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@By-Tor: Lovely shot, of a beautiful watch. @TT: ...is the bottom photo, so glamourous, of you and Mrs. TT? WEDNESDAY More stock photos as my rash clears up. Maybe by Monday they'll be live shots. PAM 113 on PawMarker's Naturale strap. Good-looking strap for a decent price. THURSDAY I'm going back to Fiddy, to Fiddy, to Fiddy, stylin, profilin, growlin, and smilin! On Greg Steven's Crazy Horse. Can't wait to get behind the wheel again! Yeah, even during rush hour traffic.

Thanks for taking the time to reply, Doug. I think you hit the nail on the head. It was a very un-Burns-like documentary because the moving images we got, replaced the almost comically-stereotypical "slow pan shot from bottom to top of old sepia-coloured photograph" which made him famous. EXACTLY. Considering how different were the theatres, you'd think they would stand out for their differentness. Even if you say that "war is war" and war tends to be remarkably similar regardless of setting (anyone who has read Julius Caesar's own autobiographies of war knows what I am talking about), it was all alike... Well, I'm not so sure about that, not because I don't think it was the "Good War" (if ever there was a good war, this was it), but because my History background doesn't make me dewy-eyed about any war. Also, my grandfathers, serving on opposite ends of WWII..., never spoke about their EXACT war-time experiences, but I got enough from others to know the realities of war. The bombing, the rationing, the horrible telegrammes announcing death, the relocation of civilians, war refugees, mutil

Awww. Given my PAM collection...: Mine is war, cojones, and sneak torpedoing whenever possible.

Or faeces, presumably...even for a small fee. EDIT: Okay that was naughty even for my standards. But you guys started it!

Anyone here been watching this epic multi-part series on World War II on PBS? It lasted over 2 weeks in the telling. Let me say, it was a great effort. I liked it a lot. The key people who he portrayed, from Sacramento CA, Luverne MINNESOTA, Mobile ALABAMA, and others were fantastic. I think the Phillips family, brother and sister, were my favourites. They still had some of the bounce of their youth, though each must be nearing 85. But it wasn't like his seminal Civil War, or even the one about baseball which I enjoyed the HECK out of. I wonder if this was just my opinion, or if anyone who caught it, feels the same? In short, the series lacked something undefineable...not a sense of immediacy, or of suffering, it certainly didn't have bragadoccio because Burns isn't about that. Nor was it defeatist/pacifist, or did it inject any modern-day feelings about war. I wish I could put my finger on what was missing, if it was. Let me just say, I "love" World War II, but I'd sooner buy Burns' Civil War epic, than this one. I dunno. Maybe it was missing Shelby Foote. BTW, the ratings were off the chart for PBS: "An estimated 15.5 million viewers tuned in to the 8:00 – 10:30 p.m. premiere of Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s World War II film, THE WAR, last night on PBS, according to John Boland, PBS Chief Content Officer. The Gross Audience for the first night, which includes repeat airing from 10:30 p.m. – 1:00 a.m., drew an estimated 18.7 million. "In key markets, THE WAR garnered even higher ratings, reaching an 11.3/17 in Minneapolis/St. Paul, 10.6/17 in Seattle, 8.4/15 in San Francisco, 8.1/13 in Sacramento and 6.7/11 in New York City." (6.7 in NYC...) From: http://pressroom.pbs.org/documents/war_ratings Info on the series: http://pressroom.pbs.org/programs/the_war

LOL! In Portuguese it's also "xixi". BTW, urine -- excellent for washing ones' clothes my naval uncles tell me. A natural detergent.

I remember the Gym visit, but you didn't mention the crumpled wrappers the first time! Very interesting...reminds me of Swemoose's rock. I was certain that was Swedish Customs "at work".

Because bureaucracies, any bureaucracy of any country in the history of this world, don't do it like this. This includes the military and academia. It's their nature to obfuscate. I know you know, so does OMD -- but sometimes one has gotta hear it because it feels bad to feel targetted.

:wub: With your gens, perhaps the "perfect" male collection in my eyes. Alongside any Rolex, especially a Sub, every rep watch man should have: A Fiddy (...I'm flexible; really a PAM of any model) IWC 3717 Breitling SFSO (white or blue) Omega PO Everything after that is gravy.

Playboy? Too frivolous for what is truly an interesting, macho but elegant collection.

I am in fact allergic to penicillin (well, to the variety which was around when I was a kid. We're in the fifth generation of its incarnations, IIRC). Now how did penicillin get inside me? Don't answer that! I sense a naughty reply involving members' "syringes". (Thanks Freddy333! I'm getting better every day)

Troubling development. Sorry to hear that OMD. Received 3 Rolexes via Frisco from Jay mid-September, so not sure if your original package was randomly opened, and then you got put on some kind of list, or if this is an omen of things to come for US Customs. Thanks for posting it though (could you amplify the letter a bit?).

In the repizzle.

:lol:

The Watch Prince (TWP) or Davidsen (DSN)'s 111h or 112. You'll be blown away by either. BTW, please hit "Search". You'll find any number of people (including yours truly) have asked this very question when newbies. We get at least 5 per week.

What! TeeJay, no...this looks AWESOME on you. Take it from the Strap Queen!! (Especially since the SQ is in bed, and won't be able to send you Me So Horny until at least next week...)

(I love Daniel, my Windows Digital Media Enhancer Dancer!)

Mezz, you forget -- women colour coordinate their wardrobes, AND not all watches go with the "look" we have when we change clothes. If I stay home, I change clothes twice a day. If I have engagements that day, it's 3 or more. I never repeat clothes, so I never repeat watches. I woke up at 10 AM. So far, I've gone from PAM 113 on Savage strap, to PAM 210 on NATO black strap. Early days... EDIT: 3:35 PM EDT. Going for my 111h on SS bracelet after seeing TeeJay with it. This is worse than that drinking game when you down a drink after hearing a certain word in a movie. UPDATE 9:00 PM. HBB Aspen. 4 changes, 2 showers, 2 changes of clothes. Went nowhere today, just at home. I just can't see myself selling my watches. Even those that get zero-wrist time (like the Breguet "Tourbillon" I got from Narikaa). Don't know how you people do it. Don't you get emotionally attached to your watches?? (Somehow, I think the answer is "no, I want the money instead"...)

WTF! I always practised in my bedroom. What, is it streng verboten for guys to do so?

Shades of that Phantom of the Router story!! You know the one: He walked in, wearing a less than impressive timepiece. Snooty, Sub-wearing AD assistant didn't want to show him a GMT, then Phantom pulled out a pick-up ticket for his own GEN Sub. Sub-wearing AD assistant almost crapped himself, and tried a sleight-of-hand with the trays. Phantom then casually inquired if that fake Sub on snooty AD assistant's wrist was going to be switcheroo'ed at some point for his gen one, and oh BTW, can I speak to your manager. I love both stories, Nanuq!! Wish I had one. Unfortunately, a recent one of mine has me looking like the slimeball I am. Went wearing my Fiddy to a non-AD but high-end watch dealer in Lincoln Road. Called out. Next day, like a TOTAL schmuck, I go in wearing my gen vintage solid gold Rollie (c. 20k). You know, as if to say, "yeah I got your gen watch right here, bub" (grabbing balls). Loser. EDIT: (There's a thread on RWI asking people not to do this anymore -- i.e., wear their rep watches to gen watch shops/ADs. Why do we love living on the wild side? To find out if they're "knowledgeable" enough to catch us? Silly girl/people)

Because it's a hunk of (stainless) steel on your arm. Panerai are different. The Fiddy is enormous, and wears large, no doubt of that. But I find after a few seconds, I forget it's on my wrist. I never forget a Rolex or Omega is on my wrist. They're very weighty. The strap thingie might have something to do with it, though. I say, go for it, Mezz!

Oddly enough, whenever I think of your dramatic chipmunk with handlebar moutache, monocle and topper, I think PRECISELY: "Socialite dandy racecar driver with secret aspirations of becoming a naval frogman diving pilot"!

There are two in Andrew's arsenal! 41mm (available in white face) 45mm

A match made in heaven. Your watch or mine? EDIT: Oh wait! We're counting gens too?? Sorry, I dare not include that for the shrivelling of scrota which could follow.