Can't believe this has not previously been mentioned here:
https://citythreepointzero.wordpress.com/2012/09/08/corson-the-rules/
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new game: corson
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Posted 9 years ago #
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Dang! I'll never be able to get those fork 'andles.
Posted 9 years ago # -
I've been (unknowingly) playing this game intermittently for getting on 20 years. I think our scores are pretty much tied. An additional possible move after a refusal by CORSON is 'asking CORSON to suggest an alternative product'. CUSTOMER gains a point if CORSON suggests a suitable alternative. (However, this ploy has never worked - CORSON always takes the point with a shake of the head and enigmatic smile).
Posted 9 years ago # -
Tried to play Corson today as he is still alive and running the shop. Not open Wednesdays.
Was discussing tactics in the shop next door as I was after caustic soda. I was going to open with 250 grammes of caustic soda please.
The people in the shop next door doubted that would work.
He refused to sell them a nail.
Posted 6 years ago # -
First point goes to Corson then.
Posted 6 years ago # -
@acsimpson, yes he generally gets the first point. If you are very quick you can make your request more specific and therefore in with a chance of an equaliser..
The rules of Corson are six years old now. He previously closed half days Wednesdays but now all day Wednesdays. He opens an hour or so in the mornings, closes middle of day then an hour or so afternoons on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. Never open on the weekend. Not always the same hour or so from day to day and despite advertising Friday pm opening I imagine he will close if he sees the school kids on their half day.
The comments on the Corson Academical Blog are as good as the article itself.
Posted 6 years ago # -
Corson !
a man, a plan, a canal, panama
Posted 6 years ago # -
An Edinburgh institution is gone. No more shall we play the game of Corson. Corson Hardware update
Posted 2 years ago # -
Does this mean he's won?
Posted 2 years ago # -
Posted 2 years ago #
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“
What’s going on at No 62 Raeburn Place? Only a few weeks after opening in the lavishly refurbished former premises of Corson’s the ironmongers, the Stockroom deli (‘for foodies by foodies’) suddenly and mysteriously shut up shop.
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https://www.broughtonspurtle.org.uk/news/closure-conjecture-and-possible-curse
Posted 8 months ago # -
In the article -whilst Corson was open (though obviously not at lunchtime) he had nothing you wanted to buy whereas the food place did have stock people wanted,mit just wasn’t open.
Maybe Stockbridge has reached peak Deli?
Posted 8 months ago # -
Had anyone ever seen in one place Corson, the guy who ran Brown's for Wireless on Geo IV Bridge, Neil Bain from Bain's Bikes, and The Captain who ran Claymore Cycles?
Might they all be the same person?
Posted 8 months ago # -
I thought Neil was The Captain?
Posted 8 months ago # -
Is this the Theory of Everything, i.e. unifying the Universe?
If only we could figure out how gravity interacts at very small scales (quantum mechanics) and at very large scales (black holes). I think unifing these 4 characters will shed some light...
Posted 8 months ago # -
The Captain was a tall, wiry haired guy who looked like Pat Metheny. Come to think of it, I've never seen them in the same place either.
Posted 8 months ago # -
@Arellcat: your mention of a defunct electronics retailer reminded me that I was recently astonished to find that the shop I used to patronise on a regular basis when I were a lad in Derby is still there - at least if Streetview is to be believed. It certainly seems to have a functioning web site: https://www.rfpotts.com, and I find it strangely comforting that they still have a "surplus window" full of assorted boxes of random stuff (though I suspect they no longer keep a stack of ex-WD radio sets in the back of the shop like they did in the 1970s, either to be cannibalised for parts or coaxed back in to life by some dedicated hobbyist).
Our family joke was that the "R F" in the name stood for "Radio Frequency". They certainly didn't have any of that new-fangled computer stuff back in those days. It was a classic men-in-brown-shop-coats place (think: the Two Ronnies' Four Candles sketch). They always knew exactly which cardboard box on which shelf the thing you needed was kept in. They could also usually tell you what thing it was that you actually needed if your project refused to work (as happened all too frequently in my case*).
Ah yes, those were the days...Wrangler flares...the 'original' Adidas Samba trainers with the long tongue, two-tone ridged sole, and big rubber bumper round the toe (mine were white with green stripes)...and visiting football fans being marched at double-quick time through a corridor of police between the railway station and the Baseball Ground, and back again a couple of hours later, every other Saturday afternoon.
And while down that particular rabbithole I also found this page about Edinburgh wireless shops and scrappies now long gone, including Brown's for Wireless as mentioned in your post.
* My electronics projects in those days were mainly home-built guitar amplifiers and effects boxes. I never got in to wireless stuff.
Posted 8 months ago # -
Sorn - a small village in East Ayrshire - has a television repair shop. I often stop at it to fuel for the climbs. It isn’t ever open but it is there. Corson like
Posted 8 months ago # -
My great uncle was a television repairman. It was a well respected occupation that apparently paid pretty well too.
I also found this page about Edinburgh wireless shops and scrappies now long gone
That is an amazing page.
Brown's was a terrifying place. I never patronised it myself but went in with a friend a couple of times in its latter years. I remember the proprietor rudely interrupting when asked if they had such-and-s..."Nuh, ah've no." It must've been Roy Hughes at that time.
Curiously the opposite was true of Omni Electronics, whom I did patronise once or twice for batteries. Coincidentally it was co-run at the time by the elder brother of said friend above.
Posted 8 months ago #
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