Topics for this weekend's flame-wars

DanC

OK - so the last one wasn't a big hit. Nobody seemed to get into the spirit of it, and no real flames happened.
So...

For this weekend's flame-wars, we'll take topic suggestions up front, then whittle down the topics to 5, then vote on the official flame-war topic for the weekend. That may be the more democratic method of assuring that plenty of blood flows, and plenty of fur flies.

I for one, am still waiting to see Lucy's pictures.

gmarguli

I don't know, but I really like the idea of bashing the richer people on this forum. They're snobs. They have to be since they have more money than me.

dddangerousdan

Yeah we can bash anyone that can afford better coins than us or all the coins we want and can only dream about.

DAN

DanC

So... can you pose that topic worded in such a way that it will fit into a poll?

Pushkin

dwood

How about:

Rich people suck, yes or no?

Just trying to be helpful

hookedoncoins

With all of the flames we have been having this week, I can't imagine what Friday is going to be like. As for the predetermined topic, I think dwood said it clear (and blunt) enough:



. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rich people suck, yes or no? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .




-Jarrett Roberts

BIGDAVE

Rich people suck, yes or no?

No.... without them the price of coin's would stay down and our dreams of finding one or making one get smashed.

Pr70 $3000 with them
pr70 $40 without them

Russ

I think a baseball flamewar would be suitable. I'll start early:

The Mariners suck.

Russ, NCNE

ksteelheader

Class warfare.....Murder and mayhem.........Yeah, lets do it........Ken

LanLord

We haven't had a good old modern versus classics battle for a few days. We could get all over that.

LanLord

Or how about toned vs. non toned

Or should that be

AT vs. Cleaned.

ClausUrch

How about "Poor people suck!" They can't afford to buy gem coins thus keeping the price of "Killer Coins" at useless realistic levels.

Clankeye

I say one forum member be chosen at random, and that person be the subject of intense flaming all weekend long.

Or we could just start going through the members alphabetically. I believe that would make ajaan first, so it would work something like this:

ajaan: Congratulations, you have been selected for flaming. You are a hollow specter of what you should be. Your vapid posts have rendered those of us who have to read them into lifeless, unfeeling zombies. If we can forever escape you, the better we shall be. Better to take a sharp stick in the eye than to deal with your nonsense.

Love,
The Collected Members of the US Coin forum.

Note to ajaan: you were just being used as an example, that taunt could be directed at anyone. And in fact, it isn't even original. I stole it from a nasty note a grad student wrote to a professor. With a little addition here or there. I actually like your posts. Nonetheless, since you come first, you must be flamed!


Clankeye

Edited to spell ajaan correctly. If ya can't spell the name of he who ya flame, then yee are to blame.

MadMarty

I'll go for Baseball, both the Cubs and the White Sox suck!!!! But that is nothing new.

ClausUrch

How about a good ol' Darksider "in general" Flame. They are easy to beat up on!

Pushkin

paigowjohnny

<< <i>Note to aajan: you were just being used as an example, that taunt could be directed at anyone >>



Now go away, or I shall taunt you a second time !!!


Coin related flame topic...."Do away with the cent, half dollar and dollar coins. Useless in commerce...save the government the storage fee."

or

"Why in heaven's name does ANYBODY collect Franklin halves ???"...that one ought to get me flame sprayed from several directions

LucyBop

You yellow headed Homer Simpsons wannabe.......... Go eat Bart's shorts!

paigowjohnny

<< <i>You yellow headed Homer Simpsons wannabe.......... Go eat Bart's shorts! >>



9 minutes...that was quick

DanC

Now, now kids... this is just the thread to suggest topics to VOTE ON for this weekend's flame-wars.

These aren't the real flame-wars just yet.

LucyBop

Who you calling a kid? Go bake a Kennedy with a potatoe! Finally found a good use for em! And buy yourself a cookbook while your at it!

DanC

Most ladies would be so pleased by that... only Lucy would take offense.

and... I'll put my Panang Nu up against your Chili Verde any day, Missy.


edit:
I'm not so sure I should have worded it quite that way... but I'll let it stand.

LucyBop

dont you puenang nu me you big bully! Look at how pale you look, you haven't a clue what real chile is..... Go listen to youR Pat Boone cd, and then que up your Village People cd....

Clankeye

I like Pushkin's suggestion. Let's go over to the Darkside, and totally pillage their sleepy, peaceful little Shangra La. And if we find any escapees over there, we drag 'em back here kicking and screaming! It'll be sort of like the Orks attacking the Hobbits.

Clankeye

Spinynorman

Yeah! and then we can go get sushi...







and not pay!

ClausUrch

Hey, isn't "dwood" a recent Darkside convert??? We can drag him off and tar and feather him.

Pushkin

DHeath

I'll go find some slow-loading bagpipe music, and we can stitch the html into every post on that forum.......but wait, they might like that......maybe I'd better find some Tom Jones.

ClausUrch

Or everytime Cacheman looks up a City View Thaler, OOOMpaah Music starts bellowing out of his speakers!

dwood

Yes, I have seen the light (or lack thereof), and you won't bring me back here alive!

If you just want to talk coins, the darkside beats the hell out of this board. And if you want a pleasant conversation without having to impress or be impressed, it also blows this one away. It has truly been refreshing, being amidst a forum full of collectors as opposed to one inescapably laced with investors.

The lightside is depressing. The darkside is enlightening. Bow down to the forces of the dark, lest you be railed, raped, and returned to your sad, pathetic world of artificial toning, inflated pricing, and overgrading. Walking Liberty? Hah! I spit on your ugly, wanton wench! Benjamin Franklin? Nyet I say! A fat man with no crown! Anna Willess Williams? Fooey! Obviously she was a witch, and a poor wife to be working at such a young age (And what's with that turkey on the back of the Morgan anyway?) Thomas Jefferson? (ok, I'm not gonna trash Jefferson).

Lead me, oh mighty aajan. I am ready to do your bidding and lay waste to these poor misguided vermin!

LucyBop

I need another Margarita!

ajaan

ajaan please, not aajan. BTW dwood, 'ajaan' means teacher in Thai.

ClausUrch

<< <i>A fat man with no crown >>



That's it!!! The gloves are OFF!!!

Dwood will be brought before a tribunial of his superiors and given a fair and impartial hearing before the tar and feathers. Nay, we should dip him in a great vat of Jewel Luster and let him re-tone at his liesure!

LucyBop

<< <i>let him re-tone at his liesure! >>



Are you insane? We'll cook him in aswimmers oven!

dwood

Ooops. Sorry, oh mighty one

Urch...Hah! I spit on your petty tribunal! A mockery of justice!
A curse on your people, and your so-called "coins!"

ClausUrch

....While in a giant potato!!!!

Clankeye

Ajaan--
My most humble apologies! That spelling probably doesn't even rightfully make you first on the flaming list. I will go back and edit.

"A feller gettin' flamed's entitled to have his name spelled proper."

John Wayne Clankeye


Hey Puskin: it's Clankeye, not Clamkeye!

Askari

<< <i>It'll be sort of like the Orks attacking the Hobbits. >>

As I recall the story, the few Hobbits triumphed over the hordes of Orcs. Why don't y'all go harass somebody you can handle ... like the French? Still too tough? Well, then, how about the Registry Forum? (Just watch out for the blow-back when you pop their egos!)

Clankeye

Hey Askari--
Don't worry, I'm working both sides in this battle. I want you to know when the dust settles and if you guys happen to be on top... I'll be right there with you!

Clankeye

NJMark

Oh great and mighty devotees of the plastic tomb. Please do not descend upon the holy land of the peace loving people of the darkside. As we dwell in the dark the brightness of your wisdom regarding full bell lines
7 steps and full split bands will blind us. Your hords will bury us under piles of sufficating plastic and we will be forever denied the perfect view of the edge insciptions on our free and unimprisioned coins. Please I beg of you all do not drag us screaming into the land of registry sets.
We want to continue to dwell in our darkness and collect our pitifull heaps of scrap metal in peace.

Mark

Pushkin

Clankeye

Well said, mighty Pushkid! Now mount thy stead and prepare for the carnage to come. The Darkside shall be brought to light with the flames of its own houses as a beacon to their misguided ways!

(aside to Askari-- remember, I'm really on your side)

Clankeye the Conqueror


Edited for spelling, always for spelling. I hate spelling.

DHeath

There are far too many sympaticos in our midst to properly attack the darksiders, cause in truth they might actually convert some of the forum's less entrenched soldiers with their women in gauze, and their toned large coppers and exotic designs. Perhaps we should focus on a less informed and more alien culture. I nominate the stamp guys.

dpoole

I'll start.

Ajaan is a total jerk.

He puts pictures of coins up here that he's trying to sell. He sometimes doesn't actually buy the insurance when he mails you stuff. He collects foreign coins and modern coins, just to pi$$ you off. He puts all his stuff in slabs, never looks at the edges, and he buys MS70 coins like there's no tomorrow.

He overdips his coins, and makes a big hairy deal if there's some stupid die crack coming out of some minuteman's mid-section. He votes Democrat. He uses "L@@K" on his headlines on Ebay. He consigns stuff to Paul Sims. He bought every dumb commemorative the Mint ever cranked out.

He never laughs at Crankeye's stuff, and he never listens to Lucy's Realplayer extravaganzas. He has 240 Registry Sets, including 18th Century Oblong Pennies and Copper-Nickel Things That Start With The Letter Q. He thinks Laura is an ignoramus, Coinguy is a self-centered blowhard, and Anaconda doesn't really mean well.

He thinks Mint artwork began and ended with Roosevelt dimes and the Shriver commemorative. He thinks PCGS should merge with Accugrade, and loosen up a little. He is in favor of the ANA going international, and developing a paramilitary arm.

He laughs at invalids and fantasies about eating orphans.

Oh, and that's just scratching the surface!!

He probably isn't man enough to answer this.

DanC

I'm NOT seeing many poll questions I can use here guys...

Enough with the tea-and-crumpets social already... give us some meat to work with here!

Some topics that stir the very depths of the numismatic soul...
Something visceral, and gritty...

Somthing Geraldo would do.
(on second thought - scrap that idea)

LucyBop

<< <i>and he never listens to Lucy's Realplayer extravaganzas. >>



WHAT?????? A slow and painful torture... a quick death would be to easy for him!

Clankeye

dpoole--excellent!

dwood

dpoole,
So what's not to like????

dwood

May we step aside for just one second to acknowkledge a moment of brilliance?

dpoole just typed what may be the funniest line EVER when he said:

"He has 240 registry sets including....Copper-Nickel Things That Start With The Letter Q."

I am truly in awe.


Now....

Death to you, you infectious peasant!

bulloncoins

how about ...."Should all foreign coins be made into jewelry and sold on home shopping network on five easy installment payment plans?".....just a suggestion.