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I needed some numismatic advice, but apparently...

MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 24,344 ✭✭✭✭✭
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...I can’t handle the truth.

Andy Lustig

Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.

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  • ThreeCentSilverFLThreeCentSilverFL Posts: 1,694 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Looks like a relaxing Sunday afternoon B)

  • RYKRYK Posts: 35,798 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The Colonel!

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  • keyman64keyman64 Posts: 15,521 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I recognize that guy! B)

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  • bidaskbidask Posts: 14,017 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Colonel looks great … did you have a cocktail with him ?

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  • coinbufcoinbuf Posts: 11,615 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @RYK said:
    The Colonel!

    I thought that guy has a beard and sells chicken.

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  • HydrantHydrant Posts: 7,773 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 16, 2021 1:42PM

    I don't know who that guy is. It could be me except he's missing a 12 gauge. Other than that he looks set. Ahhh...a lazy afternoon on the ranch.

  • CatbertCatbert Posts: 7,425 ✭✭✭✭✭

    On loan from the asylum? I think he's about to extinguish something in a bourbon! Such waste..... :)

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  • amwldcoinamwldcoin Posts: 11,269 ✭✭✭✭✭

    What did you say to him to make him give you an extended middle finger? :D

  • DNADaveDNADave Posts: 7,286 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Looks like it won’t stay lit with all them matches!

  • BaleyBaley Posts: 22,663 ✭✭✭✭✭

    So, is that glass of whiskey
    half full, or half empty? 🤔😂

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  • ZoinsZoins Posts: 34,394 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I need some numismatic advice too!

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  • JustacommemanJustacommeman Posts: 22,852 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Rick is the man. That is all

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  • ctf_error_coinsctf_error_coins Posts: 15,433 ✭✭✭✭✭

    looks super chill <3

  • RonyahskiRonyahski Posts: 3,117 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Smokin', smokin'
    We're cookin' tonight, just keep on tokin'
    Smokin', Smokin'
    I feel alright, mamma I'm not jokin', yeah

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  • BuffaloIronTailBuffaloIronTail Posts: 7,508 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @tradedollarnut said:
    With a blunt that size, he coulda done the norweb 1885 right...

    If he was still conscious..............

    Pete

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  • JustacommemanJustacommeman Posts: 22,852 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 16, 2021 6:38PM

    @tradedollarnut said:
    With a blunt that size, he coulda done the norweb 1885 right...

    I suppose there are germs of truth to that

    I love him just the same

    m

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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Just floating through spring, on a mellow journey to summer... Dude, got any munchies?.... :D;) Cheers, RickO

  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,467 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Baley said:
    So, is that glass of whiskey
    half full, or half empty? 🤔😂

    Yes.

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  • coinkatcoinkat Posts: 23,554 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Armchair philosophy's finest hour after being edited to 30 minutes

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  • gonzergonzer Posts: 3,040 ✭✭✭✭✭

    No roach clip?

  • DoubleEagle59DoubleEagle59 Posts: 8,357 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I thought he was giving you the finger!!

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  • kazkaz Posts: 9,227 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Baley said:
    LoL, no lighter either.
    Old school book matches and resinous fingers, just like in the 1970's! 😜

    The 70s, I was there, I don't remember very much of it....

  • MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 24,344 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @DoubleEagle59 said:
    I thought he was giving you the finger!!

    Yep. Something about my suggestion that it would be a good time to shoot pics of him and share on the forum. Can't imagine why he didn't like the idea.

    Andy Lustig

    Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.

    Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
  • ColonelJessupColonelJessup Posts: 6,442 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @MrEureka said:

    @DoubleEagle59 said:
    I thought he was giving you the finger!!

    Yep. Something about my suggestion that it would be a good time to shoot pics of him and share on the forum. Can't imagine why he didn't like the idea.

    I did not want to to exhale and so couldn't fully explain myself. I was not Bogarting that joint; I was giving the CDC's approved hand signal for "Vaccine, schmaxine - I'm actually saving your life" B)

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  • 𝖆𝖈𝖈𝖚𝖒𝖚𝖑𝖆𝖙𝖔𝖗𝖆𝖈𝖈𝖚𝖒𝖚𝖑𝖆𝖙𝖔𝖗 Posts: 60 ✭✭

    Is that weed?

    Who is the coronel?

  • 1630Boston1630Boston Posts: 14,029 ✭✭✭✭✭

    A fairly recent pic based on the face mask on the ground

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  • 1630Boston1630Boston Posts: 14,029 ✭✭✭✭✭

    True @Justacommeman :)

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  • MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 24,344 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @𝖆𝖈𝖈𝖚𝖒𝖚𝖑𝖆𝖙𝖔𝖗 said:
    Is that weed?

    Who is the coronel?

    It's ColonelJessup. Search for some of his earlier posts and you'll get a pretty good idea what he's smoking.

    Andy Lustig

    Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.

    Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
  • 𝖆𝖈𝖈𝖚𝖒𝖚𝖑𝖆𝖙𝖔𝖗𝖆𝖈𝖈𝖚𝖒𝖚𝖑𝖆𝖙𝖔𝖗 Posts: 60 ✭✭

    @MrEureka said:

    @𝖆𝖈𝖈𝖚𝖒𝖚𝖑𝖆𝖙𝖔𝖗 said:
    Is that weed?

    Who is the coronel?

    It's ColonelJessup. Search for some of his earlier posts and you'll get a pretty good idea what he's smoking.

    Oh nice.

    I think the Colonel reached out. Lol.

  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 28,774 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Nic said:
    Is that the Marlboro he borrowed from me over a decade ago?

    Dig it 🙈

  • BuffaloIronTailBuffaloIronTail Posts: 7,508 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Leave the Colonel be. He's thinking about what kind of interesting verbage to reply with.

    Pete

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  • CoinHoarderCoinHoarder Posts: 2,613 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 18, 2021 3:45PM

  • ColonelJessupColonelJessup Posts: 6,442 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 18, 2021 5:02PM

    If you're familiar with the term synesthesia, I watched Dino Valente and QuickSilver at the Fillmore one night in late 19??. The notes were liquid and plastic and everyone was "in tune" at 250mg. I think it was there that I met @FredWeinberg, unless it was Ten Years After at my first Long Beach showr in '79. I brought this up because @Fred, who is surely wise enough to not join this discussion, recently had some posters graded. He assures me he remembers where he got them ;) and that redolence evoked a great deal of nostalgia. Hopefully he'll enjoy seeing this one. B)

    edited to add:
    1) That's not bourbon, just a mediocre chablis :s
    2) NJ medical card B)

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  • BuffaloIronTailBuffaloIronTail Posts: 7,508 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ColonelJessup said:
    If you're familiar with the term synesthesia, I watched Dino Valente and QuickSilver at the Fillmore one night in late 19??. The notes were liquid and plastic and everyone was in tune. @Fredweinberg, who is surely wise enough to not join this discussion, recently had some posters graded. He assures me he remembers where he got them. ;)

    I told you. ;)

    Pete

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  • HalfDimeDudeHalfDimeDude Posts: 1,206 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Don't Bogart that bourbon my friend....
    Nothing like 3 fingers in a dirity glass... thats what the mask is for filtration :o

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  • CoinJunkieCoinJunkie Posts: 8,772 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 18, 2021 4:52PM

    @BuffaloIronTail said:
    Leave the Colonel be. He's thinking about what kind of interesting verbage to reply with.

    Pete

    A little herbage tends to facilitate the verbiage. B)

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  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,467 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Is it just me, or is the grass rather high in that picture?

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  • JustacommemanJustacommeman Posts: 22,852 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 18, 2021 6:46PM

    @CaptHenway said:
    Is it just me, or is the grass rather high in that picture?

    That grass is a hybrid. It's a cross, ah, of Bluegrass, Kentucky Bluegrass, Featherbed Bent, and Northern California Sensemilia. The amazing stuff about this is, that you can play 36 holes on it in the afternoon, take it home and just get stoned to the bejeezus-belt that night on this stuff.

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  • ColonelJessupColonelJessup Posts: 6,442 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 18, 2021 8:34PM

    Many Forum members will not be surprised to learn that I was a prime candidate to star in Lost in Translation B)

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  • fathomfathom Posts: 1,794 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The good news is if it were filming today you would get the nod.

    The bad news is ScarJo wouldn't go near it.

  • NysotoNysoto Posts: 3,818 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 19, 2021 12:23AM

    Ten Years After - good choice.

    and to keep it numismatic related

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  • FredWeinbergFredWeinberg Posts: 5,883 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Rick, it wasn't Quicksilver MS - so, it might have been Ten Years After (Long Beach)

    Heritage picked up 220 Fillmore/Avalon posters from me last month, and I assume
    they'll be up in another month or so - I think most will be going to NGC for grading
    (except the very large ones). Yes, not only do I remember who I bought them from
    in the very early '80's, I kept the invoices - HA might have fun with my purchase prices.

    And yes, that poster above was in my collection - but in much better condition !

    I hadn't posted to this thread till now, because all I would have done was cause
    more memory triggers! Or forgotten times.........

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  • edwardjulioedwardjulio Posts: 1,133 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Having cogitated on this snap shot of a moment in time, the numismatist appears to be a quart low. This may be the optimum level for achieving numismatic nirvana. Initiates should strive for this experience. B)

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