blakeyboy

Exactly. I don't understand slabbing, just as I don't understand 'AUNC' as a grade... What someone else thinks of your coin only really comes into play when you intend to sell it. If you want it to keep, who cares what others think? Unless the coin is that good that you can't resist posting it here for us to ogle......:)

I have a maybe ill-informed question, brought about by that lovely 1893 shilling.... I noticed for the first time Ireland, Scotland, and England represented with both heraldic symbols and plant symbol. Why no Wales?

Welcome to our world! One point I would make, if it hasn't been made above, is that occasionally you will have a coin that is way more 'pleasing' than it's actual grade would suggest. Keep it, even if you get a very high grade as a replacement. Make sure you get pleasure from this...not just a kick out of finishing date runs etc. After all, some coins are genuinely miniature works of art.

I did ask some Americans what the hell happened on the 9th of november. 'en route' is my favourite- It somehow manages, when said by an American, two foul up in two different languages as once....

Very interesting...thanks for that. I slabbed my wife a few years back to keep her in the same condition. The Police have now informed me that that was a mistake, and are taking action. Should I show them the video?

More importantly - who did he buy it from? Prevention rather than cure....?

We put grease on my mother's back. She went downhill quickly after that.

Just two takers then?

Yes it does.

I. Schnorbitzness is in Norway. 2. Suzy Quatro could always do what the hell she liked with me.

I was doing a session in a studio once, and they'd hired some extra stuff. They had hired vibraphone, and the hire company said it was coming to us straight off the Bruce `Forsyth tour, and there was no time to check it over. When it arrived, I slid it out of the flight case, and some springs and nuts and bolts fell out. The damping mechanism at the bottom of the tubes had fallen apart, and I had to get that all working. I rang the guy at the hire company, and I told him that all was now ok, but i also told him that I was only really ringing him up to tell him to stop sending us these bad vibes. I just could not resist.

Wow..... Yes, I agree- you have to have a good strike before anything else. I've seen Kings Norton pennies in Unc that have not attracted me _at all_ because of the soft appearance, and if I could go back I time I would go back about eight years and buy that bloody 1866 penny I saw and chickened out on- very very dark, almost black, but the strike on the obverse.....oh man.....I still regret not having just prodded the button on that one...so so pleasing..... you could have stared at it for hours........

I'm going to investigate pro cameras and microphones for zoom type stuff.....none of the nonsense you usually get!

Very good- nearly went under my radar - nearly....:)

Good observation, and a damn good point. I have a standard joke with a particular mate who likes wordplay. One of us will do something for the other. Then this is said: "Thank you! " "It's the least I could do" " Oh, thanks for doing the the least you could do"....exeunt stage left.

Yes, prices of stuff are going to go crazy- anyone here seen nice campsite prices? Some are ridiculous! I think velcro prices will rise too, and that's always been a rip off....

We have made full provision for anyone in a chair- my sister has MSA and is chair bound now, and she'll be visiting. Mind you, she has a special vehicle to move her about now. if not, maybe a member on the visit could do a Zoom type thing?

This is the problem, I feel......getting irritated by the pompous. It boils down to that. I find a lot of people in my work whose hubris is astonishing, when it's all castles on sand. Why is this? Ignorance? Following the herd- FOMO? Insecurity? Small genitals? Who knows, but the older ( and hopefully wiser) I get, the easier it is to spot, and this can save an enormous amount of time and effort because you can simply then do business with those clients who aren't idiots, however famous and wealthy the idiots are. If you are going to quote, quote. If you want to quote, but are unsure, go find out. Sorry! Go AND find out....see how Americanisms can creep in? So- you don't hear anyone saying 'I knew him, Horatio', or 'All that glisters', or 'Stuff that dreams are made on' because they don't know that's what the Great Man wrote, and go with the popular saying. Is this wrong? In it's simple form, I don't feel it is. Language usage evolves, and you HAVE to run with it. Americans saying AWESOME all the time may be bloody annoying, but we say AWFUL without batting an eyelid.....

Oxford Reference state 'Referendums', but say 'referenda' is often used..... I still say 'referenda' is tricky, since it is mainly used by people who think it's simple matter like 'stadium', and think they are showing off......

i always knew the word 'datum' as the first point on a drawing etc that you were happy with, and did all other measurements from there. I never linked it to 'data' for years!!

Ceasar adsum iam forte, "passus sum", sed Antone... "Post toti emul esto", as my father used to say, before I realised that if you moved the spaces, it's 'Post to tie mules to'....:)

damn you Bagerap! Too quick! I was going to suggest I saw them on stage at Filey Butlins in the '80s....

Did you ever know Ken Cox?

Ha! I think this gerundive/gerund plural business is a minefield- agendum, datum...hmm...collective nouns? Oxford has recently spoken- 'referendums' yes, 'referenda' no.... Maths is hard. ...not 'maths are hard'......singular...collective? Mass? The 's' is as misleading at the end as the 's' in 'athletics'...... language is fun, and the rules are loose- quadrasonics, or tetraphonics, fine, but 'quadraphonic' is a bastard child.... Got to dash- I've got to get those jussive subjunctives out of the freezer....

ah- yes- but 'Referendum' isn't second declension....it's a gerund- "The asking of the people", and, by definition, is singular, so 'referenda' never existed, and is used by people who want you to think they know Latin when they don't.... All that glisters.....:-)