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"Good Morning Class" -- The Coinalot World Series of Grading

ClankeyeClankeye Posts: 3,928 ✭
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In the Kingdom of Coinalot, the atmosphere is electric (even though electricity has yet to be invented). It's the World Series of Grading Day! The Castle is festooned with banners and flags. Jugglers, clowns, fire-eaters and minstrels stroll through the courtyard, while Knights and Squires strike heroic poses. A great trumpet blast announces the arrival of The Sheriff of Homerun Hall and his entourage. The Sheriff dismounts. King ArtR of Coinalot steps forth to greet them.

King ArtR: Noble Sheriff! We are honored by your presence!
The Sheriff of Homerun Hall: (sneering) Been drinking the Koolaid again, ArtR? (looking around him) Coinalot... it's been awhile. (addressing the crowd)

CITZENS OF COINALOT! I BRING YOU GLAD TIDINGS! ...Thee, who baggeth on me... shall now be put to a test! You shall send forth your best to grade two coins! One coin shall be yours... and one shall be mine! You who cannot even grade thy own coin correctly--shall be put to death!

The crowd: Gasp!

The Sheriff: You who can grade thy own coin--but cannot grade mine... SHALL BE PUT TO DEATH!

The crowd: GASP!

The Sheriff: Those lucky few who do grade both coins correctly shall forfeit your lands and have your families sold into bondage! ANY QUESTIONS????!

--Silence--

Knave XpipedreamR: (raising hand) I got one...
The Sheriff: (narrowing his eyes) Yes?
Knave XpipedreamR: What's yer eBay ID, dude?
The Sheriff: (calmly) My eBay ID?
Knave XpipedreamR: Yeah man....
The Sheriff: (quietly) You really want to know...
Knave XpipedreamR: Totally!

The Sheriff: (leaping at his throat) YOU WANT MY CREDIT CARD NUMBER TOO PUNK!!!!! HOW ABOUT MY SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER!!????? WHY I OUGHTA----

King ArtR and some other Knights pull The Sheriff kicking and screaming off Knave XpipedreamR

King ArtR: Sheriff! Sheriff!! Let's get back to the challenge!
Jester Shiroh: Yea, verily!
Knave XpipedreamR: (brushing himself off) That was so uncool, dude!

The Sheriff: (adjusting his jerkin) Sorry.... Bring forth the first challenger!

Trumpets sound and the crowd parts as mighty Sir Legend comes forth in full battle armor. The helmet visor is down

The Sheriff: (puzzled) You have the visage of a warrior, yet something about you is different... (he sniffs) I can't quite place it. (sniff) You smell different than the other Knights...
Sir Legend: (deep, deep voice) I use scented bath soap your Lordship.
The Sheriff: How very odd? Why?
Sir Legend: To cleanse myself of those I have slain....
The Sheriff: Why do you slay people, O Knight?
Sir Legend: Why not?
The Sheriff: (smiling) I think I like you. Show me your coin and tell me it's grade!

Sir Legend pulls out a 1913 Liberty Nickel and holds it up for the crowd to see

The crowd: GASP!!!!!!

The Sheriff: (unimpressed) And what is it's grade, Good Knight?
Sir Legend: M'Lord... it cannot be graded. (Sir Legend falls to one knee) This coin transcends earthly grades.

The Sheriff: You are wrong, Sir Knight! It can be graded! I shall tell you what it grades. It grades P... O... S! IT GRADES POS AND YOU LOSE!!!!!! (singing) kill him!

The crowd: GASP!

Sir Legend raises, picks up The Sheriff by the throat and lifts him high in the air

Sir Legend: Show me your coin!!!!

Squire Airplanenut: (whispering) cool.


To Be Continued....
Brevity is the soul of wit. --William Shakespeare

Comments

  • rottnrogrottnrog Posts: 683 ✭✭✭
    Darn, I hate 2 parters!!!!!!! image
  • laurentyvanlaurentyvan Posts: 4,243 ✭✭✭
    Aw, you left me on the cusp...image Continue that bad boy soon!

    Mayhap you will be able to talk your flock into taking up the coin challenge even now being proferred in the sainted World Coin forum?
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    is that you end up being governed by inferiors. – Plato
  • SarasotaFrankSarasotaFrank Posts: 1,625 ✭✭


    << <i>Thee, who baggeth on me... shall now be put to a test! >>



    no sarcasm there! image
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  • cladkingcladking Posts: 28,731 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    tempus fugit extra philosophiam.
  • 1jester1jester Posts: 8,637 ✭✭✭
    The only thing that could possibly beat the 1913 Lib would have to be.....................


































    YES! You guessed it! A DARKSIDE coin!!!




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  • mgoodm3mgoodm3 Posts: 17,497 ✭✭✭
    Ooo. A cliff-hanger.
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  • LouisLouis Posts: 3,687
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  • MadMartyMadMarty Posts: 16,697 ✭✭✭
    Is it Monday???? A story, all is right with the world!!!
    It is not exactly cheating, I prefer to consider it creative problem solving!!!

  • coinguy1coinguy1 Posts: 13,484 ✭✭✭


    << <i>To Be Continued.... >>

    When? Please hurry!image
  • OuthaulOuthaul Posts: 7,440 ✭✭✭✭✭
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  • BearBear Posts: 18,953 ✭✭✭
    Why is it Sir Legend, Why not Lady Legend?
    There once was a place called
    Camelotimage
  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Why is it Sir Legend, Why not Lady Legend? >>



    I'm sure that all will be revealed in the fullness of time, IE; part two. image

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  • dpooledpoole Posts: 5,940 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Whoa! I may stay up knights waiting for the second installment!

    Here's a warning parable for coin collectors...



  • DHeathDHeath Posts: 8,472 ✭✭✭
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  • CoinosaurusCoinosaurus Posts: 9,645 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Brilliant as usual!
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  • tonerstoners Posts: 403
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    Love those TONED Coins, a true Addict!!!

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  • beartracks42beartracks42 Posts: 2,834 ✭
    AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!image It's all better now.image


    Gary
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  • tradedollarnuttradedollarnut Posts: 20,200 ✭✭✭✭✭
    ROTFLMAO!!! I am breathless in anticipation!
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  • marcmoishmarcmoish Posts: 6,654 ✭✭✭✭✭
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  • BearBear Posts: 18,953 ✭✭✭
    Ahhh, its wonderful to once again see the massive percherons thunder accross

    the barren plains. To harken to a bygone era of debauchery, pilage, plunder and

    all forms of swinish and carnal pleasures. It is once again the fetid grandure of Coinalot,

    resplendent in its forlorn heroes, its destitute peasents and its magnificent barbarity.

    Yaaaa for Coinalot, long may its standards waive over the myasmic , polluted and

    methane infested Bay of E. Where, and only where, wrong is right, bad is good

    and good is worse. Sir Bear
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    There once was a place called
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  • zennyzenny Posts: 1,547 ✭✭


    << <i>
    The Sheriff: (adjusting his jerkin)

    >>




    We all know the sheriff eats lasagna, now we know what he does with his pickle....

    sorry, there's always one in the crowd.

  • WhitewashqtrWhitewashqtr Posts: 736 ✭✭✭
    Good stuff!! image
    HAVE A GREAT DAY! THE CHOICE IS YOURS!!!!
  • JrGMan2004JrGMan2004 Posts: 7,557 ✭
    Awesome, can't wait til part II! image
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  • RYKRYK Posts: 35,800 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Excellent
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  • marcmoishmarcmoish Posts: 6,654 ✭✭✭✭✭
    actually if there is anything I love more it's got to be BEAR's super eloquent posts following the grand presentation ala Clank image

    Many of you need to stay well for a long long time image





    Marc
  • BearBear Posts: 18,953 ✭✭✭
    Well, thank you Marc. I really cant do what Clank does, so I just

    sort of nibble around the edges for a bit.image
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  • XpipedreamRXpipedreamR Posts: 8,059 ✭✭
    Dude!


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  • CoinAddictCoinAddict Posts: 5,571 ✭
    Hurray another tale from the great Bard!!!!! Another great tale Carl. So when is the second part going to appear? Ooohhh the suspense.image
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  • FatManFatMan Posts: 8,977 ✭
    Ahhh...all is well in Coinalot again. A toast to the Bard.image
  • remumcremumc Posts: 1,275 ✭✭✭
    You see Clank,

    You put your Mercshirt on and buy a new Carver and the creative juices start flowing! About Dam@ time too I might add. imageimage Great stuff!

    Regards,

    Wayne
    Regards,

    Wayne

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  • ClankeyeClankeye Posts: 3,928 ✭
    My lord, you are eloquent tonight, Bear!!!!!

    If I wasn't planning to have you shot some episode in the near future, I'd ask you to be "The Bard."


    Good to hear from you all---you can blame Coin Addict for this, if the guy hadn't gone and stirred up all the old threads I probably would just be sitting here with my drool cup. As per usual. image

    Mark my words there will be a part 2 soon.

    Can't leave The Sheriff of Homerun Hall hanging (so to speak) now can we? image

    PS--My money's on Sir Legend.
    Brevity is the soul of wit. --William Shakespeare
  • shirohniichanshirohniichan Posts: 4,992 ✭✭✭
    'Tis a pity ye write for so narrow an audience! At least ye compose not for philatelists.
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  • orevilleoreville Posts: 12,144 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Hate to break it to you all but this sounds like a four parter!!!!image
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  • numobrinumobri Posts: 1,473 ✭✭✭

    Clankeye,

    My money is on youimage,the pen is mightier then the sword.

    Great start to a deadly story.

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    NUMO
  • AskariAskari Posts: 3,713 ✭
    Ah, 'tis once more to look upon Mondays with favor!! imageimageimageimage
    Askari



    Come on over ... to The Dark Side! image
  • MrpawnMrpawn Posts: 595
    Sir Clankeye,

    After a stressful and hectic day is was a great pleasure to fire up the coin forum and see this.

    Thanks, all is well with the world once again.
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  • cosmicdebriscosmicdebris Posts: 12,332 ✭✭✭
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    Oh man the pictures in my head for this oneimage
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  • MadMonkMadMonk Posts: 3,743 ✭
    What a nice way to start the day! image
    Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
  • nwcsnwcs Posts: 13,386 ✭✭✭
    Ahh, coinalot.... eases the pain...
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  • JeffinMichJeffinMich Posts: 438
    LOL - ttt for the morning crowd
  • coinguy1coinguy1 Posts: 13,484 ✭✭✭
    TTT, so that both segments may be read and enjoyed together...
  • pharmerpharmer Posts: 8,355 ✭
    just seemed appropriate, if we're gonna ttt classic threads
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  • ShamikaShamika Posts: 18,785 ✭✭✭✭
    I sure wish Clankeye still wrote these.

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  • clw54clw54 Posts: 3,815 ✭✭✭
    Clankeye is really needed now. Maybe more than ever.
  • DMWJRDMWJR Posts: 6,042 ✭✭✭✭✭
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  • BearBear Posts: 18,953 ✭✭✭
    Sob, I wants, I needs, I gots to have new stories by the bard.

    For this long dark period of sodden dispair, the miasma of fetid

    stench, is there no end to the agony and torment. Must we face week after week,

    and endless parade of meaningless time without new stories. I canst continue in this

    horrid way I tell you, I just canst. If we, for just one bright and shinning moment, could again

    be cast in Coinalot, to revel in its splendor even as we unravil our senses. To dream. to hope

    to cast out our arms, to again reach for the unreachable star,.O noble Bard, free us once again

    from the mundane, the hopeless, the wretched station that we must endure. Pleeeezzzzz, give us

    intellectual sustinance, give us a...................................................................................................story.
    There once was a place called
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  • BearBear Posts: 18,953 ✭✭✭
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