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"Good Morning Class" -- The Man Who Would Be King

ClankeyeClankeye Posts: 3,928 ✭
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It is a festive day in Coinalot. People have gathered for the hanging of Dr. Dpoole--Royal Head Shrinker. Children play, dogs bark--the smell of coins baking fills the air. Still... all is not well

Sir Coulport: I do not trust this Sorcerer Askari!
Sir ClarkofKent: Look at him! Sidled up next to the King! I tell you ArtR has acted strangely since his arrival at court!
Sir Blackhawk: 'Tis true! He sits alone in the Dark!
Sir Bear: He has removed the Royal Coinage from the holders appointed by The Graders Who Charge Fees!
Lord Anaconda: He no longer pays extra for colorful rust!
Sir RegistryCoin: BY THE GODS!
Sir Clackamas: GADZOOKS!
Sir AgentJim007: PUKETH!

King ArtR raises to address the populace. He has the look of a man in a trance. The Sorcerer Askari also raises, and stands close to his ear

The Sorcerer Askari: (whispering) Tell them, your Majesty.
King ArtR: CITIZENS OF COINALOT! I BRING YOU JOYOUS NEWS!
The Sorcerer Askari: From this point forth...
King ArtR: FROM THIS POINT FORTH!
The Sorcerer Askari: The collecting of Frankies...
King ArtR: THE COLLECTING OF FRANKIES!
The Sorcerer Askari: Shall be prohibited!
King ArtR: SHALL BE PROHIBITED!!!!!

--Silence--

Knave Wallstreetman thrashes one hand through the air, attempting--and ultimately failing--to clap

Sir FC57Coins: But why, your Highness? What would you have us collect?
The Sorcerer Askari: (whispering) You shall collect only prehistoric bone shell coins....
King ArtR: YOU SHALL COLLECT ONLY PREHISTORIC BONE SHELL COINS!!!
Squire Airplanenut: Cool!
The Lady Lucy of Bop smacks him upside the head
Squire Airplanenut: Ouch!!!

The Lady Lucy of Bop pushes through the crowd until she stands in front of ArtR and Askari. With a piercing BE-BOP-A-LULA!!! she unveils her Frankies. The crowd gasps! The intense beauty of them seems to snap King ArtR out of his trance

King ArtR: BY THE GODS!
Friar Fatman: (crossing himself) Yowza!
Lucy of Bop: Any questions????
The Sorcercer Askari: Your Majesty, look away! GAZE INTO THE DARK SIDE!!!
The Archbishop of Coinguy1: Hold thy tongue, Corrupter of Coinage! Me thinks thy magic useless against THE POWER OF THE FRANKIE!!
The Sorcerer Askari: (holding up his arms) Your Endarkenment has been put on hold! UNTIL WE MEET AGAIN, CITIZENS OF COINALOT!!!
BUWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!

In a great explosion of smoke and sparks, Askari is gone

Meanwhile, on the Royal Scaffold, rope tightly around his neck, Dr. Dpoole stands on his tip toes, looking slightly anxious

Dr. Dpoole: Your Majesty! Me thinks I have a wonderful idea!!!!!! A clemency for those about to be executed would be just the thing to let go of the Royal Anger! YES! YES! WHY DIDN'T I THINK OF IT BEFORE!!!!

King ArtR: (turning to Jester Shiroh) By the Gods! 'Tis good to be back!
Jester Shiroh: (cheerfully) Good to have you back, your Highness!
King ArtR: (walking away) Did I miss much?
Jester Shiroh: (following) 'Tis Coinalot, Sire. The flames have kept us warm enough.
King ArtR: Ha! As God is in his Heaven, there shall be more.

King, knights, peasants and dogs all file out of the courtyard. Dr. Dpoole twists on the scaffold

Dr. Dpoole: Did I mention the reduction in my fees, your Highness??!!!
Your Majesty!!!!??? MAJESTY!!! ...It's getting Dark out here!

An echo is heard, in a castle, in a Kingdom, in a land that is far, far away.... if you strain your ears it almost sounds like

BUWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!
Brevity is the soul of wit. --William Shakespeare

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  • mdwoodsmdwoods Posts: 5,559 ✭✭✭
    I laughed so hard, had I been Sir AgentJim007 I would have surely Pukethed. Another winner. mdwoods
    National Register Of Big Trees

    We'll use our hands and hearts and if we must we'll use our heads.
  • cladkingcladking Posts: 28,726 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I was lauging so hard it took this long to read it.
    tempus fugit extra philosophiam.
  • Steve27Steve27 Posts: 13,275 ✭✭✭
    BUWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!
    "It's far easier to fight for principles, than to live up to them." Adlai Stevenson
  • nwcsnwcs Posts: 13,386 ✭✭✭
    Now we need the 10 plagues of coinalot... What fun to come! image
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  • DCAMFranklinDCAMFranklin Posts: 2,862 ✭✭
    Another treasure from Clank! We all thank you.

    No one can do away with the collecting of the Franklin Half!


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  • prooflikeprooflike Posts: 3,879 ✭✭
    Another wonderful tale fromthe Age of Coinalot! image
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  • MadMartyMadMarty Posts: 16,697 ✭✭✭
    I'm really beginning to love Mondays!!!
    It is not exactly cheating, I prefer to consider it creative problem solving!!!

  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭


    << <i>she unveils her Frankies. The crowd gasps! >>



    Me thinketh the scribe hath confused "gasp" with "groan".

    Bwuahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!

    Russ, NCNE
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  • cosmicdebriscosmicdebris Posts: 12,332 ✭✭✭
    Carl you've outdone yourself again!image
    Bill

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  • RegistryCoinRegistryCoin Posts: 5,117 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Carl you've outdone yourself again! >>

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    Ditto, Thanks
  • smprfismprfi Posts: 874 ✭
    Great story as usual!image
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  • ClankeyeClankeye Posts: 3,928 ✭
    King ArtR: Where is the Archbishop of Cornstarch1 today?
    The Earl of Compucheap: We discussed him and found him disgusting, your Highness!
    Lord Zerbe: Just so, Sire.
    King ArtR: I shall give half a crown to the man who brings me his test tube! A full crown for the tube and Poindexter head protector he wears!
    Sir Ursabear: Thy will be done, Majesty!

    The Knights begin their search......
    Brevity is the soul of wit. --William Shakespeare
  • 1jester1jester Posts: 8,637 ✭✭✭
    Sir Clank, methinks you're a genius!!! Thanks for some more serious entertainment!


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    .....GOD
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    "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you." -Luke 11:9

    "Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might." -Deut. 6:4-5

    "For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; He will save us." -Isaiah 33:22
  • ccrccr Posts: 2,446
    Sir Clank of Iye has done it again. As Squire Airplanenut would say - Cool!
  • CarlWohlforthCarlWohlforth Posts: 11,074 ✭
    Ahhhh, the smell of coins baking... image

    Too much!!!! Great one Clankeye!!! Thanks.
    Carl's Coins website w/ links to Carl's auctions
  • BearBear Posts: 18,953 ✭✭✭
    Methinks, that the Royal Bard Knoweth us all, better then we knoweth ourselves.

    Outstanding story telling. As noble a tale , as the Nobles of Coinalot.
    There once was a place called
    Camelotimage
  • AndroidAndroid Posts: 726 ✭
    Knave Wallstreetman thrashes one hand through the air, attempting--and ultimately failing--to clap

    That's just about the funniest thing I've read here in months! image It's also true! imageimage
    We are finite beings, limited in all our powers, and, hence, our conclusions are not only relative, but they should ever be held subject to correction. Positive assurance is unattainable. The dogmatist is the only one who claims to possess absolute certainty.

    First POTD 9/19/05!!

  • ccrdragonccrdragon Posts: 2,697 ✭
    Wonderful stuff, Sir Clank!!!

    (but did it have to be Frankies?!?!?!? - We'll never be able to live with Lucy now!!!! imageimage )
    Cecil
    Total Copper Nutcase - African, British Ships, Channel Islands!!!
    'Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup'
  • LucyBopLucyBop Posts: 14,001 ✭✭✭
    Be Bop A Lula!!!!!! whom and how else to restore order to the kingdom!!!!!!!!! Hepkitty approved!image
    imageBe Bop A Lula!!
    "Senorita HepKitty"
    "I want a real cool Kitty from Hepcat City, to stay in step with me" - Bill Carter
  • ZerbeZerbe Posts: 587 ✭✭
    Another great one, but I did'nt get to see the Frankies.image
  • BearBear Posts: 18,953 ✭✭✭
    Zerb, Maybe if you ask Lucy nicely, she will bare her Frankies for you.
    There once was a place called
    Camelotimage
  • ClankeyeClankeye Posts: 3,928 ✭
    I am shocked and appalled at the way some of your minds work! image

    Clankeye
    Brevity is the soul of wit. --William Shakespeare
  • LucyBopLucyBop Posts: 14,001 ✭✭✭
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    Hubba Hubba! and theres more where that came from!
    imageBe Bop A Lula!!
    "Senorita HepKitty"
    "I want a real cool Kitty from Hepcat City, to stay in step with me" - Bill Carter
  • ZerbeZerbe Posts: 587 ✭✭
    There seems to be a lot of renewed interest in ' Frankies '. I wish I had saved all those frankies I used to fondle.
  • ClankeyeClankeye Posts: 3,928 ✭
    By the gods, it's Monday now! Thought it was getting a little sleepy around here.

    Clankeye
    Brevity is the soul of wit. --William Shakespeare
  • bigindiebigindie Posts: 553
    Great story, Clankeye. I've read references to your Monday stories but before today hadn't read any of them. I look forward to next Monday.
    Just My 2 Cents,
    Big Mike <><

    Let your roots grow down into him and draw up nourishment from him, so you will grow in faith, strong and vigorous in the truth you were taught. Let your lives overflow with thanksgiving for all that he has done. --Colossians 2:7
  • ZerbeZerbe Posts: 587 ✭✭
    I don't remember Frankies looking like that. Must be getting old.
  • paigowjohnnypaigowjohnny Posts: 4,257 ✭


    << <i>Sir AgentJim007: PUKETH! >>



    AgentJim always gets the good lines...
  • LucyBopLucyBop Posts: 14,001 ✭✭✭
    All Hepkitty approved Frankies look like this beautiful stunner!
    imageBe Bop A Lula!!
    "Senorita HepKitty"
    "I want a real cool Kitty from Hepcat City, to stay in step with me" - Bill Carter
  • ClankeyeClankeye Posts: 3,928 ✭
    Well, if you ever really need to torture yourself, bigindie, just punch "good morning class" into the search box at the top of the page. A few of them pop up.

    Clankeye
    Brevity is the soul of wit. --William Shakespeare
  • ursabearursabear Posts: 1,888
    Class A! How wonderful!

    The New York Times says, "A wonderful read! Couldn't put it down!"
    The Washington Post says, "Another fabulous installment!"
    The NN says, "Numismatic History!"

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  • cosmicdebriscosmicdebris Posts: 12,332 ✭✭✭
    LINKY-POO to them all.
    Bill

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  • MacCoinMacCoin Posts: 2,544 ✭✭
    thanx again Clankeye. I look foreward to Good Morning Class
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    I hate it when you see my post before I can edit the spelling.

    Always looking for nice type coins

    my local dealer
  • dpooledpoole Posts: 5,940 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Dr. Dpoole's hanging doth merely be ye acting out of the Transference. Behold, the purging of the King's troubled soul, the cathartic cleansing bolt of Frankies.

    The King will soon lie upon my couch again in sweet and tempered repose, gleefully paying my righteous, reasonable and customary fees. The Dark Askari hath justly fallen to depths of the Darkside Id.

    Now will somebody kindly returneth and get this noose off my neck??? Helloooooooo.....

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    Here's a warning parable for coin collectors...



  • coinguy1coinguy1 Posts: 13,484 ✭✭✭
    Clankeye, how DO you maintain such a consistently high level of quality and entertainment?

    Alas, I was away on business earlier today or I would have chimed in sooner.

    Now, I know why everyone was grabbing at my test tube and capimage

    "coinstarch1"
  • marcmoishmarcmoish Posts: 6,640 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Carl


    Another Monday Gem.

    Thanks to you, look how many coin collectors, and fellow numimatists get a kick of brilliant humor bordering on rusted colorful metal with dapples of tuches greens - on a typical Monday.image

    How sweet it is.....as Ralph would've said image




    Marc
  • beartracks42beartracks42 Posts: 2,834 ✭
    Another classic Monday in Coinalot. Great stuff, as usual.image
    Gary
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  • BearBear Posts: 18,953 ✭✭✭
    Coinguy, it is not a testube ye holdeth,

    but merly a laboratory flask.
    There once was a place called
    Camelotimage
  • coinguy1coinguy1 Posts: 13,484 ✭✭✭
    Bear, I agree with you. But, Clankeye called it a test tube and it's his thread, so I didn't dare argue with him.image
  • ClankeyeClankeye Posts: 3,928 ✭
    King ArtR called it a test tube, ye dogs! Would you argue with the King?

    Brevity is the soul of wit. --William Shakespeare
  • BearBear Posts: 18,953 ✭✭✭
    Who am I, to argue with the Royal Bard and the King.
    There once was a place called
    Camelotimage
  • ClankeyeClankeye Posts: 3,928 ✭
    Well, you could, Sir Bear, but you might find yourself keeping the company of Dr. Dpoole on yon Scaffold. image

    King ArtR
    Brevity is the soul of wit. --William Shakespeare
  • nwcsnwcs Posts: 13,386 ✭✭✭
    I still want to see the 10 plagues of coinalot. image
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  • BearBear Posts: 18,953 ✭✭✭
    A beaker , a flask or a testube, it matters not in the grand sceme of things.

    The sun riseth and seteth. The gentle rains falleth from the sky. The Moon in its orbit ,waxes and wanes.

    What mattereth pieces of glassware. The king is healed and merryment abounds in the joyous land

    called Coinalot.
    There once was a place called
    Camelotimage
  • wingedlibertywingedliberty Posts: 4,805 ✭✭✭
    Carl:
    Another fine piece. I believe you coined the word "PUKETH!".
    I love the way and the context in which you use it. image:image
    Mondays are fun again!



    Brian.
  • numobrinumobri Posts: 1,473 ✭✭✭

    Gotta say,THANKS again Clankeye for a Great Monday ending.
    NUMO
  • cosmicdebriscosmicdebris Posts: 12,332 ✭✭✭
    I have a feeling The Wizard Askari will be back. ArtR better watch out.
    Bill

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    09/07/2006
  • MadMonkMadMonk Posts: 3,743 ✭
    Great round Clankeye! Your reference to Frankies should make my Franklin Collection worth at least 25% more by the end of the week!
    Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
  • cosmicdebriscosmicdebris Posts: 12,332 ✭✭✭
    I am still waiting for Lucy to flash me with her frankies. image
    Bill

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    09/07/2006
  • AskariAskari Posts: 3,713 ✭
    I knew I shouldn't have supercharged the disappearing dust! image I have to admit, I haven't ever seen a nicer pair of whizzed Frankies that close before ... methinks she needs an allover tan ... or rust ... or whatever y'all call it!




















    BUWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!
    Askari



    Come on over ... to The Dark Side! image

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