trailboss

Look, I know he can be a right pain at times but I don't think you guys have studied your rep history. As far as I can tell this hobby ows Klink a lot. His understanding of and, in the early days, participation in the industry helped give us the dealer system we have now Appart from that the man is ill, next week it could be you. Where I came from we treat sick old friends better. Even if they do turn into gruimpy ole' beggers. You don't have to like him but having no sympthy for a man with cancer is bad, Mmkay? Regards, Col.

Mate I still don't know whayt to say. What hurts me the most is talking Klink out of banning the lot of them. I didn't feel it was right (or looked right) to ban most of the rep worlds senior mods in one fell swoop. Also, you killed a Forum. I can forgive ya bro but I suspect there's a lot who won't be able to. PM me your email again before they bann your ass. : ) : Col.

Mmmmmm, Rose Gold! I loves Rose Gold. Col.

Now THATS a nice watch! Rose gold and brown is it? Col.

Jetmid shall NEVER die! In fact can we invite him for the grand opening so we can roast him all over again? Please? It was soooo much fun. Heck, JB joined in that one! Col.

Nice. You could have taken it out of the plastic first :-) Col.

Boobies are what the bun is for. We kept boonies to a dull roar in General ect. Mostly :-) Col.

Of cause Oscar. There will be a General Disscusion forum and others. We did talk about watches at RWG1, remember? Col.

I like Greg's. Sorry Dave, we're going to have our new home and that's that Col.

Ok, But I still want my Concord tourby. Not that I'm EVER likly to own one! Col.

Gee Oscar. It's only been weeks. :-) And where's your RWG1 header? AY? Col.

Actualy I was wrong. We need Freud AND Kinsey! Col.

As much as I hate to admit it, I kinda like it. Bright and cheerfull it shurly is. Cheap it ain't. Wonder how much Man U make from each sale? The red and black along with the yellow contrast rather nicely IMO. Then again the only BB I realy love is the carbon and gold one, same reason. The design of this watch lends itself to stark contrast of colour rather well. Col.

He implying that you "ride the sausage" my friend. ie: you are both gay and prob involved. In short you have just been insulted. Col.

You go fella. I now am shure it ain't gunna get done if we don't do it. Col.

I can't belive they don't rep this. The more I look the more I like. Such classicly simple and clean design. Are those tritium lume markers? Looks like it may be. Don't know why I'mm bothering to ask but what's the gen worth? Col.

Whats gay about OK in Dutch? We should get back on topic before John gets back and rouses us for messing up an important topic. We may get the cat! Col.

Glad that's setteled without a big dust up. One point you didn't make to Luthier is that personaly I wouldn't even have posted his name. You will find that most of us do not even know that as JB was a private sorta guy. He talked about tennis and I'm shure you could deduce his name from there with a bit of sluthing but you never heard it from him. People who take such a stance especialy when he held together a forum he had little more intrest in than Blade deserve to have their privacy respected. I;m afraid it's Dave I would be berateing. Sorry mate but that should have gone by PM "No real names". I know the real names of a few peeps here who never use them in open forum and i would NEVER repeat them in the open. I think if you think about it Dave, you just may agree. Regards, Col.

Hey John. Nice choice! That is one VERY nice timepiece. Put me down for one. I'd also like to see a decent Top Gun, in carbon instead of ally and a big improvment on the Navitimer. It's still not right. Oh, and a sub with correct CGs would be nice. And of cause, this . . . Yeah, I know, I'mm dreaming. Col.

The A21J you most proberly have in your current reps can have noise issues. Wear it enough and the appear to go away eventualy in most cases. If it's a real ETA in your new one it should be close to silent. Wouldn't mind seeing some pics of the "Swiss ETA" MVT when it arrives either. Col.

I didn't get a PM! I feel left out. Not another forum? Yawn. Col.

Oke, see ya on the other side of night. Col.

"Age shall not weary them Nor the years condem At the going down of the sun And in the morning We shall remember them. Lest we forget."

Yep, The Time has come, JohnG said To speak of finer things Of data bases and ip traces "We need a new home! " he sings. And he's right. If it were coming baxk we would have heard from JB by now. Besides the walls here are geting a little closer every day. I agree first step is to find JB or Blade and beg for the domain and DB. There's too much history in that DB for it to be lost. I don't think money will be a problem. If we all throw in a bit it won't take much. Tidying up the DB is gunna be the big one. All up to Dems now as he onviously knows more about WTF is going on than we do. Un moderated, yes but it may be handy to actualy HAVE some moderaters this time round so there's somone to sweep up the pieces after a particualy big fight. And for those days where the front page is all viagra adds. A dozen at once is anoying after everyone has had their fun it would be good to be able to bin them. Right behind you on this one John. The forum may well belong to Blade technicly but in fact it belongs to all of us. Especialy those who were there allmost from the start. Such people put a lot of effort into makeing one of the first rep watch forums the success it was and it is doing them a disservice by removing all their efforts from the face of the earth That's the problem with the internet. Nothing is solid, it ain't paper and all it takes is for one person to throw one switch and you have lost years of accumulated experiance and wisdom. Admitedly in the case of RWG1 mixed in with a whole lot of unintelligible rubbish but, hey! It worked! So. It's time, men. Syncronise your Collaboration One's, chk your packs and webbing, lock and load and MOVE OUT! And the RWG1 re-establishment task force marches away in perfect formation to the tune of "Burning Bridges" Col.

John, I think you would find THIS INTERVIEW in which Kerry O'Brien interviews Dr Anthony Cordesman from the Centre for Strategic Studies about the future for Afghanistan, Iraq and Iran. It's quite detailed and the man knows what he's talking about. Col.