Call My Bluff: Gatecrasher Kid

Rachel:	'Gatecrasher kid' is a term used to describe a certain kind of person who likes to dress up in a certian strange way when frequenting nightclubs that play hard house. they tend to wear a lot of U.V. jewelry and spike their hair up into points and spray it silver. They also love glowsticks, wear their sunglasses in clubs and suck dummys. Altogether they look very stupid. The term comes from the night gatecrasher that spawned all this hell and the fact that they have dummys in their mouths.
Mike:	If you worked in engineering, particularly in a tool making factory you may already know what a gatecrasher kid is. You will particularly be familiar with one if you have used a Snetterton's Washer Press. This machine was invented by that great Victorian engineer Amos Snetterton who is also responsible for the Gimlet Coiler. The main problem that washer presses had in those days was that the cylindrical metal thingaty-bob that was used to stamp out the hole in the washer would wear out too frequently and had to be replaced so often that it added an unacceptable cost to the finished washers. Snetterton developed a new type of press which employed a high tensile, low ductile tungsten/molybdenum alloy cylinder to press holes in the washers. This cylinder is known as a 'gatecrasher kid'.
Joel:	Well as all philatelists will be only too aware, the first 'gatecrasher kid' was the Penny Lilac, although there was an interesting stamp in 1972 from Tonga which was when the term was first coined. (Interesting as the Tonga stamp was round and golden). A 'gatecrasher kid' was a new and varied form of stamp that broke with all previous traditions. The Penny Lilac was the first to contain a watermark and the Tonganese three cents stamp was the first not to be square. the term was affectionately adopted by Stanley Gibbon in his 1973 almanac. A new breed of stamp that breaks with all previous tradition. A gatecrasher kid.
Matt:	The village of Trecastle in South Wales was once known as Tecrasher (A welsh phrase for the rumble of a mountain river). As we all know the word gay was once smiled upon in the United Kingdom as defining a person of happiness and fulfilment. In spring time, the welsh are/were a busy race. The farms were readying for the coming lambing season and all livestock seemed ready to drop offspring. That is apart from the goats. This specific breed of welsh goat does not give birth to its young until midsummer, so when the young were born, the farmers had plenty of time on their hands to assist with the birth, and ensure that healthy young kids were put out into the fields to graze. Due to such a hassle free and healthy birth, these goats seemed to be the happiest creatures around, and with the smiling faces that goats seem to have, they were looked upon as very content little creatures. So, in and around Brecon on market days, conversations were rife with the phrase 'Gay Tecrasher Kids', as all livestock purchasers were excited by buying such gay and fancy free animals. Young goats in this part of Wales then became known as Gay Tecrasher Kids.

Well Brian, there you have it.

It's a strange dummy-sucking nightclubber, it's a cylinder for a washer press, it's a break with tradition in stamp design, or it's the happy offspring of a Welsh goat.

Now it's time for you to decide. Who is giving the correct definition, and who is bluffing?

Brian:

Mmm........ let me see....a fucking nightclubber dummy eh? Sounds about right................people can gatecrash clubs and parties and things, so maybe it could be that. Mike's washer press punch sounds good as well, but I seem to remember they never punched the hole in the middle out, but more a case of stamping out the outer part of the middle instead. The Tonga stamp theory falls at the first hurdle I'm afraid, as everyone knows that the Tongan unit of currency is not the cent but the pa'anga (one pa'anga = 100 seniti). So no stamp could cost three cents........ha ha ha ha.....ha..................ha............................................... ...............ha....um.......er........eh........unless, that is, we are talking about the world famous 'Tongan 3 cent stamp' which wasn't square of course................ah, oh dear....... on rereading your description Joel I see that you were ...sorry. Now explanation number 4, the happy offspring of a Welsh goat, is complete and utter bollocks. I'm not even going to think of it as a serious contender as the explanation, in fact you can stick it right up your fucking arse, because as everyone knows there can be no such emotion as happiness when you are related to anything even remotely Welsh. End of story. No correspondence on this subject will be entered into. So, I think the answer is probably answer 3, Joel's round stamp story..........well?

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