blakeyboy

This thread made me get out the few Victoria halfpennies i have lying around, and I came across this. The raised cross really does like the die had this cut into it. There is a thin 'lead in' line at the bottom of the short stroke. What to make of this????

What a good question- normally 'radio', rarely 'wireless'- mainly if a good Radio 4 play is on... Pardon? or What?

Here is a picture of the main studio monitors I put together two years ago. Very loud....they only really work in a very big room.

That's extraordinary. A dozen Quad electrostatics! I still have a pair of Martin Logan panels somewhere... I'm sure I sold a pair of those ionofone tweeters years ago....God knows where I got them from. I sold a pair of early Tannoy 10 inch a few years back. They sounded lush. Rich and warm, but faster than the big ones. I sold my Mackintosh 2015 and 240 a few years back- just not using them. Small lounge, so wasted. I'm coming to see you when we can next travel!

Oh what....DJ'ing with Quad? When I started out, I worked for a guy who turned into my mentor, and we used all the gear that local DJ's didn't use in the West Midlands. My favourite pub system was a part of Altec 'Voice of the Theatre 15" bins, with Vitavox horns built into them. Phase Linear 700B on the bass, and a pair of Quad 50's on the horns. Sounded HUGE. Everyone else was using WEM columns or crap from the local disco shop. No competition!!

"The original sentence is somehow different in my view as it contains errors / that are not socially acceptable. " SO DOES YOURS!!!!!!!!!! SO WHAT???? I don't care that you are 'not particularly convinced'. Tolerance has nothing to do with it. Your sentence is clearer with commas. Calling it 'the Oxford comma' as if it's some weird stylistic notation IS weird and stylistic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Why do people have this odd phobia about it? Is it a class thing? Anti-elitist claptrap? It's just a bloody comma, like the other one you left out. Subordinate clauses are not a crime, you know. Or do you not understand them? I don't care - it doesn't matter to me at all. If you want your use of language to be difficult to understand, go right ahead....... Be my guest. I will just ignore the mistakes. Many people on here don't spell very well. No-one has a pop at them. Who cares? BUT when YOU start pointing out 'linguistic mistakes', as if you are somehow the Grammar Police, get ready for YOUR mistakes to be held up to the light. (Now try that last sentence again WITHOUT the two commas. It's not as clear, IS IT????? There you go.)

The first of the two commas missed out is a correct comma. The second one missed out is the 'serial comma', ( sometimes called the 'Oxford' comma ) used particularly before 'and' as in Peckris' clear example. It avoids confusion. It isn't like a slow change of usage, like Americans saying 'March 6th' instead of 'March the 6th' However, when an American says 'write me' instead of 'write to me' you could, correctly but _pedantically_ take out paper and pencil and write the word 'me'.....but they still say it like that because if they wanted you to think that you should write down the word 'me' then they would instruct you to do just that..... things shift. We shift and the Americans don't sometimes- the commonly used and very old 'gotten' with its German past tense ending only really exists here in words and phrases like 'ill-gotten gains' and 'forgotten'. We changed, they didn't. However, leaving things out to make things genuinely unclear ( as in Peckris' clear example ) is the reverse (converse? inverse? ) of what language is for. There is a reverse snobbery running in this country regarding English usage, that is often wrong, and the _reasons_ for it should be addressed. Mind you, in a country with such a wide disparate class based structure, it's hardly surprising. The amusing opposite of this is when politicians attempt to look educated by using words such as 'referenda' when of course it never existed in Latin in the first place...gerunds remain singular.

Yeah- I can see you now, in your cap and jacket hanging around outside the off license looking tough.....!

You left out two commas....:)

I'm trying to make the smallest active 4-way system...Volt have a nice 2 inch dome midrange that I want to pair up with their special paper doped lower mid 6 inch, I have Scanspeak Revelators for the top, then it's just which big Volt bass unit on the bottom...

Tree Peony doing it's stuff. I do wish it repeat flowered...

Well, actually put ' Berbers', if you look closely, so Terry, you were closer with 'Burberry', which I read as 'Barberry' which is the common name for it...:)

That's very good...!

Taking into account what's happening at the moment, I've started a new Association - 'Alcoholics Unanimous'. If you don't fancy a drink, you ring us up and we talk you into having one.....

These old articles are a wonderful read. Is there a website-savvy coin enthusiast out there who could collate all the old articles about specific date varieties and produce a site? There must be piles of old articles in back copies of coin magazines that need to be made 'public' in the modern way..... Anyone?

Exactly! I was clearing a friend's overgrown area in her garden, and there was a berbers that I took great pleasure in chopping up. It got me very time I went near it, and the spikes went in and broke off. Horrible. Every day, another 'minor operation'....

And the horses expression......I have to carry this idiot...I've had enough.....

I've tentatively put some of the bigger spikey stuff out so I have room to work, and it's not as lethal- those spikes are over a metre long now...

I've done that much gardening that anyone who dared to visit would no doubt get re-potted....

3 .glyph?

Thanks- I wasn't sure...It's the first thing I do on Ebay, is the 1874's... Lower grade pennies that aren't supposed to have the sea cross the linear circle get tricky and blurred. I have most trouble like this with low grade 1861's.....

Oh GREAT!!!....been looking for one for years, but wanted to spend nothing- other fish being fried as we speak. £1.76 inc postage. I think a bargain...:) That's a gap filled, and completes my 1874 set of the 13 basics ( according to Michael Gouby).....

I know this post is related to pennies for once - unusual for me- but could the Eagle Eyes look at this and decide what it is? Thanks!

Today, my stock of ATC 3" mids - a crazily expensive collection..