Title: Who says stamp collecting isnt cool?
Post by: johnnystress on 06 December, 2005, 08:34:42 PM
Post by: johnnystress on 06 December, 2005, 08:34:42 PM
Link: Soper Stamps
Title: Re: Who says stamp collecting isnt...
Post by: johnnystress on 06 December, 2005, 08:37:21 PM
Post by: johnnystress on 06 December, 2005, 08:37:21 PM
shit-the ol' vowel problem again
Title: Re: Who says stamp collecting isnt...
Post by: Conexus on 06 December, 2005, 10:15:37 PM
Post by: Conexus on 06 December, 2005, 10:15:37 PM
still just one step up from trainspotting IMO
Title: Re: Who says stamp collecting isnt...
Post by: Slippery PD on 06 December, 2005, 10:21:07 PM
Post by: Slippery PD on 06 December, 2005, 10:21:07 PM
And where does reading comics fit into speccy, geeky, minority hobbies. One step along from CCGs and RPGs :)
we minorities should stick together!!!
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we minorities should stick together!!!
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Title: Re: Who says stamp collecting isnt...
Post by: Funt Solo on 07 December, 2005, 04:34:25 AM
Post by: Funt Solo on 07 December, 2005, 04:34:25 AM
What's a CCG?
Title: Re: Who says stamp collecting isnt...
Post by: Slippery PD on 07 December, 2005, 04:36:41 AM
Post by: Slippery PD on 07 December, 2005, 04:36:41 AM
Collectable Card Games! Bottom of the geek pile!
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Title: Re: Who says stamp collecting isnt...
Post by: Matt Timson on 07 December, 2005, 03:48:03 PM
Post by: Matt Timson on 07 December, 2005, 03:48:03 PM
My father-in-law collects stamps and cigarette cards- he's got hundreds of thousands of the buggers. Whenever we go round there, he's holed up in his 'den' sorting through another batch.
"What you got there then, Bob?"
"Nothing much- few odds and sods"
"Worth anything?"
"Naaaah.... 'bout five hundred or so".
It's the same story every week. He's retired now, so spends his time buying up odds and ends to make into collections to sell at auction- only he hardly ever sells the fuckers (he reluctantly shifts a few when he needs to pay for holidays and wotnot- but that's about it. I've told him he's got to catalogue the lot before he pops his clogs as I don't want to have to learn the intricacies of stamp collecting before cashing in on his life's work.
Fuck knows why he always laughs- I'm deadly serious.
"What you got there then, Bob?"
"Nothing much- few odds and sods"
"Worth anything?"
"Naaaah.... 'bout five hundred or so".
It's the same story every week. He's retired now, so spends his time buying up odds and ends to make into collections to sell at auction- only he hardly ever sells the fuckers (he reluctantly shifts a few when he needs to pay for holidays and wotnot- but that's about it. I've told him he's got to catalogue the lot before he pops his clogs as I don't want to have to learn the intricacies of stamp collecting before cashing in on his life's work.
Fuck knows why he always laughs- I'm deadly serious.
Title: Re: Who says stamp collecting isnt...
Post by: Proudhuff on 07 December, 2005, 04:00:50 PM
Post by: Proudhuff on 07 December, 2005, 04:00:50 PM
I say it is't having worked at stamp exhibitions in London, Amsterdam and Beijing, research stamp subject and written their direct mail I can confirm they are the ultimate geeks.
I have too much knowledge of this subject in my head from working with it over the last 20 odd years, still they said philately would get me no where ;)
If you even want to see these chaps in their purest form contact the Decimal Stamp Study Circle, lovely chaps just eccentric but not in a contrived way.
Having said all that I did get to meet Tom Baker and got him to sign a stamped Dalek postcard, the shame!!
Huff the perf'ed
I have too much knowledge of this subject in my head from working with it over the last 20 odd years, still they said philately would get me no where ;)
If you even want to see these chaps in their purest form contact the Decimal Stamp Study Circle, lovely chaps just eccentric but not in a contrived way.
Having said all that I did get to meet Tom Baker and got him to sign a stamped Dalek postcard, the shame!!
Huff the perf'ed
Title: Re: Who says stamp collecting isnt...
Post by: Grant Goggans on 07 December, 2005, 06:29:27 PM
Post by: Grant Goggans on 07 December, 2005, 06:29:27 PM
We had Muppet stamps this year! Those are even better than old DC superheroes.
--Grant
--Grant
Title: Re: Who says stamp collecting isnt...
Post by: johnnystress on 07 December, 2005, 06:39:14 PM
Post by: johnnystress on 07 December, 2005, 06:39:14 PM
The Irish Post Office issued these a few years ago- I'm a big Rory Gallagher and Thin Lizzy fan. I didn't get them though, because at the end of the day, what do I need more junk cluttering up the house for?
Time enough to get them on ebay years from now for a ridiculous price
Time enough to get them on ebay years from now for a ridiculous price
Title: Re: Who says stamp collecting isnt...
Post by: Mudcrab on 07 December, 2005, 06:44:34 PM
Post by: Mudcrab on 07 December, 2005, 06:44:34 PM
It's a shame they ran out of legends and had to use U2 eh?
Title: Re: Who says stamp collecting isnt...
Post by: johnnystress on 07 December, 2005, 07:09:18 PM
Post by: johnnystress on 07 December, 2005, 07:09:18 PM
i think it was a typo
It was meant to say "bell-ends"
It was meant to say "bell-ends"