My dearest friends

laurentyvan

I have been sitting in a dank and dismal prison cell for some time now, forgoing the pleasure of humanity in general and the world of coins
in particular.

I am being held for a crime that I did not commit, and fear that unseen forces are working for my demise. Witnesses have been found that will corroborate my presence at the scene of a violent and senseless crime. Protesting is ineffective as the judge presiding over my case doesn't see my side of it. He has been vitriolic and intellectually dishonest in his handling of my "affair".

My only visitor has been a mouse, a friendly little fellow with a broad scots brogue that is difficult to understand. Somehow he claims to know MacCrimmon and it is through his help that I'm able to get this message out. The poor thing knows nothing about coins but he's picked up an interesting keyboarding technique from a book he read: the Life and Times of Mehetabel the Cat by Don Marquis. The cat's story is told by Archy, a cochroach who dives from key to key, headfirst, on an old manual typewriter, writing as he goes.

The mouse, Mal Brigte mac Chathail, has a marvelous memory and has agreed to transmit this message for me from a computer in the warden's office. Mac Chathail was brought up in a nest located behind a hard drive and is very computer literate. He has also promised to prepare my brief, arguing that my calling the judge "as ugly as a Churchill crown" was not extreme defamation.

So here I sit, my fate in the balance, chatting about haggis with a mouse...

laserart

Do you need another dose?

Askari

And you are wanting what? ... That we take up a collection of holey coins which that wee mousie might smuggle to you to pay off the judge?

theboz11

Are you sure that the mushrooms on that Steak you had last night did not have purple veins running up the stem and had been recovered from a cow flop.

cacheman

couldn't have been....otherwise I would have scarfed them....

GoldCoinLover

<< <i>I have been sitting in a dank and dismal prison cell for some time now, forgoing the pleasure of humanity in general and the world of coins
in particular.

I am being held for a crime that I did not commit, and fear that unseen forces are working for my demise. Witnesses have been found that will corroborate my presence at the scene of a violent and senseless crime. Protesting is ineffective as the judge presiding over my case doesn't see my side of it. He has been vitriolic and intellectually dishonest in his handling of my "affair".

My only visitor has been a mouse, a friendly little fellow with a broad scots brogue that is difficult to understand. Somehow he claims to know MacCrimmon and it is through his help that I'm able to get this message out. The poor thing knows nothing about coins but he's picked up an interesting keyboarding technique from a book he read: the Life and Times of Mehetabel the Cat by Don Marquis. The cat's story is told by Archy, a cochroach who dives from key to key, headfirst, on an old manual typewriter, writing as he goes.

The mouse, Mal Brigte mac Chathail, has a marvelous memory and has agreed to transmit this message for me from a computer in the warden's office. Mac Chathail was brought up in a nest located behind a hard drive and is very computer literate. He has also promised to prepare my brief, arguing that my calling the judge "as ugly as a Churchill crown" was not extreme defamation.

So here I sit, my fate in the balance, chatting about haggis with a mouse... >>




Ahh, have you seen the movie green mile? My favorite movie, and it relates to what you just said

ajaan

Please watch the mushroom cracks.

cosmicdebris

MacCrimmon

<< <i>Somehow he claims to know MacCrimmon .... >>

Indeed, he's the rascal wot made off with the friar's copy of the Book of Deer. But, it was over 700 years ago, and he is a wee learned one.

Let him 'ave at the Judge. Mac Chathail is descended from the famous Barrister, Lord R.O. Dent.

wybrit

Don't make me bring back...the trap!!!

crito

As the British saying goes: Steal a little and they'll put you in jail; steal a lot and they'll make you King.

Revised for America: Lie a little and they'll put you in jail; lie a lot and they'll make you President.

1jester

Good to see you're still alive, Laurent!

LanLord

Mushrooms? They always gave me cool dreams too.