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Since it's a gift, and not given lightly, you might consider leaving it as-is... that might convey a level of appreciation that a dial swap would step right over. Just a thought.

At least they spelled "officially" right.

Excellent!! Wear it well!

There's a saying... "you can take the boy out of Alaska, but you can't take Alaska out of the boy" I think it applies to reps as well.

With the loving atmosphere we show here (group hug anyone?) I made sure nobody knew when my birthday came and went!

I know you're supposed to place one drop of water on the center of the crystal. If it remains a circle then it's a sapphire. If it spreads out it's mineral glass. (or was it the other way around?)

..........or the dementia?

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Whoa! You don't look THAT old.......... Hav en god f

"closet" ? *grrrrrrrrrrr*

@Rya, it's the old uneasy tension, or balance, between personal security and personal freedom. We're very "free" here and are consequently very exposed to whatever dangers we choose to confront.

I'll tell you, it's an adventure living here. I've been 5feet from polar bears "safe" inside my truck, and just dumb enough not to know the steel doors would do no more than slow him down slightly if he decided he wanted in. "Nature, red in tooth and claw" somehow spares the ignorant among us (me) but Mother Nature is one mean b!tch if you go out there all cocky or arrogant. Many people here just ... cease to exist and nothing is ever found of them. I wouldn't trade it for the world.

oh man you haven't lived till you've had Kaladi Brothers Trieste blend. For my birthday a couple weeks back the delectable Ms.Nanuq got me a new Via Venezia machine by Saeco, with the pump for shots, and WOW does it make a nice bean!!

true, true...it's all about how they may perceive you as a threat or as..... Dinner.

Speechless, I see. I often have that effect on, um ladies. ...............Vicky??

Mastery of languages? Pshaw. Una inuuq aaniqtuuq. Cabin fever?

Ah, the inimitable and never-to-be-repeated TRL thread. A masterpiece of speech. Irrespective of your attempts to paint me with the Vickybrush, I think you've ir-reestablished one thing for all of us... too much time spent in France turns one's brain to crepes. Hmmmmmmm, I wonder what happened to the ever-delectable Miss Understood? Have you considered perhaps she and Miz Barrett are one and the same?

Do you mean stupefying? *wagging my finger at you* Perhaps "Terrifying, mortifying or petrifyingly" large....?? Now just a darn minute here. The delectable Miz Vicky has a grasp of foreign and historical events of which I am utterly incapable. I can barely even spell the words she so blithely tosses about. Me? I'm just an ignorant Alaskan hick.

Ah, well said. Can we start a new "Where in the world is Victoria?" contest here? Perhaps a sightings bulletin board? Irregardless (don't you doubly hate it when people use that term?) you can define your singular vs. plural regular nouns in much the same way that your erstwhile students describe astronomical objects: by their surroundings. Have you ever seen a black hole? No, so one describes and "observes" them by their cosmic effects on their neighbors. In much the same way, the verbal neighbors of the noun in question will describe the noun's plurality: "a" moose "eats" the hiker, vs. "two" moose "eat" the hiker. Just like a black hole, those things that surround your object of interest define and categorize it. QED, voila' and all that. PS: 0 + 0 = 0

Where's the Tiger Chrono rep? Probably sitting in a box on a shelf RIGHT NEXT TO the lovely Snowflake we keep asking for.

Pfffffffft. He might also sic his pet nanuq on you too. Hey I've seen those circular shiny areas like you pointed out on other dials... they all proved to be redials or poor copies. I've never seen a gen dial like that, and none of mine have it.

Did someone mention bears?

Okay, $20 and it's mine. I'll send the dogsled for local pickup. Deal?? And people think that bears are cuddly.....

Well technically Alaska is part of the continent...