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richtel wrote: Sat Sep 07, 2024 4:13 pm Swiss Watchmaker - a dishwasher-loading style adopted by one half of every relationship. The other half usually stacking the dishwasher like a racoon on crystal meth.
Being possessed neither of dishwashing appliance nor of cohabiting helpmeet, I’m struggling to visualise which half you had in mind for which role. :-k
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À la recherche du temps perdu - A long story about a Frenchman who can't find his watch
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Watch band -

@Amor Vincit Omnia on lead vocals; @welshlad on drums; @rkovars on rhythm guitar; @downer on lead guitar; @Bahnstormer_vRS on bass guitar.

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^^^^^ That’s one band I wouldn’t watch……. :lol: :lol:
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^^^ buy cheap tickets now for when they have a falling out but get back together in 15 years time to play stadiums :)
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@missF We need a Celtic person on the fiddle. Any ideas?
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Minute Repeater - Watch Band's 'difficult second album'
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Amor Vincit Omnia wrote: Tue Sep 17, 2024 2:29 pm @missF We need a Celtic person on the fiddle. Any ideas?
Are you saying I'm on the fiddle?? :problem: :lol:
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missF wrote: Tue Sep 17, 2024 3:53 pm
Amor Vincit Omnia wrote: Tue Sep 17, 2024 2:29 pm @missF We need a Celtic person on the fiddle. Any ideas?
Are you saying I'm on the fiddle?? :problem: :lol:
You might very well think that. I could not possibly comment.
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Watch face - what you do to check and see if your significant other has spotted the new watch you're wearing


Automatic Movement - dancing out the door with your left arm out of sight so your significant other doesn't spot the new watch you're wearing


Rehaut - the noise you make to deflect the conversation when your significant other spots the new watch you're wearing, as in 'Rehaut, look - a squirrel!'
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Smooth Seconds - the additional skim of plaster which will make the wall ready to start painting.
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Split Second - an SI unit of time based on the halflife of an intact Ebay authentication seal remaining on a new watch purchase.
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Vertical Motion - the movement of one's phone when taking a watch picture so that it doesn't appear as a reflection in the crystal.

Horizontal Motion - the movement of one's phone to inspect said picture.
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Lume Plot
A conspiracy by a group of Catholic dissenters to blind the King in Parliament using a swivel mounted array of Trident Lumière watches.

B-Uhr
A social media code used by German men to arrange a crafty trip to the pub without their wives’ knowledge.
Known in English as “beer o’clock”.
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Pantograph - A watch complication used in combination with a Pulsometer but used to measure breathing rate.
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