And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Sunday, February 2, 2025
Here's about as inexpensive as you're going to get with a Timex, but still look good
The best watch I ever bought myself was a $12.00 Timex at a Truck Stop somewhere between San Diego and Newport, RI. It lasted about 20 years and it didn't stop working, it just disappeared after I stopped wearing watches. I bought it in 1985 and it kept very good time.
In the late 1970s, parents decided to rip all the front yard ivy out and drop a sod lawn. I got voluntold to help clear it out over a weekend. Midway through the project, found a wind-up Timex with a rotted leather band, that had to have belonged to older brother, and probably lost in his childhood in the late 1950s. Took the band shreds off, wiped off the dirt, wound it up, and it ticked away like it was brand new after 20 years outside in the mud and weather.
Still have it in a cigar box treasure chest somewhere. It still works.
" Takes a lickin' and keeps on tickin'. "
ReplyDeleteAnybody out there remember John Cameron Swayze?
Yes! It was the largest selling watch in the US back before all the Japanese brands took over in the 1980s.
DeleteI got mine for less than $60 a couple years back.
DeleteTakes a licking and keeps on ticking! I bought a Timex in the early 1960s. I think it was about $12.
DeleteToo much unnecessary stuff that just confuses the basic premise.
ReplyDeleteDamn right. By the time I figured out what time it is, it was 'was'. And I is late.
DeleteThe best watch I ever bought myself was a $12.00 Timex at a Truck Stop somewhere between San Diego and Newport, RI. It lasted about 20 years and it didn't stop working, it just disappeared after I stopped wearing watches. I bought it in 1985 and it kept very good time.
ReplyDeleteThere's some fool on Gutfeld right now whose wearing a watch on each wrist! Fashion pointer for CW.
ReplyDeleteIn the late 1970s, parents decided to rip all the front yard ivy out and drop a sod lawn.
ReplyDeleteI got voluntold to help clear it out over a weekend.
Midway through the project, found a wind-up Timex with a rotted leather band, that had to have belonged to older brother, and probably lost in his childhood in the late 1950s.
Took the band shreds off, wiped off the dirt, wound it up, and it ticked away like it was brand new after 20 years outside in the mud and weather.
Still have it in a cigar box treasure chest somewhere.
It still works.
Try that with anything made in the last 50 years.