John Brunner- A brag.

[freak]

yeah i saw all the artwork, not my thing really but it is nice, very intricate work Oxfam GB Books Blog Blog Archive Science-fiction author John Brunner?s typewriters sell online for over £400 try that one.

 

[freak]

j-wo before i go back into cyberspace what model no. is your machine, if i come across it in my research i will send you any links i find.

 

[The Judge]

** - Although it is probably serving a useful function in that it is putting off the day when The Judge or someone of a similar point of view decides to slap J-WO for name-dropping.

What's all this? Someone taking my name in vain...? (At least you didn't drop it, I suppose.)

I will have you know I do not go round slapping people willy-nilly. Slaps are administered only for the most egregious of offences or offenders, and after due consideration of the charges and the delivery of guilty verdicts.

Back on thread. Nice typewriter, J-WO. Though I can't help thinking that only a man would spend money on a piece of equipment which doesn't work, which he has no intention of getting to work, and which he has no idea what work was ever carried out on it...

 

[J-WO]

Gah! (Shouts to storm-riven sky) I am fortune's fool!!!

I could have bought the Zanzibar device, the 250--no one was bidding for it, it was in my clutches but NO-- I went and got another one of his typewriters instead! My reasoning? Because, to my eyes, it looked the most like the one Zanzibar would have been written on! What genius! I don't think I'll be getting into the collectibles/ antiques trade too soon!

So who did buy the 250? Will we ever know? I'll wager he (and if Judge's opinion is correct, which it probably is, its almost certainly a 'he') is chuckling away in his secret underground base at the likes of myself and Freak.

Ah, so it goes.

Freak- My typewriter (Of which I still love, damn it, Love, I tell ye all!) has the words Coronamatic and the number '7000' on it. Though I'm scared to impart this info for fear I'll discover it was only used to knock out shopping lists.

 

[J-WO]

Back on thread. Nice typewriter, J-WO. Though I can't help thinking that only a man would spend money on a piece of equipment which doesn't work, which he has no intention of getting to work, and which he has no idea what work was ever carried out on it...

LOL. Yup, spot on. There's an argument to be made that testosterone is a hallucinogenic.

 

[freak]

i didnt see the 250 on sale , haha i bet the person is reading this now, stroking his prize like that james bond baddie with his cat. pah, i heard he only used it to write his shopping list anyway.