Giveaway Books

Further clearout of Total Crap (TM)

Cycling Books for free - Just refund my postage & packing.

They are all in excellent (not mint) condition

Choose from:

Richard's New Bicycle Book (1990 version) Richard Ballantine

OS Cycle Tours - 24 one day routes in North Wales & the Marches

French Revolutions - Tim Moore

Love and literature from Rich x

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Due to a typing error on the Children's Hospital menu Saturday evening now offers "Beef burger in a
bum". Email: Put only the word "richard" before the @ sign.

>Choose from:
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>French Revolutions - Tim Moore
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I'm currently reading the above and it's creased me up several times already. It's worth a lot more
than the postage. How about someone aquiring it and establishing a mailing circle to spread its
humour around as many folk as possible. - just a mad thought....

Vernon in Leeds

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On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 18:47:52 +0000, in
<bsv5l3$h3t$2@newsg4.svr.pol.co.uk>, "vernon.levy"
<pointless.email@dress.net> wrote:

>
>>Choose from:
>>
>>
>>French Revolutions - Tim Moore
>>
>I'm currently reading the above and it's creased me up several times already. It's worth a lot more
>than the postage. How about someone aquiring it and establishing a mailing circle to spread its
>humour around as many folk as possible. - just a mad thought....
>
>Vernon in Leeds

URC's own version of bookcrossing.com?

Why not?

Love and Drrrr Thwick from Rich x

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Due to a typing error on the Children's Hospital menu Saturday evening now offers "Beef burger in a
bum". Email: Put only the word "richard" before the @ sign.

On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 17:37:07 +0000, Richard Bates
<mail.sent.here.gets.deleted@cuddle.clara.co.uk> wrote:

>On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 18:47:52 +0000, in <bsv5l3$h3t$2@newsg4.svr.pol.co.uk>, "vernon.levy"
><pointless.email@dress.net> wrote:
>
>>
>>>Choose from:
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>>>French Revolutions - Tim Moore
>>>
>>I'm currently reading the above and it's creased me up several times already. It's worth a lot
>>more than the postage. How about someone aquiring it and establishing a mailing circle to spread
>>its humour around as many folk as possible. - just a mad thought....
>>
>>Vernon in Leeds
>
>URC's own version of bookcrossing.com?
>
>Why not?
>

uk.rec.boats.paddle had a circulating copy of "The Perfect Storm", until the spammers and
politicians caused the demise of the Group. It's not a new idea - go for it.

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MatSav

On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 19:20:54 +0000, in
<8986vv4i08gcufn9iutm6dfev77146hvc8@4ax.com>, MatSav <matthew D O T
savage A T felthamscouts DOT org D O T uk> wrote:

>uk.rec.boats.paddle had a circulating copy of "The Perfect Storm", until the spammers and
>politicians caused the demise of the Group. It's not a new idea - go for it.

Well it has now been claimed by somebody, but I will suggest that they do indeed pass it on.

I'll create a bookcrossing.com entry for it, and then it's in the hands of it's new owner ...

Love and pedals from Rich x

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Due to a typing error on the Children's Hospital menu Saturday evening now offers "Beef burger in a
bum". Email: Put only the word "richard" before the @ sign.

On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 18:47:52 +0000, "vernon.levy"
<pointless.email@dress.net> wrote:

>>French Revolutions - Tim Moore
>>
>I'm currently reading the above and it's creased me up several times already. It's worth a lot more
>than the postage. How about someone aquiring it and establishing a mailing circle to spread its
>humour around as many folk as possible. - just a mad thought....

Your reaction to the book differs somewhat from mine then. See
http://makeashorterlink.com/?I3DF46EE6

--
Dave...

vernon.levy wrote:
>> Choose from:
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>> French Revolutions - Tim Moore
>>
> I'm currently reading the above and it's creased me up several times already. It's worth a lot
> more than the postage. How about someone aquiring it and establishing a mailing circle to spread
> its humour around as many folk as possible. - just a mad thought....
>

I got given a copy for Christmas and am two thirds through it but have to say he comes over as a
rather nasty and unpleasant person. Not a book I'd recommend.

Tony

"Tony Raven" <junk@raven-family.com> wrote in message
news:bt64md$3l7da$3@ID-178940.news.uni-berlin.de...
> vernon.levy wrote:
> >> Choose from:
> >>
> >>
> >> French Revolutions - Tim Moore
> >>
> > I'm currently reading the above and it's creased me up several times already. It's worth a lot
> > more than the postage. How about someone aquiring it and establishing a mailing circle to spread
> > its humour around as many folk as possible. - just a mad thought....
> >
>
> I got given a copy for Christmas and am two thirds through it but have to
say
> he comes over as a rather nasty and unpleasant person. Not a book I'd recommend.
>
I can kind of see what you mean, and some of his humour came off as a bit unfriendly and laboured,
but I thought he was overall well disposed to people, and certainly didn't finish it with this
impression. Some of it was quite funny, too.

Ambrose

Ambrose Nankivell wrote:
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> but I thought he was overall well disposed to people,

Like the brother and sister he made snide comments to thinking they were boy/girlfriend? Or the cafe
owner who gave him a postcard that he threw at his back. Or the drinks he stole off the back of a
truck? The whole thing is riddled with rather mean and nasty acts towards others who were being
friendly to him.

YMMV

Tony

In news:bta84e$4vmjl$1@ID-178940.news.uni-berlin.de,
Tony Raven <junk@raven-family.com> typed:
> Ambrose Nankivell wrote:
>>>
>> but I thought he was overall well disposed to people,
>
> Like the brother and sister he made snide comments to thinking they were boy/girlfriend? Or the
> cafe owner who gave him a postcard that he threw at his back. Or the drinks he stole off the back
> of a truck? The whole thing is riddled with rather mean and nasty acts towards others who were
> being friendly to him.
>
> YMMV
>
I'll admit to a failure of reading comprehension rather than a failure of moral rectitude. I'd
forgotten those incidents, and hearing them doesn't jog my memory, so obviously I can't read as well
as I thought

Ambrose

Ambrose Nankivell wrote:
> In news:bta84e$4vmjl$1@ID-178940.news.uni-berlin.de, Tony Raven <junk@raven-family.com> typed:
>> Ambrose Nankivell wrote:
>>>>
>>> but I thought he was overall well disposed to people,
>>
>> Like the brother and sister he made snide comments to thinking they were boy/girlfriend? * p202-
>> 205 over Joux-Plane* Or the cafe owner who
gave him a postcard that
>> he threw at his back *p161*. Or the drinks he stole off the back of a truck? *p191* The whole
>> thing is riddled with rather mean and nasty acts towards others who were being friendly to him.
>>
>> YMMV
>>
> I'll admit to a failure of reading comprehension rather than a failure of moral rectitude. I'd
> forgotten those incidents, and hearing them doesn't jog my memory, so obviously I can't read as
> well as I thought
>

Page reference inserted above

Tony

"Tony Raven" <junk@raven-family.com> wrote in message
news:btbs4g$55m36$1@ID-178940.news.uni-berlin.de...
> Ambrose Nankivell wrote:
> > In news:bta84e$4vmjl$1@ID-178940.news.uni-berlin.de, Tony Raven <junk@raven-family.com> typed:
> >> Ambrose Nankivell wrote:
> >>>>
> >>> but I thought he was overall well disposed to people,
> >>
> >> Like the brother and sister he made snide comments to thinking they were boy/girlfriend? * p202-
> >> 205 over Joux-Plane* Or the cafe owner who
> gave him a postcard that
> >> he threw at his back *p161*. Or the drinks he stole off the back of a truck? *p191* The whole
> >> thing is riddled with rather mean and nasty
acts
> >> towards others who were being friendly to him.
> >>
> >> YMMV
> >>
> > I'll admit to a failure of reading comprehension rather than a failure
of
> > moral rectitude. I'd forgotten those incidents, and hearing them doesn't
jog
> > my memory, so obviously I can't read as well as I thought
> >
>
> Page reference inserted above
>
Cheers. I didn't doubt you, but I'd just forgotten them. I won't be recommending it again.

On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 18:16:37 +0000, Richard Bates wrote:

> I'll create a bookcrossing.com entry for it, and then it's in the hands of it's new owner ...

Just been released (only to the desk in front of me - not into the 'wild'), as I've now finished the
book. I've added a few comments at Bookcrossing too.

Any takers from this NG? Otherwise I'll leave it on a London-bound train next Tuesday.

Cheers, Tim