Home› World & Ancient Coins Forum
Options

A Giveaway-- In Honor of MrEureka Defeating the Country of Canada Singlehandedly---WINNER ANNOUNCED!

ClankeyeClankeye Posts: 3,928 ✭
in World & Ancient Coins Forum
I'm an American boys
Come a long way
I was born and bred in the USA
So listen up close
I've got something to say
Boys, I'm buying this round....

Steve Earle -- American songwriter


In honor of MrEureka's stunning victory in his war with Canada, I am hosting the following giveaway: one Ch. Bu 1967 Canadian goose dollar--light cameo, very pretty. Prettier than the pictures, at any rate.

Simply offer MrEureka your congratulations-- or suggestions on how he can next vex Canada and it's fine people. Winner will be picked at random when the thread seems to be running out of steam.

imageimage


Clankeye
Brevity is the soul of wit. --William Shakespeare

Comments

  • Options
    trozautrozau Posts: 3,455 ✭✭✭
    image MrEureka, you da man!
    trozau (troy ounce gold)
  • Options
    cosmicdebriscosmicdebris Posts: 12,333 ✭
    Congrats Andy. I dare you go into any store in Canada and spend them at face value.image
    Bill

    image

    09/07/2006
  • Options
    theboz11theboz11 Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭
    WTG Andyimage
    My Medals collection

    FOR SALE Items
  • Options
    elvernoelverno Posts: 1,068
    Mr. Eureka, I would like to offer my congratulations and thank you for the opportunity to get goosed... image
    Vern
    image
    You want how much?!!
    NapoleonicMedals.org
    (Last update 3/6/2007)
  • Options
    PBRatPBRat Posts: 1,324 ✭✭✭
    The only real way to settle this is with a hockey game.
    Paul

    My Type Set
  • Options
    izzy452izzy452 Posts: 929 ✭
    Hip Hip Hurray, Mr. Eureka Great job.... Well done.

    Walt
  • Options
    ClankeyeClankeye Posts: 3,928 ✭
    The Goose dollars truly are lovely, and this fine specimen will arrive at your home in a nice AirTite and a luxurous box to display it in.

    The box was one of only two known made by Gordon Wedgepond of Calgary B.C. It was smuggled out of Canada in the late fifties and is the only one extant--the other having been destroyed by Mr. Wedgepond after a gruesome Vancouver Canucks game.


    Clankeye
    Brevity is the soul of wit. --William Shakespeare
  • Options
    ClausUrchClausUrch Posts: 1,278 ✭
    image

    May the Goose of Paradise
    Fly up Your Nose
    May Your Wife be Plagued
    With Runners in Her Hose
    May Pancho Eureka
    Take Your Treasures
    South to Mexico
    May the Goose of Paradise
    Fly up Your Nose
  • Options
    LuvdawgsLuvdawgs Posts: 1,512 ✭
    Congrats, Mr. Eureka image Let's challenge them to a game of curling the next time, after having given them a few too many Mooseheads to drink image
    image

    image
  • Options
    laurentyvanlaurentyvan Posts: 4,243 ✭✭✭
    Mr. Eureka had a plan and carried it out with skill.
    He bid until the Canadians had about had their fill.
    And when they were done, he bid just once more,
    and the Canadians jaws just dropped on the floor.

    "We've lost our new coins", the moans came out loud,
    our brand new symbol of what makes us proud".
    Well, boys of the north, neighbors of ours,
    when next they're for sale, marshall your powers.

    Band together and bid-don't let them get away;
    and just one thing left that I have to say:
    when you bid, bid smart-you need to win,
    'cause it's the rate of exchange that really did you in.
    image
    One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics
    is that you end up being governed by inferiors. – Plato
  • Options
    ClankeyeClankeye Posts: 3,928 ✭
    I was going to ask that our Poet Laureate commemorate this event with verse... but no sooner had the thought come to mind than the deed is done!

    We must now sacrifice a dozen bulls.

    Perhaps MacCrimmon will pipe us a wee tune?

    Clankeye
    Brevity is the soul of wit. --William Shakespeare
  • Options
    tlhoytlhoy Posts: 2,204
    WTG Mr. Eureka!!! and would you please adopt me!
  • Options
    oldshepoldshep Posts: 3,240 ✭
    Way to go, eh! Hey der, I wanta win one of dem der goose ones, ehimage
    Shep
    image
  • Options
    newsmannewsman Posts: 2,658 ✭✭✭


    << <i>The only real way to settle this is with a hockey game. >>



    We already did that in the Olympics. I prefer something the USA is better at, like war. image

    Congrats, Andy. Maybe you could bring your new acquisitions up to a show in Canada for some world-class gloating someday.

    Chuck
  • Options
    PBRatPBRat Posts: 1,324 ✭✭✭
    Actually, the coins are just a Canadian ploy to see how much someone will pay for an ounce of gold.

    The RCM is holding a draw for the other 1000 copies. Entry is limited to Canadian citizens.
    Paul

    My Type Set
  • Options
    MacCrimmonMacCrimmon Posts: 7,054 ✭✭✭
    Didja call for a chune, laddie?

    Click on the bottom link to the Chatham Highland Games 2002 for an outdoor live recording of THE BEST ONTARIO has to offer.

    A World Class medley played by a World Class Canadian pipeband in honor of Andy's clean sweep. image

    WARNING! DSL or CABLE users for that link unless you have an hour.

  • Options
    ClankeyeClankeye Posts: 3,928 ✭
    Perfect Mr. Mac!

    I've got the speakers cranked up and I'm feeling the spirit mightily!

    S'cuse me while I go toss the Kaber. (Kaber--that spelled right?)

    (I love the coughing in the first tune--lends authenticityimage)

    Clankeye
    Brevity is the soul of wit. --William Shakespeare
  • Options
    MacCrimmonMacCrimmon Posts: 7,054 ✭✭✭
    Close Clank! The wee Scots spell it, caber. I think Celtic minstrels spell it, kaber. image

    In any event, don't try picking up a 20' tree trunk at home or you may drop more than the tree!!!
  • Options
    tbirde56tbirde56 Posts: 2,161
    > suggestions on how he can next vex Canada

    Simple. Move to Canada and announce you're planning to annex it!

    Please enter me!
    Brad Swain

    World Coin & PM Collector
    My Coin Info Pages <> My All Experts Profile
    image
  • Options
    shirohniichanshirohniichan Posts: 4,992 ✭✭✭
    Here's my tribute (with apologies to Bob Dylan)

    The American's Sin

    Everybody's shopping for coins in eBay
    Some building Registries, some selling coins away
    All Canadians are in despair, doing the envy dance
    'Cause when Mr. Eureka's bid fell, everybody wet his pants

    Come on all without, come on all within
    You'll not see nothing like the American's sin
    Come on all without, come on all within
    You'll not see nothing like the American's sin

    Oh you know Andy's sin of buying Canada's special treasure
    How he sniped Canadian dealers on dial-up who bid at their leisure
    He bid way up high in those foreign American dollars
    And way up north of the border you can still hear them holler:

    "Come on all without, come on all within
    You'll not see nothing like the American's sin
    Come on all without, come on all within
    You'll not see nothing like the American's sin"
    image
    Obscurum per obscurius
  • Options
    nwcsnwcs Posts: 13,387 ✭✭✭
    >Simply offer MrEureka your congratulations-- or suggestions on how he can next vex Canada and it's fine people.

    Congrats Andy! If you really want to irritate our kind neighbors, just tell them it didn't leave the country; after all they are the 51st state! image

    Just kidding my Canadian friends. Avez-vous un jour tres magnifique!
    Blog and Pics
  • Options
    historygeekhistorygeek Posts: 792
    Enter me
    Corrupting youth since 2004
  • Options
    BochimanBochiman Posts: 25,293 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Clankeye, as an American boy born and raised, and who served in the USArmy for my 8 years, I love it!!! image

    Now, I wonder if that coin really belongs in an American's hands though? Or, will that writer come back and beeyatch (I hate the forbidden words function) about that now? image

    I still think someone should send him the South Park movie....heheh heheheheh hehheheh

    Andy, I love the way you got (in)famous!!!! I love it I say, I love it! image

    I've been told I tolerate fools poorly...that may explain things if I have a problem with you. Current ebay items - Nothing at the moment

  • Options
    1jester1jester Posts: 8,638 ✭✭✭
    "We already did that in the Olympics. I prefer something the USA is better at, like war.image" --Newsman

    LOL!!! I think this episode in the US/Canadian war should be immortalized in an upcoming South Park episode....image

    "The RCM is holding a draw for the other 1000 copies. Entry is limited to Canadian citizens." --PBRat

    Now that sounds more like it. Or, allow those disgusting Yanks to buy, but hit them with a 1000% export duty...image


    So, a huge congrats to one of our own denizens of free trade, MrEureka!! Go Andy!! Good luck in all the next auctions too!!!

    imageimageimage
    .....GOD
    image

    "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you." -Luke 11:9

    "Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might." -Deut. 6:4-5

    "For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; He will save us." -Isaiah 33:22
  • Options
    ClankeyeClankeye Posts: 3,928 ✭
    Lest any of our Canadian members think I am making light of the situation, I do want to state for the record that I am Gordon Lightfoot's biggest fan.

    Some very creative posts so far. Thank you one and all.

    Get those entries in. The contest will end sometime today.


    Clankeye
    Brevity is the soul of wit. --William Shakespeare
  • Options
    1jester1jester Posts: 8,638 ✭✭✭
    I'll enter Satootoko too. While his greed may know no bounds, apparantly his connectibility does!! So please enter him.

    imageimageimage
    .....GOD
    image

    "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you." -Luke 11:9

    "Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might." -Deut. 6:4-5

    "For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; He will save us." -Isaiah 33:22
  • Options
    RnealwRnealw Posts: 43
    Way to go Mr Eurika! Next time let's Corner the market on winterwear and make them beg for warmth.
    Rotten Rodney
    "There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental
    illness."
    Remember. ... First pillage, Then burn

    image
  • Options
    ClankeyeClankeye Posts: 3,928 ✭
    And the lucky winner of the 1967 Goose dollar....

    As drawn from a very warm, woolen cap with ears muffs by Mrs. Clankeye is....

    izzy452

    Congratulations! PM me with your address izzy and the coin shall be winging it's way to you in no time.

    Thank you one and all for your creative entries.

    Clankeye
    Brevity is the soul of wit. --William Shakespeare
  • Options
    1jester1jester Posts: 8,638 ✭✭✭
    Congrats, Izzy!! Way to go, Clank, for such a momentous giveaway!

    imageimageimage
    .....GOD
    image

    "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you." -Luke 11:9

    "Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might." -Deut. 6:4-5

    "For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; He will save us." -Isaiah 33:22
  • Options
    cladkingcladking Posts: 28,333 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yes. This one is memorable and I'd like to offer my belated congratulations to MrEureka.
    Tempus fugit.
  • Options
    cosmicdebriscosmicdebris Posts: 12,333 ✭
    Congrats Izzy!
    Bill

    image

    09/07/2006
Sign In or Register to comment.