The back bone of Saxony.

[CRBeery]

I know we all love the big fancy officer bars that cost a gadzillion dollars and sparkle in the sun, but I really love a top notch enlisted/NCO bar. No "Thanks for being in my Army til your stale." REO or KO just hard earned medals! This guy was insane! I wonder if he made it - kind of doubt it. This is the type of soldier that makes an army. My hat is off to him who ever he was.

[Bob Hunter]

I know what you mean. I call this my gritty little gefreiter bar...

[Stogieman]

Fabulous........ I love Saxon Bars. Go figure!

[HeikoGrusdat]

just a short "translation question".....:

What is the meaning of "TOP NOTCH" ??? I have heard it several times and I have it on a rare whisky bottle as "TOP NOTCH COLLECTION" - now you use it for a medal bar... what is it?

Heiko

[Guest Brian von Etzel]

fantastisch

It's a colloquialism. Umgangssprachausdruck.

[Guest Rick Research]

"Top notch" comes from horsemanship. In competitions where a horse jumps over a fence, the "top notch" is the maximum, highest level that can be jumped, usually only by the best horse-- all the others knock the railing off... the top notch.

[Mike Dunn]

Nice bars! Rick, you continue to amaze me! Is there anything you DON"T know??? Mike

[HeikoGrusdat]

Rick, have you been a jockey also in your last life.....? thank you very much, so you are the top notch of medal experts!!!!

[Guest Rick Research]

Awww, I asked my mommy!

[Bob Hunter]

Couldn't we keep it simple for the gentleman? Since it is colloquial english the definition need not be precise.

Heiko, it's the same as "first class or first rate." These are also colloquial terms that having nothing to with which part of the horse goes over the bar last, a colloquial term used by both friends and enemies to describe moi.