August 2024 - Museum of Photocopies

PINS – Rule Forty-nine: Don’t be Daft

This rule tells you what to do when you’re exasperated by your partner leading the wrong Do down the club, a double nine! they’re daft.

A photograph a screenshot from a 1970s Estonian film, taken by an iPhone pointed at a TV screen; one that is ripe for photocopying in the correct circumstances and using the correct paper (we suggest a coloured variety). These are daft because tha’ doesn’t know what’s goin on and you can make owt up.

PINS – Rule Forty-eight: Panic

You’ve missed the bus and you are stuck in Rossendale until daybreak, a good reason to panic. Not to worry, PINS details some instances of panic here, and gives you a number of solutions for such scenarios.

A photo of a line illustration for Punch from the 1906 annual. It shows a scene that imparts a sense of unease, maybe panic. What are the goggled men doing driving through London? The curator spent an awful lot of time as a young boy pondering such illustrations. They’ll make good photocopies.

A photo of a line illustration for Punch from the 1906 annual. It shows a scene that imparts a sense of unease, maybe panic. The soldier, a Scots Grey, has had his hoss swiped by a dastardly type in tweeds and a Tam O’ Shanter. What will happen? The curator spent an awful lot of time as a young boy pondering such illustrations. They’ll make good photocopies.

A photo of a line illustration for Punch from the 1906 annual. It shows a scene that imparts a sense of unease, maybe panic. What are the pigs doing on the golf course and who is the man? The curator spent an awful lot of time as a young boy pondering such illustrations. They’ll make good photocopies.

PINS – Rule Forty-seven: On Leave / RnR

PINS needs its units to get some RnR before they can carry on. Being on leave can be very surprising, mind and can get you into all sorts of scrapes. You can read about all that kind of kerfuffle here.

A heavily filtered photo of one of a set of porcelain plates depicting kittens. Part of the Kitten Classics series made in fine bone china by Royal Worcester Crown Ware, England, the plates were strictly limited to a 14 day firing period. Originally on a wall in Felling, Tyne and Wear, thence to a lincrusta wall in East Lancashire, the kittens now get their RnR in the province of Zuid Nederland. They’ll make good photocopies.

PINS – Rule Forty-six: Bunkum

Sometimes people can be plain ignorant and not understand how important it is to compile the rules for PINS. They take a lot of imagination and aren’t the sort of thing everyday folk concern themselves with. That’s why what they say is often bunkum, and you can find out about that here.