Mom, just headin into town to wet my whistle, be back before sundown!
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly."
before the grand computer upgrade when I still had some muscle and hair
Do your best to avoid circular arguments, as it will help you reason better, because better reasoning is often a result of avoiding circular arguments.
For you weapons guys (and gals) out there......My work takes me back and forth into Iraq (where I am now) and Afghanistan where I work as a DA (Dept of the Army) civilian instructing Soldiers on a weapon system simply known as "CROWS". It's a remotely operated weapon station that allows the gunner to fire various weapon types from inside an armor-protected vehicle. Nothing in the images is classified secret/confidential and is easily found by doing an internet search.
Me and my partner, Bill. I'm the younger one on the right. The CROWS is mounted on top of the vehicle.
The CROWS on a training platform with an M2 .50-Cal mounted.
Me loading the M2 .50-Cal at the firing range.
Me firing the system.
Oh yeah....and my summer cottage!
"In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation [...] Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights." - Alan Greenspan
Been a few years since my last pic, to make up for lost time I've added two.
my second favorite position with my buddy Mickey-D..........I don't mean my second favorite position with Mickey-D..............but my second most favorite position.........period!
taken 2 month ago
The boy cleans up well when need be.
Herb
Remember it's not how you pick your nose that matters, it's where you put the boogers.
Performing my own souped-up transcription of Liszt's Mephisto Waltz #1 at Harvard College in 1981 ... this is much more interesting than any current photo I might post ...
This thread is a bobsled ride to he77 so I'm in.............
Sunnywood that is AWESOME.........
Mexico three on three tourney. White men can jump ----well not as high as I used too
My son (mini me) and me.......MJ
Walker Proof Digital Album Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
Walker Proof Digital Album Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
This was really superb! Looked at all 600+ posts. I had forgotten so many people starting with Xpipe and The Liberator and so many more. I didn't remember how much I used to post in here in 2004 and so on, and the fun it was. So many people, some not here, some gone...I was hitched then, single now, but good memories all. So nostalgic. Many names, faces and pics I remember. Thanks for bringing this thread back!!! I gotta post a pic of me now
Here's me. The shot with the cell phone was before a wedding. I was the MC, so the glasses were just for fun. The one with the FU Manchu was just for fun also, but was part of a semi serious photo shoot after shaving off the Playoff beard.
Here you go - me last July 30 on the stern of the Queen Mary 2 for a private party for an author friend 80th b'day. The food in the Todd English was incredible! Blood orange salad was killer. I had just turned 40. Not the best pic of me - 100 degree blazing sun and many gin & tonics and much Veuve Clicquot. I hate that shirt - wanted an Ainsley collar but find one in my size that is fitted...I weigh 122# so not easy. The pin on my lapel in a pre-WW1 celluloid deck game winners souvenir from the R.M.S. Mauretania, the ship I research and write about, but it could have been given out on the Lusitania or Aquitania. I wore it because the author loves her, I love her and this QM2 is the namesake of the QM which was the replacement of the Mauretania. The Mauretania held the Blue Ribband for 22 straight years! If anyone wants to read one of my articles PM me. Lots of new and unpublished info abt the old Mauretania as well as over 20 previously unpublished candids and an interview with a 102 year old lady who watched the Mauretania leave for her trials at North Shields/Tynemouth on October 22, 1907 and more still. A few bugs to be worked out and some typos - but I hope you enjoy it if interested.
Eric 7.30.09 QM2
Oh yeah. Here is the Old Mauretania for anyone interested - the Old Lady of the Atlantic. This is one of my previously unpublished unique candids - just after 2PM on October 22, 1907 at the Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson Yards. She is leaving for her delivery trip and formal (third) trials near Skelmorlie. I don't know what its "coin equivalent" would be, but it extremely rare. Took me ten years to find one of any sort published or not, and this was taken from the water!:
Got to love my job. This was at susquehanna, not sure what we were working on. I'm the one trying to figure out why they packed the wrong size of wrench's in the hot box.
And the views can sometimes take your breath away - You will never see a blue as blue as the glow off Nuclear Fuel.
Walker Proof Digital Album Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
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After riding 65 miles with this on my arm:
Why I had that on my arm:
==Looking for pre WW2 Commems in PCGS Rattler holders, 1851-O Three Cent Silvers in all grades
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My wife Candy and I last Thanksgiving.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106-43 BC
SEMPER FI 2/11 1977-1981
"LAS PULGAS"
This thread is a valuable resource!
Here I am, along with my lovely wife Dale ...
Mike
To see my face, one must look
on the wall of your local post office.
Camelot
before the grand computer upgrade when I still had some muscle and hair
https://smallcopperguy.com
<< <i>If it weren't for this thread, i'd never have found the evidence of who egged Becoka's house a few weeks back.
This thread is a valuable resource! >>
ROFLMAO
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before the grand computer upgrade when I still had some muscle and hair
That can't be you !!!
You look like "Pat" from Saturday Night Live
a few years ago.
I have your old images - FYI - and also
noticed you put one of the old images up
on your most recent eBay auction [ congrats BTW ]
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Coin collecting is not a hobby, it's an obsession !
New Barber Purchases
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<< <i>
before the grand computer upgrade when I still had some muscle and hair
That can't be you !!!
You look like "Pat" from Saturday Night Live
a few years ago.
I have your old images - FYI - and also
noticed you put one of the old images up
on your most recent eBay auction [ congrats BTW ] >>
That almost looks like a Dell Prosystem 3000 computer but the screen and keyboard lends me to think its an IBM more than a Dell. IBM 5500 series?
Me and my partner, Bill. I'm the younger one on the right. The CROWS is mounted on top of the vehicle.
The CROWS on a training platform with an M2 .50-Cal mounted.
Me loading the M2 .50-Cal at the firing range.
Me firing the system.
Oh yeah....and my summer cottage!
my second favorite position with my buddy Mickey-D..........I don't mean my second favorite position with Mickey-D..............but my second most favorite position.........period!
taken 2 month ago
The boy cleans up well when need be.
Herb
Adrian Zmed:
Website-Americana Rare Coin Inc
Sunnywood's Rainbow-Toned Morgans (Retired)
Sunnywood's Barber Quarters (Retired)
<< <i>Well in the spirit of this thread here I am enjoying a beer in Brussels a couple of years ago. Not much has changed since then.
Geez, you're still sittin' there in Brussels? Having been there I can understand
your reluctance to leave! Beer & mussels, mussels & beer.
R.I.P. Bear
Sunnywood that is AWESOME.........
Mexico three on three tourney. White men can jump ----well not as high as I used too
My son (mini me) and me.......MJ
Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
<< <i>Mexico three on three tourney. White men can jump ----well not as high as I used too
Looks like Club Med Cancun ...
Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
This was really superb! Looked at all 600+ posts. I had forgotten so many people starting with Xpipe and The Liberator and so many more. I didn't remember how much I used to post in here in 2004 and so on, and the fun it was. So many people, some not here, some gone...I was hitched then, single now, but good memories all. So nostalgic. Many names, faces and pics I remember. Thanks for bringing this thread back!!! I gotta post a pic of me now
Eric
@Largecents on twitter
From left to right this is "ajia," me (illini420), "TrainNut" and "claychaser" just outside of the last Long Beach coin show
Michael Kittle Rare Coins --- 1908-S Indian Head Cent Grading Set --- No. 1 1909 Mint Set --- Kittlecoins on Facebook --- Long Beach Table 448
Here you go - me last July 30 on the stern of the Queen Mary 2 for a private party for an author friend 80th b'day. The food in the Todd English was incredible! Blood orange salad was killer. I had just turned 40. Not the best pic of me - 100 degree blazing sun and many gin & tonics and much Veuve Clicquot. I hate that shirt - wanted an Ainsley collar but find one in my size that is fitted...I weigh 122# so not easy. The pin on my lapel in a pre-WW1 celluloid deck game winners souvenir from the R.M.S. Mauretania, the ship I research and write about, but it could have been given out on the Lusitania or Aquitania. I wore it because the author loves her, I love her and this QM2 is the namesake of the QM which was the replacement of the Mauretania. The Mauretania held the Blue Ribband for 22 straight years! If anyone wants to read one of my articles PM me. Lots of new and unpublished info abt the old Mauretania as well as over 20 previously unpublished candids and an interview with a 102 year old lady who watched the Mauretania leave for her trials at North Shields/Tynemouth on October 22, 1907 and more still. A few bugs to be worked out and some typos - but I hope you enjoy it if interested.
Eric 7.30.09 QM2
Oh yeah. Here is the Old Mauretania for anyone interested - the Old Lady of the Atlantic. This is one of my previously unpublished unique candids - just after 2PM on October 22, 1907 at the Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson Yards. She is leaving for her delivery trip and formal (third) trials near Skelmorlie. I don't know what its "coin equivalent" would be, but it extremely rare. Took me ten years to find one of any sort published or not, and this was taken from the water!:
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Got to love my job. This was at susquehanna, not sure what we were working on. I'm the one trying to figure out why they packed the wrong size of wrench's in the hot box.
And the views can sometimes take your breath away - You will never see a blue as blue as the glow off Nuclear Fuel.
Dan >>
Nice coin toning machine.
Me, my Mom, and Sisters on my Mom's 70th Birthday in 2007:
Me trying to comfort my youngest Grandaughter:
CoinSpace.com Founder
www.coinspace.com
If he appears rational, please say hello.
Peter Pan lessons with the granddaughter.
<< <i>If you should see anyone resembling this guy wandering the bourse in a fog on thursday in Orlando, please direct him to a toned coin dealer.
If he appears rational, please say hello. >>
and stay away from my tokens and Conders!!!
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CoinsAreFun Toned Silver Eagle Proof Album
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Gallery Mint Museum, Ron Landis& Joe Rust, The beginnings of the Golden Dollar
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More CoinsAreFun Pictorials NGC
Positive BST Transactions with a bunch of members
One man gathers what another man spills
Empty Nest Collection
Matt’s Mattes
<< <i>If you should see anyone resembling this guy wandering the bourse in a fog on thursday in Orlando, please direct him to a toned coin dealer.
If he appears rational, please say hello. >>
I will gladly direct you to the tables where I have already passed
Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......