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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>> How many
noticed that this week's Ringing World was no 5000 (I hope<BR>> you did,
Robert!)?<BR><BR>Is this tongue-in-cheek? Hard to tell from emails.<BR><BR>John
Camp</FONT><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>No; well not quite. I feel privileged if I've
managed to cause you to scratch your head, John.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>This week's RW still hadn't arrived when I wrote
that message; it came this morning (ahh, the days when it used to come on
Thursdays...). I happened to notice last week's issue as being the
4999th. It would have been a shame to miss the big event. Having read it at
long last, Robert clearly did the occasion proud.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The tongue-in-cheek bit? The $64k question is: is
this week's really the 5000th? When I was compiling my collection of RWs, it
became clear that, in the 1950s particularly, the printers must
have employed a particularly dozy type-setter. On a number of occasions the
issue number was unchanged for the following week and then it progressed
in increasing numbers for a few weeks until someone noticed the
numbering was out of kilter and the number went forward by 2 digits to correct
it. I seem to remember there being one occasion when the error wasn't corrected,
which would have made the 4999th edition the true 5000th - or whatever if there
were other uncorrected errors. Have other RW collectors come across
this?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Bit like a 2999th pealer expecting the next one to
be 3000 and finding an extra one popping from the past.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>On another current subject, RW carried a very
interesting article by Bob Smith re Kings Lynn. The very last sentence of the
last paragraph was nicely and correctly commercial.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Chris Povey</FONT></DIV>
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