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How about Captain Beefheart?

In message , Ronald Raygun writes

Sounds like some sort of scottish scam if you ask me. Ive googled, yahood, jeevesed and head scratched and even looked in a book, but cant find anything about 'certified cheques' cheques in the way you describe.

Sorry, the Liquid 'Room' 9c Victoria Street, Edinburgh. I can forgive you not knowing that but not knowing the Magic Band is unforgivable. Have you not heard of the greatest album of all time 'Trout Mask Replica' by Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band?

In message , Peter Saxton writes

The worlds greatest musician!

Well, I get plenty of hits with my google. Mostly foreign, admitteldly, but they're there.

Sounds like some kind of sleazy speak-easy, not a concert venue.

Album? You mean photos?

Now Beefheart rings a bell, I'm sure you've mentioned him before, but I don't think I've heard of him anywhere else. I just dismissed it as as inconsequential as Holmes's Hawkwind. I have heard of Captain Bird's Eye, though. Does that count?

Sorry, I don't follow the pop scene. My taste in music is a bit more, er, refaned, as they say in Morningside. (Sorry, local joke. Two elderly Edinburgh ladies meet in town shortly after the council had announced another of their inexcusably steep rises (plus ca change) in the precursor to the precursor to the Council Tax. Says one: "Isn't it terrible about the rates?" to which the other replies: "Oh, we don't have rates in Morningsade. A few field mace perhaps, but certainly no rates.")

When I bought my last car, I supplied them with an envelope full of £20 notes.

Same here (although I saw at least half a dozen or so UK references to this) but many seem to treat a certified cheque as a form of bankers draft/cheque.

Regards, Far

In message , Ronald Raygun writes

Yes, I entered a UK filter after the first time. But its UK we are talking about.

Undoubtedly so. In fact your description makes it sound a bit respectable.

Eh? Oh Sorry I forgot your are Scottish. In fact, if we can accept the definition of the word 'album' as being a 'bound collection' ( a definition which I have just made up) then 'album' is the right word because 'Trout Mask replica' consists of two LPs in a binder.

What? Have you never neen out of your house? (Or tenament or whatever you have up there...)

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Pop? Do you mean as in 'a popular beat combo, m'lud?'

He HE!!!!!!!!!! I like it!!!

In message , Far writes

That is what I think they mean,

It seems strange that two people at two different banks were given this wrong advice.

I feel that if you phoned a bank with an actual example they would give you the same advice.

You wouldn't really expect bank call centre staff to know any better, would you?

Those quotes were mine! All mine!

In the example I gave I asked to speak to some supervisor and I felt that they had some kind of banking knowledge. Now I'm not saying they are right though. I have regularly got wrong advice from Lloyds TSB - it seems to be one of their services.

The trouble with the youth (which for present purposes includes yourself (who'd have thought it, eh?)) of today (which for present purposes means the last 40-odd years) is their short attention span. They can listen to "a single" or to a track on a record, or perhaps two on a good day, but then they become bored with the rest. They call an LP an album because to them it's no more than a collection of snippets each short enough to put up with, but they cannot conceive of it being a unified whole to which one might expect to listen from start to finish.

It was someone in the UK, very eloquent and said what turned out to be the most accurate info!!!!

Phil