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| Lynne (Lynne)
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Are they about the size of a playing card? | ||
| David Burn (Woubit)
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By Lynne (Lynne) on Monday, December 19, 2005 - 11:02 pm: Are they about the size of a playing card? they are slightly larger than playing cards, but bonus points as usual for mentioning the interests of the puzzle host  | ||
| Lynne (Lynne)
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Do they come in packs or do you buy them individually? | ||
| David Burn (Woubit)
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By Lynne (Lynne) on Monday, December 19, 2005 - 11:06 pm: Do they come in packs or do you buy them individually? the latter, with a faint trace of "ish" | ||
| Lynne (Lynne)
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Would you normally buy one each year or is it usual to buy them all at once? | ||
| David Burn (Woubit)
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By Lynne (Lynne) on Monday, December 19, 2005 - 11:20 pm: Would you normally buy one each year I do not normally buy these things at all. People who do buy them will usually buy them once or perhaps twice a week or is it usual to buy them all at once? if you want, say, five of them, you will usually buy all five at once | ||
| Lynne (Lynne)
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I did mean to say "would one normally buy etc Do you have an aversion to them on grounds of taste, lack of use for them, feel they're a waste of time, too expensive, they remind you too much of your advancing age? | ||
| David Burn (Woubit)
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By Lynne (Lynne) on Monday, December 19, 2005 - 11:27 pm: Do you have an aversion to them on grounds of taste, lack of use for them, feel they're a waste of time this one too expensive and perhaps this one, to some extent they remind you too much of your advancing age? but not, until very recently, this one | ||
| Lynne (Lynne)
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Are they a recent 'thing' or have they been around for decades? | ||
| David Burn (Woubit)
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By Lynne (Lynne) on Monday, December 19, 2005 - 11:30 pm: Are they a recent 'thing' or have they been around for decades? somewhere between the two - they are not what I would describe as "recent", but they have not yet been around for "decades" | ||
| Lynne (Lynne)
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Did they start in the 0s,90s, 80s? Would you buy them from a newsagent? Bookstore? Stationery store? | ||
| David Burn (Woubit)
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By Lynne (Lynne) on Monday, December 19, 2005 - 11:36 pm: Did they start in the 0s,90s, this one 80s? Would you buy them from a newsagent? you can buy them from some newsagents Bookstore? you can buy them from some bookstores Stationery store? I am not sure whether you can buy them here or not. They are not items of stationery, at any rate | ||
| Lynne (Lynne)
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Are they collectables? | ||
| John Morahan (Wunderland)
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Are they pages? if so, would one buy a number of them as part of a single document? or is each a separate document consisting of multiple pages? | ||
| David Burn (Woubit)
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By Lynne (Lynne) on Monday, December 19, 2005 - 11:42 pm: Are they collectables? on the contrary... By John Morahan (Wunderland) on Monday, December 19, 2005 - 11:42 pm: Are they pages? no if so, would one buy a number of them as part of a single document? no or is each a separate document consisting of multiple pages? no | ||
| Lynne (Lynne)
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So they're ephemera? Do you read them and throw away? | ||
| David Burn (Woubit)
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By Lynne (Lynne) on Monday, December 19, 2005 - 11:46 pm: So they're ephemera? yes Do you read them you do, but this may mislead and throw away? you throw most of them away, but perhaps not all of them... | ||
| Lynne (Lynne)
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Are they relevant to particular dates? | ||
| Lynne (Lynne)
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Are they lottery tickets? Scratch cards? | ||
| David Burn (Woubit)
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By Lynne (Lynne) on Monday, December 19, 2005 - 11:51 pm: Are they relevant to particular dates? yes, indeed, for... By Lynne (Lynne) on Monday, December 19, 2005 - 11:52 pm: Are they lottery tickets? ...this is exactly what they are Scratch cards? | ||
| Lynne (Lynne)
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So you have to buy 28 of them for any chance of success? | ||
| David Burn (Woubit)
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By Lynne (Lynne) on Monday, December 19, 2005 - 11:57 pm: So you have to buy 28 of them for any chance of success? no - if I were to buy one of them, I would of course have some chance of success. But... |
