blakeyboy

I've had quite vitriolic run-ins with some Ebay sellers who have _made up_ the 'penny with a bullet - Trench Art' nonsense, making cash from the WW1 centenary. Really winds me up.

"I once worked in admin but had a nervous breakdown. " Been there. You earned a rest, you paid your taxes , so why worry? Comedy and music were my crutches. Now you should do the little personal projects you've been putting off for decades. `You could dress in drag, and earn money singing in campsites to keep the midges and mosquitos away. Get ready............ You could call yourself 'Citronella Fitzgerald'.....

I was a doctor but I lost my patients. I went for a job at the circus as the Human Projectile, but I wasn't the right calibre.... I eventually went mad, and ended up in hospital because I thought I was a gun. I discharged myself.

Oh now that's quality 'on the hoof 'comedy..I spend months writing my shit and you trump it in under an hour....!!!

i’m applying for the government Thrill-Seekers Allowance- a bit like the Job Seeker’s Allowance, but they push you out of the plane halfway through the interview. Not to be confused with the New Seekers Allowance, where you get the money if you teach the world to sing….

I used to nick staircases, but I took steps not to get caught......

Joe Green at his best.

How can you tell? LCA site running for me now, so I had a look, and it's a good fake, if it's fake....

I wish I'd been a second-hand car salesman, but you can't turn the clocks back.

And there's me just about to open a new account!! I've recently upgraded Sierra, and all that's changed is that Safari and Firefox both won't go to London Coins. All other things I go to work fine.....bamboozling..... What is it about there site that these two search engines don't like? The customer service?

Cheers Kev. I couldn't believe it- I was doing the usual...you know....you know that if you did some standard searches once a day you'd catch stuff, but then you're too busy or can't be arsed and suddenly you get the OCD urge to REALLY look, so you get involved in a two-hour trawl... It was 2 in the morning, I'd finished the malt,.... "just one more look".... and this guy had about fifteen 1908's in a row, all similar condition to this one, so I thought " this lot, then stop".......it was the last bloody one.....I was so tired I had to look again and again....... ( I told my friend that we all thought he was OCD, and he said " you mean CDO, surely, ........alphabetical order......" )

I can't get Safari or Firefox to work on LCA site tonight... do they go down a lot?

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!

is there a reasonable F76 for sale anywhere at the moment?

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

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Hi Kev are you referring to Freeman v. Gouby where they used two different scales? Freeman has the F76 as R17 and Gouby had it at R8 but upped it to R9 on his scale a few years ago, if I remember correctly... "Freeman v. Gouby" in a bout between two genuine heavyweights....

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......

I normally do an internet sweep for pennies 3-4 times a week when I have the time, and the F76 is the one I start looking for. The F69 is supposedly nearly as rare, but I've had five of those....

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.