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Ah the Auld Alliance lives on! ;)

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Aye another Scottish lassie in the pub that night had her Dad guarding over her....How a delicious young thing could be spawned from such a monster...I will never know.

But when you paddle in the River Tay at 3am you know that The Jocks love us.......Skinnie dippin with an an 18 year old :rolleyes:

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That was me (Mrs Peter minus 2 years)...don't tell her and by the way she's a Mick. :D

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skinny dippin??? we leave that to the English nowadays lol only way we can have a laugh..... oh that and watching Scotland Play football!!!

Hehe :P

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a delicious young thing

At your age :P:)

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From an unlikely start, this has to be the most interesting discussion on any of the boards!

Geoff, where is the fish and game shop in Stockport?

Dave

Halfway up Bridge Brow/Bridge Street leading up to the market, on the right as you leave Merseyway.

PS - You mustn't miss South Manchester Numismatic Society on 7 November - we've got Graham Dyer coming. He's in Manchester and offered to speak to local societies for free, so I've rejigged the schedule to fit him in.

Geoff

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He was on telly in Germany too, in the same programme metioned elsewhere and dubbed in German of course!

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PS - You mustn't miss South Manchester Numismatic Society on 7 November - we've got Graham Dyer coming. He's in Manchester and offered to speak to local societies for free, so I've rejigged the schedule to fit him in.

Geoff

What's the topic for the talk?

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What's the topic for the talk?

It's " A comedy of errors: the withdrawn 1887 sixpence".

G

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I still don't get why they withdrew that coin. The reverse was way different to the half sovereign.

If it really was due to confusion then how did the shilling manage to survive? Victorian shield back sovereigns were being issued concurrently with St. George right up to 1887, so enter the jubilee head people might have though they had St George and a shield reverse again, albeit a different one!

Mind boggling stuff.

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One of the things I'm hoping to ask Graham Dyer is whether the Mint has any breakdown of mintage figure for the three 1887 sixpences. In particular I'm intrigued to know what percentage of the total mintage was the Young Head 1887.

G

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I've just removed a long gay porno post with links to a gay website.

WHY! What was wrong with it!?.

Anyway........LINK TO GAY WEBSITE

:D:lol:;)

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Ssteve, my very good gay friend!!!

What the &*%! are you doing in here?!! You'll have to change your name now you've got rid of your Ssanyong.

I'm in the UK for the radio prog and a coin fair 31st Oct - 7th Nov.....You got room on your Rochester farm residence for me between those dates? I was going to text, so this'll save me about 40 cents!

I haven't forgotten I owe Mark £20 (even if he has).

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The old haggis was made because in the old days (whenever they were) the Scots didn't like to waste food so all the parts of a sheep that were not consumed in the "normal" manner were all stuffed into the intestinal bag of the said sheep, cooked then eaten.

Basically all the sh1te thats left and the introduction of the deepfried mars bar etc goes to prove we like our food. B)

Remember us Scots are tight.... we invented copper wire!!!! 2 Scots fighting over a penny :lol:

James

Well I never.

I've been doing some family history research, and today, I just found out that my Great Great Great Grandparents were Scottish!

I don't know what the Husband was called yet, but the wife was called Jane Kerr. So now I have a tartan and everything! I was thinking of getting a small army together to re-claim my 'Kerr' ancestral home, which is this castle:

http://www.discovertheborders.co.uk/places...ges/1101-1.html

Who wants to help?

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I hope there were no Waynes in the family B)

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Not as far as I know! The last Kerr in my line was Annie Jane Kerr, who married a Perkins in 1892.....Thankfully I don't think the awful name 'Wayne' was invented at that time.

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So that's what happened to the reivers! :rolleyes:

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I stayed at a scottish hotel once. I asked if it was possible to have a tartan room........................I got both :)

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I stayed at a scottish hotel once. I asked if it was possible to have a tartan room........................I got both :)

You are the worlds biggest tart!

Geordie, the Reivers? What's a Reiver?

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You've never heard of the border reivers. Basically, local lords who were empowered to keep the peace in the borders because the king couldn't! They were really a bunch of north english and southern scottish land holders who did what they liked. mostly raiding each other doing the usual, rape pillage rustling. A nice bunch. I don't know how long they'reigned'. but from about 13th to 17th centuries. :unsure:

Border Reivers

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Yes, it was certainly that area, but I'm quite sure my distant cousins (possibly) the current Lord and Lady of Lothian are far removed from that sort of behavior.

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You Hope!! :lol:

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