anyone seen my copy of private eye?

[HonaloochieB]

You know the one with Mohamed Fayed on the cover.I bought it last week and haven't even opened it yet. I've searched high and low for it with no luck.

Can any one suggest what might have happened to it and suggest somewhere new I could look.

Or should I just go and buy another copy. Of course you know what'll happen then, don't you?

It's a real puzzler.

(In case any one 's thinking of suggesting the magazine rack in the dunny, don't bother, I checked there)

[*Bob*]

Maybe the 'other you' knows?

[KalamityKel]

Under the sofa? U know RIGHT under it...

[karter]

get a private eye to help you find it.:)

[PeckhamRose]

Someone nicked it and took it to the Library? (Well, makes a change from the other way round!)

[mockney piers]

I can bring mine tomorrow if you want it and are coming along. Crossword ain't virgin though.

[HonaloochieB]

KalamityKel Wrote:

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> Under the sofa? U know RIGHT under it...

Thanks KK, I had checked under there but had been a little tentative. When I went at it with a will I didn't find the mag in question but DID discover a Lloyd Cole & The Commotions CD that I'd given up for dead.

So thanks again for the advice.

I'm playing 'Perfect Skin' and I'm dedicating it to you.

[HonaloochieB]

*Bob* Wrote:

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> Maybe the 'other you' knows?

I don't know what you're talking about Bob.

[HonaloochieB]

*Bob* Wrote:

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> Maybe the 'other you' knows?

I know exactly what you mean, Bob.

[HonaloochieB]

mockney piers Wrote:

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> I can bring mine tomorrow if you want it and are

> coming along. Crossword ain't virgin though.

Thanks for the kind offer MP but I won't be along, and also I've made a decision this year to start collecting PE so it wouldn't be appropriate to have one in anything less than semi-pristine condition.

[HonaloochieB]

mockney piers Wrote:

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> I can bring mine tomorrow if you want it and are

> coming along. Crossword ain't virgin though.

Hang on I think I see what you did there MP, it's a clue isn't it?

Cross word? Ain't virgin?

The answer's f*ck, isn't it?

[Incitatus]

HonaloochieB,

I looked high and low for your copy of Private Eye and had no luck, however I did find this example of both young and old coming to together in harmony, perhaps embarking on their own special voyage of discovery -

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/6/6b/240px-Brillo.jpg

At least it may provide some consolation, if not I suggest you try looking in Neasden or maybe Lymeswold?

[HonaloochieB]

Incitatus Wrote:

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> HonaloochieB,

>

> I looked high and low for your copy of Private Eye

> and had no luck, however I did find this example

> of both young and old coming to together in

> harmony, perhaps embarking on their own special

> voyage of discovery -

>

> http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thum

> b/6/6b/240px-Brillo.jpg

>

> At least it may provide some consolation, if not I

> suggest you try looking in Neasden or maybe

> Lymeswold?

Incantatus, thanks for providing vital evidence. I'm sure the man on the left was in the vicinity, on or around the time my copy of PE went missing. I overheard him in conversation with some cronies and it was apparent that he has had an interest in other people's publications for a number of years. I gave it no thought at the time but know I see there may be a sinister plot unravelling. He is obviously disguising himself with the cap. At the time I saw him he had a distintive 'Brillopad' hairstyle and was wearing what can only be described as a mid-eighties power-suit more double-breasted than his lithe companion.

This just gets murkier as it goes along.

I think Inspector Knacker may need to be informed.

[????]

A post by Cab Driver no 21708

Bleedin' hell - it shows what the world's coming to when even a traitorous rag like Private Eye gets knicked in East Dulwich, I had that Peter Cook in the back of my cab once and, although he liked the sauce a bit too much, he was a gent, not like that poison little midget Hislop, hangins too good for him the pompuos little prick etc

[barrymarshall]

Incitatus Wrote:

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> HonaloochieB,

>

> I looked high and low for your copy of Private Eye

> and had no luck, however I did find this example

> of both young and old coming to together in

> harmony, perhaps embarking on their own special

> voyage of discovery -

>

> http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thum

> b/6/6b/240px-Brillo.jpg

>

> At least it may provide some consolation, if not I

> suggest you try looking in Neasden or maybe

> Lymeswold?

Classic! That's the funniest thing I've read all week ...

[HonaloochieB]

Thanks to everyone for the help and advice.

I have decided to bite the bullet and just go and buy another copy of Private Eye.

I do this in the knowledge that the SAME COPY will be waiting around my gaff, probably in a place I've looked before and will be found. Most likely by me. And I will have the sound DUH DUH DUUUUUH!!! go off in my head as I pick it up.

At the time I made the second donation to Lord Gnome I bought a couple of Lotto Lucky Dips. Maybe there'll be some kind of karmic payback on the part of the universe.

Or maybe the universe'll continue to be the bastard it's always been.

I'll let you know.

[HonaloochieB]

Just found it.