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Well said, ma brotha. I have so many things and people to be thankful for, there is no way I could ever list them all. But listing the entire members list of RWG would be a good start. We are blessed, my friends. Let's give thanks.

Wowwwwwwwww Lani!! What a spectacular piece!! I like yours even better than the one in Pete's book, you have the hours hand with the "thin" lume and that just looks better. More balanced. She has just enough wabi to be "loved" and not abused. And your research is spot on. What a score! Congratulations! I think this just about puts you in Doctor Doxa position on RWG, eh?

No worries! It wasn't until much later in the test that it finally gave up the ghost. You'll notice it lost the 12:00 hours index... that was after a 2-story fall onto my driveway. Ooops.

Jetmid? Is that you?

Depends... do you look like this?

Nation's Snowmen March Against Global Warming November 24, 2009 WASHINGTON, DC — Braving balmy temperatures and sunny skies, millions of scarfless snowmen and snowwomen gathered in cities across the world Tuesday to raise public awareness about the heavy toll global warming is taking on their health and well-being. Snowmen from across the nation gather at the Washington Monument to protest global warming. According to organizers of marches in Washington, Atlanta, Montreal, Berlin, London, Reykjavik and Moscow, global warming is the primary cause of the steep reduction in the snowman population throughout the Northern Hemisphere. Demonstrators worldwide called on their governments to take more aggressive steps to reduce the effects of climate change. Organizers estimated the crowd at more than 375,000 but D.C. Police Commissioner Charles Stacey estimated turnout at 30,000 whole snowmen, with scattered rounded abdomens accounting for an additional 5,000. Atlanta organizers and police agree that all demonstrators had melted by 11 a.m. Joe Centigrade, president of the Advocates For Beings Of Frozen Precipitation (ABFP), spoke at a mass rally Tuesday on Washington's National Mall. "The unseasonably warm winters of the recent past are a clear indication of a real environmental threat to humans and their frozen simulacra," said Centigrade, his coals arranged in a frowning pattern. "As snowmen and snowwomen, we accept the inevitability of melting, but the actions of man are causing us to evaporate well before our time." Speakers at the Washington rally included a Chicago snowwoman who had lost three snowchildren to warm temperatures, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, and Larry Chilly, formerly a 6-foot-tall, triple-segmented Muncie, IN snowman, who had been reduced to a slushy head. Centigrade told the slowly melting snowcrowd that as recently as 15 years ago, the average life span of a snowperson built in late December was three weeks to a month. Today, that same snowperson has an average life span of two weeks. Centigrade also recounted stories of once-jolly snowmen unable to keep their carrot noses in their fast-melting faces, and of others who were made of only two undersize segments. "In many regions of New England today, there's not even enough snow on the ground to make snowballs, much less a torso," Centigrade said. "Instead, some snowmen are stuck together with slush and leaves rather than pure, white snow. We must take steps now to end their suffering." Bearing signs with such slogans as "You Can't Build A Snowman With Rain" and "Winter = Life," the crystalline-ice protestors, many of whom had chartered refrigerated tractor-trailers and ice-cream trucks to travel to the mass protest, complained that popular stereotypes about snowmen obscure and trivialize the crisis. Larry Chilly speaks out against mankind's global irresponsibility. "Humans sneer at us, 'If you want to stay intact, go to the North Pole and live with Santa,'" said Susie Flakeman, a Thunder Bay, Ontario snowwoman waiting in line with hundreds of others to use a Porta-Freezer. "But less than one-half of 1 percent of us ever receive that honor. Most of us end up victims of the scourge that almost killed Frosty: man-made climate change." The protest was largely peaceful, disrupted only by a disturbing incident in which one distraught snowman hurled himself into the reflecting pool of the National Mall. He suffered third-degree slush on over 90 percent of his body before rescuers could recover him. He was rushed to a local meat locker where he was pronounced melted on arrival. Some scientists refuted the snowbeings' claims regarding global warming. "Throughout history, the earth has endured periods of temperature fluctuation," said Dr. Harley Morrison, a biochemist who has advised President Bush on scientific issues. "Also, there have already been several major blizzards throughout North America this season alone. I made a snowman myself, and he lasted for several weeks." Late word arrived Tuesday evening that the Moscow protest was violently dispersed by riot police bearing hot-water hoses and snow blowers. Moscow officials said the snowmen were illegally blocking pedestrian traffic near the Kremlin and causing people to slip and fall in their slushy wakes. Snow leaders, including Centigrade, condemned the crackdown. "Those of us who remember the Icelandic anti-heated-sidewalk riots of the 1980s know that the powers that be despise and fear snowmen who fight for their rights," Centigrade said. "They'd rather kill the messengers than face the fact that our ecosystems are changing irreparably. We're prepared to stay in D.C. as long as it takes until Congress agrees to listen to our demands." Before he could conclude his remarks, Centigrade's face slid off.

Just for DBR, here's my favorite pic of the GMT on Jubilee And here she is on Oyster

Pffffffffffft. Those people don't know what a tough watch is.

I wonder if "prius" is the plural of "prion"? Perhaps a synonym?

I read all those articles earlier today and thought to myself, how very sad for those "scientists" that they have to go to such extremes of dishonesty to push their agenda. If I was willingly falsifying data, actively suppressing contrary scientific findings, and working to destroy the reputations of other people that came up with different results than me, while riding the white horse of virtue ... I'd sure hope I had someone in my life with an ounce of integrity to smack me upside the head and tell me to knock it off. I'm asking the guys here in Admin and Mods group to please do just that if you EVER catch me in an exaggeration or a lie. Please.

This is gonna be GOOD!!!! Yowza!!!!

Rats, I thought this thread was going to be about a vice and a BIG hammer and a Rolex.

Lani, you know the photo I posted of mine where the insert is blueish and the dial is going tropical? That's the original MBW insert from 12 years ago, and I soaked it in straight bleach, the strongest stuff I could find, for 30 minutes, then 45 minutes, then for an hour, then another hour. Then massive heat with the strongest sea salt solution I could saturate, and extremely harsh direct sunlight. I'm happy but I'd like to reduce the blue tint just a little.

Can you provide more details? Where you got it, etc? The seller might be able to get you another, or you can measure it with calipers and then see about an aftermarket crystal like a GS. If I remember right, Offshore can get GS crystals and he just opened his Watch Bitz shop.

Dang, you're GOOD. Back to scanning member names for you!

Shundi, Lani ... it's our job. Most of us wound up here after getting ripped off by someone, and we all have a story to tell. When you all learn about watches, and share that information, you raise the level of expertise for all members, and you will learn to spot the scammers yourselves. Yes, we in Admin have the final say on things like this, but it's not our goal to micromanage this board. When you guys know more about watches than we do, then you can be even faster than us weeding out the bad eggs. And that is what this place is all about. Knowledge and information. Share the wealth, boys.

The Admin team normally does not announce any bans imposed, they just happen. We are making an exception here, as we have recently noticed more and more members posting "new" watches For Sale. This in itself is not a reason to ban a member; there may be circumstances when someone wishes to move on a recently purchased watch. However when we see multiple watches listed, we start to suspect some "back door" trading. Historically these deals end in tears, as the seller is not geared for the amount of work and effort to properly run a "business." It sometimes also involves overpriced watches being offered or goods misrepresented. This is one of the reasons we have a members sales area, and a dealers area. Anyone wishing to sell multiple new watches is required to apply to become a dealer. No ifs, ands or buts. Those are the rules. The Admin team will then decide if their credentials stack up. In addition to the multiple new watches being sold, we did some investigation and we have hard evidence of backdoor/PM deals being solicited. That directly violates RWG forum policy. This place exists to prevent that sort of behavior, not to accommodate it. So as of this posting, members nibenma and taoyanta520 will be removed from the forum, and will be banned again if they attempt to return under an alias. We posted an article some months ago, "So you want to be a dealer," in an attempt to advise a number of parties of our feelings on this matter. Some listened, some didn't. All further multiple new watch listings will come under severe scrutiny, and instant removal of listings, with subsequent bans, may be expected. Should a member have a good reason to need to post multiple new watches for sale, it would be advisable to discuss this with the team first. PLEASE READ THE RULES. RWG was founded as a place to acquire, and to share, knowledge about watches. That knowledge will help protect buyers from being scammed. Our goal is to protect against this sort of behavior, not to facilitate it. Scammers will not be tolerated here. Sincerely, The Admin Team

Hey Dems, when you're done you can think through why I'd need to establish THE best possible "point of tangency" for my system plane, approx 3,800 nm on a side. Consider spherical trig, projected paths and points of intersection, and displaying that representation on a flat surface. What am I up to???

Could this photo be titled, "Where the Sea-Dweller was conceived"??

Wow, you are a master with the camera! You know, when that DivingStar arrives you could do a pictorial progression showing how watches grew in size over the decades... Seriously, that is really well done, ma brotha. You're an artist in more ways than one.

Uh oh lads, we might have broken Lani here. Maybe one too many comments about how gorgeous Doxas are? Now we have him considering a purchase of a new model? I'm sorry but it all sounds to me like he's got Doxaitis. As we all know, sunshine is the best disinfectant so a good bright photo of some other brand may be all it takes to snap the poor boy out of his condition? Let me have a go at it... Whoops! Sorry, wrong pic!

Thanks for the detailed analysis Freddy. To me the biggest deal breaker is that the crown protrudes from the case well below the midline. It's almost comical when seen from the side. Even in the 6538 incarnation these are thin watches. They have very shallow rehaut, very low domes and shallow casebacks. The midcase is quite thin, and seen next to a rep they look almost like a dress watch. Every 653x rep to date is grotesquely too thick. Hence the Yuki (et al) cases. Take the easy way out, get a cheapo and try to fit a CWP bezel, and abuse it thoroughly. After all that's what we're all about... enjoying our watches.

How unspeakably gruesome! The humanity!

Definitely! "Jetrigger"? Were you on Eielson or Elmendorf?

Thanks R, for everything! Aren't those thin-case vintage Doxas just amazing? They ride so low, they're so comfortable to wear, it's my #1 go-to watch now. I wear mine more than anything else. Well, jeans and sneakers too. Hey, post up some photos of your thin little 300 next to the mighty T-Graph Pro. I bet it's what, half as thick? PS: whadja think of LilRedDivingHood's Black Lung? Pretty sweet eh? I sold him the Beads of Rice he's got it on. PPS: I'm planning on a trip to the post office this weekend to get your endlinks in the mail. Gotta get the huskies fed and the sled greased.