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and how many people have read this ...........and followed it with a visit to fleabay!
Funnily enough, after the shaving thread yesterday, the price of used Gillette razors seems to have jumped 8)
with a kyrisium front wheel?
unfortunately not! that photo was a few months after buying it. the front rim exploded on me when inflating it one day so i bought that off here - bargain price though. 🙂
99p string... So many times... I could open my own string shop, only I do not know how to open a small business and I have little time to run one anyhow...
Individual stringets - 101 uses around the home.
whippin mice and so on ,eh Fanylion?
mis-spelt Sworks epic.
£300.
beautiful!
[b]A lesser-known Monty Python classic[/b]
[i]Title: String
From: Monty Python's Flying Circus
Transcribed By: unknown
Adrian Wapcaplet: Aah, come in, come in, Mr....Simpson. Aaah, welcome to
Mousebat, Follicle, Goosecreature, Ampersand, Spong, Wapcaplet, Looseliver,
Vendetta and Prang!
Mr. Simpson: Thank you.
Wapcaplet: Do sit down--my name's Wapcaplet, Adrian Wapcaplet...
Mr. Simpson: how'd'y'do.
Wapcaplet: Now, Mr. Simpson... Simpson, Simpson... French, is it?
S: No.
W: Aah. Now, I understand you want us to advertise your washing powder.
S: String.
W: String, washing powder, what's the difference. We can sell *anything*.
S: Good. Well I have this large quantity of string, a hundred and twenty-two
thousand *miles* of it to be exact, which I inherited, and I thought if I
advertised it...
W: Of course! A national campaign. Useful stuff, string, no trouble there.
S: Ah, but there's a snag, you see. Due to bad planning, the hundred and
twenty-two thousand miles is in three inch lengths. So it's not very
useful.
W: Well, that's our selling point!
[b] "SIMPSON'S INDIVIDUAL STRINGETTES!"[/b]
S: What?
W: "THE NOW STRING! READY CUT, EASY TO HANDLE, SIMPSON'S INDIVIDUAL EMPEROR
STRINGETTES - JUST THE RIGHT LENGTH!"
S: For what?
W: "A MILLION HOUSEHOLD USES!"
S: Such as?
W: Uhmm...Tying up very small parcels, attatching notes to pigeons' legs, uh,
destroying household pests...
[b]S: Destroying household pests?! How?
W: Well, if they're bigger than a mouse, you can strangle them with it, and if
they're smaller than, you flog them to death with it![/b]
S: Well *surely*!....
W: "DESTROY NINETY-NINE PERCENT OF KNOWN HOUSEHOLD PESTS WITH PRE-SLICED,
RUSTPROOF, EASY-TO-HANDLE, LOW CALORIE SIMPSON'S INDIVIDUAL EMPEROR
STRINGETTES, FREE FROM ARTIFICIAL COLORING, AS USED IN HOSPITALS!"
S: 'Ospitals!?!?!?!!?
W: Have you ever in a Hospital where they didn't have string?
S: No, but it's only *string*!
W: ONLY STRING?! It's everything! It's...it's waterproof!
S: No it isn't!
W: All right, it's water resistant then!
S: It isn't!
W: All right, it's water absorbent! It's...Super Absorbent String!
"ABSORB WATER TODAY WITH SIMPSON'S INDIVIDUAL WATER ABSORB-A-TEX
STRINGETTES! AWAY WITH FLOODS!"
S: You just said it was waterproof!
W: "AWAY WITH THE DULL DRUDGERY OF WORKADAY TIDAL WAVES! USE SIMPSON'S
INDIVIDUAL FLOOD PREVENTERS!"
S: You're mad!
W: Shut up, shut up, shut up! Sex, sex sex, must get sex into it. Wait,
I see a television commercial-
There's this nude woman in a bath holding a bit of your string. That's
great, great, but we need a doctor, got to have a medical opinion.
There's a nude woman in a bath with a doctor--that's too sexy. Put an
archbishop there watching them, that'll take the curse off it. Now, we
need children and animals.
There's two kids admiring the string, and a dog admiring the archbishop
who's blessing the string. Uhh...international flavor's missing...make the
archbishop Greek Orthodox....[/i]
I had forgotten the python string sketch!
🙂 I have it at home on vinyl
original 70's rocket lamp.most sell for up to £50.(i have interesting taste)this had no pic and i chanced the minimum bid of two quid.
char ching!
and they let me take three months to get a mate to collect it as it wasnt in my area.
couple of lucky second chance offers in the past as well..
The biggest steal had to have been a set of '08 Fox 40 RC2's. They were brand new & still sealed in the box. For the sum total of £270. He only lived 3 miles away too, so I went & picked them up.
He was gutted, but then he completely misadvertised them, so no wonder why.
I recently missed out on an Intense Socom frame & a few bits that sold for £190, finishing at a stupid time. Still kicking myself over that one.
3 year old £500 Kona Stinky Supreme. Freshly serviced 888s/Chris King/new SDG saddle/Thomson post/Nukeproof hubs/Mavics/new brake pads in recently serviced HFX9s. Total build cost could have been well over £3500. Tyres were a bit worn, but that's not a problem. The guy even delivered it.
It's a heavy old beast, but as my OH's Alpine blasting bike it's superb.
Always always search for common spelling mistakes 🙂
Always always search for common spelling mistakes
[url= http://fatfingers.com/ ]http://fatfingers.com/[/url] 🙂
too many to mention but best was probably a brand new never riden (used at a trade show then dismantled) and already data-tagged Commencal Flame VIP Titanium frame
£800 for a frame that retails at almost £1800, (was pretty rare too at the time, shame they are heavily discounted at a couple of shops now though)
Lovely bike too
Followed it up with building it up from ebay parts including a brand new £35 XTR rear mech, £65 XTR chainset (used but good), £50 brand new CK headset and £680 worth of handbuilt DT Swiss/Stans/Sapim CXRay wheels (with tyres) for £300
RRP on whole bike comes to £4.5k, cost me about £1.6k but I did sell some sh*t at extraordinary good prices that prob brought that down to about £900
My best ever was a brand new Canon waterproof case for my camera (I scuba dive in another life). Retail at over £200, bought from main Canon dealer for £32 including shipping.
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road bike for £15
nice. is that after you rebuilt it?
Got a brand new DT Swiss EX200 for £70 posted 
I got the Mrs a new pair of Vans for £1.20, i felt guilty paying! 😀
Got this for £250