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 Posted: Sat Mar 10th, 2007 12:03 am
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KenC



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canadajo wrote: remember those John Cameron Swayze commercials for Timex ...It takes a lickin and keeps on ticken ???? They tied a Timex to a Murcury Motor boat propeler and ran the boat around ....They tilt the Motor up and it still worked !!!!!!

CJ...............I didn't think you were old enough to remeber that...........that was back in the days when all TV (with the exception of a few old British movies) was live.

My 1st watch, I'm sure, was a Mickey Mouse or Donald Duck, but the 1st "real" watch I had was in high school.  It was a Mido and got stolen out of my locker during a football practice!