Emperor Oli

I've found that also. A few years back, in say 2000, I would hardly ever find year 2000 coins in my change but now 2004 ones have jumped into the registers in February.

Haha, so true. I watched The Patriot last year. What a sack of crap that was. This old guy (Mel Gibson) and his two scrawny (untrained) kids were going around ambushing British convoys of soldiers. And in these battles of three vs. thirty, they always won. I was laughing at the innaccuracy of it all because in reality, they would have been shot to pieces before they'd even primed their weapons. Thirty highly trained British grenadiers against two pre-pubescent children and their politician Father - not rivals at all. And then we could go off on the "How America won WWII" tangent....

Yeah, the 2004 issues are starting to percolate through into general change now. However, some of the one I have seen have hardly got any lustre on them - it just goes to show how quickly it can disappear.

I'm all for patriotism but for a person, not a scrap of fabric My granny got two 10/- note from her parents every week at university. I think thats quite extravagant

Our chemistry teacher is called Dr. Krause and he's a madman from South Africa (or saus aefrika as he says). He holds the world record for cutting through the greatest depth of concrete with a laser. He sends people (when they talk) to stand out on the field in the freezing rain. Sometimes, he flies into rages and smashes his head against the whiteboard. That was off-topic but hey

Really? I seem to encounter far more 50ps, i got about 10 last year.

They are so funny once they get going in an argument that they're losing. On a site (whose URL i am not at liberty to disclose here), when somebody started a thread called 'America sucks' or some other intellectual title like that. Halfway through, a yank said they invented electricity (mm lets invent electricity, cars and computers. None of those things were invented/discovered by americans. And then they get all possessive and one said "You have no idea how much I want to blow your little f****** imperialist island to f****** hell you little english f*****..." Don't get me wrong, I've liked most of the americans who I have met but some of them are beyond belief,

I wish they broadcasted longwave. At my house (60 miles north of manchester) I can pick up a French station at LW168.

no, i mean lurcher. i lurch therefore im a lurcher. i shall hear no more on the subject btw, this topic got buried under new ones so I only found it tonight and it looks as if the poll is closed with the half dollar winning by 1 vote

Is there any evidence to support the theory that it spreads?

Ah yes I'm a lurcher!

Does nobody understand sarcasm?

*Ahem* they are Americans *ahem*

Well the Yanks have started producing $1 coins so do you think they, as we did, will get rid of their classic $1 notes?

I can't fathom why people make counterfeit coins instead of note. I mean, one would have to make 20 £1 coins to equal that of a £20 note (obviously) and it seems less profitable to make the coins. Even though they are easier (I think) to slip into general circulation, the can get spotted far more easily (by skilled eyes ) than the note. I open to the floor.....

Yes, I don't know if you know but it was Isaac Newton who said it. I think it was in a letter to Robert Hooke when he said "If I see further, it is because I stand on the shoulders of giants,"

From the normal language!

I shall be championing the "Register, and post Pictures!" campaign

Oooh yes I'm sure loads of people would apprecate all those heavy coins jingling around in their pockets! Btw, they [the general public] probably wouldn't appreciate the sheer brilliance of the Gothic series.

Hey, we digress!

Hahaha people have actually bid for it! They should come on predecimal and see the coin grading page. I looked at it last night and its very informative.

Yeah, they liked him apparently. After he got banned he went on to teach maths. btw he taught back in the days of corporal punishment and as well as a cane, he had a gym pump. When anybody misbehaved, he took the pump and wrote his initials (T.K) backwards on it in chalk and then swiftly hit the child on his backside with it. Et voila! His initials backwards on the seat of the pupil's trousers!

Register, and post pictures!!!

Hehehe the teacher said "Oh it doesn't matter, just don't do it again!". And you're dad knocked over a jar of mercury eh? Well my grandad blew his house's back door off when he was younger doing some chemistry experiments, became a chemistry teacher but then got banned from teaching it as he performed a little "fireworks display" for the pupils (destroying half the lab in the process) and made this stuff called 'gun cotton' where when one touches it it bangs and combusts rapidly and does allsorts. He put it on door handles....ahhh the hilarity.

Talking of acid, I spilt some concentrated (not the dilute stuff) hydrochloric acid on my exercise book in chemistry and it bore a hole through it in no time!