Lute Strings. Earlier than tulips. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Will_Pronounce#The_convertibility_of_lute_strings http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Will_P

Lute Strings. Earlier than tulips. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Will_Pronounce#The_convertibility_of_lute_strings http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Will_Pronounce#The_convert... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUlsI_Ze5Z0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUlsI_Ze5Z0 My first job was as a messenger in Liverpool's shipping and forwarding business. Bills of Lading, Letters of Credit, quotes on seafreight and bulking up the sailor's wage run (five large chaps in a Jaguar delivering £50k in cash, half Sterling, half DMs, to the ship's bursar to pay the crew of the charter cargo ship). I used to walk past the Liverpool Echo building with printing works in the basement (you could blag an early edition if you asked nicely at the back entrance, and the ink would still be drying). All gone. Shame as those jobs gave entry to the world of business with little in the way of credentialism. Sea-freight charges are a time sensitive market. There was a geezer with a tiny office high in a big old seafront office building who had 5 phones on his desk and who would buy empty space on ships then sell it on. No intellectual, tonnes of knowledge of the ships, routes and the people who needed to shift stuff.