Gonfunko's 100th Post Numismatic Parody Contest OVER! Vote for the winners!
Gonfunko
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Well, it looks like this is my 100th post. Wow! First of all let me thank everyone on here for helping me out and contributing your knowledge to the forum. So, I've decided to have a 100th post giveaway contest. All you have to do is write a parody about something numismatic. Foreign coins, colonials, paper money, and tokens are all OK. For those of you who don't know, a parody is where you change the words to a popular song to make it about something else. For those of you more interested in poetry, you can submit a parody poem too. Just PM me before Friday, June 11 with your parody, the name of the original song or poem, and the original artist or writer. First place receives a Morgan Dollar in MS-63, second place receives a 2004 Silver Eagle, and 3rd place receives a Barber half dollar. Everyone else who submits a parody gets a low grade buffalo nickel, 3 wheat cents, and an Uncirculated 1972 Lincoln. Judging will be conducted by the forum members, and the highest ranking songs or poems will win. Here's an example of a "numismatic parody" I know this might be a bit difficult, but there are plenty of creative people on this forum. If anyone's interested, I have a parody band called Gonfunko, and this is the website. Good luck!
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">"http://www.cashcrate.com/5663377"
-Henri Turenne
A parody of The Road Not Taken
Originally written by Robert Frost
The coin not taken
Two coins diverged in their yellow gold
Im sorry i could not have taken all
And be one collector, as I was told
And looked at the coins I was showed
To see the coins, wide and tall
Then I took a coin, as just as fair,
and decidided crap, the other had more detail.
For the one I choose, was dull with ware
Why didnt i take that coin there?
Or wait for a nicer one in the mail?
And all that day I wondered why,
my coin was dinged, and had a crack
Oh why didn't I never try!
For my coin is fake, and now I cry.
The owner wont even let me take it back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh.
People laugh here and hence
Two coins diverged in gold, and I-
I took the one less desired by,
And that has made all the difference.
A parody of Yellow Submarine
Originally by The Beatles
Collectors Universe
In the town where I was born
Lived a man who sold the coins
And he told us of his life
In the land of submissions
So we searched through mint sets
Till we found a toned obverse
And we waited for the the grades
In our collectors universe
We all live in our collectors universe,
Collectors universe, collectors universe
We all live in our collectors universe,
Collectors universe, collectors universe
And our friends are on the board
Many more of them post next door
And the band begins to play
We all live in our collectors universe,
Collectors universe, collectors universe
We all live in our collectors universe,
Collectors universe, collectors universe
As we live a life of ease
Everyone of us has all the varieties
Jeffs of blue with steps of course
In our collectors universe.
We all live in our collectors universe,
Collectors universe, collectors universe
We all live in our collectors universe,
Collectors universe, collectors universe
We all live in our collectors universe,
Collectors universe, collectors universe
We all live in our collectors universe,
Collectors universe, collectors universe
A parody of Burn
Originally written by Usher
"Burn" my Susie B.
It's gonna burn for me to say this
But I need to fix the car,
The wife has been yelling,
She wants to go out to the bar
Really wanna work this out
But I don't want to spend my change,
I don’t, but you do
Think it's best you find your own way
Tell me why I should spend my Susan B.
When its hurts me, baby, it’s DCAM Proof, baby
Plus there's so many other things I could spend
I think that you should get a job
Then the feelin' ain't the same and this money ain’t yours,
But you know, Now I gotta let it go
'Cause you say Susie aint worth what it used to
Even though this might hurt me
Let it burn (Yeah)
Let it burn (Ooh)
I'm twisted 'cause one side of me is tellin' me that I
need to fix her car
On the other side I wanna collect me some more, ooh
I'm twisted 'cause one side of me is tellin' me that she
don’t need to go to the bar
On the other side I wanna buy some gold bars
Spent money I ain't supposed to
Got some other coins here but I want you
'Cause the Kennedy ain’t the same
Find myself callin' him your name
Numies tell me do you understand
Now all my forumists do you feel my pain
It's just the way I feel, I know I made a mistake
Now it's too late, I know Susie B. ain’t comin’ back
What I gotta do now to get my DCAM Dollar back, ooh, ooh,
ooh, ooh
Man, I don't know what I'm gonna do without my Moo(lah)
You've been gone for too long
It's been fifty-leven days, um-teen hours, I'mma be
Hurtin’ till you return, oh...oh...
A pardoy of Cleanin' Out My Closet
Originally written by Eminem
Cleaning Out My Wallet
Where's my snipe, I have no snipe on my ebay. There ya go. Yea, yo, yo...
Have you ever been sniped or outbid against? I have. I've been scammed and shill bid against, threat mail for my last minute hits. Look at the time, sick of the lots of the counterfeit coins that's behind, all this crap, junk runs deep as bids explodin', tempers flair from lost bids, just blow 'em off and keep searchin', not takin' junk from no one, give 'em hell as long as they're sellin, keep gettin outbid in the morning', and watchin' bids in the evening, leave 'em in the dust as I snipe, see how they can outbid me but they'll never outbid me now, I be ya'll sick of me now, ain't you angry, I'ma make you look so slow to bid now...
[CHORUS]
I'm sorry bidder, I really meant to snipe you, I really meant to make you cry, but tonight, I'm cleaning out my wallet, (one more time), I said I'm sorry bidder, I really meant to snipe you, I really meant to make you cry, but tonight, I'm cleaning out my wallet.
I got some Franklins in my wallet and I don't know if no one knows it, so before they outbid me inside my room and BIN it, I'ma snipe it, take you upto $73, before I ever had a chance in hell at gettin' this 1803, I was slow, maybe by a couple of seconds, my crappy modem must have had it's bits in a bunch, cause it died, I wonder if it even tried, no it didn't on second thought, I just wished I had cable modem that flied, I look at colonial, and I couldn't picture leavin' that fugio behind, even If I hated seller, I grit my teeth and buy, email him and work it out at least for my sake, I ordered with 'surance but I'm only human, but I'm rich enough to gamble today, what I did was stupid, no doubt it was dumb, but the smartest thing I did was get it BIN, cause I have just won, sniped them all thoes who were watchin', it's my coin, I'd welcome y'all to outbid me now...
[CHORUS]
Now I would never shill my own items just to get high feedback, take a second to bid on my item to win, put your money in my wallet, just try to envision winnin' your mailman deleverin' your coins to your home, be assured it's always going to get there, no coins will be missin', goin' through the UPS system, victim of no postal misstreatin', your whole life you wanted this coin and it's there 'till you won it, there it sittin', it makes ya queasy to ya' sommach, doesn't it, wasn't it the reason you made that bid for it, man, so you could try to fill your holes of your massive folders, man, but guess what, you're collection is compelte now they're toning and lovely, and that one's cracked out so quick, she's gonna go in your dansco, collection gettin' so big now, you should see 'em, so beautiful, but now I can buy 'em, because now you're flat broke, see what hurts me most is you sell 'em for so low and have a BIN, snipe, do my thing, keep tellin' myslelf that it's mine, and I low how you insure and ship it for so cheap, you good man, I hope I have room for this heap, remember when you bidded on my stuff and you won it from me, well guess what, I got it back, back almost for free...
[CHORUS]
A parody of A Day In The Life
Originally written by The Beatles
A Day In The Life Of A Coin Collector
I read the forum today, oh boy
About some lucky men who made the grade
And though the news was pretty sad
Well we just had to laugh
We saw the photographs.
They blew their budgets on those coins
They didn't notice that they were AT
A crowd of people told them so
They'd seen this coin before
Nobody was really sure
If it they from the Bay of E-eeee
I read the thread today, oh boy
The forum members had just posted more
A crowd of people disagreeeeeed
but I just had to post
Having read the thread
I'd love to seeeeee that coin!
Woke up, fell out of bed - onto my slabs,
Threw the coins upon my bed
Found my way downstairs and grabbed more coins,
And looking at them - decided to sell on the BST.
Found my slab caddy and grabbed my holey coin hat
Made the bus, caddy in hand, in seconds flat
Found my way upstairs and dipped a coin
Somebody spoke and I went into a dream - about the monster colored coin.
I read the forum today, oh boy
Four thousand holes in Lord Blackovan's vest
And though the holes are rather small
He had to wear them all
Now they know how many coins it takes to fill the registry set.
I'd love to turn you on...... to this monster colored coin.
Note: Not intended to insult anyone - just for fun.
Thus concludes the longest thread in world history! Now, make your voice heard. Our fine parodyists need your vote! They've worked hard, and I know that the winners will be totally deserving of their prizes. Thanks for reading all the way through.
Come on people VOTE!!!
">"http://www.cashcrate.com/5663377"
">"http://www.cashcrate.com/5663377"
4, 5, 1, 3, 2
1, 5, 3, 4, 2
2, 1, 5, 3, 4
3, 2, 4, 1, 5
5, 4, 1, 3, 2
1, 5, 4, 2, 3
with averages:
2.666, 3.666, 3, 2.666, 3
which gives the places as follows:
3rd, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 2nd
Since all the votes came form the other thread...which has a dif. way of voting.
">"http://www.cashcrate.com/5663377"