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If The Three Stooges Were Coin Collectors, Which One Would You Be?

CoinosaurusCoinosaurus Posts: 9,619 ✭✭✭✭✭
Moe: Wears a coat and tie to every coin show. Squeezes every last dime out of all negotiations. Likes to see fellow collectors suffer misfortune.

Larry: Happy go lucky, has no problem with picking up the crumbs from Moe. Not worried about losing money as long as a coin is "cool."

Curly: The maverick collector - goes after darkside and other oddball stuff. Known to lose control if something excites him too much.

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    BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    llafoellafoe Posts: 7,220 ✭✭
    I'm Larry... no really, I'm Larry. image
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    Even before this discussion, I've always thought I had the most in common with Moe. He was definitely a first-child.

    Timeless stuff.
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    GoldbullyGoldbully Posts: 16,970 ✭✭✭✭✭
    One of the best - Swingin' the alphabet
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    We were kids when this was on TV...I'll never forget this catchy tune.
    Don't watch if you have songs that get stuck in your head!!!
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    razzlerazzle Posts: 981 ✭✭
    Dunno, but Moe was the original TPG-he was always "slabbing" whatever Curly offered.

    Broadstruck, love the "got nyuk".
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    renman95renman95 Posts: 7,037 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Moe: Are you a man or a mouse?
    Joe: Squeak, Squeak.
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    JedPlanchetJedPlanchet Posts: 907 ✭✭✭
    Shemp - collector of slightly damaged keys in ANACS holders image
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    CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 31,745 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Ed Rochette once told me a story about when he and his first wife were vacationing in Honolulu in the early 1960's they met Moe Howard at their hotel. He invited them to dinner, and they met that night and went to a fancy restaurant. They had a great time listening to his stories, and when the check came he excused himself to go to the bathroom. He never came back, and stuck them with the check.
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    Curly, we have the same birthday.
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    GoldbullyGoldbully Posts: 16,970 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Ed Rochette once told me a story about when he and his first wife were vacationing in Honolulu in the early 1960's they met Moe Howard at their hotel. He invited them to dinner, and they met that night and went to a fancy restaurant. They had a great time listening to his stories, and when the check came he excused himself to go to the bathroom. He never came back, and stuck them with the check.
    TD >>



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    derrybderryb Posts: 36,377 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I'm the one always getting poked in the eye.

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    curlycurly Posts: 2,880


    Well, let's see.....I guess I'll be uh, umm......curly!!!!! image
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    Moe, Larry the cheese!!
    Nyuk, Nyuk, Nyuk
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    coindudeonebaycoindudeonebay Posts: 1,735 ✭✭✭
    Why does no one ever want to be Shemp or Curly Joe!!
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    CoinosaurusCoinosaurus Posts: 9,619 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Why does no one ever want to be Shemp or Curly Joe!! >>



    In real life Shemp was the brother of Moe & Curly and was said to be the funniest in person.

    Of Curly Joe, the less said the better.
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    mozeppamozeppa Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭
    i'm mo


    zeppa!
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    Now how is one supposed to cherry pick with Curly?

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    CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 31,745 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Who's Smoe?
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    TootawlTootawl Posts: 5,877 ✭✭✭
    No one has mentioned Joe Bessler?
    I think I know why.
    Yes, Moe. Curly, and Shemp were brothers. There's only ONE film in which Moe, Larry, Curly, AND Shemp were in.
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    I didn't know there was a fourth , i always get them mixed up with the Marx bros too doh

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    TootawlTootawl Posts: 5,877 ✭✭✭
    The "3rd Stooge" were in order:
    Shemp
    Curly
    Shemp again
    Joe Bessler
    Curly Joe.

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    PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 45,676 ✭✭✭✭✭
    None of the above.

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.

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    TwobitcollectorTwobitcollector Posts: 3,179 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Larry

    For those in the Philadelphia area there is a "STOOGEUM" run by a grandson of one of the Stooges. It's free, it's open tomorrow Jan. 29 2011.
    Oh it's at 904 Sheble Lane Ambler, PA. I've been there it's a fun place to visit.
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    ldhairldhair Posts: 7,176 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I'm Larry. It fits me.
    Larry

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    krankykranky Posts: 8,709 ✭✭✭
    I can see there are a few serious Stooges fans here. Tootawl knew Shemp was in the act before Curly and that's pretty obscure trivia right there.

    I'd be Larry. Easygoing, fun to be around, and usually isn't the target of violence.

    Moe would probably get booted out of show after show. Remember, he was the one who once said to Shemp, "Would you rather have a shoe full of dollar bills, or two socks of fives?" And poor Shemp said he'd take the two socks.

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    UncleJoeUncleJoe Posts: 2,528 ✭✭✭
    I'd be Larry for sure.

    Joe (Larry)
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    thebeavthebeav Posts: 3,770 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>
    Yes, Moe. Curly, and Shemp were brothers. There's only ONE film in which Moe, Larry, Curly, AND Shemp were in. >>



    "Hold that Lion"
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    ambro51ambro51 Posts: 13,717 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I had the pleasure to see Moe two times doing his act. Id just started to drive...and it was in Delran NJ I think....he came out, his hair neatly combed, and then said "Maybe you dont know me"..and then brushed it down into the "moe". He done the "niagra falls" routine...

    For a few months, I was writing back and forth to Larry Fine. He was in the Motion Picture Actors Country Home in Woodland HIlls, Ca, He was so poor you had to enclose a stamp for him to use to reply. The letters were handwritten in tiny cursive...and I do NOT know what happened to them. I was sure Id find them again when I cleaned out my parents attic...but no luck. He told me he was doing his vaudeville act and was on the stage in my little home town when he was notified that his wife had just given birth to one of their daughters!!

    Most people dont know that Moe was in love with movies, and actually had a small part in an early film, in 1909.

    I often wonder what the Stooges, or Arbuckle....thought when they went to a screening of "the Masters" work. Charlie Chaplin.
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    johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 27,744 ✭✭✭✭✭
    id have to go with larry as well. shemp would be 2nd, hes seems good to have around
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    StuartStuart Posts: 9,761 ✭✭✭✭✭
    << Yes, Moe. Curly, and Shemp were brothers. There's only ONE film in which Moe, Larry, Curly, AND Shemp were in. -- "Hold that Lion" >>

    Here's a publicity photo from that movie... image

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    Curly and I have the same birthday. I think I'm him reincarnated.
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    BullsitterBullsitter Posts: 5,390 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Curly all the way.
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    TootawlTootawl Posts: 5,877 ✭✭✭
    Just think, if it wasn't for Ted Healy, there would be no Three Stooges.

    If you don't know who Ted Healy is,
    1 - You really do not know your Three Stooges history.
    2 - Google and Bing can be your best friend.

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    TootawlTootawl Posts: 5,877 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Larry

    For those in the Philadelphia area there is a "STOOGEUM" run by a grandson of one of the Stooges. It's free, it's open tomorrow Jan. 29 2011.
    Oh it's at 904 Sheble Lane Ambler, PA. I've been there it's a fun place to visit. >>


    I think I see a road trip in my future.
    A Three Stooges museum AND Philly cheese steaks from Tony Lukes and Jim's!! That would make a hell of a day trip!
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    orevilleoreville Posts: 11,807 ✭✭✭✭✭
    As everyone may remember, I was the one testing the new "almost" waterproof sample PCGS slab in my water glass at the ANA PCGS luncheon!!!

    I would probably be Curly fighting the PCGS slab AND the oyster in the soup bowl!!!

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    cwtcwt Posts: 292 ✭✭✭


    << <i>One of the best - Swingin' the alphabet
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    We were kids when this was on TV...I'll never forget this catchy tune.
    Don't watch if you have songs that get stuck in your head!!! >>



    That song was one of the best. Thank you for the reminder!
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    TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,027 ✭✭✭✭✭
    If the Three Stooges were coin collectors I would be Mae West.
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    BillJonesBillJones Posts: 33,642 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>As everyone may remember, I was the one testing the new "almost" waterproof sample PCGS slab in my water glass at the ANA PCGS luncheon!!!

    I would probably be Curly fighting the PCGS slab AND the oyster in the soup bowl!!! >>



    Larry did the same "oyster soup" bid one of the other shorts. I can't tell you which one.

    I suppose I've have to be Moe because I can be too fussy as a collector sometimes.

    And yes, I know who Ted Healy was and perhaps there would have been no Three Stooges without him, but they were definitely better off once they WERE without him.
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