I got Brian Kerr to sign my issue of STIG!

[Schumi]

I reckon that it'd enough to buy approximately 7/16 of a rood of land in Western Australia.

[John83]

Originally posted by Schumi
I reckon that it'd enough to but approximately 7/16 of a rood of land in Western Australia.

So by Andy's current fanzine-sale predictions, we should own the whole state by the end of the season?

[Aberdonian Stu]

Well wouldn't you say

6 and 7 rather than 6 and 7 pence, and besides he's writing it not saying it so technically he's correct to write 6s 7d now back to my story...

I was going to buy a gazebo so I entered the dime hut store and I asked the attendant to show me a tellywicker which was the trade name for a dime hut or a gazebo as it's now known. Anyway I had an onion tied to my belt which was the style at the time and upon seeing the tellywicker I remembered back to when I was a boy and the times my dad and I used to go out buying gazebos, which is the modern name for a tellywicker or a dime hut as it was also known.

[pineapple stu]

Re: Well wouldn't you say

Originally posted by Aberdonian Stu
6 and 7 rather than 6 and 7 pence, and besides he's writing it not saying it so technically he's correct to write 6s 7d

You could say 6 and 7 or 6 and 7 pence. Technically, 6 and 7 could be £6 7s (if you were buying a house or something), so 6 and 7 pence then differentiates between the two. 6 and 7 pence would have been more commonly said.

And anyway, sure I write things as I'd say them - that's what makes the fanzine such a riveting read!!!

And I'm not the only one to write things as I say them, as your lack of punctuation shows...

[Aberdonian Stu]

Ah so you want to hear more of my riveting tale

Now where was I, ah yes I was reminiscing of the old times I used to have with my father out in the tellywicker, which was the trade name for a gazebo which used to be call a dime hut. We'd sit out there watching the fish go by in the river, of course we didn't know what to do with fish in those days. We were a simple folk who were afraid to eat them because we thought they might give us a bout of the Pat Burke's and be constantly slagged in some magazine. Anyway I was talking to the clerk in the dime hut store and he showed me the tellywickers he had and I said to him "You call those tellywicker's why back in 19-dickety-6 we knew what a tellywicker was, it was a dime hut, and that ain't no gazebo." This confused the clerk as the word gazebo hadn't been invented yet.

[sadloserkid]

Bloody students!

[Schumi]

You're all nuts.

[John83]

Originally posted by Schumi
You're all nuts.

Yes, even you.

[Aberdonian Stu]

Nuts to this

Whaaaaattt!!! Matlock is starting in five minutes, ah nuts to this I'm going home.

Right back to the land of the sane I reckon there's the bones of a Grandpa Simpson guest column in my post, I'll fiddle it about a little but it was important that I told this story.