blakeyboy

ooh...I'm a bit amazed at the response, Gentlemen. I know it's a bit of a rarity, but I assumed that there were many other better specimens belonging to the members of this esteemed forum.... Not a bad deal at £16, I thought. No really - you read that correctly🙂

Your wish...... (I've cleaned the bad blobs of crap off since.)

Mike- my thoughts exactly. Came in very cheap, a gamble on a fuzzy picture, and I like it in this condition- it's been in circulation, and it's humanised to some extent. Obviously, if a BUNC one came in cheap I'd be pleased, but I'd _like_ this one more...

Here's my more worn F69- maybe helpful....

St Giles, Cheadle, and Whitley Court chapel are really worth a look too. Chartres is just beautiful. Mind you Cologne Cathedral makes me have trouble breathing....

You smashed it....!

Usual TPG crap.

'So...' at the beginning of a statement. 'Enquiry' as opposed to 'inquiry'....

'awesome ' is irritating to us because of the the extent and accent. We probably use 'awful' just as much, but we don't notice, but to others, our extent and accent probably grate. I rather feel the two cancel each other out. "15 items or less" in a supermarket here. "15 items or fewer" in California. One is correct...... Very unique. Oh- not forgetting the House of Commons 'We must insure this happens' etc etc.... language evolves, and there's nothing you can do about it. To find out how much, play scrabble with a 90 year old and wait for the complaints about the 'words' you play.....

They will always do things like this whilst funded by people who 'believe' in their 'usefulness'.... .....one born every minute.

Shot in the dark - I've only ever heard the 'rasher' joke once before- mid 90's, on the Radio 4 show I mentioned....

'Wildebeest Years' with Dan and Nick reference there, Mike?

Sorry- couldn't resist....

What did you do there? oh...sorry I thought you said "Itchycoo Park".... See what I did there....

In the 70's I helped a vet on farms and he told me to NEVER light a cigarette when in from of a cow....

..and why "thanks for the song"? Have I missed something? Maybe that was what happened when I went to get a beer out of the fridge, halfway through this hideous yet strangely compelling movie....

Hopefully, her psychotherapy.

Swinging Blue Jeans- 🎶 For goodness sake, these are just shitty shitty fakes...🎶 Commodores - 🎶 It's once, twice, three times on Ebay....🎶 I can only apologise.....

"I scammed the Sheriff, but I didn't hoax the Deputy"... ....and so it begins....

....or a rat.......

.....or try the magnet slide test....the eddy currents in silver ( the best conductor) oppose the magnet and it will slide down very slowly. You have to be careful with alloys- it all depend on what the additive metal does with stopping electrons moving about. If copper is 100 conductivity as a datum, silver is 105. Aluminium is around 71. Brass is a _big_ surprise- mainly copper, but the zinc binds the electrons, so it's only around 30 at best.... Solder- lucky to get 10.....

Yes- from about 1969 onwards, I saw loads of late Victorian pennies in change, but only ever one 1894. It's one of those strange dates that doesn't follow the rules.

Yes, but....running microprocessors gulps energy, and that's the problem. Reading a book does not......

I love it when threads wander off into humour. Please Sir, can I have some more?