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Do you consider yourself a fountain of knowledge?

BearBear Posts: 18,953 ✭✭✭
In my case, I find that it helps

to keep my feet clean.image
There once was a place called
Camelotimage

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  • BearBear Posts: 18,953 ✭✭✭
    actually, my numismatic knowledge, allows

    me to tower over any 3 year old in the house.image
    There once was a place called
    Camelotimage
  • RayboRaybo Posts: 5,330 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Not at all!

    I'm here to learn from people like you Bear. image
  • morgandollar1878morgandollar1878 Posts: 4,006 ✭✭✭✭✭
    A dripping water faucet, maybe. Every once in a while I know somthing.image
    Instagram: nomad_numismatics
  • BearBear Posts: 18,953 ✭✭✭
    Dear Morgan dollar, I have

    that problem, I always

    thought it was my prostate.
    There once was a place called
    Camelotimage
  • morgandollar1878morgandollar1878 Posts: 4,006 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It is my prostate. I am pro in my own state... of mind.image
    Instagram: nomad_numismatics
  • BearBear Posts: 18,953 ✭✭✭
    Now that was funny!!image
    There once was a place called
    Camelotimage
  • lcoopielcoopie Posts: 8,873 ✭✭✭✭✭
    more like a suction of knowledge
    LCoopie = Les
  • GrumpyEdGrumpyEd Posts: 4,749 ✭✭✭
    I know how little I know. image
    Ed
  • BearBear Posts: 18,953 ✭✭✭
    "There are those things that we

    know that we don't know. Then

    there are those things that we

    do not know that we don,t know". Sect Rumsfeld
    There once was a place called
    Camelotimage
  • CoinosaurusCoinosaurus Posts: 9,631 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I have absolutely no idea what the point of this thread is. Can someone help image
  • yellowkidyellowkid Posts: 5,486
    My wife says I'm a fountain of knowledge of useless information, baseball statistics, history dates, studio musicians. Unfortunately iy does not extend to the numismatic world.
  • cladkingcladking Posts: 28,701 ✭✭✭✭✭
    ...much more like an abyss of ignorance. ...a veritable promordial waters of ignorance.

    Everytime I learn much of anything it raises two new questions. Going forward I can
    only go backward but standing still is never an option.

    Tempus fugit.
  • orevilleoreville Posts: 12,024 ✭✭✭✭✭
    bear:

    You had too much honey today. image
    A Collectors Universe poster since 1997!
  • DennisHDennisH Posts: 13,996 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yes, sort of. Knowing at least a little about a lot of things comes in handy as a magazine editor.
    When in doubt, don't.
  • YaHaYaHa Posts: 4,220
    Knowledge is power, but too much knowledge makes the fountain overflow and thus you become less prudent in your own domain..image
  • anablepanablep Posts: 5,138 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I sometimes marvel at the wealth, breadth and depth of information I've yet to even tap into.

    My students laugh at the volumes of useless biology facts I seem to know, but most of what I offer them comes from my studies of biology.

    They don't understand that I have and will continue to learn, synthesize new information and study...



    As for numismatics, if this hobby were a school system, I'd still be in third grade.

    More knowledge than when I started, still a long way til graduation...

    image
    Always looking for attractive rim toned Morgan and Peace dollars in PCGS or (older) ANA/ANACS holders!

    "Bongo hurtles along the rain soaked highway of life on underinflated bald retread tires."


    ~Wayne
  • MowgliMowgli Posts: 1,219
    I think it depends a lot on who is drinking at my fountain.
    In the land of the blind the one-eyed man is king.
  • Ya heard of the "Fountain of Youth," well, I'm the "Fountain of Oldness." image
  • YaHaYaHa Posts: 4,220


    << <i>Ya heard of the "Fountain of Youth," well, I'm the "Fountain of Oldness." image >>




    I'll second that my brother..image
  • WalmannWalmann Posts: 2,806
    No, but I wouldn't be adverse to people making a wish and throwing their change at me.
  • <<Do you consider yourself a fountain of knowledge?>>

    Bear, why don't you ask a new question? ""Who do you consider a fountain of knowledge?"

    I had a certain desire to answer in the affirmative, but modesty (false?), uncertainity and fear of the future stopped me.

    The younger Walter Breen was a fountain of knowledge that gradually became clogged.
  • BearBear Posts: 18,953 ✭✭✭
    Alright, you asked for an answer and it is incumbent upon me to

    give you an answer that is cogent yet precise. All members of this Forum

    are potential sources for information. Some lessor and some

    greater. All comments and threads, will contain some

    element of substance ,be it of wit, philosophy, historic

    recollection, ethos, pathos as well as, in rare cases,

    coin related substance. As one does not live by bread alone,

    so too must a Forum , require some sustenance , other then that

    mundane topic of coins.image
    There once was a place called
    Camelotimage
  • droopyddroopyd Posts: 5,381 ✭✭✭
    I was known in my younger days as the "orifice of useless information."
    Me at the Springfield coin show:
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    60 years into this hobby and I'm still working on my Lincoln set!
  • I myself am but a crack in the fountain.

    a great quote: "To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge."

    well I am definately sure i'm ignorant, so i'm on my way to knowledge.
    1887 P Morgans Please!!!
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