OT: Spend a Penny...

eBay Item: 8815654450

I inherited a large number of bullion bags full of old coins following
the death of my uncle last year. One of these bags has now been
opened and I thought it may be a good fundraising exercise, given the
bag contains mint 1966 One Penny coins, to flog them off via eBay.

ALL of the dosh will be donated to the Alzheimer's Society - quite
fitting really as my aunt is in the final stages of dementia and has
been living in a care home since my uncle died.

Essentially, whatever the excuse - 40th Anniversary of England winning
the World Cup, celebrating the year the 101 was first sketched out on
a scrap of paper somewhere in Solihull - you're making a donation to
the Alzheimer's Society - which is a very, very worthy cause, and
getting a free, uncirculated, untouched mint condition Penny to thank
you

My aim, having put 1,966 of them on eBay is to raise...

.... £1,966 pounds. Please click the 'buy it now', and I'll shower you
with praise on the www.101fc.net site





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"Mother" <"@ {mother} @"@101fc.net> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> eBay Item: 8815654450
>
> I inherited a large number of bullion bags full of old coins following
> the death of my uncle last year. One of these bags has now been
> opened and I thought it may be a good fundraising exercise, given the
> bag contains mint 1966 One Penny coins, to flog them off via eBay.
>
> ALL of the dosh will be donated to the Alzheimer's Society - quite
> fitting really as my aunt is in the final stages of dementia and has
> been living in a care home since my uncle died.
>
> Essentially, whatever the excuse - 40th Anniversary of England winning
> the World Cup, celebrating the year the 101 was first sketched out on
> a scrap of paper somewhere in Solihull - you're making a donation to
> the Alzheimer's Society - which is a very, very worthy cause, and
> getting a free, uncirculated, untouched mint condition Penny to thank
> you
>
> My aim, having put 1,966 of them on eBay is to raise...
>
> ... £1,966 pounds. Please click the 'buy it now', and I'll shower you
> with praise on the www.101fc.net site
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> I love deadlines, especially the Whooshing noise
> they make as they pass. Douglas Adams 1952-2001

And don't forget to visit www.101fc.net as well a click on the sponsors to
further help the society Alzheimers is one of the ailments that makes the
whole family a victim each donation helps.
Derek

Mother" <"@ {mother} @ wrote:
> eBay Item: 8815654450
>
> I inherited a large number of bullion bags full of old coins following
> the death of my uncle last year. One of these bags has now been
> opened and I thought it may be a good fundraising exercise, given the
> bag contains mint 1966 One Penny coins, to flog them off via eBay.
>
> ALL of the dosh will be donated to the Alzheimer's Society - quite
> fitting really as my aunt is in the final stages of dementia and has
> been living in a care home since my uncle died.
>
> Essentially, whatever the excuse - 40th Anniversary of England winning
> the World Cup, celebrating the year the 101 was first sketched out on
> a scrap of paper somewhere in Solihull - you're making a donation to
> the Alzheimer's Society - which is a very, very worthy cause, and
> getting a free, uncirculated, untouched mint condition Penny to thank
> you
>
> My aim, having put 1,966 of them on eBay is to raise...
>
> ... £1,966 pounds. Please click the 'buy it now', and I'll shower you
> with praise on the www.101fc.net site


I'll have one of them, my Grandma had Alzheimers.

Cheers

Nige

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Nige <[email protected]> uttered summat worrerz funny
about:
> I'll have one of them, my Grandma had Alzheimers.
>
> Cheers
>
> Nige

Cracking initiaive Martyn! I wonder what you would have got for a penny in
it's day and if it's relatively the same as what you would get for a pound
in this day and age.

I found one on Percys origional petrol tank... I'm still trying to work out
if it's lucky... or just a penny.

Lee

On Mon, 22 May 2006 11:34:13 +0100, "Lee_D"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>Cracking initiaive Martyn! I wonder what you would have got for a penny in
>it's day and if it's relatively the same as what you would get for a pound
>in this day and age.

Well if you promise not to tell anyone...

.... I remember quite well what I could get for a Penny in 1966 - and I
don't recall, sadly, it being anywhere near the value of a Pound these
days :-(

Not sure whether to play the Four Yorkshiremen sketch now, though ;-)


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of distributed ignorance. And we know and understand less while being
increasingly capable." Prof. Peter Cochrane, formerly of BT Labs
In memory of Brian {Hamilton Kelly} who logged off 15th September 2005

On or around Sun, 21 May 2006 19:13:51 +0100, Mother <"@ {mother}
@"@101fc.net> enlightened us thusly:

>eBay Item: 8815654450
>
>I inherited a large number of bullion bags full of old coins following
>the death of my uncle last year. One of these bags has now been
>opened and I thought it may be a good fundraising exercise, given the
>bag contains mint 1966 One Penny coins, to flog them off via eBay.

can't help wondering why...

>ALL of the dosh will be donated to the Alzheimer's Society - quite
>fitting really as my aunt is in the final stages of dementia and has
>been living in a care home since my uncle died.

I've ordered one, seeing as I was also minted in 1966.
--
Austin Shackles. www.ddol-las.net my opinions are just that
"The great masses of the people ... will more easily fall victims to
a great lie than to a small one" Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
from Mein Kampf, Ch 10

On or around Mon, 22 May 2006 11:34:13 +0100, "Lee_D"
<[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:

>Nige <[email protected]> uttered summat worrerz funny
>about:
>> I'll have one of them, my Grandma had Alzheimers.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Nige
>
>Cracking initiaive Martyn! I wonder what you would have got for a penny in
>it's day and if it's relatively the same as what you would get for a pound
>in this day and age.

well, I can remember a packet of crisps costing 3½p just after
decimalisation, and they're 10 times that now from equivalent source, or
more.

at about the same time there was a major fuss (prolly 1974 and the oil
crisis) when petrol went up to 50p per *gallon*. now it's about 10 times
that... so in the last say 30 years stuffs gone up by a factor of at least
10. Mind, old pennies were 240 to the pound, not 100. so apart from the
fact that they almost certainly used it as an excuse to put the price up,
the pre-decimal equivalent of the 3½p was about 8½d. I expect crips wer
about 6d a pack in 1971. Anyone remember?

reminds me of a barron knights song, skit on "The way we were", I think...

#
I remember,
when a pound was still a pound
twenty fags were one-and-thruppence
twelve-and-a-half pee was half-a-crown
Dolly mixtures
were our favourite little sweets
I used to buy a bag for tuppence,
yeah, now they're 2p each.

etc.

I bet the lyrics ain't online, either. very difficult to find Barron
Knights lyrics online, dunno why.



>
>I found one on Percys origional petrol tank... I'm still trying to work out
>if it's lucky... or just a penny.
>
>Lee
>
>
>
--
Austin Shackles. www.ddol-las.net my opinions are just that
"Quos deus vult perdere, prius dementat" Euripedes, quoted in
Boswell's "Johnson".

On or around Mon, 22 May 2006 11:43:24 +0100, Mother <"@ {mother}
@"@101fc.net> enlightened us thusly:

>On Mon, 22 May 2006 11:34:13 +0100, "Lee_D"
><[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>Cracking initiaive Martyn! I wonder what you would have got for a penny in
>>it's day and if it's relatively the same as what you would get for a pound
>>in this day and age.
>
>Well if you promise not to tell anyone...
>
>... I remember quite well what I could get for a Penny in 1966 - and I
>don't recall, sadly, it being anywhere near the value of a Pound these
>days :-(
>
>Not sure whether to play the Four Yorkshiremen sketch now, though ;-)

Cardboard box? Luxury!
--
Austin Shackles. www.ddol-las.net my opinions are just that
"Quos deus vult perdere, prius dementat" Euripedes, quoted in
Boswell's "Johnson".

Mother" <"@ {mother} @ wrote:

|| On Mon, 22 May 2006 11:34:13 +0100, "Lee_D"
|| <[email protected]> wrote:
||
||| Cracking initiaive Martyn! I wonder what you would have got for a
||| penny in it's day and if it's relatively the same as what you would
||| get for a pound in this day and age.
||
|| Well if you promise not to tell anyone...
||
|| ... I remember quite well what I could get for a Penny in 1966 - and
|| I don't recall, sadly, it being anywhere near the value of a Pound
|| these days :-(
||
|| Not sure whether to play the Four Yorkshiremen sketch now, though ;-)
||
||
|| --
|| "We have gone from a world of concentrated knowledge and wisdom to
|| one of distributed ignorance. And we know and understand less while
|| being increasingly capable." Prof. Peter Cochrane, formerly of
|| BT Labs In memory of Brian {Hamilton Kelly} who logged off 15th
|| September 2005

Four Yorkshiremen sketch? We used to dreeeeam of the Four ...

Sorry.

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==============================

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Austin Shackles wrote:

|| On or around Sun, 21 May 2006 19:13:51 +0100, Mother <"@ {mother}
|| @"@101fc.net> enlightened us thusly:
||
||| eBay Item: 8815654450
|||
||| I inherited a large number of bullion bags full of old coins
||| following the death of my uncle last year. One of these bags has
||| now been opened and I thought it may be a good fundraising
||| exercise, given the bag contains mint 1966 One Penny coins, to flog
||| them off via eBay.
||
|| can't help wondering why...
||
||| ALL of the dosh will be donated to the Alzheimer's Society - quite
||| fitting really as my aunt is in the final stages of dementia and has
||| been living in a care home since my uncle died.
||
|| I've ordered one, seeing as I was also minted in 1966.
|| --
|| Austin Shackles. www.ddol-las.net my opinions are just that
|| "The great masses of the people ... will more easily fall victims to
|| a great lie than to a small one" Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
|| from Mein Kampf, Ch 10

Me too, seeing as I was ... shall we say young-ish.

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Rich
==============================

I don't approve of signatures, so I don't have one.

Austin Shackles wrote:

|| I expect crips wer about 6d a pack in 1971. Anyone remember?

We were taught not to make jokes about those less fortunate than
ourselves...

Kids today.

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==============================

I don't approve of signatures, so I don't have one.

"Richard Brookman" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Austin Shackles wrote:
>
> || I expect crips wer about 6d a pack in 1971. Anyone remember?
>
> We were taught not to make jokes about those less fortunate than
> ourselves...
>
> Kids today.
>
> --
> Rich
> ==============================
>
you mean Yorkshiremen then ? I remember when wagon wheels were feckin
'normous you could barely eat one if you hadn't had breakfast or dinner.Its
odd tho' you can still buy penny chews . Ratarsed on a quid thats when beer
had proper prices oh crap its getting to me
Derek

On Mon, 22 May 2006 19:45:13 +0100, Austin Shackles
<[email protected]> wrote:

>well, I can remember a packet of crisps costing 3½p just after
>decimalisation, and they're 10 times that now from equivalent source, or
>more.

On a similar note, i recently worked out that it costs me over 2p to
'spend a penny' at the current water rates on my water meter.

Tom Woods <[email protected]> uttered summat worrerz funny
about:
> On a similar note, i recently worked out that it costs me over 2p to
> 'spend a penny' at the current water rates on my water meter.

Don't forget the drainage charges too... now that is taking the pssi.


Lee

On Mon, 22 May 2006 22:39:46 +0100, "Lee_D"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>Tom Woods <[email protected]> uttered summat worrerz funny
>about:
>> On a similar note, i recently worked out that it costs me over 2p to
>> 'spend a penny' at the current water rates on my water meter.
>
>Don't forget the drainage charges too... now that is taking the pssi.

That is included in my 2p. IIRC, drainage chage is based on amount
supplied and is around 30% of the supply charge.
I wonder when they will start metering the sewage line (and at that
point i can start claiming from the council for the mystery drain that
comes into my back yard from the garages behind!)

Austin Shackles wrote:

> at about the same time there was a major fuss (prolly 1974 and the oil
> crisis) when petrol went up to 50p per *gallon*. now it's about 10 times
> that... so in the last say 30 years stuffs gone up by a factor of at least
> 10. Mind, old pennies were 240 to the pound, not 100. so apart from the
> fact that they almost certainly used it as an excuse to put the price up,
> the pre-decimal equivalent of the 3½p was about 8½d. I expect crips wer
> about 6d a pack in 1971. Anyone remember?

The day we went decimal a loaf of bread was 8 new pence. A year or so
later I used to buy cigarettes with my dinner money, 12p/day, which
got me 10 picadilly No:3 and a book of matches (they were nicer than
No10 or Sovereign). Prior to decimalisation, school dinners were 3
shillings a week. This is in the inflated South prices.


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Derek wrote:

|| "Richard Brookman" <[email protected]> wrote in message
|| news:[email protected]...
||| Austin Shackles wrote:
|||
||||| I expect crips wer about 6d a pack in 1971. Anyone remember?
|||
||| We were taught not to make jokes about those less fortunate than
||| ourselves...
|||
||| Kids today.
|||
||| --
||| Rich
||| ==============================
|||
|| you mean Yorkshiremen then ? I remember when wagon wheels were feckin
|| 'normous you could barely eat one if you hadn't had breakfast or
|| dinner.Its odd tho' you can still buy penny chews . Ratarsed on a
|| quid thats when beer had proper prices oh crap its getting to me
|| Derek

1972-ish there was still a pub in Kirkstall (Leeds) that served Tetley's
Mild at 10p a pint. Ten of those was a reasonable approximation of ratarsed
FSVO arsed. Trouble is it was dog-rough, so it became known as "pint of
beer and a fight please".

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Rich
==============================

I don't approve of signatures, so I don't have one.

Richard Brookman wrote:
> Derek wrote:
>
>>> "Richard Brookman" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>>> news:[email protected]...
>>>> Austin Shackles wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> I expect crips wer about 6d a pack in 1971. Anyone remember?
>>>>
>>>> We were taught not to make jokes about those less fortunate than
>>>> ourselves...
>>>>
>>>> Kids today.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Rich
>>>> ==============================
>>>>
>>> you mean Yorkshiremen then ? I remember when wagon wheels were feckin
>>> 'normous you could barely eat one if you hadn't had breakfast or
>>> dinner.Its odd tho' you can still buy penny chews . Ratarsed on a
>>> quid thats when beer had proper prices oh crap its getting to me
>>> Derek
>
> 1972-ish there was still a pub in Kirkstall (Leeds) that served Tetley's
> Mild at 10p a pint. Ten of those was a reasonable approximation of ratarsed
> FSVO arsed. Trouble is it was dog-rough, so it became known as "pint of
> beer and a fight please".


The Sun near the viaduct???

Nige

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Nige wrote:

||| 1972-ish there was still a pub in Kirkstall (Leeds) that served
||| Tetley's Mild at 10p a pint. Ten of those was a reasonable
||| approximation of ratarsed FSVO arsed. Trouble is it was dog-rough,
||| so it became known as "pint of beer and a fight please".
||
||
|| The Sun near the viaduct???

Might have been. I was generally unaware of details such as names or local
landmarks. I was usually too busy necking it down me, or focused on some
likely lass who might be persuaded to share a shandy and two straws.

Actually, now I think, yes it was The Sun. Happy daze...

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==============================

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Richard Brookman wrote:
> Nige wrote:
>
>>>> 1972-ish there was still a pub in Kirkstall (Leeds) that served
>>>> Tetley's Mild at 10p a pint. Ten of those was a reasonable
>>>> approximation of ratarsed FSVO arsed. Trouble is it was dog-rough,
>>>> so it became known as "pint of beer and a fight please".
>>>
>>>
>>> The Sun near the viaduct???
>
> Might have been. I was generally unaware of details such as names or local
> landmarks. I was usually too busy necking it down me, or focused on some
> likely lass who might be persuaded to share a shandy and two straws.
>
> Actually, now I think, yes it was The Sun. Happy daze...


LOL well known gaff!! To the Police.............

It's not too far from Headingley so used to get some students staggering down!! Now, there's that many
pubs in Leeds it's untrue! The students have moved all over now as there's that many of the ****ers!!

You been to Leeds recently matey? It is rammed to the gills with fit talent, posh flats & some serious
money.

If yer ever up for dropping in, I'll take you round a few places!!!!

Nige

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