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Post by Sixteen on May 29, 2013 6:32:22 GMT -5
Nice job, everyone!
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Post by Charlie on Jul 2, 2013 8:21:43 GMT -5
Next Edition is up
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Post by Hermes on Jul 2, 2013 9:26:23 GMT -5
You know, I don't think I ever read this.
I think there may be something wrong with Betsy's joke. It's an annoying feature of the ProBoards 'upgrade' that you can't put anything in the Spoiler text other than 'Spoiler'.
Pen's story reminds me of an incident from my youth. My mother sent me to the cobbler to collect some shoes he had been repairing. She gave me some money to pay for it: fifty pence. Now, things were a lot cheaper then than they are now (because I was Young, which means it was a Long Time Ago) but even so I wasn't convinced this would be enough. My mother often underestimated the price of things. So I asked her for more money. She was reluctant, but I said 'Can't you at least give me 1p more?'. So she did, absurd as it was, I suppose to shut me up, and off I went with 51p. When I reached the cobbler's, he gave me the shoes, and said 'That will be 51 pence'. I don't know what this signifies, but it happened.
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Post by penne on Jul 2, 2013 9:39:46 GMT -5
That's a cool story, Hermes and you're right about Betsy's joke. It should say "How did the hipster burn his tongue?" Unfortunately I can't edit it right now.
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Post by Christmas Chief on Jul 13, 2013 9:00:53 GMT -5
Pen's story reminds me of an incident from my youth. My mother sent me to the cobbler to collect some shoes he had been repairing. She gave me some money to pay for it: fifty pence. Now, things were a lot cheaper then than they are now (because I was Young, which means it was a Long Time Ago) but even so I wasn't convinced this would be enough. My mother often underestimated the price of things. So I asked her for more money. She was reluctant, but I said 'Can't you at least give me 1p more?'. So she did, absurd as it was, I suppose to shut me up, and off I went with 51p. When I reached the cobbler's, he gave me the shoes, and said 'That will be 51 pence'. I don't know what this signifies, but it happened. I found this story implausible until I read the final clause.
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Post by Hermes on Jul 13, 2013 11:24:09 GMT -5
Wait, what? You found the story implausible until I told you it happened? And then, despite your earlier doubts, you suddenly believed me?
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Post by Christmas Chief on Jul 13, 2013 11:55:24 GMT -5
Initially, I thought you were joking about your age by inventing a story from your "youth" about cobblers, 51p shoe repairs, an ushering mother, and her street-savvy son. The clause "but it happened" led me to reassess this perception and read the story again as though it really had happened, wherein I realized the plucky young protagonist from the story is the same person as the equally adventurous Hermes writing about it decades later.
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Post by Hermes on Jul 13, 2013 12:00:48 GMT -5
Ah, I see. Possibly he didn't actually have 'cobbler' over his door, but that is what we called him. And he was an old-fashioned craftsman, even then; probably most places would have charged more.
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