I have a new U.S. Coin Forum goal.

keets · August 20, 2018 12:09PM

I've been around for awhile and tried to educate, entertain, defend and engage other members in Numismatic endeavors. I realize that along the way I have also offended a few. Some of them are gone, either banned, moved on due to boredom or, sadly, deceased. My efforts have not been for naught since I count many of my "adversaries" as friends, cohorts and partners in crime. We have learned from each other and swapped Coins and Exonumia among ourselves, sometimes for money and sometimes not.

I think I still have some gas in the tank. I'm only 63 and in good health that can only be accounted for by coming from a good gene pool because I have led a sometimes raucous lifestyle. I hope I can accomplish some of my collecting goals, I hope I can help others here find the excitement I still have for the Hobby. I hope I can educate when I the chance. I also want to do something else.

I want to be as disagreeable as Insider2. He is trouncing me and I don't even think the guy is that bad.

Al H.

Dave99B · August 20, 2018 12:16PM

I want to be as disagreeable as Insider2

Good luck!

Dave

Wabbit2313 · August 20, 2018 12:17PM

@Dave99B said:
I want to be as disagreeable as Insider2

Good luck!

Dave

You have to cry as much as he does if you want that title.

Timbuk3 · August 20, 2018 12:24PM

Thank you for sharing your thoughts. Good luck !!!

keets · August 20, 2018 12:25PM

TB3, you're so nice I can't stand it.

SkyMan · August 20, 2018 12:29PM

Anything new going on in your life that brought on this post?

MorganMan94 · August 20, 2018 12:35PM

@keets said:
TB3, you're so nice I can't stand it.

LOL or agree.. I am not sure which is more fitting for this statement.

ChangeInHistory · August 20, 2018 12:38PM

Its what this forum is really all about - sharing experiences, the good, the bad, the ugly. Glad you're going to continue posting, Al
Hopefully we all remeber that in the grand scheme, this is all just entertainment.

keets · August 20, 2018 12:42PM

Anything new going on in your life that brought on this post

just the mania that has swept the forum in the past few days. I find myself laughing, at times hysterically. I think it's been building across us all as the summer Numismatic doldrums have set in and really, really substantive coin threads are tough to come by. so I need a new goal and Insider2 has provided it. I shall endeavor to acquire more "Disagree" 's than him.

so many he'll look like Timbuk3 in comparison!!!

Insider2 · August 20, 2018 12:47PM

@keets said: "I've been around for awhile and tried to educate, entertain, defend and engage other members in Numismatic endeavors. I realize that along the way I have also offended a few. Some of them are gone, either banned, moved on due to boredom or, sadly, deceased. My efforts have not been for naught since I count many of my "adversaries" as friends, cohorts and partners in crime. We have learned from each other and swapped Coins and Exonumia among ourselves, sometimes for money and sometimes not.

I think I still have some gas in the tank. I'm only 63 and in good health that can only be accounted for by coming from a good gene pool because I have led a sometimes raucous lifestyle. I hope I can accomplish some of my collecting goals, I hope I can help others here find the excitement I still have for the Hobby. I hope I can educate when I the chance. I also want to do something else..."

When I got this far, I had a tear in my eye :'( and was going to post some encouragement and good wishes - something that might have come from the mouth of Mr. Rogers...

...Then, I read this nonsense: "I want to be as disagreeable as Insider2."

LOL, You have set an impossible goal for yourself. I was raised by wolves. Mr. Hanson has a better shot of reaching his goal. I will say this, it may be possible to get close but you'll need ten more years of life experiences..

abcde12345 · August 20, 2018 1:29PM

@keets said:
Anything new going on in your life that brought on this post

just the mania that has swept the forum in the past few days. I find myself laughing, at times hysterically. I think it's been building across us all as the summer Numismatic doldrums have set in and really, really substantive coin threads are tough to come by. so I need a new goal and Insider2 has provided it. I shall endeavor to acquire more "Disagree" 's than him.

so many he'll look like Timbuk3 in comparison!!!

The first sign of mania?
Laughing hysterically to your self.

DIMEMAN · August 20, 2018 1:48PM

@keets said:
Anything new going on in your life that brought on this post

just the mania that has swept the forum in the past few days. I find myself laughing, at times hysterically. I think it's been building across us all as the summer Numismatic doldrums have set in and really, really substantive coin threads are tough to come by. so I need a new goal and Insider2 has provided it. I shall endeavor to acquire more "Disagree" 's than him.

so many he'll look like Timbuk3 in comparison!!!

I don't see how you can possibly catch him.

keets · August 20, 2018 2:23PM

well, this tears it...........................

after goofing around all day and making a feeble attempt to be disagreeable I figured I better actually do something constructive. I went out front and started to get ready to cut some grass and was greeted by these two little fellows on the sidewalk. after I snapped the picture I took a few steps and the closest one ran over to me, let me stroke his teeny back and then he skittered into the flowers. you can't make this stuff up!! they're about the size of hamsters.

Tomthemailcarrier · August 20, 2018 2:48PM

I really enjoy seeing bunnies on my walks. My wife has a different view of them. She calls them “ the bread of the forest.”

Insider2 · August 20, 2018 3:18PM

@keets

Which is it? Either you are rabbit "whisperer" or you smelled like a cabbage?

cladking · August 20, 2018 3:27PM

Time don't fly, it bounds and leaps.

U1chicago · August 20, 2018 3:54PM

@MorganMan94 said:

@keets said:
TB3, you're so nice I can't stand it.

LOL or agree.. I am not sure which is more fitting for this statement.

!!!

Oil2Olay · August 20, 2018 3:54PM

As a goodwill gesture, I have decided to honor your request here.

crazyhounddog · August 20, 2018 4:05PM

I’m trying to help you as much as I can there buddy.

Insider2 · August 20, 2018 4:09PM

@Oil2Olay said:
As a goodwill gesture, I have decided to honor your request here.

How about telling us what you collect, for how long, and what your Star Wars icon represents.

1Mike1 · August 20, 2018 4:25PM

@Insider2 said:
@keets

Which is it? Either you are rabbit "whisperer" or you smelled like a cabbage?

I think the rabbit whispered to him, saying "it's me @Paradisefound, please can you erase my disagrees?"

Broadstruck · August 20, 2018 4:46PM

Whew we are all now doomed... As Nostradamus predicted the beginning of the apocalypse would occur on the day that keets was to mention his gene pool was good

crazyhounddog · August 20, 2018 4:55PM

@Insider2 said:
@keets said: "I've been around for awhile and tried to educate, entertain, defend and engage other members in Numismatic endeavors. I realize that along the way I have also offended a few. Some of them are gone, either banned, moved on due to boredom or, sadly, deceased. My efforts have not been for naught since I count many of my "adversaries" as friends, cohorts and partners in crime. We have learned from each other and swapped Coins and Exonumia among ourselves, sometimes for money and sometimes not.

I think I still have some gas in the tank. I'm only 63 and in good health that can only be accounted for by coming from a good gene pool because I have led a sometimes raucous lifestyle. I hope I can accomplish some of my collecting goals, I hope I can help others here find the excitement I still have for the Hobby. I hope I can educate when I the chance. I also want to do something else..."

When I got this far, I had a tear in my eye :'( and was going to post some encouragement and good wishes - something that might have come from the mouth of Mr. Rogers...

...Then, I read this nonsense: "I want to be as disagreeable as Insider2."

LOL, You have set an impossible goal for yourself. I was raised by wolves. Mr. Hanson has a better shot of reaching his goal. I will say this, it may be possible to get close but you'll need ten more years of life experiences..

You are one funny guy

Catbert · August 20, 2018 4:56PM

@keets Focus on pumping up your word count in your posts and ramp up your posting frequency. By doing this, you’ll compete just fine.

Justacommeman · August 20, 2018 5:09PM

keets it sound like you were a Soggy Bottom Boy in your last life

keets · August 20, 2018 6:09PM

I don't see how you can possibly catch him

astoundingly I am now up to 1.1k.

as Insider2 has mentioned, I am also curious what the Oily one collects??

coinkat · August 20, 2018 6:13PM

@keets

Posting pictures of little bunnies on the side walk is close to conceding defeat.

Bring your A game. You need to dot the I in Ohio with intensity.

Own it.

Make it happen.

jmlanzaf · August 20, 2018 6:26PM

@keets said:
I don't see how you can possibly catch him

astoundingly I am now up to 1.1k.

Actually, you might be able to declare victory. You have 1.1k disagrees and only 960 agrees. Insider actually has 1.9k disagrees and 2.1k agrees. So, your disagree/agree ratio puts you over the top.

keets · August 20, 2018 6:30PM

well, I tried to catch a bunny but they are quick. I'll probably have dreams about "Watership Down" which will be OK as long as it's not Bigwig.

1940coupe · August 20, 2018 6:32PM

one thing about it is some one gives you a disagree now you wont even notice how could you

Smudge · August 20, 2018 6:42PM

May want to check out the I.O.O.B.

Wabbit2313 · August 20, 2018 7:29PM

@1940coupe said:
one thing about it is some one gives you a disagree now you wont even notice how could you

I love how he has embraced his new role. While Insider cries and cries, keets owns it.

1Mike1 · August 20, 2018 11:20PM

Psychologically interesting. They hand out disagrees and you egg them on and then they realize you are becoming a part of CU folk lore. Next they will be burning dare I say it MidnightOil to take them away.

Paradisefound · August 20, 2018 11:37PM

How cute! I always uh and ah on baby animals

@keets said:
well, this tears it...........................

1Mike1 · August 21, 2018 12:57AM

its not gonna work! He's not erasing your disagrees.

mt_msla · August 21, 2018 3:35AM

@keets said:
well, this tears it...........................

after goofing around all day and making a feeble attempt to be disagreeable I figured I better actually do something constructive. I went out front and started to get ready to cut some grass and was greeted by these two little fellows on the sidewalk. after I snapped the picture I took a few steps and the closest one ran over to me, let me stroke his teeny back and then he skittered into the flowers. you can't make this stuff up!! they're about the size of hamsters.

If you're trying to be disagreeable, you're doing it wrong!

ricko · August 21, 2018 7:03AM

@keets.... Hey Al, you are getting complimentary disagrees....That is cool, did not even think of that....Leave it to you buddy, to turn a negative into a positive... Cheers, RickO

asheland · August 21, 2018 7:28AM

asheland · August 21, 2018 7:29AM

jmlanzaf · August 21, 2018 8:11AM

I used to love bunnies. Now, I want to shoot them. I have two 140-pound Newfoundlands. When they see a rabbit they want to chase it and I'm getting too old to hold them back and still keep my shoulders in their sockets.

Insider2 · August 21, 2018 8:21AM

I hate animals that misbehave - even when it is something that comes naturally to them. As a child, we had a Great Dane that was virtually "voice actavited." He would heel or stop on a dime anytime. We could not break his habit of chewing on the French doors when we left him alone in the house. Looking back that is a sad thing to do to a loving pet. There are photos of me walking him when I was shorter that he was. Do you think your dogs are too old to be trained to obey you?

YQQ · August 21, 2018 8:33AM

just wait a bit until these baby rabbits do what they do instinctively several times a year.... make baby rabbits...sometimes more than 3 at a time...as the saying goes.....multiply like rabbits...
what are you going to do then? (they might replace your lawn mower with rabbit droppings...

Insider2 · August 21, 2018 8:36AM

LOL. Rabbit Stew? If I lived there I'd be feeding them so the didn't eat my flowers.

keets · August 21, 2018 9:29AM

they have been with us for at least three years now, they tend to nest in the flower beds around the house for safety since we are sort of rural. that's not a problem since animals by nature spread out to find their own territory and we have plenty of open, livable land arouns us.

but let's get back to the work at hand, I still need around 900 "Disagree" clicks and evidently the Oily guy is asleep at the switch, has moved on to greener pastures or is himself a hypocrite.

Paradisefound · August 21, 2018 9:37AM

It's always hard to train an old dog

*updated to replace creepy pix

@Insider2 said:

......Do you think your dogs are too old to be trained to obey you?

asheland · August 21, 2018 9:54AM

@Paradisefound said:
It's always hard to train an old dog

@Insider2 said:

......Do you think your dogs are too old to be trained to obey you?

LOL That picture is creepy AF!

jmlanzaf · August 21, 2018 10:24AM

@Insider2 said:
I hate animals that misbehave - even when it is something that comes naturally to them. As a child, we had a Great Dane that was virtually "voice actavited." He would heel or stop on a dime anytime. We could not break his habit of chewing on the French doors when we left him alone in the house. Looking back that is a sad thing to do to a loving pet. There are photos of me walking him when I was shorter that he was. Do you think your dogs are too old to be trained to obey you?

My dogs obey me. They also want to chase rabbits. LOL. If I tell them to stop, they stop. On the other hand (since you like caps) DO YOU THINK YOU CAN SEE THE RABBIT BEFORE THE DOGS DO? If not, YOUR 1ST CLUE that there is a RABBIT is going to be the tug at the end of your arm.

jmlanzaf · August 21, 2018 10:26AM

@Paradisefound said:
It's always hard to train an old dog

*updated to replace creepy pix

I always wondered what @INSIDER2 looked like. That's pretty much how I pictured him, only with more of a snarl.

Insider2 · August 21, 2018 10:42AM

@jmlanzaf said:

@Paradisefound said:
It's always hard to train an old dog

*updated to replace creepy pix

I always wondered what @INSIDER2 looked like. That's pretty much how I pictured him, only with more of a snarl.

Actually the side view is really close except my white hair is thick and curly. Additionally, after wearing a coat & tie in school every day for six years, one of my goals in life was met as now I only dress up when I wish.

Treashunt · August 21, 2018 11:40AM

@Insider2 said:
@keets said: "I've been around for awhile and tried to educate, entertain, defend and engage other members in Numismatic endeavors. I realize that along the way I have also offended a few. Some of them are gone, either banned, moved on due to boredom or, sadly, deceased. My efforts have not been for naught since I count many of my "adversaries" as friends, cohorts and partners in crime. We have learned from each other and swapped Coins and Exonumia among ourselves, sometimes for money and sometimes not.

I think I still have some gas in the tank. I'm only 63 and in good health that can only be accounted for by coming from a good gene pool because I have led a sometimes raucous lifestyle. I hope I can accomplish some of my collecting goals, I hope I can help others here find the excitement I still have for the Hobby. I hope I can educate when I the chance. I also want to do something else..."

When I got this far, I had a tear in my eye :'( and was going to post some encouragement and good wishes - something that might have come from the mouth of Mr. Rogers...

...Then, I read this nonsense: "I want to be as disagreeable as Insider2."

LOL, You have set an impossible goal for yourself. I was raised by wolves. Mr. Hanson has a better shot of reaching his goal. I will say this, it may be possible to get close but you'll need ten more years of life experiences..

My favorite saying, that I made up:

I was nice once.
I remember it, it was a Tuesday.
But I didn't enjoy the experience.

Oil2Olay · August 21, 2018 11:50AM

@keets said:
they have been with us for at least three years now, they tend to nest in the flower beds around the house for safety since we are sort of rural. that's not a problem since animals by nature spread out to find their own territory and we have plenty of open, livable land arouns us.

but let's get back to the work at hand, I still need around 900 "Disagree" clicks and evidently the Oily guy is asleep at the switch, has moved on to greener pastures or is himself a hypocrite.

I actually started to like you and your "Screw You" attitude. I stopped at 1000, and will let someone else take the torch from here. I did also notice that you do not kiss the Butt of the bragger/money-bag collector who the minions worship around here.

I have a new U.S. Coin Forum goal.

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