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Global Warming! Did they realize by removing the light-colored bits of gum from the sidewalk, they are reducing the amount of reflected heat energy back into space? The dark roads are absorbing more heat than they would otherwise, and THAT is where global warming is originating! Alert congress! The media!! I wonder if I can get a study grant from the govt to look into this?

More bubbles... enjoy!

Sorry, m'dear ... I've been busy as a one-legged man in a butt kicking contest. Busy as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs? Busy as a one-armed paper hanger? How's THAT for evocative speech?

Ask, and ye shall receive! Here's the brass showing through. Nice crystal, eh?

Well said! Keep 'em coming!

*snaps fingers* ...and I JUST deleted that picture from my server at home!! Rats!

Who can spot the most things wrong with this piece? It can be YOURS, for only $15,000

You are..... TheMan!!! Well done!

The 5508 is gen. Now take a look at this 1675 dial with the same extra lume dot.

Okay, okay, okay ... it's definitely a gen or a redial.

Here's an oddity that most folks haven't seen... some of the 5508s had an extra lume dot at the 6:00 position.

Answers: No, No, and yes.

So your roommate lived in Oymyakon? THAT is cold. Sadly, I've only lived in placed where it hits -70 to -80 regularly. I'll tell you, working outside in those conditions makes a -20 bike ride feel balmy.

Say Ch-ch-ch-ch-cheese!

That is a spectacular bezel!! Alright, what's the source? And if you decide you eventually need a gen tropic Superdome for that baby... I've got one. Here's how it looks on a 5508:

All right, let's see all the casebacks!

POLE, BERM IN THE WAY "I was pushing it really hard to make up some time, and I just pushed it too hard into a corner and didn't make it," said Juhlin, a 27-year-old heavy-equipment mechanic for Alyeska Pipeline Co. "I was headed right for a snow pole and decided I was going to have to go off the road so I didn't hit that pole." With a deep snow berm looming, Juhlin thought his race was over. "I figured I was going to get stuck in the snow and fly over the handlebars," he said. "I didn't know what was going to happen." But Juhlin managed to ride it out and get back on the road. He still isn't sure how he did it. "I was somehow able to get back on the road without incident," he said. Course conditions this year weren't as fast as in the previous two years, Hill said. He averaged just more than 119 mph two years ago and topped the 120 mph mark last year. "Everybody kind of slowed down a little bit," said Hill, who finished the race in 1 hour, 19 minutes, 31 seconds. There was more snow and not as much ice on the road this year. "We want ice so that the studs in our tracks and the carbides on our skis will dig in," said Hill. The snow caused tracks on machines to spin more than usual, he said. "It was a little more challenging," Hill said of this year's course conditions. "You didn't have total control all the time. "There was a lot more sliding this year than normal. You're sliding sideways at 120 mph instead of going straight ahead." http://www.adn.com/outdoors/story/303346.html

Did you notice the case does not have those dreaded droopy crown guards? Lovely piece.

How about if you tell your buyers about your ole buddy in Alaska? I have a couple genuine Superdome 39s put away for just this sort of thing!

Spectacular! Please send it to me now. That thing is gorgeous

Did someone say Matanuska Glacier?

Too much insulation. People think because it's cold you have to dress like the Michelin Man. So they do, and that's fine for sedentary tasks. But then when you exert yourself the heat cannot get out. I stress that with my boy scout troop all the time... dress in layers with zippers and openings you can use to vent heat as you exert. Then you stay drier and when the exertion ends, you zip back up again. PS: who can tell me why those bars are there over the roadway?

Pfffffft. That's not even cold. When winter biking in Alaska you're more at risk of heatstroke than hypothermia.

You'd make a great Alaskan! But lose the hammer... a double-bit axe is much more satisfying.