever read.

and that's coming from someone who is an american citizen. who has carried arms in the service of his country. and who believes the current american president is a liar and an idiot and possibly a war criminal. the idea of labeling anyone who does not agree with your political point of view a "terrorist" is so against the principles that america was founded on as to be absurd. anyone who paid attention is 3rd grade civics knows that is not what america is supposed to be about.

done.

and as much as a dislike automatic renewals, if that's what it takes to keep the forum going i'm in.

i met him a few weeks ago at the 'yuri's night' event at nasa ames.

he was always one of my hero's

better watch out joe, he's likely to knock you on your ass like he did that moon landing conspiracy theorist in LA a few years ago

i find myself feeling the same way more and more these days. i started with gens and while reps are fun, they are just reps.

i sold a few watches in the last few weeks and started rep shopping to replace them and just could not find anything... great.

so i bought a seiko 6R15 'sumo' diver

for $400 or so i get a totally in house watch that is truly 200m water resistant with amazing lume and beautiful fit and finish inside and out that will run for 10 years or more without touching it. with no 'mods' needed

and now i have one of basically every significant seiko diver!

Anybody have any idea how much a UPO would be worth with link gap fixed, correct dial, and complete gen bezel? I'm just curious as I have a 42mm but I'm on the fence about spending the money on a gen bezel. And yes, I know the gen bezel does not just drop on, I like challenging problems....

um, the gen bezel is never going to go on without re-machining the whole case or the bezel, or both. if that's even possible. the mechanism is different as is the way it fixes to the case.

a gen insert will fit. but a lot of $$ to buy a whole bezel (i think $180US plus at frei) just for the insert

@Longshot : what's the 3rd Seiko in your pic, I love it !

that's my seiko prospex 300m 'tuna can'. there is also a larger 1000m version of the same watch.

i also have this one. the first quartz professional dive watch, the first titanium dive watch, and the first to use tiCn coating and monster at 52mm!

it's not as fugly as this

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan_Aero_8

and i love morgans and british sports cars. my first three cars were MGA's

i've been really surprised at how much wrist time my noob yachtie hes been getting. thanks to by-tor for the great review that pushed me into buying it. and to chris at eutotimez for great service and a great watch. once the higher beat movement (and one other secret mod part!) arrives it will absolutely be a keeper.

but was bored today, and i hate those weekends when you sell something and ship it off and don't have anything new to play with. so i decided to try the yachtie on a panatime 20mm black croc i picked up last week

still dressy, but i think a bit more sporty!

i would love to see good doxa reps. easy to do with an eta or even the high beat seagull and way more history than 'brands' like hublot

mickey

i called him a tool:

because his first posts (pre edit) were out of line.

because when a mod called him on it he was sarcastic.

because when the same mod called him on it again, he accused the mod of being in bed with the dealer and not being impartial.

because he did not bother to do 30 seconds of work with the search engine before claiming i was wrong about there being lots of non-chrono 7750 reps.

and he continued that same behavior after my post.

defend his behavior if you wish. personally i think the mods here work too hard and do too good a job to put up with any juvenile crap

i have the exact same problem with mine, and a number of other members have posted the same thing.

it's almost like the stem is too short?

i'm considering buying an extra one of the higher beat seagull movements from ajoesmith and having a watchmaker put it in. not sure if that will fix it or not but the BR is one of my favorite casual/sport watches and it's worth spending a bit to me

Perhaps to confirm your blue dial critique...

http://www.repgeek.com/showthread.php?t=18812

-M

um, that's a 229 and it is supposed to have a blue dial.

we are talking about the 089 ti GMT which is supposed to have an anthracite gray dial

Am I the only one that sees the irony in the fact that most view gem stones on watches as unsightly or in bad taste ?

i don't know of this is still true or not, but i remember reading somewhere (possibly in one of alan flusser's books) that for most of their history tiffany & co. refused to make a man's ring with diamonds. it was considered tasteless and low class...