skippyonspeed
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Post by skippyonspeed on Oct 5, 2016 23:03:03 GMT
A record that can never be broken, pardon the pun! The rarest and most expensive (an original pressing sold at auction for over £25000) record in the world is a 7" vinyl single Frank Wilson - Do I Love You (Indeed I Do)Ironically it has been a no.1 single in Northern Soul charts, yet there are only 2 known original pressings in the world! (All the others were destroyed by Motown boss Berry Gordy after FW moved into song writing and producing)..........How is this so you may ask as charts are based on number of sales........ it has been copied, remastered & released several times .......It is probably in most Northern Soul fans top ten list. The Northern Soul scene owes a lot to a young teenage Ian Levine who whilst on holiday in the states hunted around in charity shops etc. for unwanted and obscure Tamla Motown style records bought for peanuts. He came back with a box of 4000 which were nearly lost forever, because the pilot of a small plane was having problems taking off when flying the family onto the Caribbean and wanted to dump the box in the sea ......... People are still paying thousands of pounds for original rare and obscure vinyl records, a lot of which are terrible songs terribly recorded!!!! That boxful would probably easily fetch 7 figures today at auction! |
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Post by skippyonspeed on Oct 6, 2016 9:32:04 GMT
The moral of my post is.....in these troubled times and you are of thinking investiing in future collectables avoid all the stuff you like and buy the ugly ducklings, love and care for them.......they could be the sought after swans!!!!
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Post by adrianc on Oct 6, 2016 9:39:13 GMT
The moral of my post is.....in these troubled times and you are of thinking investiing in collectables avoid all the stuff you like and buy the ugly ducklings, love and care for them.......they could be the sought after swans!!!! By the time they get to be "collectables", you've missed the boat.
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skippyonspeed
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Post by skippyonspeed on Oct 6, 2016 9:44:22 GMT
The moral of my post is.....in these troubled times and you are of thinking investiing in collectables avoid all the stuff you like and buy the ugly ducklings, love and care for them.......they could be the sought after swans!!!! By the time they get to be "collectables", you've missed the boat. Sorry I meant future collectables
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Post by adrianc on Oct 6, 2016 9:45:14 GMT
By the time they get to be "collectables", you've missed the boat. Sorry I meant future collectables Ah, now we're into crystal ball territory.
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skippyonspeed
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Post by skippyonspeed on Oct 6, 2016 9:46:44 GMT
Sorry I meant future collectables Ah, now we're into crystal ball territory. As long it's an ugly one 
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Post by skippyonspeed on Oct 6, 2016 10:23:16 GMT
As a child I remember always checking the dates of any pennies that passed through my mitts to find 1 of the 6 dated 1933......I seem to remember being told one had been photographed for a newspaper adverticement.......by the time anyone had noticed the date in the resulting picture, it was back in circulation......however not sure about the authenticity of that story! Anybody else know anything about it?
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Post by martin44 on Oct 6, 2016 10:29:40 GMT
Up for sale in usa at the moment $25k. but ugly? by today's standards, probably. 1940's original superman doll.  |
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Post by skippyonspeed on Oct 7, 2016 21:17:45 GMT
Back in the 70's/ 80's I worked in the aerospace industry. I was a thermal analyst and part of my job was to write computer programs to calculate maximum temperatures that electronic components on circuit boards could reach in worst case scenarios.
There was 2 or 3 of us doing this type of work. This was in the days when computers took up entire rooms and we did not possess any, so we had to use a non-secure outside agency. As the project was very secret we were instructed not to name any components or assemblies, this created a bit of problem 'cos there was hundreds of boards and black boxes, so we had to call them something. All of us were trekkies. so we decided to create 4 lists of jargon from Star Trek which we used to make up by using one word from each list of words. Any prying Russian eyes must have been impressed to find out how advanced we were with bits of equipment such as the "interstellar time warp generator"
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Post by skippyonspeed on Oct 8, 2016 17:23:33 GMT
If you are unlucky enough to find youself on the 2nd floor of a burning high rise building with your pet cat. You are probably doomed if the fire started below you. However, you have an extremely good chance of saving your cat by throwing it out of an open window but NOT from the 2nd floor............you must go up at least to the 5th floor.............this will allow the cat time to right itself and spread it's legs (parachute effect) ready for landing on their extremely muscular legs that act as shock absorbers. nb 1 make sure the cat isn't asleep first! 2 sadly this won't work for you, not even if you are holding a cat |
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Post by martin44 on Oct 8, 2016 17:47:29 GMT
If you are unlucky enough to find youself on the 2nd floor of a burning high rise building with your pet cat. You are probably doomed if the fire started below you. However, you have an extremely good chance of saving your cat by throwing it out of an open window but NOT from the 2nd floor............you must go up at least to the 5th floor.............this will allow the cat time to right itself and spread it's legs (parachute effect) ready for landing on their extremely muscular legs that act as shock absorbers. nb 1 make sure the cat isn't asleep first! 2 sadly this won't work for you, not even if you are holding a cat But........ Couldn't i use the cat to try and douse the flames while holding it by the tail. 
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Post by skippyonspeed on Oct 8, 2016 18:01:37 GMT
Gents, as winter is approaching here is a top tip if you suffer from "cold feet in bed syndrome" ie your missus sticks her feet where they aren't wanted..........buy her a hot water bottle. Once filled with hot water instruct her to place it NOT on feet but between her thighs.........nicely warmed and slightly thinned blood will be gushing down her femoral arteries right down to her little piggies within a couple of minutes!
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skippyonspeed
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Post by skippyonspeed on Oct 9, 2016 7:46:06 GMT
I think I know why our police force has no respect in parts of our community...........a week doesn't go by where there is a news report on TV........."Police held a fingertip search at ******** today etc"............Now, correct me if I'm wrong, they might find a whole body or bits of a body even, but not once have I heard reported they found what they were actually looking for ie fingertips
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