RE: [Leica] Off topic,coke bottles

[Jeremy Kime <jeremy.kime@bbc.co.uk>]

Ted,
Thanks for the offer but I've too many Leica desires to start collecting
coke bottles...

Before the Charles and Diana wedding I'd acquired a bottle of house wine
(Graves) from Diana's estate, because it was in the TV region where I was
then working.
I thought I'd save it till her coronation as queen, sadly she never made it.
So I drank the bottle on the day of the funeral and I might as well have had
your bottle of coke, it certainly hadn't kept well at all, the moral is:
'Don't put off till tomorrow what you can drink today!'

Jem

Having said that, I understand that 1994 is the vintage of the century for
vintage port, and this shouldn't be opened till 2006 at the earliest!

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	tedgrant@islandnet.com [SMTP:tedgrant@islandnet.com]
> 
> OK for anyone out there who is a coke bottle collector I have a numbered
> bottle in box from the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Olympics! :0
> 
> I've had to fight off the grand kids on occaision from drinking it and
> only
> saved the day by taking them for a Dairy Queen malt. :)
> 
> I wonder if the coke gets better like good booze? :)
> 
> ted
> 
> >On 24 Nov 98, Jeremy Kime wrote, at least in part:
> >
> >> Good grief!!!
> >>
> >> Not the 1939 green Coke bottle!
> >> They only made 2000 of those between the clear ones previously and the
> >> lightwieght 'war issue' design. They're worth thousands to Coke bottle
> >> collectors! You could have bought a new Leica/better lens with the
> >> proceeds...
> >>
> >> Sheeeeeesh!
> >
> >Musta been more of 'em in the colonies, Jem. That's the only
> >bottle I remember here as I was growing up. When Pepsi came out
> >with their 12 oz. to compete with that 6 oz. green Coke bottle,
> >we kids thought we had died and gone to heaven. Our parents, of
> >course, thought the Coke was worth the extra cost.
> >--
> >Roger
> >mailto:roger@beamon.org
> >
> >      The will to win is good,
> >      the will to prepare is vital.
> >                 -- Joe Paterno, PSU football coach
> >
>