Wednesday 28 August 1661

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• N Eric Walla on Sat 28 Aug 2004, 11:07pm

  Sam the prankster? This opens up a whole new aspect of his personality!

  I assume he does this not maliciously, but just out of fun … uh, I hope.

• N daniel on Sat 28 Aug 2004, 11:59pm

  it does give one pause for thought!

• N Louis on Sun 29 Aug 2004, 01:47am

  Plainly not old enough yet to recognize this is the sort of joke that comes back upon the joker. Imagine his dudgeon if someone played him the same ruse about the household items missing from his place awhiles back!

• N vicente on Sun 29 Aug 2004, 02:31am

  counterfeited, sounds so modern,ME countrefet,MF contrefait;
  So many meanings {7}for counter {1}-ME countour, computing place. as adverb contra- against.
  So much fun with counter**********.

• N Jbailey on Sun 29 Aug 2004, 04:34am

  Remember that Sam is only 26 and his wife, Elizabeth, is only 21. I think sometimes the seriousness of his attitude toward his job and his household makes us forget his young age. A few weeks ago, however, he was racing carriages and engaging in jumping contests, much more indicative of his age than his position or tone may make us believe. This prank is one of the times his lack of maturity shows through.

• N Australian Susan on Sun 29 Aug 2004, 05:38am

  “setting papers in order”
  There he goes again! More filing! Don’t think he had enough to do today: filing, then a whole afternoon’s drinking, then messing about (the drink encouraging him?) writing a spoof letter.
  If he was a modern day young exec. no doubt he would have spent the morning fiddling about with his Outlook mailbox and then after his liquid lunch spent the afternoon forwarding joke emails to colleagues.

• N JWB on Sun 29 Aug 2004, 07:36pm

  “…abuse and laugh at him…”
  The Joyses’s laughed at Sam’s pretentions twd. knighthood and they’ve not been treated kindly in the diary since. Penn tapped in ‘60. Appears Sam’s been drinking gall this afternoon. In this connection, might want’a look back to the 2 Apr. post.

• N vicente on Sun 29 Aug 2004, 08:13pm

  How much be sir Wm: P’s tankard worth?
  There be a guilt tankard, that be worth from 42s to L20 [2, mention’d by Sam]and the Pepis one be silver , so how much be sir Wm: P’s tankard.. No doubt, if the thief be caught, it would be to Tyburn to entertain the the Hungry ones.
  

• N Diana Bonebrake on Sun 29 Aug 2004, 09:33pm

  Ahhh, 26 years old, enjoying the waning days of summer, wheeling and dealing, forging correspondence…why not spend half the day drunk?

• N Kevin Peter on Mon 30 Aug 2004, 09:14pm

  I never expected that Sam would play such a prank on Penn. It was so unexpected and so silly that I couldn’t help but laugh.

  I love moments like this. It makes Sam seem so human. One rarely sees moments like this in history. The stuff of daily life like this rarely gets recorded: people tend to write down the serious stuff, and regard little things like this as not worth recording.

• N Ruben on Mon 30 Aug 2004, 10:46pm

  worth recording…
  Think of all the emails we send and receive. They replaced the written word but not being backed by paper they will vanish like spoken words…
  

• N Canongate on Wed 1 Nov 2006, 01:24am

  To Ruben: I keep my e-mail and from time to time burn it off to disk. I’m not sure anyone cares but me, still I do it anyway just to remember what loved ones had to say before they were as busy as they are today.