Dear Mr Parahandy

[Twister_Ken]

I have just checked the "For Sale' Forum, hoping to find a repair kit for an Avon deflatable. And what should I find but you trying to sell off my delicacies.

This is a bigger scandal than Prince Charles' valet e-baying the inscribed cuckoo clock presented to His Royal Earness by the Crown Prince of Bavaria.

Have you no shame?

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[ParaHandy]

ahm fair affronted ... i was only this meenit aboot tae tell you the story ...

i contacted sotheby's (as ony royal butler would) for advice and they suggested inclusion in the next period piece sale. the immediate clue was, of course, the 2s 6p price tag which pinpointed the precise century of manufacture and avoided the expense of carbon dating ... they were most enthusiastic; suggesting a reserve which i thought appropriate for such a relic and were most keen to inspect and thought i should immediately fly down to london .... i was fair pleased wi' ma'sel and then disaster struck ...

.. the security detail saw the three cans in my luggage. they were removed to a safe place and self-detonated apparently so, at gun point, i was frogmarched to the nick from where i am posting this missive. at no point have i incriminated your goodself.


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[HansBlix]

i can convirm the details ..... ulrika and i vere in a cubicle in the ladies loo at the time practicising for membership ov ze five mile high club ven one of the tins came hurtling through the vindow .. ze earth really moves with ulrika .. ve stuffed into the cistern, eef nothing else it vill save much vater ven people pull the plug ...

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[duncan]

Re: clear forgery

the price is a dead giveaway and suggest a youthfull forger has been involved.....
to qualify for the vintage indicated the tag would of course read 2s 6d

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[jimi]

Re: clear forgery

You're clearly giving away your youth (spotty bugger anyway) it should be 2/<font size=1>3d</font size=1> if its real.

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[ParaHandy]

Re: clear forgery

... quite right to question authenticity of antiquing which bashing could also have been from swilling round bilges for some time and, indeed, country of origin. forsooth it might have been pesetas .....

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[jimi]

Re: clean forgery

aha .. think you may be on to something there, rumour has it that the ship of origin had a bilge pump round the wrong way so swilling and all its connotations is a most appropriate term.

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[ParaHandy]

Re: ship of origin

... he did look a tad furtive when he handed them over ... mind, they might have been useful to supplement the meagre breakfast rations that unaccountably failed to appear ..... although, without knowing the provenance i'd hae been reluctant tae feed ra fush wi' it ....



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[Twister_Ken]

Au contraire, Hercule

Country of origin has to be UK. No other European would be seen dead wearing one.

And I'll have you know they were as fresh as they day they were canned.

Talking of getting canned, how's young Jimi?

And talking of young Jimi, he asssures me that chez-jock, "ra frae bent 'orse" are usually eaten deep fried.

They can be eaten in-tin or out. Eating in-tin is preferred because it saves the expense of a bottle of Irn-Bru to keep up the rust quotient (Scottish equivalent to sun tan).

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