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Had this arrive from Australia- the seller couldn't work out why anyone would pay AU$30 shipping on an AU$2 coin.... then he looked closer, realised what it was, but said it was his mistake and honoured the deal!!! His Ebay name is 'the_jittery_horse'- a real honest seller!

Wilson- don"t get me started....

Case proven there - even I have to admit that. Norway, on the other hand, made that much money that they are now the only country in the world whose population, and I mean all of them, can turn the lights off, lock the doors, go on holiday for a year, and when they got back, Noway would still be in the black....

Err..it's Oxford University Press, and the HTML link changed to a download after I posted for some reason I can't fathom

Margaret Thatcher, Lego, and the Principle of Least Action | OUPblog.webloc

I worked for a while in the ceramics industry for a while in the '70's and did a few piecework jobs one week when lots of people in the factory were off sick with the 'flu. I worked at reasonable rate and was amazed at the end of the week how much my wage packet had increased. I was then taken to one side by my boss and told not to do that again. There had been a union meeting called about me, apparently, complaining that I had ruined things for everyone..... Thatcher had two main failings- she believed that everyone above a certain intelligence level had a sense of humour, and therefore that she did, and went on that terrible Yes Prime minister programme/ special script reading, which proved she had no idea about comedy whatsoever. This delusional sense of her talents led to the other failing- staying on for far too long. I wish John Major was running things now- everyone in the EU knew that in him we had quite the best quiet negotiator in Europe..... Mind you, he was so dull compared to the others that we all had to believe, because of Spitting Image, that he wore his underpants outside his trousers......

Yes, all of the above, but it wasn't the result of the actions of just one person - it never is.

Fantastic. Watched the whole thing. I've got all the series but hadn't seen the tribute. Thanks.

I know- try the Midlands in the early '70s... I was just being deliberately inflammatory to try to stop bad circumstance being 'blamed' on one person, and to highlight how such thoughts have no place in a discussion of coinage.....:)

Only if you were lazy.

Exactly- it's not a surface thing. If the strips from ( presumably) Heaton or Kings Norton were streaky, why were they not rejected instantly by the Mint? Did they relax QC because of the War Effort? I have several examples of pennies that look like the molten mix just wasn't stirred...

I just wondered if the story had even existed, and hadn't been reported, and wasn't just made up to sell some coins....

Is this a true story???? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/A-hoard-of-1922-penny-pennies-350-collected-in-the-belief-they-contain-gold/372450865973?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649

If only I"d thought things through when I did the O. P. - it's all out of control...

No, it's my sister after a big night out. Or, the most surreal identity parade ever.... : " and can you ask number two to put a hat on and wear glasses, Officer, it was dark, and I'm just not that sure...." You know, I put up my original post, 'cos I couldn't resist, and there was a risk that I would be flamed, but no, the .....well..... I'll call you 'usual suspects', who I have noticed actually have a sense of humour, (in my short time on this forum) , have not let me down. Cheers guys.

Quality, Stuntman, sheer quality.

So sorry- just couldn't resist.....

The dalek one, I meant. Mind you, Ted has 500 clips worth sharing.....

I can't believe you've put this video up. I've been showing to people for years and it always does their heads in. Talk about inspired.......

Several years ago Tony Crocker put a 1912H, if memory serves, on Fleabay and it went for a ridiculous amount- many hundreds. i could not see why, for the life of me, so I phoned him. He was flabbergasted too, and had asked the winning bidder why the bidding had gone so high. Apparently the guy told him that George 5's nose was different.......... Maybe the details of this have faded a bit, but I definitely remember staring at the Ebay picture in 'Completed Items' to see if I could see the difference in the nose, but I'm still in the dark.

I restore old Recording Studio consoles ( mixers), but only one make, Neve, and only between 1968 to 1980. There's only me doing it full time, with all the spare parts, in Europe now, and I'm old enough to have once been taught Fortran using punched cards........ I knew at the time it would come in handy!! Not.

Excellent decision! More research, the better. Welcome to the menagerie, and go and change your armour!!

Eeee...we used to _dream_ about getting two bites - luxury...... Incidentally, the cleg approaches silently upwind, and is following the path of exhaled carbon dioxide to find the mammalian target, so, if you hold your breath for an hour, no bites!!! Mind you, there may be side effects to this.....

Ah....is she field_walker then?