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Gorgeous! What a shot!

*brings out the cat'o'nine-tails* Ooh, weird play with David Ortiz, eh? Says the girl wearing the Fiddy with the Greg Stevens Crazy Horse strap. GAY!

@The Mentalist: BTW,

Miss Understood, which rep graces your dainty little wrist, at present? I'd like to get a proper visual of you!

Character building, The Mentalist, never forget. Every cold shower was another callous of pain of experience, and it's what made Britain great. Just don't even mention "fagging" to Americans...hoo boy!

They don't call you the Silver Fox for nothing, Miss Understood!

Strangely enough, no one on either side of my family is gay (I mean, outwardly!). However, almost all of the British cousins have been to boarding school, including yours truly. Are you telling me that someone, somewhere didn't play hide the sausage afterhours in the Winchester College gym, once? Come on! Of course they did! And what's more...many of them wore Rolexes too, SO THERE! Just in case Simple English-needing foreign-speakers didn't understand , that's Cockney rhyming slang for queer. You know what I like? That gay people have reclaimed "queer" and made it into a positive, like Queer Studies. YES! That's the way to do it, baby! Stick it to us!

"FS : Rolex 6536/1 James Bond Sub" "Offering the price for US$ 21,OOO.OO plus shipping! I only accept International Bank Wire, or Western Union Money Wire. Thank you." No escrow, at least?

I'm sure Sssurfer will see this in the "morning", TeeJay! He had some kind of lever pin fix idea for another member, which may well be what ails yours...good luck!

No, it's not Puggers! The richest people are the cheapest people on earth. They will diddle you for 10p, if they can, and bargain you down for anything. Just because they can go inside a building and buy it, doesn't mean they won't, as Rose Kennedy used to do, try to get her deposit back on nail varnish bottles at Woolworth's. Or make her chauffeur pay for his own coffee. Rich people are cheap. As my mum says, maybe that's why they're rich and we're not...

Lanikai! So far this thread has been pretty okay, considering the volatile topic, talked about amongst grown up MEN of all people. No one has been flat out disgusting. Suddenly I see Anton saying it's an all-out flame-war? Maybe on Mars, because for the internet, this ain't no flame-war. By any stretch of the imagination. So don't misunderstand my words, Lanikai, please. They were for sure, as you could tell by my followup Elizabeth Taylor crack, said in jest. We on the same page now, or am I gonna have to don my Dominatrix outfit for you again? P.S.: Lanikai, I surely am sorry about your family having been interned. My family suffered too. We all suffered in so many ways, throughout the centuries, with or without labels. But words are human. It's how we talk to each other. No one here is going from "your watch is gay!" to "I will ban you because you're gay". I know you had a very nice reminder for us, to use caution when using words, but touching on controversial topics shouldn't be verboten anywhere. When we stop talking about things, it's when we have to worry as a human race.

First, the engraving looks flawless. A mite worried about the cannon pin. The second photo looks a bit recessed, but not in the first. EDIT: I would ask him for a better Crown Guard in general. That "dimple" is a dead giveaway, I'm afraid. Looks exactly like the first Fiddy's I received...so I hope there's no funny business going on there (IOW, he's still using the same parts of my "old" Fiddy). I saw Estaban's commentary about the Crown being too far away, but DSN's replacement Fiddy had the opposite problem. The CG was too close, and the crown wouldn't pop out enough. Took a local watchsmith to canabalise the two, to make it work. BTW, just as a point of interest, here are the photos of the second Fiddy Davidsen sent me, like he did with your second. Thread: http://www.rwg.cc/members/index.php?showtopic=44622

Ahem, I'm not Hambone (at least not today), but I think most straight men don't hate the gay person. They hate the sexual realities of being gay. I think Hambone said as much when he mentioned the reaming and the BJs. () But why am I telling a guy that? Guys know what it is about gay men they cannot stand, if such is the case!

I posted this in the Celebs wearing Panerai thread, as an adjunct photo. That pretty much covers your criteria. @The Mentalist: BTW, I saw my first Miami-Smart car the other day! People were gawking and staring. All I kept thinking was, if they get into an accident with the SUVs we have here (and Florida is ALL about the SUV), they're toast. Poor things.

Oy! When Mikhail Baryshnikov defected from the Iron Curtain, he nailed every woman in the West, including Jessica Lange, Jessica Tandy, and Jessica Fletcher! Unfortunately, he has really bad taste in watches. Movado, Misha? Say it ain't so! (Yeah, sorry guys. Not a fan. Movado is gay)

It's FUGLEE. Whether gen or rep, so yes, I think your idea is right. WHAT! Not ANOTHER gay thread on RWG. (Just like the "take a bullet" remark, it was meant half-in-jest, Viennawatch. Always remember to read my statements with a pinch of salt. Or in this case, a camel hump's full). @Freddy: Ooh, Triumph TR5 (not yours specifically). Best sports car ever? Ah well, another thread, another time, Freddy!

:lol: I Google Imaged "I like Vaginas" as my search string, and unfortunately, no one has come up with a t-shirt bearing this vaginal statement. But I did find this. (How does that look like a vagina?? "Fun atmosphere". I bet)

What, no way? Seems I left my homeland just in time... (No, she got it when I was still there. Just recalled) We seem to delight in rewarding busybodies like Mary Whitehouse and Chrissie Maher with OBEs. Whitehouse at least could be mocked. Mock Maher, and you're the equivalent of Dr. Crippen because of the PC-brigade. I'm all for speaking plain English, but Plain English is as bad as nonsensical officialese. When it becomes mandatory to the point of destroying the origins of the English tongue (such as calls for restructuring its spelling), I rue the day I wasn't born French. It would never OCCUR to them to have a Simple French Wikipedia equivalent, since they revere their tongue, preserve its origins, and if foreign-speakers can't master it, tough merde. They even have the Academie Fran

Easy. You live next to the biker from the Village People.

No, not at all. I went to the en suite toilet, which has no window, and shone the torch for about 1 minute. Turned off the torch, and took a quick photo in complete darkness. Same procedure with the bottom photo. Let me try to show you a photo of the torch I bought (on eBay). What you wrote is a bit too techy for me. EDIT: Oops, not 140 UV lightbulbs. Just 41! "UV 41 LEDs light burn life of around 100000 hours 2 modes of operation: Press on/off button ONCE - 21 LED mode / Press on/off button TWICE - 41 LED mode Aluminium body Ideal as a pocket flashlight Can act as money detector Twist for constant on/off Powered by 4 x AAA batteries (not included) Size: 143 x 53mm" I used mode number 2, the one with the most lightbulbs. Looks exactly like this: Hmm! Interesting interesting, indeed. And yes, I saw your wonderful Fiddy. GORGEOUS! Shame it has to go back, but there you are. The usual rep watch owner merry-go-round. @All who replied with info: THANKS! I begin to understand why the variations occured. Any more first-hand info would be lovely.

WELCOME BACK TEEJAY!! Now that I am better, I can get you those straps. I'll PM you by this evening my time, to sort things out. Hope you enjoyed yerself! P.S.: Oh, never mind about the pink shirt. Do you wear women's sunglasses? That's the bit I don't like in today's mens, as the Wayans Bros. used to say.

I just clicked on the link, so I'm not sure this is to what is referred in the article, Nanuq. But I THINK you are talking of Castelul Bran (Castle Bran)? Okay, yes, just saw it. It's an interesting story, and it allows me to name-drop again. I have a History degree with a concentration in Nazi Era Film/Eastern European history. So, when I was working on my thesis, I interviewed the current owner of Castle Bran, Archduke Dominic of Austria-Hungary (of the cadet, Toscana branch). His mother inherited the castle from her mother, the vivacious Queen Marie of Romania. When the Iron Curtain came down, the Archduke successfully sued to have his mother's Castle returned to the family, and the Romanian government acquiesced (part of which was the reason for the interview). They even gave the ex-King, still living in Switzerland, a quasi-official ceremonial position, very laudably. He is the lone survivor of ALL the Heads of States during WWII. Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin, Horthy, De Gaulle -- all dead, only he remains. But unfortunately, this Castle, though not huge, is very difficult to keep up without enormous amounts of money which the family do not have anymore. The Archduke himself has a rundown home in Venice, which he is reconstructing with his own hands. A very expensive endeavour in and of itself. So I went there there, got the tour from the chap himself (very nice, BTW, speaks perfect English since he was brought up near Boston, in exile), and found it creepy, but not as much as I anticipated considering the Vlad connexion. Now it's up for sale as you can see, but I think the Romanian government should buy it back and turn it into what it was, a museum. Not sure that is going to happen, since the moneys simply aren't there. The other royal Palace returned to the Royal Family (there are several), Cotroceni, was inhabited for years by the ex-Soviet puppets, including of course, the Ceauşescus. It's reverted to the King himself. I'm sure that won't be on the market any time soon, though. P.S.: The other two interesting links are the Pierre Penthouse, and that home in Cap Ferrat. Curiously, they were at one point both inhabited by Aristotle Onassis and Jacqueline Kennedy (though it doesn't say that on the link, but it doesn't have to. I know).

I used to be an English-as-a-Second-Language instructor, with an emphasis on advanced Business English. Yeah, that's right. I taught Japanese businessmen how to make nice with rich Americans and Brits. And was I was damn good too. So if there is anyone on this board who knows how to make themself understood in simple, clear, but INTERESTING English it is Ryyannon...who is AWOL. And dammit, I'm sad. He would've been all over this thread, with insouciant replies about Regine and perhaps some French techno dancing too. (Yes, I used insouciant, but I presume YOU don't need Simple English. Maybe Simple French? ) @Ryyannon: LOL! Bad spelling. You're so ironical. FREAK!

I knew someone was going to reply about the poor, half-starved (implied), overworked (implied), illegal (not implied but bloody well often true) non-native English speaking people who might otherwise have died without knowing who Rene Rivkin was, if not for the good offices of Simple English Wikipedia. And that he was sad when he was put in gaol/jail. And that his dog Spot was sad too. And that made him sad. Oh, give me a break. It has nothing to do with simple English, but the utter brain-dead quality of the telling of the "story". If only I had time to alter these Simple English entries on Wikipedia, I'd put that entry so right, even your weeping heart full of mercy and humanity towards these poor confused non-Anglophones, would applaud me!! Unfortunately, I cannot take time off from my busy Rep Watch forum replying. I'm sad.

Offshore's post on the passing of Rene Rivkin made me Wiki him for the date of death. 2005. Wow, I'm behind the times. Here's the Wiki entry for Rene Rivkin, in case of interest: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rene_Rivkin But what did my eyes spy, to the lower left of the page, where foreign language entries are usually labelled "French", "German", even "Esperanto" sometimes, but "Simple English". Simple English? Here's what it says, in toto: http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rene_Rivkin Rene Rivkin (6 June 1944 - 1 May 2005) was an Australian man who made lots of money by buying stocks and shares on the Australian stockmarket. Rene Rivkin had his own television show and magazine to help people to make money. One day police said that Rene Rivkin had cheated to make money out of the stock market. Rene Rivkin got very sad. Rene Rivkin was put in jail. While Rene Rivkin was in jail, Rene Rivkin killed himself. Before killing himself, Rene Rivkin said on a television show called "Enough Rope" with Andrew Denton that if he went to jail he would kill himself. Andrew Denton has said that he is very sad about this. "One day police said that Rene Rivkin had cheated to make money out of the stock market. Rene Rivkin got very sad." ... "Andrew Denton said he was very sad about this"? What? This is "See D1ck and Jane Run" type of storyline! My God, talk about the dumbing down of culture in general. Simple English, indeed. Wikipedia is ALREADY the dumbed down version of the Encyclop