Emperor Oli

Yeah, they liked him apparently. After he got banned he went on to teach maths. btw he taught back in the days of corporal punishment and as well as a cane, he had a gym pump. When anybody misbehaved, he took the pump and wrote his initials (T.K) backwards on it in chalk and then swiftly hit the child on his backside with it. Et voila! His initials backwards on the seat of the pupil's trousers!

Well, a few days ago, I bought three Farthings off Ebay from a guy called "Sharpclaw". The pictures were fantastic, absolutely no blemishes or anything - "This is too good to be true!" I thought. Sadly, it was; the coins arrived and although they did have some lustre on all of them, it was nothing compared to the photos purporting to be the coins for sale . I was miffed because I'm trying to assemble a collection of Farthings between 1902 and 1956 in the best Uncirculated condition.

Register, and post pictures!!!

Hehehe the teacher said "Oh it doesn't matter, just don't do it again!". And you're dad knocked over a jar of mercury eh? Well my grandad blew his house's back door off when he was younger doing some chemistry experiments, became a chemistry teacher but then got banned from teaching it as he performed a little "fireworks display" for the pupils (destroying half the lab in the process) and made this stuff called 'gun cotton' where when one touches it it bangs and combusts rapidly and does allsorts. He put it on door handles....ahhh the hilarity.

Talking of acid, I spilt some concentrated (not the dilute stuff) hydrochloric acid on my exercise book in chemistry and it bore a hole through it in no time!

Indeed. Buy your 20th Century BU Farthings from Chris Perkins in future - the best guy in town! plug

Yes, never a dull moment!

That little bit at the bottom of the page is misleading. I am in fact celebrating a birthday today, my cousin's. I suggest you change it to no members are celebrating their birthday today. I am a nitpicker

I swim every week, I've entered some competitions too. I play Tennis regularly and I've got quite far in some tournaments I entered. Besides that I too like computers plus debating, going out with friends, going to see films etc. I'm an avid reader and I've switched to lots of non-fiction at the minute. My favourite book btw is 1984 by George Orwell...genius. Yep thats about it.

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Me too. I bought a Napoleon III 5F (God knows why), mainly just for its elegance but when I received it, to my dismay it was polished.

Mine would be: www. [ASK OLI] .com www. [ASK OLI] .com www. [ASK OLI] .com www.predecimal.com (goes without saying ) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This post has been edited to prevent leading to possible offence caused by the websites listed. If you want to find out Oli's other 3 favourite websites, please ask him over the forum personal messenger. Chris, predecimal.com

Wow 30,000 a month! I didn't think it was anywhere near that figure! And theres only about 10 regulars on the forums

Would many people list on it? IMHO I'm sure they would prefer to list on a site that admittedly gets more hits (Ebay).

What a coincidence. Tell me, have you ever taken all the trays out at once? I did it when I first got it and was dismayed to find that the interior was not varnished all the way through. However, I still love it but only wish I could afford the Coronet

Here are some pics of my Peter Nichols cabinet. I just got a new digital camera and needed something to photograph!

Terribly sorry, Chris. I only go on the Politics message board on the website that "informs you about legal mushroom induced highs". I have looked on the other sections but it's mostly rubbish if you look close enough. Anyhoo, sorry for the inconvenience

Not my area I'm afraid Chris, I focus on one area instead of lots of them.

Sorry for the mistake, I was so taken aback by the price and number of bids!

There's an old thread somewherearound here where we had the debate on the new 2004 coins. I don't think anybody was enthusiastic about them at all!

Reverse of above coin:

There a fabulous specimen on Ebay a la moment. At 19:30 is had 36 bids at £1445. Picture is attached:

Hehehe i was only kidding

Well two weeks ago I went down with my debating society teacher and three team-mates to take part in the E.S.U (English Speaking Union) debating competition. We had two teams, Clitheroe Royal Grammar School A&B The first debate was "This House would disband NATO" and me and my team-mate got put in 2nd Opposition (consult diagram). It was a close match and we were against Derby Grammar school. Fortunately, however, we won. The second debate was "This House would ban Animal Testing" and we were put in 1st Proposition, the easiest of the lot. We romped home on that one against this revolting public school team who wore ghastly waistcoats. In the rules for this competition, it stated that electronic devices were not to be used at all in the competition. Halfway through my teamate's speech, a girl was tapping away on her mobile phone. I was angry at this and glared at her, but to no avail. SO, I plucked up the courage and made a Point of Order (when someone is breaking the rules/behaving crudely) to the Chairman and declared her a cheater. The Point was upheld and they were disqualified (I'm so evil). By this time, our team was the highest-ranked out of all of them. The third debate, which was the quarter-finals one was "This House would lower the age of Voting to 14". Unfortunately, we got put in 2nd Opposition AGAIN. We came second in that one but had enough points to advance to the semis. The semi-final dwbate was "This house would require girls under 16 to gain parental consent before having an abortion". Amazingly, we were in 2nd Opposition again. This time however, we lost. BUT, by getting through to the semi-finals, we secured our team a place in the next round, which is to be held at Oxford University in April.

Damn you william, I was the youngest!