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Post by mattofthespurs on Sept 16, 2008 6:21:24 GMT
Hello Matt and welcome aboard - I only joined last week and I haven't shut up since. I note your username with interest..... are your football allegiances with a certain North London club? Mine are, and I'm hiding on this site as we are currently being beaten by Aston Villa............... Enviable book collection you have there by the way! Hi Luke. I am, sadly, a Spurs supporter. Season ticket holder in fact. I got in from the match last night at 1am. What a waste of time that was. Oh well, I get to do it all over again on Thursday! |
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Post by mattofthespurs on Sept 16, 2008 6:26:25 GMT
Welcome. And with that collection you will be the envy of quite a few of the regulars here! Best wishes David Hi David and thanks for the welcome. The collection is a cornerstone of my library, I'll never part with them. Like a lot of the 'old timers' on this site I can remember buying them from Woolworths and the like during the late 70's and early 80's. I was given 5 Pan Horrors for Christmas one year. I clearly remember over a week or so before Xmas day carefully unwrapping each one, reading it, and then re-wrapping it because I couldn't wait. I think thats one of the major appeals of the series is that it has, for many of us, an intrinsic link to our childhoods and nostalgia. I know it does for me anyway. This is a great forum and its marvelous for me to see that there are other 'weirdos' like me out there that love this stuff!  |
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Sept 16, 2008 7:10:46 GMT
Yes, its the place. Sorry to see Spurs hit the bottom. i try and cheer up fellow football vaulters by sharing the fact that i support Hearts.
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Post by David A. Riley on Sept 16, 2008 7:47:28 GMT
"old timers"...
I can remember when I was at school in the sixties when copies of the earlier Pans used to float around from person to person in ever tattier copies. I think virtually everyone read them at one point or another.
When I first started writing myself I used to have a small pile of the earlier Pans on one corner of my desk as inspiration, though not necessarily in order, since I particularly liked certain covers over others.
This is a great forum and there is an amazing wealth of information to delve into on it. I've still not "delved" in all of it myself and I've been here for a couple of years now!
David
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Post by mattofthespurs on Sept 16, 2008 10:40:13 GMT
Yes, its the place. Sorry to see Spurs hit the bottom. i try and cheer up fellow football vaulters by sharing the fact that i support Hearts. You have my sympathies. Us supporters of crap teams must stick together.  |
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Sept 16, 2008 11:55:26 GMT
The worst of supporting Hearts is that they have a long and glorious history which ended when I was born. This was followed by a slow decline in which the side consistently managed to come second, fueling hopes of better things, but never actually winning anything. We have capped it now by getting a multi millionaire in charge of the club so we have all the promo and hype of a Scottish Man U. and absolutely none of the success - oh for the days of jumpers for goalposts...
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Post by mattofthespurs on Sept 16, 2008 11:58:28 GMT
The worst of supporting Hearts is that they have a long and glorious history which ended when I was born. This was followed by a slow decline in which the side consistently managed to come second, fueling hopes of better things, but never actually winning anything. We have capped it now by getting a multi millionaire in charge of the club so we have all the promo and hype of a Scottish Man U. and absolutely none of the success - oh for the days of jumpers for goalposts... Crap isn't it. Spurs are not much different except I imagine a season ticket at Hearts doesnt cost £1000 a year. |
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Sept 16, 2008 13:09:35 GMT
Don't know what a season ticket costs but that sounds a bit brutal. One of our great heros, Dave Mackay had a spell with you...better days
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Post by mattofthespurs on Sept 16, 2008 15:42:23 GMT
Don't know what a season ticket costs but that sounds a bit brutal. One of our great heros, Dave Mackay had a spell with you...better days Dave Mackay is still very much a legend around these parts and is often at the ground. Bit before my time sadly but my old man witters on about him alot. |
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Post by erebus on Feb 1, 2009 19:44:25 GMT
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Post by allthingshorror on Feb 1, 2009 19:52:24 GMT
You're not called Shaun, are you?  Anyhoo, welcome Erebus. |
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Feb 1, 2009 20:06:04 GMT
Hi Erebus,
Football, horror, same thing if you're a Hearts fan.
I got lucky with 30. Picked it up in a German bookshop for 1-60 Euro I think last year. Clearly, being German they didn't know it was worth the bookshop, the town hall and part of the airport. I'd read it before though.
I had them all and sold them many years ago. Now I have five left. Has anyone else had the experience of selling your books only to find out that about five years later you buy the actual books you previously owned?
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Post by erebus on Feb 1, 2009 21:22:18 GMT
I keep all my dodgy books as well as all the others. If I see one with a better spine than the one I already have I get that too. Ive up to 5 of the same book at times. Man I'm sad.  |
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Post by dem on Feb 1, 2009 21:24:08 GMT
Has anyone else had the experience of selling your books only to find out that about five years later you buy the actual books you previously owned? Don't! The last clear out i had was maybe four years ago as the flat was getting that you couldn't move for books and junk. So i charity-shopped a load of horrors that i was "never going to get around to'. And about three weeks later, we started Vault ....  |
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Post by erebus on Feb 1, 2009 21:48:59 GMT
Hmmm I once lost Gary Brandners DEATHWALKERS when I moved house. It was in the boxes when we left. But when we got in the new digs and opened em up the bugger had gone. No great loss but it still puzzles me.  |
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