New British coinage

[sammyc]

....considering the utter dross that was the Olympic logo

that's where the IOC went wrong - should've asked Pollaxe first
at least beijing logo bit more imaginative imo..

[MadduckUK]

the beijing one is fine. nothing fancy just gets the job done.. while we end up with Lisa Simpson giving fellatio

[sammyc]

[pollaxe]

Ah well, it's nothing too interesting and - despite comments here - it wasn't the Penny Black or Queen Victoria's thong that I designed! If anyone says otherwise I shall stick pins in their feet and either send them to the workhouse or up the chimneys.

Anyway, it was some kind of stamp they used to use in franking which carried a message/warning about keeping your dog under control when the postie visited and featured a line art dog's head. My Uncle worked for Royal Mail and got me to design it when I was a kid. The only guideline he gave me was that it musn't look like a particular breed of dog and it had to be a mongrel. It ended up having something like a Golden Retriever's muzzle and a Spaniel's ears. (It looked better than it sounds and this was a fair while ago but not around the time of the Jarrow Marches, I'm only 36, thank you very much!)

It was only supposed to be used somewhere locally but it spread across most of the country, friends and relatives used to send envelopes from all over the place. It was still being used in fairly recent years, though I can't honestly remember the last time I saw an envelope with it on (and I don't have a copy.) I earned the princely sum of an envelope with about a dozen "Post Office" balloons and badges. Obviously, I sold these for crack as soon as I could.

[sammyc]

Excellent, full & frank account, thanks for satisfying our curiosity. fancy not keeping a copy though.

[Sprite]

Obviously, I sold these for crack as soon as I could.

Not crystal meth ?

[pollaxe]

Not crystal meth ?

Hell no! I have to have some standards, you know.

[sammyc]

not so readily available before the 50s.... ? sorry Pollaxe...

edit: out of sequence, one more time.

[matty-hodgson]

Hell no! I have to have some standards, you know.

a druggy with standards.. what will i hear next?

[pollaxe]

Isn't it past your bedtimes?






.....and no, it wasn't... not until the 1950s... I had to make do with laudanum 'til then, ya know.....

[sammyc]

If anyone says otherwise I shall stick pins in their feet and either send them to the workhouse or up the chimneys.

believe it or not, i do have a complete set of chimney sweep's brushes, so i won't need to climb up myself...

[JK Ferret]

It would be a whole lot better if his first name was Arthur...

Then he could have designed a 42p piece as well

[Russ]

should have jack bauer one side and master cheif the other imho tbh iirc

[Marcos]

should have jack bauer one side and master cheif the other imho tbh iirc

yes, both british creations, makes perfect sense

[sammyc]

It would be a whole lot better if his first name was Arthur...

Then he could have designed a 42p piece as well

ashamed to say how long it took for the penny to drop...

[htid]

ashamed to say how long it took for the penny to drop...

Still hasn't for me...

Maybe I'm just too young?