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Firth of Forth Founder member
Joined: 29 Aug 2005 Posts: 1493 Location: East Lothian, Scotland
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Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 8:45 am Post subject: Scottish Geocoin now ready for ordering |
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You can find details here:
http://www.gccoins.com/scotlands/home.htm
(PS Jack don't order as I've already got one for you and for Charlotte) _________________ Utterly smitten by a Captain
And now Mrs Aubrey |
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Haggis Hunter Founder member
Joined: 29 Aug 2005 Posts: 2487 Location: The building site formally known as Edinburgh!
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Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 9:33 am Post subject: |
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Nice coin, but then I already knew that. Sorry but I was asked to keep the design quiet.
I must say that it looks a lot better than the English coin, but then I am biased. _________________ Let me know if I say anything that offends you
I might want to offend you again later |
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Wildlifewriter Founder member
Joined: 04 Aug 2005 Posts: 948 Location: Norn Iron
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Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 11:04 am Post subject: |
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Interesting. If the coin has a "rustic highland look to it" when new, it'll look even more rustic after two years in a cache.
Anyone know what the production run limit is?
-Wlw |
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Billy Twigger Founder member
Joined: 30 Aug 2005 Posts: 352 Location: N55 51.686 W5 05.647
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Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 2:54 pm Post subject: |
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Wildlifewriter wrote: | "rustic highland look to it"
-Wlw |
bit like Highland Nick really! (Always knew he was inspirational!) _________________ Let's face the music and dance |
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Haggis Hunter Founder member
Joined: 29 Aug 2005 Posts: 2487 Location: The building site formally known as Edinburgh!
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Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 6:34 pm Post subject: |
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Wildlifewriter wrote: |
Anyone know what the production run limit is?
-Wlw |
I would expect no less than 1000, as that is the minimum order for a batch of tracking numbers, as it's going to have it's own icon i would expect it would have to reach at least that number?
Best person to ask is SlytherinAlex _________________ Let me know if I say anything that offends you
I might want to offend you again later |
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Wildlifewriter Founder member
Joined: 04 Aug 2005 Posts: 948 Location: Norn Iron
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Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 6:54 pm Post subject: |
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Billy Twigger wrote: | bit like Highland Nick really! (Always knew he was inspirational!) |
So THAT'S what a rustic highland look looks like.
I see...
Right...
Good.
-Wlw. |
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Billy Twigger Founder member
Joined: 30 Aug 2005 Posts: 352 Location: N55 51.686 W5 05.647
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Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 7:15 pm Post subject: |
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Wildlifewriter wrote: | Billy Twigger wrote: | bit like Highland Nick really! (Always knew he was inspirational!) |
So THAT'S what a rustic highland look looks like.
I see...
Right...
Good.
-Wlw. |
Sorry - my mistake. I thought you said "rusty". _________________ Let's face the music and dance |
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Jack Aubrey Founder member
Joined: 31 Aug 2005 Posts: 513 Location: Camptoun, Scotland
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Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 10:07 pm Post subject: |
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Wildlifewriter wrote: | "rustic highland look to it"
-Wlw |
[Apologies in advance for hereupon recalling wlw's account of his conversation on departure from Turnhouse and for being irresistibly overcome by a poor joke.]
HM the Q having been prevailed upon to undertake the formal opening of Scotland's newest hospital is taken to meet selected patients.
HMQ: And how are you feeling now?
Patient A: "But mark the Rustic, haggis-fed,
The trembling earth resounds his tread,
Clap in his walie nieve a blade,
He'll make it whissle;
An legs an arms, an heads will sned,
Like taps o thrissle."
HMQ (turning rapidly to the next bed): And what about you, my good man?
Patient B: "O ye, wha are sae guid yoursel,
Sae pious and sae holy,
Ye've nought to do but mark and tell
Your neebours' fauts and folly!
Whase life is like a weel-gaun mill,
Supplied wi store o water;
The heapet happer's ebbing still,
An still the clap plays clatter!"
HMQ (slightly off her stride by now, seeks out a bed on the other side of the ward): And you, my fine Scotch fellow?
Patient C: "There sat Auld Nick, in shape o beast;
A touzie tyke, black, grim and large,
To gie them music was his charge:
He screw'd the pipes and gart them skirl,
Till roof and rafters a' did dirl. "
Making a hasty bee-line for the white coated group of medics by the door, HMQ rather breathlessly seeks information: Tell me, doctors, is this a mental ward?
Ra medics (in unison): "No, Ma'am. 'tis the SERIOUS BURNS UNIT"
[I did apologise in advance, after all.] _________________ In the service of a Queen |
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HighlandNick Founder member
Joined: 30 Aug 2005 Posts: 635 Location: Highlands, Scotland
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Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 12:33 am Post subject: |
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I'm sorry, I can't make any comment about the remarks posted above...
After all, I am English. |
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Wildlifewriter Founder member
Joined: 04 Aug 2005 Posts: 948 Location: Norn Iron
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Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 1:06 am Post subject: |
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HighlandNick wrote: | I'm sorry, I can't make any comment about the remarks posted above...
After all, I am English. |
Not a problem. If you don't know any REAL Burns, do what I do: make up your own...
Tae a whankie
Aw, mickle whankie groon the twalt,
Thy spongle's i' a twinsle falt,
Fae a' the boongle cwarp or funge:
A whankie's braw tae spurm me crunge!
[The poet regards his "whankie" (decorated walking stick) with satisfaction. He remarks on its finley-worked twalt which has been "grooned" (rubbed gently with 300 grade Wet&Dry) and mentions the superb "spongle" (a falted twinsle) at the top.
The whankie is compared favourably with any "boongle cwarp" (untranslateable - possibly an Old Norse term for nasal mucus) or "funge" (a Leki pole). Finally, the poet looks forward to inserting the whankie up his That's enough made-up Burns analysis - Admin |
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Firth of Forth Founder member
Joined: 29 Aug 2005 Posts: 1493 Location: East Lothian, Scotland
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Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 8:26 am Post subject: |
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From a geocoin to brilliant made-up Burns in 8 easy steps. There's no other forum like it! _________________ Utterly smitten by a Captain
And now Mrs Aubrey |
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