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16 February 2017 at 12:08 #38394
Neil Wyatt
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16 February 2017 at 12:08 #284597
Neil Wyatt
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MEW 252 will have a'251' printed on the cover

Sorry, and yes we should have spotted this sooner.

Before anyone moans… we will be including a special "252" triangle in issue 253 for you to cut out and glue onto the cover of 252.

Neil
16 February 2017 at 12:23 #284599
Hopper
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@hopper
Tsk tsk, caught again using last edition's pages as templates for this edition. Much safer to have your graphic artists make up libraries of templates with XXXXX in place of old text. Much easier to spot if it has not been updated to this edition's text. Graphic artists however hate making up sensible things like libraries of standard templates for all those pages that use the same format every edition, including the front . It's not "creative," you see. The application of a red hot pair of pliers to sensitive parts of their anatomy eventually gets the message through though. Having to issue a reprinted triangle to stick on erroneous front pages justifies getting out the pliers and and the charcoal brazier, I reckon.
16 February 2017 at 12:28 #284600
JasonB
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@jasonb
Will 253 also include the free stick of Pritt Stick or will you be supplying a Loctite product?
16 February 2017 at 13:10 #284606
PaulR
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@paulr
Will you be putting something in #254 to cover the hole in #253?
16 February 2017 at 13:10 #284607
jimmy b
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I won't complain
16 February 2017 at 13:39 #284617
John Stevenson 1
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@johnstevenson1
It was actually done on purpose because the forum has been quiet lately, management decided to give you something to bitch about
16 February 2017 at 14:09 #284621
Ady1
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@ady1
So is that one I'm about to buy in the shops number 251… or 251
16 February 2017 at 14:24 #284625
Neil Wyatt
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@neilwyatt
It's the cover date that counts

Neil
16 February 2017 at 16:22 #284644
MalcB
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@malcb52554
I will leave mine off and put it on Ebay for £80k as a missprint
16 February 2017 at 16:28 #284647
I.M. OUTAHERE
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Will a " patch" be available for the digital edition
16 February 2017 at 17:51 #284653
SillyOldDuffer
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@sillyoldduffer
Predictably this catastrophe will cause a civil war when the magazine claims to reach it's 1000th edition.

I expect the future argument about which is the true kilomew will reach thousands of posts and there will be several conspiracy theories.

It could get very rough. MEW failed to start counting properly from Issue Zero,. There should have been a 12A. Issue 666 will be banned. And of course all ideologically unsound editions will be incinerated during Brexiit's Great Metric Purge.

Whatever happens poor Neil is doomed to be air-brushed from history. In the new dawn no editor with green credentials will be allowed to corrupt our youth. (ie recently retired Model Engineers)
16 February 2017 at 17:52 #284654
Neil Wyatt
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@neilwyatt
Posted by XD 351 on 16/02/2017 16:28:45:

Will a " patch" be available for the digital edition

Yep, you will be able to print off a small triangle and stick it to your screen

Neil
16 February 2017 at 18:28 #284659
Enough!
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Posted by SillyOldDuffer on 16/02/2017 17:51:39:

Issue 666 will be banned.

69 wasn't.
16 February 2017 at 18:34 #284660
JasonB
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@jasonb
Issue 999 will only feature articles on machining 5C emergency collets

Issue 254 will only be a metric edition

Issue 256 will be a 'puters in the workshop special

Edited By JasonB on 16/02/2017 18:45:01
16 February 2017 at 19:14 #284664
Neil Wyatt
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@neilwyatt
This reminds me of how at one time there was a pedantic obsession with changing every reference to 'kilobytes' to 'kibibytes' on Wikipedia.

Look it up if you dare..

Neil (V. 1.0)
16 February 2017 at 21:59 #284685
Nicholas Farr
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Posted by Neil Wyatt on 16/02/2017 14:24:33:

It's the cover date that counts

Neil

Hi, there used to be a cigarette company with a slogan that said their tobacoo did that, but I never heard it. http://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/12/78/29/1278293b054f173107e6e8401e12988e.jpg

Regards Nick.

Edited By Nicholas Farr on 16/02/2017 22:20:52
16 February 2017 at 23:07 #284698
JA
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@ja
I am sure that the mis-numbering has made no difference to the contents. I await my copy and there is bound to be at least one interesting article.

I am waiting for the first photographs of readers' workshops (just don't call my bluff).

JA
17 February 2017 at 06:51 #284712
I.M. OUTAHERE
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Posted by Neil Wyatt on 16/02/2017 17:52:02:

Posted by XD 351 on 16/02/2017 16:28:45:

Will a " patch" be available for the digital edition

Yep, you will be able to print off a small triangle and stick it to your screen

Neil

Surely i can cut and paste ome !

This may cause pocketmags to implode !

How about adding a count down clock to the website so us MEW addicts can check how long it will be until we can view it on line ?
17 February 2017 at 10:20 #284732
Danny M2Z
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@dannym2z
Fortunately, I don't have this problem as my local newsagent insists in placing the price/barcode sticker neatly over the issue# in the top l/h corner

* Danny M *
17 February 2017 at 10:39 #284738
Cornish Jack
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@cornishjack
Nicholas – the slogan was printed on the packet tab such that it was visible as you took out a cigarette. Thus the 'shaggy dog' joke of the man lost in the desert being driven mad by a disembodied voice saying over and over again "1,2,3,4 etc. At last he decides to have a last cigarette before ending it all, and …

rgds

Bill
18 February 2017 at 13:10 #284856
Howard Lewis
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Just to send everyone off at a tangent.

Not sure that Neil is V.1.0.

There were probably others christened Neil, before him!

At least he works better than the latest Piriform CCleaner version (27) which always has to close because it has encountered a problem, (at least on this machine. V26 works just fine).

Howard
18 February 2017 at 20:17 #284938
Mark Rand
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@markrand96270
Doesn't it spoil the joke to have the wrong number on the March edition, instead of the following month's?

Edited By Mark Rand on 18/02/2017 20:17:43
18 February 2017 at 21:14 #284946
Michael Gilligan
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Posted by Mark Rand on 18/02/2017 20:17:12:

Doesn't it spoil the joke to have the wrong number on the March edition, instead of the following month's?

Edited By Mark Rand on 18/02/2017 20:17:43

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Wait 'til you see what they do with April's

MichaelG.
18 February 2017 at 23:53 #284956
Graham Wharton
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Posted by Neil Wyatt on 16/02/2017 14:24:33:

It's the cover date that counts

Neil

And to avoid any further confusion, the correct issue date is printed at the bottom of Page 3…… Doh!!

Graham
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