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Any ideas on something new / different / interesting, to liven things up around this boring place?

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    tradedollarnuttradedollarnut Posts: 20,654 ✭✭✭✭✭
    troublemaker........
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    SethChandlerSethChandler Posts: 1,722 ✭✭✭✭
    Yea, tell us about some of the great raw fresh collections you've handled...with details.

    Answer some of my coin trivia posts............

    Seth
    Collecting since 1976.
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    OT post followed by a joke that has been posted before.

    Cameron Kiefer
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    FrattLawFrattLaw Posts: 3,290 ✭✭
    I dunno, the Ebay witchhunt is back on -- that's kinda fun.

    Michael
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    dragondragon Posts: 4,548 ✭✭
    Oh yeah, I have some definate things I could liven up this forum with..........however I don't want make enemies with a lot of dealers nor join gmarguli just yet.
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    Cam40Cam40 Posts: 8,146
    I wished we had more `Clankeyes` around here.

    I dig those funny parodies he comes up with occasionally.

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    flamewars!

    come on Dragon, let's hear it!
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    MadMartyMadMarty Posts: 16,697 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I wished we had more `Clankeyes` around here.

    I dig those funny parodies he comes up with occasionally >>



    You saw what happened to my last modern order after my story about the PCGS field trip! No more parodies for me!!!
    It is not exactly cheating, I prefer to consider it creative problem solving!!!

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    stmanstman Posts: 11,352 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Ummm. Don't you have a show to get ready for? Oh yeah, you have the easy life living out of state from your office. What a life.... they have to pack everything and set up probably, and the great Coinguy1 just has to fly in and ask where his room and table are. Hope this helps.image
    Please... Save The Stories, Just Answer My Questions, And Tell Me How Much!!!!!
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    dragondragon Posts: 4,548 ✭✭
    jb,

    You don't want to hear it, trust me.
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    << <i>I wished we had more `Clankeyes` around here. >>



    Cam40--

    If a genie came out of a magic bottle and gave you three wishes... would that even make the top three? image Besides, I saw the other day someone has appropriated my icon. Maybe they can write?

    We need someone (preferably a dealer) to come back from the Santa Clara show and start a thread that PCGS is grading too tight and is killing the market. Those always get a few responses. image

    Clankeye 7
    Brevity is the soul of wit. --William Shakespeare
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    1jester1jester Posts: 8,637 ✭✭✭
    I have a great idea. Just leave this boring place and join us over on the Darkside!!!

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    .....GOD
    image

    "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
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    Cam40Cam40 Posts: 8,146
    Well Marty, you did call em a bunch of primates.

    image
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    DHeathDHeath Posts: 8,472 ✭✭✭
    I didn't see the email to Marty that his invoice was finished, but I'd imagine it went "Dear Funny Guy, you invoice is ready.image The staff here at PCGS has a sense of humor. We trust you do too. "

    Developing theory is what we are meant to do as academic researchers
    and it sets us apart from practitioners and consultants. Gregor
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    elwoodelwood Posts: 2,414
    Let the Dealers answer this: "What I Hate About Coin Collectors"
    Please visit my website prehistoricamerica.com www.visitiowa.org/pinecreekcabins
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    sample slabs.image

    Cameron Kiefer
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    BigEBigE Posts: 6,949 ✭✭✭
    I have an idea, lets have a Pinnacle Rarities "Blue Light Special" for three hours only!!!! 20% off all items (or just Commems)image--------------BigE
    I'm glad I am a Tree
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    IrishMikeIrishMike Posts: 7,737 ✭✭✭
    I've decided to fess up,

    My name is Crabby Appleton, I'm rotten to the core
    I do a bad deed every day, and sometimes three or four
    I can't stand fun for anyone, I think good deeds are sappy, I laugh
    with glee, it pleases me, when everyone's unhappy!

    This will bring out the oldtimers, remember Captain Kangaroo?
    Good thing he had Tom Terrific and Manfred the Wonderdog.image aka bear and Coinguy1

    Or could you be the banana man? Wow!image
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    KollectorKingKollectorKing Posts: 4,820 ✭✭✭✭✭
    If Michael Jackson collected coins, what would he collect, and why?
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    I like BigE's idea image
    ANA Member R-213302
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    tjkilliantjkillian Posts: 5,578 ✭✭✭
    How about all the sleezy stories you've heard, including the ones that were not proven? image

    Tom
    Tom

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    ElcontadorElcontador Posts: 7,740 ✭✭✭✭✭
    We could go into details about some coin dealers who ripped people off and were sent to jail for it. One local guy comes to mind.

    Or, we could discuss in great detail our most unsavory encounter with a dealer or collector at a coin show.

    An alternative is to describe the most overgraded coin we've ever seen -- in terms of actual grade and / or value because of it being overgraded -- & the related comments when others saw the coin.

    I wouldn't ever say anything baaaad about Mark. Down where Bulldog lives, they'd say he's a "fine Christian boy" (that one doesn't travel well outside of our Southern States; it's a compliment as to one's character).

    I think I'm done.
    "Vou invadir o Nordeste,
    "Seu cabra da peste,
    "Sou Mangueira......."
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    How about how many AH Kennedys or Frankies are enough for anyone?

    Edited to say: I'm Sorry!! But I couldn't help myself!! My real topic would be "Why do really rare, actually minted for circulation in the year in which they are dated, coins sell for so much less less than fantasy coins like the 1804 (Siam Special) Dollar and the 1913 ("I'm on the late shift at the Mint so I think I'll make some change") Liberty Nickels?"
    Curmudgeon in waiting!
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    lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 45,149 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Maybe not new, but here's one that might fall under "different / interesting"... meat fashions!

    image

    My wife would never wear that. She likes her steak well done, like shoe leather.

    Collector since 1976. On the CU forums here since 2001.

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    BarryBarry Posts: 10,100 ✭✭✭


    << <i>If Michael Jackson collected coins, what would he collect, and why? >>


    Moderns (less than 14 years old).
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    mgoodm3mgoodm3 Posts: 17,497 ✭✭✭
    YELL ALL OF YOUR MESSAGES!
    coinimaging.com/my photography articles Check out the new macro lens testing section
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    cladkingcladking Posts: 30,162 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Perhaps someone could organize a new member drive.
    tempus fugit extra philosophiam.
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    cladkingcladking Posts: 30,162 ✭✭✭✭✭
    SORRY, I MEANT MAYBE SOMEONE COULD ORGANIZE A NEW MEMBER DRIVE.
    tempus fugit extra philosophiam.
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    CalGoldCalGold Posts: 2,608 ✭✭
    How about an ugly icon contest. Perhaps someone who knows how to set up polls can do one for the ugliest icon.

    And if all else fails we can always bash moderns.imageimageimageimageimageimageimageimageimageimageimageimageimageimageimageimageimageimageimageimageimageimageimageimageimageimageimageimageimageimageimageimageimageimageimageimageimage
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    mgoodm3mgoodm3 Posts: 17,497 ✭✭✭
    Need to establish an ugly type set hall of fame. Kinda like a registry. Something we can all aspire to.
    coinimaging.com/my photography articles Check out the new macro lens testing section
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    mgoodm3mgoodm3 Posts: 17,497 ✭✭✭
    SORRY, I MEANT:

    NEED TO ESTABLISH AN UGLY TYPE SET HALL OF FAME. KINDA LIKE A REGISTRY. SOMETHING WE CAN ALL ASPIRE TO.
    coinimaging.com/my photography articles Check out the new macro lens testing section
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    You saw what happened to my last modern order after my story about the PCGS field trip! No more parodies for me!!! ....Yeah, Marty! Let things be until after my coin comes back that you submitted....Ken
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    BigEBigE Posts: 6,949 ✭✭✭
    I was wondering why anyone would submit a coin through MadMarty when they come back low grade, if they come back at allimage-------------BigE
    I'm glad I am a Tree
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    mozeppamozeppa Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭


    << <i>If Michael Jackson collected coins, what would he collect, and why? >>



    the Vienna Boys Choir commemorative set.....why?...you guess!image
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    How about I post another thread and you all can torch me againimage
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    RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Just leave this boring place and join us over on the Darkside!!! >>



    Anybody else see the irony in that statement? If you don't, take him up on the offer and visit that forum. image

    Russ, NCNE
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    We need more drunken posting (if that's even possible...)image
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    Catch22Catch22 Posts: 1,086 ✭✭
    Poor Michael Jackson.....he was only 2 boys away from making Bishop!


    When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

    Thomas Paine
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    Bunny Rabbit would do anything for carrots.
    Mr. Greenjeans demanded PCGS graded Morgans.


    Skipper
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    1jester1jester Posts: 8,637 ✭✭✭
    Russ, what irony?!imageimage
    .....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
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    KollectorKingKollectorKing Posts: 4,820 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Have the grading services and major coin dealers been conspiring during periods of loosening as well as tightening grading standards to artificially manipulate the market?image
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    1jester1jester Posts: 8,637 ✭✭✭
    How Darkside coins are superior to the same old, boring, practically new US coins.

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    .....GOD
    image

    "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

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