Bloody clever scam!

[NickFitz]

Didn't they use "Times Roman"........
I thought "Times New Roman" was a sort of True Type imposter........

I can't remember the details exactly, but IIRC "Times New Roman" was the name of the face they had designed for them in the Twenties or Thirties (which was new at the time, in comparison to their old Roman face), and in the Sixties (Seventies, maybe? no, I think it was the Sixties) they had a new face designed called "Times Europa".

I can see one of my books on the subject from here, but that one only goes up to around 1952, so it wouldn't resolve the thorny question of when they moved to the new font.

(And don't even get me started on the idea of "Times New Roman Italic" given that "Roman" means upright, as opposed to italic...)

Ah, as usual, Wikipedia has some material that may, in part or in whole, constitute facts

As I surmised, "Times New Roman" was indeed the name of the face created in 1931 to replace "Times Old Roman", and "Times Europa" was introduced in 1972 (not the Sixties after all), although there have been other variants since then

[mudskipper]

Do many of your friends post you stuff like this?

Aye - I was a little slow. But yes, I have a friend who forwards me electronically every bit of junk going - and his name starts with J, so my first reaction was that it was something from him. As soon as the penny drops, there are of course plenty of indicators that it's not 'real', but you have to make that connection in the first place. Actually it was the stamp that made me wonder - he would have posted it from work to save the postage!

[mudskipper]

Oh - and I should add, for those that know my first name, I'm not the muppet that posted the comment on the website!

[Durbs]

I got one and was initially fooled as a few days earlier had been talking to an ex-colleague 'J' about marketing my Plan B. Nearly sent him a text to say ta but then the font raised a few suspicions and a quick Google on the post-it text confirmed it.

I'd not long ago opted out of those Cardell emails as, whilst the first couple made vaguely interesting reading, i got sick of the constant spam urging me to sign up for marketing telecons and seminars that would change my life, COMPLETELY FREE **

** one-off registration fee of £1500 applies