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They Perf'd The Queen! Q/ Can anyone identify SM95? Would SM = Sikorsky Museum? Q/ What is this souvenir about? The general's birth/death/resurrection?  United Kingdom 60th Birthday of Queen Elizabeth II Catalog codes: Michel GB 1065 AFA number GB 1181 Stamp Number GB 1138 Stanley Gibbons GB 1317 Unificato GB 1219 Yvert et Tellier GB 1219 Issued on: 1986-04-21 Perforation: 15 x 14 Printing: Photogravure Size: 41 x 30 mm Face value: 17 p - British penny Print run: 38,501,600 Description: printed se-tenant with SG 1316.  Cheers, /s/ ikeyPikey |
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Q/ Was the '01416' a serial number? For a lottery? As a receipt for admission to the museum? |
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... We in the Commonwealth don't make jokes about the Queen dying ... Okay, I'll bite ... what joke about the Queen dying? |
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ikey, I should have warned you. It's the 'perfing' that causes a bit of ill ease. (To an extent, I share the discomfort.) |
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KGB:
You'll have to draw a clearer line from 'perfing' to 'dying' but, don't worry, I'll believe anything you say.
I titled this thread as I did precisely because I learned that, when stamps were new, folks objected to defacing the portrait of the Queen and, later, the King.
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/e/ ikeyPikey |
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Defacing the portrait... Yes, I still feel that way.
And I don't believe in wearing one's hat indoors.
And shorts? Only for the seashore. |
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Ikey, "perf'd" is sometimes used as slang for "filled with bullet holes". |
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"Concetto Spaziale, La Fine di Dio", a punctured canvas by the Italian conceptual artist Lucio Fontana, sold for $29.2 million. Perf'd again! /s/ ikeyPikey  |
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Just out of curiosity and for enlightenment -- would "They perfin'd the..." be acceptable. Would that avoid the connection to slang usage while still getting the philatelic point across? Curious because I've heard of the slang usage, but it's not used around my circles so I'm not sure at what point the connection to slang usage is made. |
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... Curious because I've heard of the slang usage, but it's not used around my circles ... http://www.urbandictionary.com/ (founded 1999) has still not heard of perf'd, perfed, or perforated ... ... perhaps KGB & PekingDuckDog are both watching the same nasty gangster movies? Cheers, /s/ ikeyPikey |
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