Obscure MemorabiliaAt home my other half has a broken piece of a piano. Just a single hammer from a broken piano. And yet this twisted bit of wood and metal is a piece from the piano that they flung in the TV series Northern Exposure. We've also got some gardening tools from the first series of Big Brother.
What wierd stuff do you own that has a history?
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chthonic, Thu 4 Nov 2004, 8:19)
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Robert L ForwardFirst, confession time. Yes, I'm the kind of guy who goes to SF conventions. (But not very often.)
Anyway, I was at the 1990 worldcon in The Hague, and went to a talk by Bob Forward (famous prognosticator and author), in which he said that he would send more info to people who left their name and address. I did so, and folded a 10 guilder note (about £3) into my scribbled address note to cover postage, copying etc.
I got a great letter back from him, written by hand in purple ink, saying how nice it was to meet someone considerate enough to cover his costs, how the others were only getting a summary paper, and about 150 pages of papers about plausible and not-so-plausible starship drives.
Top bloke, but very sadly now no longer with us.
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Amish Information Systems hates misplaced, commas, Tue 9 Nov 2004, 23:11,
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