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Nelson Muntz Vs. Drederick Tatum.

cladkingcladking Posts: 28,649 ✭✭✭✭✭
On the show "The Simpsons" there is a mostly unlikable little bully named Nelson Muntz.
He laughs and takes obvious pleasure in the misfortunes of others. Drederick Tatum is the
heavy weight boxing champ. In one episode the heroine discovers and collects the chemical
which induces bullies to attack others. As a demonstration it is applied to Tatum and the
Muntz boy finds himself incapable of resisting the compulsion to strike the champ.

Certainly moderns are the Drederick Tatums of the coin market and they are percieved by
some to have the stink of failure about them. In point of fact, however, they will merely
end up assailing a larger and larger champ.

...so have at it.
Tempus fugit.

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  • nwcsnwcs Posts: 13,386 ✭✭✭
    I know that episode well! It was the sweat of nerds that made bullies react. image

    Of course, I was watching the Simpsons' story of Lisa's first word when they had the 1984 Olympic parody with Drederick Tatum dancing a turkey trot after knocking out the Sevine Swede. image

    Neil
  • Certainly moderns are the Drederick Tatums of the coin market and they are percieved by
    some to have the stink of failure about them. In point of fact, however, they will merely
    end up assailing a larger and larger champ.


    Actually they are the Hans Moleman of the coin market, they are currently on a date with Selma and after reality hits (you see the little ones running around bumping into each other) they will eventually be left by the side of the road just like Hans was (in front of the wrong house).
  • nwcsnwcs Posts: 13,386 ✭✭✭
    (han's voice)
    Hello. This is Moleman in the morning. Good Moleman to you. Today, part four in our series of the agonizing pain in which I live every day.

  • (han's voice)
    Hello. This is Moleman in the morning. Good Moleman to you. Today, part four in our series of the agonizing pain in which I live every day.


    Yep, that about somes it up!!
  • cladkingcladking Posts: 28,649 ✭✭✭✭✭
    ...And I have little doubt that the reality to which you refer is that clad contains no silver. We know. ...Or perhaps it's that there have been billions made? We know. Or is it that Just because it's the fastest growing
    segment of the market for a couple years that there is no gaurantee that it will remain that way? We know.
    Or maybe that just because there are hundreds of thousands of people collecting coins from circulation it is
    not a certainty that they will progress to ever upgrade their collections what with the institutionalized modern
    slamming that is likely to continue indefinitely? We know this too.

    But we also know that if the hobby is to survive many of these newbies will go on to upgrade and expand their
    collections. Indeed it is the only way the hobby can survive and we are betting on the future.

    What are you doing? What are these terrible realities to which we are to awaken?
    Tempus fugit.
  • shirohniichanshirohniichan Posts: 4,992 ✭✭✭
    What are these terrible realities to which we are to awaken?

    Being left "holding the bag" is one of the biggest ones. This doesn't apply to moderns only, but also to ANY overpriced coin. Some of us remember the Morgan busts of 1981 and 1989.

    HA HA!
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    Obscurum per obscurius
  • cladkingcladking Posts: 28,649 ✭✭✭✭✭
    If the modern market goes bust, there will be a few of us left holding the bag. Some would
    be hurt worse than others and my personal exposure is not inconsequential. But my primary
    loss would be many hundreds of hours of work and effort. I've had so much fun, learned so
    much, and met enough great people that I couldn't say my time and effort were wasted though.
    Even the champ has to pass the belt eventually.
    Tempus fugit.
  • shirohniichanshirohniichan Posts: 4,992 ✭✭✭
    But my primary loss would be many hundreds of hours of work and effort. I've had so much fun, learned so
    much, and met enough great people that I couldn't say my time and effort were wasted though.


    You have learned well, Grasshopper.
    image
    Obscurum per obscurius

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