Weird stuff with 2nd hand goods
I bought a book from a charity shop the other day (The Giant, O'Brien by Hilary Mantel, if you're interested).
In the book was a note.
Who is Caroline? Who is Dave? I wonder if she ever got that message? The note looks like it's been cut out of a road map and on the back is a map section featuring Rhydypennau in Ceredigion, Wales.
Anyone else got anything weird with 2nd-hand goods?
In the book was a note.
Who is Caroline? Who is Dave? I wonder if she ever got that message? The note looks like it's been cut out of a road map and on the back is a map section featuring Rhydypennau in Ceredigion, Wales.
Anyone else got anything weird with 2nd-hand goods?
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I once bought a pair of jeans from Next (so you would assume they were new!)
When I got home, I found ?20 in the pocket :)
the map is where he burried her.
might be funny to start slipping in treasure maps into books in charity shops or the library. :p
older books usually have people names in the front and even adresses sometimes.
as a kid i used to write my name in the front of hte books i had, i assume they are out there in the world. a very low tech version of what google is trying to do at the mo.
I'm on it!
Or the book shop owner is the guy that wrote the note, and does it with loads of old books before selling them
turns out the PI was putting the notes in to drum up trade. :-P
And the none wizards are called 'buggles'. Don't forget my commission.
"You should have told your brother!!!"
Yeah bought it? Hmmmm? :p
it was in a pile, a wholesale pile really, of wargaming stuff I bought to sell on ebay, I made thousands of pounds too :D
i had to swap 20 pound note at the bank because i had written a girls phone number on it in big letter. and then to save randoms ringing her up, scribbled it out with a marker pen. :D
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but underneath written in pencil and different handwritting was
no it isn't its SWIV
When i loaded it up it was actually Neuromancer.
But the disk did actually have Yo Joe on it, and they were right though it is kind of sh*t :D
I also remember having a Japanese Megadrive game, that had an old style instruction booklet, in the back of the old Japanese megadrive booklets the caution stuff had really crap characters in the style of something like Crayon Shin Chan. The "Do not expose to excessive force" (basically the do not bash your cart warning), had a pic of a really crap Japanese style character jumping on the cart. The word that expressed the force was "PAKI!".
It wasn't my copy of Magic Hat, because that was new (but that did have the "PAKI!" thing in the back of it), but one of the older Jap Megadrive games I had had that stuff at the back of the booklet, somebody had scribbled underneath it "Oi! Slanty that's racist". Which was funny because obviously whoever wrote it was also being racist :D
The game may have been wardner? But I don't remember if it had the old style instruction booklet?
I bought a Clive James book which had a postcard of a naked man in. Very tasteful, but quite a surprise!
Turns out his parents lived in the current apartment
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