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#31
10-02-2007, 01:01 AM
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Re: People who wear watches in the pool
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[ QUOTE ] I used to do this but then I realized that a watch tan line is really, really, lame so I just stopped wearing watches altogether. In general I imagine that most people that do this just think it's easier to keep it on than worry about someone stealing it out of a locker. [/ QUOTE ] qft. and i also just stopped wearing my watch altogether because of the nasty looking tan-line it leaves. who needs a watch when we have cell phones. [/ QUOTE ] That's Yeti's next post. 
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#32
10-02-2007, 01:08 AM
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Re: People who wear watches in the pool
People like to time their swimming exercise, buddy
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#33
10-02-2007, 02:07 AM
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Re: People who wear watches in the pool
Hello, little man. Boy, I sure heard a bunch about you. See, I was a good friend of your dad's. We were in that Hanoi pit of hell together over five years. Hopefully...you'll never have to experience this yourself, but when two men are in a situation like me and your Dad were, for as long as we were, you take on certain responsibilities of the other. If it had been me who had not made it, Major Coolidge would be talkin' right now to my son Jim. But the way it turned out is I'm talkin' to you, Butch. I got somethin' for you.
This watch I got here was first purchased by your great-grandfather during the first World War. It was bought in a little general store in Knoxville, Tennessee. Made by the first company to ever make wrist watches. Up till then people just carried pocket watches. It was bought by private Doughboy Erine Coolidge on the day he set sail for Paris. It was your great-grandfather's war watch and he wore it everyday he was in that war. When he had done his duty, he went home to your great-grandmother, took the watch off, put it an old coffee can, and in that can it stayed 'til your granddad Dane Coolidge was called upon by his country to go overseas and fight the Germans once again. This time they called it World War II. Your great-grandfather gave this watch to your granddad for good luck. Unfortunately, Dane's luck wasn't as good as his old man's. Dane was a Marine and he was killed -- along with the other Marines at the battle of Wake Island. Your granddad was facing death, he knew it. None of those boys had any illusions about ever leavin' that island alive. So three days before the Japanese took the island, your granddad asked a gunner on an Air Force transport name of Winocki, a man he had never met before in his life, to deliver to his infant son, who he'd never seen in the flesh, his gold watch. Three days later, your granddad was dead. But Winocki kept his word. After the war was over, he paid a visit to your grandmother, delivering to your infant father, his Dad's gold watch. This watch. This watch was on your Daddy's wrist when he was shot down over Hanoi. He was captured, put in a Vietnamese prison camp. He knew if the gooks ever saw the watch it'd be confiscated, taken away. The way your Dad looked at it, that watch was your birthright. He'd be damned if any slopes were gonna put their greasy yella hands on his boy's birthright. So he hid it in the one place he knew he could hide something. His ass. Five long years, he wore this watch up his ass. Then he died of dysentery, he gave me the watch. I hid this uncomfortable hunk of metal up my ass two years. Then, after seven years, I was sent home to my family. And now, little man, I give the watch to you.
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#34
10-02-2007, 03:11 AM
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Re: People who wear watches in the pool
LOL!
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#36
10-02-2007, 07:02 AM
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Re: People who wear watches in the pool
I actually don't ever wear a watch EXCEPT for when I go swimming.
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#37
10-02-2007, 09:12 AM
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Re: People who wear watches in the pool
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In general I imagine that most people that do this just think it's easier to keep it on than worry about someone stealing it out of a locker. [/ QUOTE ] But they will happily put their car keys in the locker? Heh.
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#38
10-02-2007, 09:20 AM
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Re: People who wear watches in the pool
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Of course it's a little bit blog-like. It's basically me moaning about something not-so-important in a way designed to ruffle some feathers and provoke some replies. I hate to break it to you, but even though I find wearing a watch in the pool odd, I haven't been red in the face and itching to start the thread since I witnessed it. So we have a light read that's probably better written than 90% of the stuff on here. Ugh, what an awful thread! [/ QUOTE ] This whole post is VERY douchey.
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#39
10-02-2007, 09:35 AM
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Re: People who wear watches in the pool
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[ QUOTE ] Jesus H Christ. You have got to be the most tightly wound douche to notice that people do this and be annoyed by it AND be so annoyed by it that you feel the need to voice this annoyance to others. [/ QUOTE ] he's british [/ QUOTE ] OK, sorry Yeti, I was a little harsh. I guess my real question is how you can be more annoyed by people wearing watches than all the pasty white english people in speedos? yuck.
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#40
10-02-2007, 09:53 AM
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Re: People who wear watches in the pool
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OK, sorry Yeti, I was a little harsh. I guess my real question is how you can be more annoyed by people wearing watches than all the pasty white english people in speedos? yuck. [/ QUOTE ] One day I will write a long blog post about everything at the pool that annoys me. I'm sure you will all enjoy it. Pasty white people don't really bother me as I am one of them myself. People who look like they have spent half their month on the sunbed do however. And fat people. As for speedos, basically everyone wears swimming shorts these days.
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