You know you've been collecting VAMs too long when...

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• wam98 Posts: 2,685 ✭

  October 26, 2006 8:51AM

  Cracks in sidewalks remind you of a VAM.

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• 1921obsession Posts: 559 ✭

  October 26, 2006 8:56AM

  Um, in my case, when you quit looking at the obverse of coins entirely.

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• eyoung429 Posts: 6,374 ✭

  October 26, 2006 9:39AM

  When your wife wakes you up because you scream out the entire content of your last discovery letter from Mr. Allen!

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  Hell, I don't need to exercise.....I get enough just pushing my luck.

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• coindeuce Posts: 13,496 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 26, 2006 10:31AM

  
  You impart eyelash scratches to your $100+ Zeiss loupe

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• Wolf359 Posts: 7,663 ✭✭✭

  October 26, 2006 2:36PM

  You ignore what the boss is saying because all you can think about is getting home and checking the mail...

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• DennisH Posts: 14,011 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 26, 2006 2:42PM

  You see exit signs on the highway (7A, 36A, etc), and you instantly think of what date and diagnostic it is!
  
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• sonoranmonsoon Posts: 2,078 ✭✭

  October 26, 2006 11:04PM

  when they keep discovering new vams at a pace that far exceeds your ability to ever collect them.

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• Coxe Posts: 11,139 ✭

  October 26, 2006 11:36PM

  A gal tells you she has some 34-D's just for you and you immediately think VAM-3 or VAM-4 would be nice.

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• FredWeinberg Posts: 5,926 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 27, 2006 12:21AM

  
  
  DennisH and Coxe -- Best posts on this subject so far, imo......
  
  
  

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• hiyosilver Posts: 1,216

  October 27, 2006 12:32AM

  <<: You know you've been collecting VAMs too long when...>>
  
  When the wife calls you to see where you are and you'd rather tell her that you're at a nudey bar then a coin shop.......

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• StrikeOutXXX Posts: 3,352 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 27, 2006 12:40AM

  When you bring this shirt home thinking it would be cool to wear to a coin show, but only to have your kids tell you it's what the "Hood Kids" wear on street corners and not what I was thinking
  
  

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• ccr Posts: 2,446

  October 27, 2006 12:44AM

  
  
  << <i>You know you've been collecting VAMs too long when... >>
  
  
  
  ...... you think Peace Talks means swapping VAM lists.

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• MAD4MORGANS Posts: 2,044

  October 28, 2006 6:51AM

  
  
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  << <i>You know you've been collecting VAMs too long when... >>
  
  
  
  You're flat broke!
  
  

  
  If I only had a dollar for every VAM I have...err...nevermind...I do!!
  
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