A recently posted auction gives UK fans a rare chance to acquire the excellent Canadian 3-CD box set that includes all 5
United Artist albums:-
http://cgi.ebay.com/GORDON-LIGHTFOOT...QQcmdZViewItem
or
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/GORDON-LIGHTFO...QQcmdZViewItem
I don't think I have ever seen it on ebay.co.uk before, and doubt that it was ever on sale In the UK.
My own copy was bought in 1994 in Montreal by an English friend visiting Canada who was armed with a comprehensive list of
all albums (vinyl and CD) that I at that time owned, in addition to this box set she also found to my delight the 1993-issued Waiting For You CD which in those primitive pre-internet days I had never even heard of.
Fortunately by 1998 I had internet access and heard of APPT in time to grab the solitary copy on sale in the HMV store on
Oxford Steet London on June 21st
John Fowles
in reply to Janice's query about the slang term "quid"
I found this site:-
http://www.businessballs.com/moneyslanghistory.htm
which states amongst other theories that
"The slang money expression 'quid' seems first to have appeared in late 1600's England, derived from Latin (quid meaning
'what', as in 'quid pro quo' - 'something for something else'). "
I have previously written about the pound sign itself (£) on the Newsgroup see:-
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.m...b53798b?hl=en&
Noow regarding the US slang term "buck" two entertaining theories are on:-
http://entspire.com/newsletters/orig...ord%202-03.htm