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English ale would be nice. All donations gratefully accepted and filtered through the finest American kidneys!

Just in time for the summer horse racing season. Your very own British racing game. It's fun! It's exciting!! It doesn't work!!! And it's yours for only $12,000 USD!!!! http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260610877346&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT#ht_15223wt_1139 J Peterson Your Am...

For the record: £536.

I'm willing to contribute to the "Send Nursey" fund for assistance with Jerry's debut. After she's finished with BP's private massage, of course.

"Novelty" might well describe their pricing; so would "insane."

Just a quick question here: Is this a common British practice, hanging tools from your ceiling? Wouldn't drapes be cheaper??

Hi Stuart,

My original comment concerned the right side of the game looking straight on. Taking a closer look, what I mistook for a control lever is actually a knob on the door to a cabinet IN THE DISTANT BACKGROUND! Oooops! Time for new glasses; or another scotch.

I've been corresponding with the seller to try and get a clear idea as to how this machine operates. I posited it had a ledge across the top with a control on the right side of the case (I thought I saw some type of rod in the picture) for the left-right roll of the ball once it landed on the ledge,...

Thanks, BP! I haven't made my daily pilgrimage to Ebay-UK yet!

jp

Hey......Wait a minute.....BP?... Didn't you recently spill some oil here in the US???

I'm voting with Mr. PM on this one: BM Co. The play description sounds like a close cousin to Handan-Ni's "Bomb Dropper." The difference would be three balls versus one and cannon targets instead of the vertical columns. Nice looking game. Any chance for more pictures?

See what I mean???

I've been extolling the virtue of British coin-op here in the States for a number of years. It's rather like bragging about your spinster sister; you want to make her feel good but you really don't want to encourage the punters to start dating her. Based on the evidence below, I may have succeeded a...

Sure, Jimmy, but you can roll them and smoke 'em when you're done reading!

Here's a novelty idea for your old cigarette vendors; turn them into book vending machines!

http://publishingperspectives.com/?p=15430

Kudos to our own trio of "COPS:" Operator Bell, Badpenny and tree-frog.

Their analysis is worthy of the best practices of NCIS: National Coin-op Investigative Services.

"Stupidity is its own reward."

J. Peterson
Your American Philosopher

Prescient advice, OperatorBell; but WAY TOO LATE for the rest of us!

Just a teaser today. PayREDmid arrived from California in good condition. It bears serial number 454. That means it came off Mr. Bryans's assembly line just before my #501. More to follow as it has some mystery to it. Maybe a story for Mechanical Memories Magazine? Stay tuned. J. Peterson Your Ameri...

Tawdry: "Mooshing taffy into one's laundry such that the stain will never go away..."Tawdry."

My nickname is "BabyWhale." Where to I submit my claim??

JTP