[Closed] Can anyone lend me a mint sauce key ring for a few days

What a bunch of whingers you are, plus I've not seen people gather round to give someone a kicking since I was at school.

The product is as described; we who ordered did so after having a description of size, options and pictures of colours.

Ok it took a looooooooooooong time to turn up and Jo has been surprisingly uncommunicative for someone who "tweets" (?????? WTF?) but those of us with a memory will recall that other members of this illustrious forum warned us to expect nothing less, and that was quite early on.

Personally I have far better things to get stressed about, should I ever decide to try 'being stressed' than a delay in something which
a)makes no practical difference to my life
b)I wouldn't have ever had but for chancing on a thread on a forum
c)I paid a bloody fortune for so long ago it doesn't matter now

Chill people, listen to the friendly dolphins etc. Many of you should have spent time smoking pot before adulthood.

P.S. thanks Jo, I like it.

Many of you should have spent time smoking pot before adulthood.

I see you point. Ingesting a shit load of marijuana probably would make them look kinda ok.

You'd need heroin as well, then look at them through squinted eyes.

After a good long hard look at the cufflinks, a brief contemplation of the thread and imagining the faces of those that received their goods this morning, I am going to take the good Jamie's advice and leave, glad that I didn't order and wait 12 months for something that bears a *passing* resemblance to Mint Sauce.

I don't get it?
a mouth with a tongue hanging out with 2 pills on it?

is it some 90's acid house thing?

come on, how much were they.

(I smoked weed throughout my teens and twenties, obviously not enough)

"is it some 90's acid house thing?"

Those cufflinks look like the Inspiral Carpets 'moo' logo.

Where are the keyrings?

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roll up, roll aaaaap, three for a paaaaaaaaaaand

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This one's quite nice

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Well, if I ever end up on Death Row, I'll be ordering mint sauce lamb chops made by Jo for my final meal.
That should buy me some time.....

I like those cufflinks, but they look nothing like Mint. I thought the whole point of the excersise was to reproduce something like those MBUK keyrings, which look exactly like the Mint in the cartoons? So glad I didn't bother now...

are they meant to look like that mint picture??

Pook - Member

are they meant to look like that mint picture??

You'd think so.

They look like a ghost with wonky nipples

Did you know what they were going to look like before you ordered them ?
Or did you just order "mint sauce cuff links" and assume, not unreasonably, that they would look like the cartoon in the magazine ?

hahahahahaha, the cufflinks don't look anything like mint sauce! Did a blind person make them? or is it like those christmas cards drawn by people with no arms using their teeth? I'd have been interested if I had known they were for charity!

I don't see how you'd explain what it is to people who don't know what mint sauce is (and even if they did it'd be "yeah, I kinda see it"). Also I'm curious about the sort of formal situation where I'd be confident enough to say "yes, they're silver cuff links in the image of a mountain biking cartoon sheep".

I'm sure those who have them are happy. In the way that someone who's spent £4k on a custom titanium frame and found out that it's bobbins but can't admit it to themselves is happy.

Shaudenfraude is a very unpleasant trait, maybe the most unpleasant.

Have not read all the thread, but Can always copy stuff in Pewter if anyone has an original. You may have seen the head tube badges I have done elsewhere....bit cheaper than silver, but almost as shiny!

joolsburger - Member

Shaudenfraude is a very unpleasant trait, maybe the most unpleasant.

It's dreadful isn't it, meanwhile..

JoB - Member
quick update, the jeweller has replied, and she's keen, we need to crunch numbers and discuss various arty-bollocksy things

It wasn't a long discussion by the look of things.

[i]Have not read all the thread, but Can always copy stuff in Pewter if anyone has an original[/i]

and so we come full circle...

OP: 'Anyone got a Mint Sauce keyring'

JoB: 'I'd rather you didn't, it's copyright but I may be able to sort soemthing out.'

it's schadenfreude.

not being arsey i had to google it to see what it was.

Just a thought, and I may be baaarking up the wrong tree, but does an artist always own the copyright to their own creations ?

Is it possible that MBUK own the copyright and the only way Jo could launch this as a private venture was to make it look different to the original and not mention mint sauce on the product or packaging ?

[i]Is it possible that MBUK own the copyright[/i]

Jo doesn't work for mbuk/Future, I think if they owned it there'd be a lot of Mint tat being featured on covers etc.

Paul McCartney never "worked for" Michael Jackson, but I believe MJ bought the rights to the Beatles songs, which would mean that PMC would need to get MJ's permission to perform his own songs.
The only way round it would be to write another song in a similar style.

I know nothing about copyright law, I just wondered if that might be what happened here.

Jo doesn't work for mbuk/Future, I think if they owned it there'd be a lot of Mint tat being featured on covers etc.

Cufflinks, for example..

Jo doesn't work for mbuk/Future, I think if they owned it there'd be a lot of Mint tat being featured on covers etc.

I wondered that when I 1st read the thread
JB didn't say that he didn't want them made because of copyright issues, he said he'd "rather not" as he'd been against the issue of the original keyrings

Anyhow, I'm glad this has reached (something like) a conclusion - though was quite engaging for a bystander like me

Paul McCartney never "worked for" Michael Jackson, but I believe MJ bought the rights to the Beatles songs, which would mean that PMC would need to get MJ's permission to perform his own songs.

Nah, Jackson's company bought half of a company that had a half interest in the copyright of Beatles music - or something complicated like that
Northern Music - I think
He - effectively - had a 1/4 share in royalties

anyway Macca can sing & record what he likes

Oh, OK thanks, I got the details wrong, but you get the idea.

So, does anyone know for sure who does own the copyright ?

I'm assuming if you look at the cartoons in MBUK they'll be a copyright symbol, and the name of who owns it?

uplink is right re Macca / MJ although wasn't it Northern songs, set up by Epstein for McCartney and Lennon compositions?

the Jackson/Beatles details

http://www.snopes.com/music/artists/jackson.asp

This thread has truly delivered!

"I don't really want Mint Sauce cufflinks making, but I'll take your money and send you some sheep cufflinks instead."

He's properly had your pants down kiddies!

That's kind of what I'm trying to get at.
[i]If[/i] Jo doesn't own the copyright, then they are not mint sauce cuff links, all he has done is act as a middleman between the buyers and the jeweller to get some generic sheep cuff links made.

I cannot belief that after this long a wait for this shonky work [ look like cheap Taiwanese copies] that some people are actually happy with the product and service ....defies belief

all the Mint strips have "copyright Jo 'often something slightly depressing' Burt" on them.

Hope you guys like them.. personally I'd be pretty gutted to have paid a few quid and waited a year for those.. They look cheap (maybe it's the photo, but the finishing looks awful and uneven) and nothing like mint sauce in the slightest.. the ears, eyes, shape of face etc are all totally different to the normal illustration.. that may well be the jeweller's fault/limitations rather than Jo's though..

I like the look of the cuff links Jamie posted up there ^^ Where are they from? 'The 'mint sauce' ones, on the other hand, not great.

Can anyone lend me a Mint Sauce keyring for a few days?

I'm thinking of getting some earrings done.

Great idea GG! I've got one. Tell you what, we could get some other stuff done, make a few quid for ourselves too! 😀

It's a deal. We'll start an entire range. Perhaps being the festive period we could start by putting them in Christmas crackers?

Anyone else see the irony in JB's latest "The Last Word" article in January's "What MTB". Basically all about how he refuses to accept tardiness and a lack of punctuality from others..

Mine just arrived now, must have been held up in the snow.

Definitely worth the wait though...

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chakaping - That looks amazing, can I lend it for a few days? I fancy getting some made in fools gold.

Yes Mr GF - saw that today. I lol'd 😀

I've got that same Belkin gel pad, but mine isn't all nasty and scummy like that one. Euurgh. 🙁

Is that a beermat? I quite like that actually.

looks like something that was available as a job lot at a liquidation sale.

Can some lend me a jar of mint sauce..... sorry wrong forum!

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You ordered a drinks coaster by mistake then... 😉

Isn't there a chap on here who makes cuff links out of silver plated chain links? I might fancy a set of those now.

cha****ng - do you wear clown's trousers, by any chance? You'd need to to have any chance of getting that in the pockets

Little update from the OP. Someone sent me a mint sauce key ring to keep, completely gratis out of the kindness of their heart.

Sometimes your faith in human nature gets a proper boost.

Much appreciated!

how are these holding up? i'm thinking of getting one next year but don't want an aura of disappointment to sour the initial post delayed gratification euphoria.

and no user pics yet? hanging next to your niche singlespeed(or inbred),
casually arranged next to your coffee machine or dangling out of the ignition of your pointless psudo-4x4 vehicle?

or are you all ashamed of your purchases?

Is psudo pretending to be pseudo?

psudo is the new family orientated outward bound adventure utility vehicle from izuzu

And is Izuzu an off-shoot of Isuzu?

I wonder how non-MBUK reading people react upon seeing them
"What's that keyring supposed to be?"
"It's Mint Sauce, a mountain biking sheep from a comic"
"You what? It looks nothing like a sheep"
"Well, this is an abstract representation of the cartoon, which itself is an abstract representation of a sheep"
"How much did it cost?"
"Erm"
"Do you have any other cartoon-related trinkets? Gold plated Dennis the Menace & Gnasher badges, perhaps?"

i'm thinking of getting one next year

Someone sent me a mint sauce key ring to keep, completely gratis out of the kindness of their heart.

Sometimes your faith in human nature gets a proper boost.

That is nice.

Was it Jo Burt?

Unlikely

That keyring that was made, bit big to be of any use as a keyring really?

too big for a keyring? maybe they could be used as a saddle dangler?
swinging in the breeze with gay abandon sending out a coded message to other mountainbikers?

swinging in the breeze with gay abandon sending out a coded message to other mountainbikers?

What's wrong with a hankerchief in the back pocket?

it might fall out? a [s]keyring[/s] saddle dangler would be more secure?

I've managed to avoid this thread thus far but curiosity has finally gotten the better of me. Any chance of a quick summary haiku to get me up to speed please? Yes, too lazy to read all 12 pages. Ta.

I've only half kept tabs, therefore don't know if Cha****ng is taking the piss or not....? 😕

pedalhead not a haiku but;

a) man wants sheepy keyring to copy
b) sheep creator offers to sort it out - lots of people decide to buy
c) process takes a long time, people (largely not the buyers) get uppity and ladle abuse on sheep man.
d) items arrive, some people question resemblance of items to said sheep.

lol excellent summary, thanks....and the end result is the drinks coaster pictured above..?

Well worth reading all 12 pages, it's known as "the thread that keeps giving".

Could somebody post a photo of the sheep that doesn't look like THE sheep!

That coaster was given away free with MBUK

Well worth reading all 12 pages, it's known as "the thread that keeps giving".

ah heck, I'm doing a full install of Tracklogs v1 through v3 which will take the best part of an hour on this laptop anyway, so why not...

you're right, that was definitely worth reading. Marvellous.

Bloody Tracklogs is still installing though.

I've only half kept tabs, therefore don't know if Cha****ng is taking the piss or not....?

Well if you don't know, I'm not going to tell you.

😉

I've lurked long enough after looking long and hard to find this page from an old MBUK:

[url= http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5282/5371949183_d448694d3a.jp g" target="_blank">http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5282/5371949183_d448694d3a.jp g"/> [/img][/url]
[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/58539614@N07/5371949183/ ]mint2[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/58539614@N07/ ]dandelionandmurdoch[/url], on Flickr

Wish I 'd found it sooner when the 'COMING SOON...' label would have been more appropriate...

Those are the keys to a desk,or petty cash box yes? Because otherwise that keyring would be huge...oh wait.

[s]For those of you who just can't wait for these to arrive[/s]In case you missed out - I have a cunning plan.

1. Take an old issue of MBUK.
2. Find the Mint Sauce cartoon and select a favourite section.
3. Cut out said section.
4. Fit to this;
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5. Hey presto your own Mint Sauce keyring.
6. If it turns out great and you wan't to express your gratitude send me one with "Summer" on, I am missing her.

I would make them and sell them if it wasn't so easy to do yourself. I'm the guy who makes those chain cufflinks BTW.

[i]For those of you who just can't wait for these to arrive[/i]

I thought they already had and people were now just kicking through the ashes of the ire that was burning before?

My Mint Sauce earrings still haven't arrived though.

it looks like a hippo taking a dump?
looks nothing like a sheep FFS.

He's right, and it's legs seem to be growing out of it's nipples

I quite like it, I'm thinking of getting some done myself.

Humourlessmodalert!