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I've heard that that is the reason the Olympics were for amateurs only for so long. The upper-class twits didn't want to compete against the working classes. Banning professionals meant that only people who could afford not to work could compete and win.

Sturgeon

That engraving is crazy! It looks like something Antoine Preziuso would make.

Broker

Just a random observation. Although their uniforms could be better (sluttier), there are some hotties on the women's curling teams. Anna Sidorova of Russia ...and Cheryl Bernard of Canada is pretty MILFy

I have mine on a black matte buffalo GT w/butterfly deployant. http://www.internationalwatchman.com/sportband/GTSTRAPSBUFFALO.html

The Noid

Happy

Cesar Chavez

Restoration

Mona Lisa

Fat Tuesday!!!

Oscillate

You're thinking of the "Radium Girls," a very disturbing landmark in the history of workplace safety law in the US. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium_Girls

I respectfully suggest that something about your friend's story is not quite right. Even if one had an extra sensitive radiation detector, the beta radiation is not capable of penetrating a plexiglass, glass, or sapphire crystal. From further readings about timelines, I'm becoming convinced that it was likely a tritium watch and the continuity people just didn't know about radiation. http://www.nukeworker.com/study/radiation_faqs/h3.shtml "DETECTION A tiny drop of contamination containing H-3 can be easily detected with a wipe test from a liquid scintillation counter. A Geiger counter will not detect the presence of H-3."

While watching Dr. No with my 8 and 6-year old sons yesterday, I saw something I'd never noticed before. At one point in the film, Bond has a geiger counter and tests it by pointing it at his Rolex. It clicks as he expected, and he explains to Quarrel that it was triggered by the luminous dial in his watch. Now I have worked with tritium, and with geiger counters, and I know that tritium does not set off geiger counters. The low-energy beta particles are not strong enough to even penetrate the layer of dead skin we all carry. Radium, on the other hand, is easily detectable with standard geiger counters. So, all you Rolexers out there...did Rolex Submariners of the late 50s and early 60s have radium lume? Or is this just a little error in the film.

Apogee

Ale

You could take one pic a day and wind up with a time lapse video of a fading bezel insert.

Anchor Steam. San Francisco, USA

I went to a friend's house for poker and football. The host was passed out by the 4th quarter. When he wakes up, he will learn that he lost $1000 on the Colts.