New Worthwhile Charity

[catgate]

This is a very serious appeal for help on behalf of a very well known charity who in this particular instance feels it best if they are not named, for reasons of anonymity, so we will just call them X.

The reason that this route of funding has cropped up is due to the now well established fashion of wearing pseudo torn jeans. These are being produced in their millions by the sweat shops of the Far East.

Up to recently the girls and boys who did the sewing were supplying the holes, to put into the new garments, from their own clothes. But now that they have a little more money they are discarding their old clothes and buying new before the holes appear. Hence there is a shortage of genuine holes, and hole substitutes are having to be used. Unfortunately the hole substitutes are very easily recognised for what they are, just imitation.

X has come to an agreement with a wholesaler in the Far East, who supplies cloth and sewing materials, that they will contribute 1 Chinese yuan ( = 0.0955849155 British pounds) per dozen for just as many holes as he receives from the UK. These will then be sold on to the manufacturers at cost.

So what we are looking for is for the good folk of the UK to send as many real holes as possible to:-

Chingdo Yellow Tiger Sewing

Yingling Road, 238a Unit

Mentougou

Beijing 34

The Peoples Republic of Chinese

Holes can be sent quite cheaply at normal postal rates in a plain Manilla envelope.

Precautions:-

Do not mix holes of different sizes in the same envelope because one can slip accidentally inside another.

Do not cut them to size to fit in any envelope. This sometimes causes fraying at the edges.

By all means fold the holes to fit the size of envelope to hand, but do not fold them too many times as they some times get weakened at the fold.

Please mark on the back of the envelope the number and size of the holes contained in it. This facilitates rapid handling by Chingdo Yellow Tiger Sewing.

[Gandalph]

I think I will have to pass on that one.

The hole's I have would only fit into a large cardboard box and I think they would be too large for a clothing manufacturer. However, if you come across any appeals for holes to be used in the manufacture of bed linen or blankets please let me know as I am sure I could accommodate some Company some where. :D

[AlanHo]

I have managed to sort out a number of holes that I can spare - it includes whole holes and half holes from various items of clothing plus a few moth eaten holy whole holes (from my boyhood church choir surplice)

My attempt to send these holes has fallen at the first fence - our Post Office.

They insist on a Customs Declaration Form specifying the contents and their value.

They will not accept "Holes" - especially those I have cut in half - as valid content and dismiss any value that I enter.

[rong]

I have managed to sort out a number of holes that I can spare - it includes whole holes and half holes from various items of clothing plus a few moth eaten holy whole holes (from my boyhood church choir surplice)

were these/this at the back for the benefit of the clergy

[-pops-]

A very serious problem, I agree.

I recall some years ago there was a desperate shortage of cheese holes in Switzerland due to nefarious activities of the Norwegian Secret Service who stole huge quantities for use in Jarlsberg cheese. More recently, the Dutch have joined in this by stealing holes for Leerdammer.

The situation is so serious in Switzerland now because of this and several poor hole harvests that one of their most famous cheeses, Gruyere, has to be marketed without any holes at all.

[andsome]

This is a very serious appeal for help on behalf of a very well known charity who in this particular instance feels it best if they are not named, for reasons of anonymity, so we will just call them X.

The reason that this route of funding has cropped up is due to the now well established fashion of wearing pseudo torn jeans. These are being produced in their millions by the sweat shops of the Far East.

Up to recently the girls and boys who did the sewing were supplying the holes, to put into the new garments, from their own clothes. But now that they have a little more money they are discarding their old clothes and buying new before the holes appear. Hence there is a shortage of genuine holes, and hole substitutes are having to be used. Unfortunately the hole substitutes are very easily recognised for what they are, just imitation.

X has come to an agreement with a wholesaler in the Far East, who supplies cloth and sewing materials, that they will contribute 1 Chinese yuan ( = 0.0955849155 British pounds) per dozen for just as many holes as he receives from the UK. These will then be sold on to the manufacturers at cost.

So what we are looking for is for the good folk of the UK to send as many real holes as possible to:-

Chingdo Yellow Tiger Sewing

Yingling Road, 238a Unit

Mentougou

Beijing 34

The Peoples Republic of Chinese

Holes can be sent quite cheaply at normal postal rates in a plain Manilla envelope.

Precautions:-

Do not mix holes of different sizes in the same envelope because one can slip accidentally inside another.

Do not cut them to size to fit in any envelope. This sometimes causes fraying at the edges.

By all means fold the holes to fit the size of envelope to hand, but do not fold them too many times as they some times get weakened at the fold.

Please mark on the back of the envelope the number and size of the holes contained in it. This facilitates rapid handling by Chingdo Yellow Tiger Sewing.

I seem to remember that recently you reported a large hole in your garden. Why not send them this? They could make several smaller ones from it.

[Gandalph]

This is a very serious appeal for help on behalf of a very well known charity who in this particular instance feels it best if they are not named, for reasons of anonymity, so we will just call them X.

The reason that this route of funding has cropped up is due to the now well established fashion of wearing pseudo torn jeans. These are being produced in their millions by the sweat shops of the Far East.

Up to recently the girls and boys who did the sewing were supplying the holes, to put into the new garments, from their own clothes. But now that they have a little more money they are discarding their old clothes and buying new before the holes appear. Hence there is a shortage of genuine holes, and hole substitutes are having to be used. Unfortunately the hole substitutes are very easily recognised for what they are, just imitation.

X has come to an agreement with a wholesaler in the Far East, who supplies cloth and sewing materials, that they will contribute 1 Chinese yuan ( = 0.0955849155 British pounds) per dozen for just as many holes as he receives from the UK. These will then be sold on to the manufacturers at cost.

So what we are looking for is for the good folk of the UK to send as many real holes as possible to:-

Chingdo Yellow Tiger Sewing

Yingling Road, 238a Unit

Mentougou

Beijing 34

The Peoples Republic of Chinese

Holes can be sent quite cheaply at normal postal rates in a plain Manilla envelope.

Precautions:-

Do not mix holes of different sizes in the same envelope because one can slip accidentally inside another.

Do not cut them to size to fit in any envelope. This sometimes causes fraying at the edges.

By all means fold the holes to fit the size of envelope to hand, but do not fold them too many times as they some times get weakened at the fold.

Please mark on the back of the envelope the number and size of the holes contained in it. This facilitates rapid handling by Chingdo Yellow Tiger Sewing.

I seem to remember that recently you reported a large hole in your garden. Why not send them this? The could make several smaller ones from it.

Why not send the holes to Gordon Brown. Hopefully he will go into one and get lost. B)

[andsome]

This is a very serious appeal for help on behalf of a very well known charity who in this particular instance feels it best if they are not named, for reasons of anonymity, so we will just call them X.

The reason that this route of funding has cropped up is due to the now well established fashion of wearing pseudo torn jeans. These are being produced in their millions by the sweat shops of the Far East.

Up to recently the girls and boys who did the sewing were supplying the holes, to put into the new garments, from their own clothes. But now that they have a little more money they are discarding their old clothes and buying new before the holes appear. Hence there is a shortage of genuine holes, and hole substitutes are having to be used. Unfortunately the hole substitutes are very easily recognised for what they are, just imitation.

X has come to an agreement with a wholesaler in the Far East, who supplies cloth and sewing materials, that they will contribute 1 Chinese yuan ( = 0.0955849155 British pounds) per dozen for just as many holes as he receives from the UK. These will then be sold on to the manufacturers at cost.

So what we are looking for is for the good folk of the UK to send as many real holes as possible to:-

Chingdo Yellow Tiger Sewing

Yingling Road, 238a Unit

Mentougou

Beijing 34

The Peoples Republic of Chinese

Holes can be sent quite cheaply at normal postal rates in a plain Manilla envelope.

Precautions:-

Do not mix holes of different sizes in the same envelope because one can slip accidentally inside another.

Do not cut them to size to fit in any envelope. This sometimes causes fraying at the edges.

By all means fold the holes to fit the size of envelope to hand, but do not fold them too many times as they some times get weakened at the fold.

Please mark on the back of the envelope the number and size of the holes contained in it. This facilitates rapid handling by Chingdo Yellow Tiger Sewing.

I seem to remember that recently you reported a large hole in your garden. Why not send them this? The could make several smaller ones from it.

Why not send the holes to Gordon Brown. Hopefully he will go into one and get lost.

Damned good idea.