RustyHinge <rusty.hinge@foobar.girolle.co.uk> wrote in
news:u224lm$3kujn$1@dont-email.me:

>
> Brazenose? Very old-established name.
>
> It was not unknown for people to have missing parts made of metal
> before the NHS and plastic surgery came along.

Tycho Brahe, for example.

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On 23-Apr-23 10:57, Peter wrote:
> RustyHinge <rusty.hinge@foobar.girolle.co.uk> wrote in
> news:u224lm$3kujn$1@dont-email.me:
>
>>
>> Brazenose? Very old-established name.
>>
>> It was not unknown for people to have missing parts made of metal
>> before the NHS and plastic surgery came along.
>
> Tycho Brahe, for example.

Tycho's everyday schnozzle was brass (apparently), but he was said to
have gold & silver ones that he kept for special occasions.

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RustyHinge said:
> On 19/04/2023 01:53, Richard Robinson wrote:
>>
>> Onceuponatime in the USA I saw half a house being moved on the back of a lorry.
>
> A neighbour some time ago had one delivered. I was a sort-of detached
> granny-annexe.

"But I'm a big house now !"

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"The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem

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RustyHinge said:
> On 18/04/2023 12:52, Sn!pe wrote:
>> Chris Elvidge <chris@mshome.net> wrote:
>> [...]
>>>>> A bit like my old TV sound bar - an "All-American" Bose. On the back, of
>>>>> course, it bore the legend "Made in China"
>>>>
>>>> Back during the 1950, everything made in Japan was considered to be
>>>> rubbish, so some items sold here were marked "an Tiopan tir a deanta"
>>>> (Gaelic for ``Made in Japan.''), and there was a joke at the time that
>>>> children of uncertain origin would have that written on them.
>>>
>>> Wasn't there a place in Japan called USA - so that "Made in USA" was not
>>> a lie. Or is that just apocryphal.
>>
>> I've heard tell of a Japanese place called "Scotland"
>> which produces their ersatz "Scotch" whisky.
>
> I've seen a bottle of Japanese (I think) whisky claiming it was
> 'distilled in the cellars of Buckingham Palace by His Majesty Queen
> Victoria.'

*laugh*. Of course, it would be difficult to be sure it was really
Japanese.

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On 2023-04-23, Richard Robinson <richard@qualmograph.org.uk> wrote:
> RustyHinge said:
>> On 18/04/2023 12:52, Sn!pe wrote:
>>> Chris Elvidge <chris@mshome.net> wrote:
>>> [...]
>>>>>> A bit like my old TV sound bar - an "All-American" Bose. On the back, of
>>>>>> course, it bore the legend "Made in China"
>>>>>
>>>>> Back during the 1950, everything made in Japan was considered to be
>>>>> rubbish, so some items sold here were marked "an Tiopan tir a deanta"
>>>>> (Gaelic for ``Made in Japan.''), and there was a joke at the time that
>>>>> children of uncertain origin would have that written on them.
>>>>
>>>> Wasn't there a place in Japan called USA - so that "Made in USA" was not
>>>> a lie. Or is that just apocryphal.
>>>
>>> I've heard tell of a Japanese place called "Scotland"
>>> which produces their ersatz "Scotch" whisky.
>>
>> I've seen a bottle of Japanese (I think) whisky claiming it was
>> 'distilled in the cellars of Buckingham Palace by His Majesty Queen
>> Victoria.'
>
> *laugh*. Of course, it would be difficult to be sure it was really
> Japanese.
>
>

Japanese Santory whiskey is excellent, I am told.

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In article <u22626$3l4re$1@dont-email.me>, RustyHinge <rusty.hinge@fooba
r.girolle.co.uk> on Sun, 23 Apr 2023 at 03:44:22 awoke Nicholas from
his slumbers and wrote
>On 18/04/2023 12:52, Sn!pe wrote:
>> Chris Elvidge <chris@mshome.net> wrote:
>> [...]
>>>>> A bit like my old TV sound bar - an "All-American" Bose. On the back, of
>>>>> course, it bore the legend "Made in China"
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Back during the 1950, everything made in Japan was considered to be
>>>> rubbish, so some items sold here were marked "an Tiopan tir a deanta"
>>>> (Gaelic for ``Made in Japan.''), and there was a joke at the time that
>>>> children of uncertain origin would have that written on them.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Wasn't there a place in Japan called USA - so that "Made in USA" was not
>>> a lie. Or is that just apocryphal.
>>>
>>
>> I've heard tell of a Japanese place called "Scotland"
>> which produces their ersatz "Scotch" whisky.
>
>I've seen a bottle of Japanese (I think) whisky claiming it was
>'distilled in the cellars of Buckingham Palace by His Majesty Queen
>Victoria.'
>
Hang the treacherous barsteward! Secrets like that should remain secret.
The truth should never be out.
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In article <XnsAFEF6F756993EFactura3476@135.181.20.170>, Peter
<myshed@prune.org.uk> on Sun, 23 Apr 2023 at 09:57:24 awoke Nicholas
from his slumbers and wrote
>RustyHinge <rusty.hinge@foobar.girolle.co.uk> wrote in
>news:u224lm$3kujn$1@dont-email.me:
>
>>
>> Brazenose? Very old-established name.
>>
>> It was not unknown for people to have missing parts made of metal
>> before the NHS and plastic surgery came along.
>
>Tycho Brahe, for example.
>
Tim Strawn?
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On 23/04/2023 10:57, Peter wrote:
> RustyHinge <rusty.hinge@foobar.girolle.co.uk> wrote in
> news:u224lm$3kujn$1@dont-email.me:
>
>>
>> Brazenose? Very old-established name.
>>
>> It was not unknown for people to have missing parts made of metal
>> before the NHS and plastic surgery came along.
>
> Tycho Brahe, for example.

He should've had it molished in glod or sliver and set with precious
stones, he could then have claimed he got the injury jewelling.

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RustyHinge <rusty.hinge@foobar.girolle.co.uk> wrote in news:u27us2$p60v$1
@dont-email.me:

> On 23/04/2023 10:57, Peter wrote:
>> RustyHinge <rusty.hinge@foobar.girolle.co.uk> wrote in
>> news:u224lm$3kujn$1@dont-email.me:
>>
>>
>> Tycho Brahe, for example.
>
> He should've had it molished in glod or sliver and set with precious
> stones, he could then have claimed he got the injury jewelling.
>

Oh, groan. Well done!

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On 23/04/2023 03:39, RustyHinge wrote:
> On 18/04/2023 11:50, Chris Elvidge wrote:
>> On 18/04/2023 11:10, maus wrote:
>>> On 2023-04-18, Bob Henson <fake@obfuscation.net> wrote:
>>>> On 18/4/23 9:46 am, nev young wrote:
>>>>> On 18/04/2023 08:06, Brian Gaff wrote:
>>>>>> Yes well, I have a friend who went to Ecuador and there was at one
>>>>>> place a
>>>>>> gift shop of locally produced products. Now I do not doubt that
>>>>>> some of them
>>>>>> were, but a lot were not.
>>>>>>    For example a beaker and butter dish in glass both turned out
>>>>>> to be made in
>>>>>> France, and the snowglobe proudly   giving the local mountains
>>>>>> name was made
>>>>>> in China.
>>>>>>
>>>>> Back in the day (c 1959ish) I went on a fpubby holibob to Holland.
>>>>> I obhtug a garden knife for my dad[1] with "souvenir of Holland" writ
>>>>> upon it. You can tell it were an age ago as now an youngster like me
>>>>> wouldn't be able to ohl a sharp thing let alone bring it into the
>>>>> country ... but I digress.
>>>>>
>>>>> Dad noticed the worms "made in Sheffield" on the blade. DUH!
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> A bit like my old TV sound bar - an "All-American" Bose. On the
>>>> back, of
>>>> course, it bore the legend "Made in China"
>>>>
>>>
>>> Back during the 1950, everything made in Japan was considered to be
>>> rubbish, so some items sold here were marked "an Tiopan tir a deanta"
>>> (Gaelic for ``Made in Japan.''), and there was a joke at the time that
>>> children of uncertain origin would have that written on them.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Wasn't there a place in Japan called USA - so that "Made in USA" was
>> not a lie. Or is that just apocryphal.
>
> Dunno about USA, but they certainly had a 'Birmingham'.
>
More importantly, we in the UK have the original 'Boston' and the
original 'New York' - just a few miles apart and both visitable by boat
without going to sea - in the Lincolnshire Fens!

HTH

Chris

In article <u27us2$p60v$1@dont-email.me>, RustyHinge <rusty.hinge@foobar
..girolle.co.uk> on Tue, 25 Apr 2023 at 08:18:26 awoke Nicholas from his
slumbers and wrote
>On 23/04/2023 10:57, Peter wrote:
>> RustyHinge <rusty.hinge@foobar.girolle.co.uk> wrote in
>> news:u224lm$3kujn$1@dont-email.me:
>>
>>>
>>> Brazenose? Very old-established name.
>>>
>>> It was not unknown for people to have missing parts made of metal
>>> before the NHS and plastic surgery came along.
>>
>> Tycho Brahe, for example.
>
>He should've had it molished in glod or sliver and set with precious
>stones, he could then have claimed he got the injury jewelling.
>
Sometime in the early 70's I was going to Copenhagen. A friend (an art
film buff) recommended that I saw a film called 'Jewel' while I was
there as it was not getting distribution in the UK.

This was the time of Lord Pornford's visit to Copenhagen and my
expectations were titillated (shades of Francis H) and, of course I was
very misled. I still get mares whenever I see a dirty tanker on the
road. For some weeks there has been a large hole outside my house, which
filled with sewage on a daily basis. Thames Water have been sucking up
the sewage into a tanker every day, leaving it outside all day and
overnight. The tanker has frequently been a dirty, unmarked, large
tanker.

Brilliant film, thobut.
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