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You won't believe what happened while I was out at lunch...

PhillyJoePhillyJoe Posts: 2,705 ✭✭✭✭
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I leave for an hour, come back and this was on my desk:



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I've told a few people the story, our secretary was at Barnes & Noble and bought the last copy for me.
A wonderful gesture - they don't always understand my obsession, but they know how to make someone's day.

Joe
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  • CoxeCoxe Posts: 11,139 ✭
    Now, that was genuinely thoughtful!
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  • HonoluluDudeHonoluluDude Posts: 2,167 ✭
    Awesome book. I just finished it a couple of weeks ago.
  • tallamericanotallamericano Posts: 4
    cool!
  • 123cents123cents Posts: 7,178 ✭✭✭
    Nothing wrong with that.
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  • LongacreLongacre Posts: 16,717 ✭✭✭
    Cool!!

    My secretary wouldn't take a pi$$ on me if I was on fire.
    Always took candy from strangers
    Didn't wanna get me no trade
    Never want to be like papa
    Working for the boss every night and day
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  • NumisOxideNumisOxide Posts: 10,997 ✭✭✭✭✭
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  • TarmacTarmac Posts: 394 ✭
    Isn't her review coming up next week? image
  • ColonialCoinUnionColonialCoinUnion Posts: 10,087 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Cool!!

    My secretary wouldn't take a pi$$ on me if I was on fire. >>



    I bet just as you were typing this you paused and looked at her out in her cublicle and just at that moment she stopped what she was doing and looked drectly back at you, not sure why, but pretty sure you were typing something about her.
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  • CoxeCoxe Posts: 11,139 ✭


    << <i>My secretary wouldn't take a pi$$ on me if I was on fire. >>



    Man, that fantasy is way too kinky for me.
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  • JulianJulian Posts: 3,370 ✭✭✭
    My secretary wouldn't take a pi$$ on me if I was on fire.

    Now, that's a funny line!!!
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    I firmly believe in numismatics as the world's greatest hobby, but recognize that this is a luxury and without collectors, we can all spend/melt our collections/inventories.

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  • XpipedreamRXpipedreamR Posts: 8,059 ✭✭
    I just bought that book on Wednesday. Very interesting reading.
  • MacCrimmonMacCrimmon Posts: 7,058 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Cool!!

    My secretary wouldn't take a pi$$ on me if I was on fire. >>




    Fire the wench.........NOW!!!!
  • JapanJohnJapanJohn Posts: 2,030 ✭
    Great book......Just finished it.

    Me thinks your secretary either digs you, or wants a bonus...........or is just a great person.

    If you don't give her a half a day off Friday you're positively evil.

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  • DHeathDHeath Posts: 8,472 ✭✭✭
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  • 13PacesEast13PacesEast Posts: 712 ✭
    i thought it was a boring read
    know what you don't know.

    hi, i'm tom.

    i do not doctor coins like some who post in here.

  • RYKRYK Posts: 35,799 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I enjoyed the book very much. I procured an advance copy, and it is making the rounds.
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  • DoogyDoogy Posts: 4,508 ✭
    cool! I just finished the David Tripp version (Illegal Tender). Truly a fascinating story of real American history! enjoy



    Doug
  • HighReliefHighRelief Posts: 3,708 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I will have to pick this book up. The 1933 Saint has always been a fascinating coin to read about.
  • LeeGLeeG Posts: 12,162 ✭
    But Joe, that's not a Kennedy?imageimage
  • tradedollarnuttradedollarnut Posts: 20,166 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Shouldn't that read "the epic story of what used to be the world's most valuable coin". image
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  • CameonutCameonut Posts: 7,344 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Joe
    Where do you work?

    I'd like to work there too. The people I work with are clueless.

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  • StorkStork Posts: 5,206 ✭✭✭✭✭
    image Great book and a very thoughtful secretary!

  • PhillyJoePhillyJoe Posts: 2,705 ✭✭✭✭
    No, it's not a Kennedy, but the author must have spent a considerable amount of time at the Phila archives, a great place to spent time finding history on every page.

    A very thoughtful act on her part, or a way to finally shut me up for a while.

    I work in Blue Bell, PA near Plymouth Meeting, western suburbs of Phila. Nice place to visit, we even have traffic jams that would rival Chicago from time to time. (One of our unusually named towns is Bryn Mawr and I'm near Bryn Mawr Ave. every day. I fly to Chicago last weekend and they have a Bryn Mawr Ave. near the airport.)

    Joe
    The Philadelphia Mint: making coins since 1792. We make money by making money. Now in our 225th year thanks to no competition. image
  • GoldenEyeNumismaticsGoldenEyeNumismatics Posts: 13,187 ✭✭✭
    That is a fantastic book
  • coinandcurrency242coinandcurrency242 Posts: 1,967 ✭✭✭✭
    the question is what are you going to do in return image.... Sounds like your paying for a go around of star bucks!

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