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TTonyTTony Frets: 26143
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No, nothing to do with jeans.

We now have 501 registered members.  

That's excluding the 120+ attempted spammers that I've deleted as they've tried to sign-up.  501 genuine members of theFretBoard.

Call me happy.
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  • monquixotemonquixote Frets: 17108
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    Awesomesauce. 

    Tomorrow it will be one month since MR went belly up.
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  • FretwiredFretwired Frets: 24595
    monquixote said:
    Awesomesauce. 

    Tomorrow it will be one month since MR went belly up.
    I feel a party coming on ...

    Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
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  • JalapenoJalapeno Frets: 6284
    Only seems like "last week" ! ;)
    Imagine something sharp and witty here ......

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  • John_PJohn_P Frets: 2725
    Fantastic - feels like we've always been here now - which just shows what a great job the guys behind it have done!
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  • TTonyTTony Frets: 26143
    edited August 2013
    John_P said:
    Fantastic - feels like we've always been here now - which just shows what a great job the guys behind it have done!
    One of the most incredible things about it - to me - is that we did it without meeting in person, or talking to each other, without even meeting as a virtual group in e-life.  We did it without months of discussing it and planning it.  We did it without focus groups and marketing surveys.  We did it without a budget.  We did it without argument or even disagreement.

    It was a perfect example of JFDI.

    If only all my real-life projects were as easy, fast, successful, worthwhile and rewarding and fun.

    It's been a genuine pleasure.

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  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Frets: 136
    Could we do an advert where some good looking dude in boxer shorts washes his jeans in a launderette, to celebrate? I'm showing my age, aren't I?
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  • TTonyTTony Frets: 26143
    richardhomer said:
    Could we do an advert where some good looking dude in boxer shorts washes his jeans in a launderette, to celebrate? I'm showing my age, aren't I?
    As long as that's all your volunteering to show ...
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  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Frets: 136
    edited August 2013
    TTony;14661" said:

    As long as that's all your volunteering to show ...
    I said 'good looking'.... Believe me, age is about it!
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  • Emp_FabEmp_Fab Frets: 23224
    I thought it was about jeans.  I only ever had one pair of genuine American 501's.  I had them on for a week before a nurse cut them off me in A&E after a stupid woman in a VW Polo turned in front of me when I was riding a motorsickle.  Smashed motorsickle, smashed leg, cut-off jeans.  Very upset about the jeans.  Never had a pair of 501's since.
    Humans are destructive parasites that will destroy the celestial oasis of Earth.  The sooner Homo Sapiens are extinct, the better.
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  • vizviz Frets: 10211
    Was looking forward to a nice darts thread :(
    Paul_C said: People never read the signature bit.
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  • littlegreenmanlittlegreenman Frets: 4790
    Nicely done. :)

    littlegreenman < My tunes here...
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  • ICBMICBM Frets: 69426
    edited August 2013
    I haven't worn any other jeans since 1985. Never will.

    In fact, I've barely worn any other type of trousers at all... proper Levi Regulation Chinos (not the crap they sell nowadays) is about it! Yes, I am stuck in the 1980s - or possibly the 1950s ;) - but they fit me perfectly and look smart, so so what? I've found quite a few NOS pairs of chinos on Ebay in the last few years, luckily.

    I got my first pair of 501s slightly before that launderette ad came out too - I had a bit of a James Dean fixation and asked the chap in the little clothes shop I got all my 'cool' stuff to get me some. He laughed, said they were really old-fashioned and still had a button fly and stuff. About a month later that ad came out and I was the one laughing :).

    Unfortunately the modern 501s are made all over the place, not the US. Quality is somewhat variable.

    "Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski

    "Just because I don't care, doesn't mean I don't understand." - Homer Simpson

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  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Frets: 30
    I used to wear 501s when I was in my late teens.

    Now, as with many types of trousers, I can't get my thighs in them.
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  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Frets: 136
    BigPaulie;14805" said:
    I used to wear 501s when I was in my late teens.

    Now, as with many types of trousers, I can't get my thighs in them.
    There's a very funny Mark Radcliffe book where he details that his jeans used to have the same inside leg and waist measurements. The waist one has subsequently increased so he 'is no longer square'. True for many of us....
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  • ICBMICBM Frets: 69426
    edited August 2013
    I treat the measurements printed on the back as an absolute restriction on my weight :). I used to be a little thinner than I am now, and I've gone up a couple of sizes in the last three decades so I am in fact now 'square' - probably in more ways than one since I'm still wearing chinos :D - but I will never allow myself to have a waist size larger than my inside leg, and with 501s there's no excuse ;).

    "Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski

    "Just because I don't care, doesn't mean I don't understand." - Homer Simpson

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  • BucketBucket Frets: 7749
    monquixote said:
    Awesomesauce. 

    Tomorrow it will be one month since MR went belly up.
    It seems like longer - shows how much has happened, and how quickly.

    The new forum shits all over MR from a great height anyway.
    - "I'm going to write a very stiff letter. A VERY stiff letter. On cardboard."
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  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Frets: 30
    richardhomer said:
    BigPaulie;14805" said:
    I used to wear 501s when I was in my late teens.

    Now, as with many types of trousers, I can't get my thighs in them.
    There's a very funny Mark Radcliffe book where he details that his jeans used to have the same inside leg and waist measurements. The waist one has subsequently increased so he 'is no longer square'. True for many of us....

    ICBM said:
    I treat the measurements printed on the back as an absolute restriction on my weight :). I used to be a little thinner than I am now, and I've gone up a couple of sizes in the last three decades so I am in fact now 'square' - probably in more ways than one since I'm still wearing chinos :D - but I will never allow myself to have a waist size larger than my inside leg, and with 501s there's no excuse ;).
    Although I've put on a few pounds due to lower training volumes in the past couple of years, the issue for me is over-developed thighs rather than an expanding waistline.

    It really is an issue. My wife despairs at the number of pairs of trousers I've sent back or been unable to get past my thighs in shop changing rooms. 
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  • ICBMICBM Frets: 69426
    That's kind of worrying. My daughter has the same trouble :-O :D.

    "Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski

    "Just because I don't care, doesn't mean I don't understand." - Homer Simpson

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