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An Expensive Case of Buyers Remorse
Extreme prices for sports cards are a classic example of a bubble. It’s much like the Tulip Bulb Mania. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/dutch_tulip_bulb_market_bubble.asp#:~:text=Key%20Takeaways,on%20the%20Amsterdam%20Grand%20Canal. Wayne Gretzky rookie year cards are desirable to...- Briar Lee
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- Forum: General Discussion
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Pure Prepared Salad Mustard
No thanks. The real reason we need a chemist, is to be able to prove how we got our recipie. If we flat out stole it, we might go to prison. All we want to do is make good yellow mustard. The best thing we could steal is not subject to theft, which is the French’s brand name.- Briar Lee
- Post #29
- Forum: Food & Drink
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Pure Prepared Salad Mustard
My French’s bottle reads these ingredients, in descending order: Distilled vinegar (doesn’t say white or cider vinegar, just distilled vinegar) Water #1 Grade Mustard Seed Salt Turmeric Paprika Spice Natural flavor Garlic powder Xxxxx French’s has a humongous mustard factory in...- Briar Lee
- Post #26
- Forum: Food & Drink
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Pure Prepared Salad Mustard
Mustard is at least five thousand years old, and was named “hot must (wine) “ by the Romans. Mustard is referred to in the Holy Bible. The saying he’s too old to cut the mustard refers to how much physical labor was required to cut mustard plants with a scythe, and is centuries old. So French...- Briar Lee
- Post #24
- Forum: Food & Drink
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Watch Out or Watch on? Pt 2.
The most popular watch in the history of the world costs about $20 retail. There is only one way to make a digital quartz liquid crystal display watch work, using a module. The quality of the module can vary, and the case, display, and the band. Would you like one a lot fancier, than $20...- Briar Lee
- Post #749
- Forum: General Discussion
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Watch Out or Watch on? Pt 2.
Why I love watches: Rolex stats Production output 1.05 million pieces (2021)[1] Revenue $13 billion (2021)[2] Owner Hans Wilsdorf Foundation Number of employees 30,000 Subsidiary Tudor stats Headquarters Geneva , Switzerland Production output c. 200,000 (2015)[1] Number of...- Briar Lee
- Post #748
- Forum: General Discussion
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Pure Prepared Salad Mustard
French’s mustard was invented for the 1904 St Louis World’s Fair and even today the real stuff is made in Springfield Missouri. When I was a kid French’s came in glass jars that read Pure Prepared Salad Mustard, and I wondered what impure unprepared mustard was and who would use any kind of...- Briar Lee
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- Forum: Food & Drink
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Watch Out or Watch on? Pt 2.
Today a $2 20 power monocle style loupe came in the mail. I’ve owned a 10 power loupe in a little leather case for maybe thirty years, a handy little gadget to have. But once you peep through the kind watchmakers use you are done, with pocket loupes. I’m not good at playing Colonel Clink...- Briar Lee
- Post #744
- Forum: General Discussion
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Watch Out or Watch on? Pt 2.
Number of seconds in one year 31557600 seconds That’s thirty one million five hundred thousand, rounded off. Every ten years, my LeGant watch I bought in 1979 and have religiously replaced the battery when the second hand jumps two seconds has a movement that has suddenly jerked the second...- Briar Lee
- Post #742
- Forum: General Discussion
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Watch Out or Watch on? Pt 2.
1979 Montgomery Wards LeGant Owned since new- Briar Lee
- Post #739
- Forum: General Discussion
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Watch Out or Watch on? Pt 2.
Today Swatch Group occupies the same spot that Elgin did a century ago, the largest watch maker in the world. Xxxx The Swatch Group is the largest watch company in the world and employs about 31,000 people in 50 countries.[5] The group owns the Swatch product line and other luxury brands...- Briar Lee
- Post #737
- Forum: General Discussion
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Watch Out or Watch on? Pt 2.
Only on those Chinese direct web sites, can you buy a $40 counterfeit of a $120 Orient.:) The seller refunded the money and let me keep the watch, which is a really good fake, except it came in a Forsing box and the Orient lions are blurry. How cheap is it, for the Chinese to make a watch?- Briar Lee
- Post #736
- Forum: General Discussion
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Watch Out or Watch on? Pt 2.
When I was a teenager fifty years ago I lusted after a Tudor Prince advertised in all the outdoors magazines for $175, one year, then $195 the next year, and $215 the next. Stainless steel case with a stainless steel bracelet. Fixed stainless steel bezel. Silver dial with gold-tone hands and...- Briar Lee
- Post #735
- Forum: General Discussion
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Watch Out or Watch on? Pt 2.
Why that’s not a good watch. The price is just too cheap, compared to list price. But you get your money back if not satisfied. My $67 Bliger Nautilus homage was a beautful watch but the hands were loose. I got my $67 back. A Chinese watch consists, like all Swiss watches, of a collection...- Briar Lee
- Post #731
- Forum: General Discussion
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The Joy of a new Zippo
As compared until Judgement Day for the felt factory flap. Another factor. Zippo has made Zippos about 90 years. There no doubt are a lot of machines that insert the cotton and then the felt flap, which is primarily there to hold in all the cotton. It would require new tooling to change over.- Briar Lee
- Post #36
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Watch Out or Watch on? Pt 2.
Somewhere in my office is the minute hand and second hand, and I have a cheap hand press and cheap crystal press to pop that all back on. When I bought my Ultra Chron maybe twenty years ago it was supposed to have been serviced. My watchmaker said it had a good rate, and the reason it did was...- Briar Lee
- Post #729
- Forum: General Discussion
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Watch Out or Watch on? Pt 2.
About watch sizes: When George Washington authorized Governor Morris to buy him a watch in Paris for 25 Guineas (27 pounds) (about $4,500 in current dollars) Morris rejected two watchmakers and stumbled onto Jean-Antoine Lepine. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Antoine_Lépine By 1789...- Briar Lee
- Post #728
- Forum: General Discussion
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Solar Eclipse. Have Fun.
The ancients just took a crap when that happened.:) https://www.almanac.com/solar-eclipse-folklore-myths-and-superstitions- Briar Lee
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- Forum: General Discussion
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Watch Out or Watch on? Pt 2.
The sun came up from behind the moon, to reveal a beautiful pattern under the domed crystal of my brand new old Farve Leauba, or excellent fake, if it is fake. The watch doesn’t hack, but according to where the second hand was when I set it, in five hours it’s still exact to the second...- Briar Lee
- Post #726
- Forum: General Discussion
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Watch Out or Watch on? Pt 2.
The more I look at my $20 Farvre Leuba the more I’m convinced it’s new old stock. On the back was a line where a plastic tag was to protect the stainless case back. And a little polishing with cotton wadding jewelry polish removed the line and made the letters and engraved texture pop...- Briar Lee
- Post #722
- Forum: General Discussion