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Choppy stepped out, so I will too, post #2
jacksongto
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Hey all
I've been lurking around here for about two years now, just digging the show and picking up a ton of knowledge along the way. I'm not much of a coin collector, probably lucky to get $1k for what I own. My brother is more of a collector, his recent (umm, only?) big score is 30 reverse '07 ASE's, sent of to NGC (Yes, I know), 6 came back MS69 and 24 came back MS70!!. Nice score bro!! Good guy that he is, he tossed me one of his raw ones, seriously, he took it out of the holder, gave a quick "heads-up!!" and tossed it to me from across the room, just kidding, but he did give me one.
Is there a "You Suck by Proxy" award?
Just wondering.
You want to know about me!?, Well, where to start. I'll start at the end and make it quick. I am a retired Chief Quartermaster with the U.S. Coast Guard. I pulled the plug when I was 39, took 2 years off and got hired back as a civlian. I work as a Search and Rescue Controller in New Orleans.
Hurricane Katrina?
Right smack in the middle of it, remember the non-stop images of the Chinook helos bombing the levee break with the big white sandbags? They were picking them up 100 yards west of where I was working and dropping them 200 yards down the canal to the southeast. 6 days of glorious, non-stop, joyous insanity before I got a break!!
Disaster? Not for me, I worked 22 hour days for the first 6 days until I finally got relieved and got out of the city, it was the time of my life.
Well, enough about me
One last, for the 2 years I have been lurking around here, there has been one question that plagues and perplexes me. One thing that I cannot get a handle on figure out or understand. A puzzle wrapped in a riddle inside conundrum.
Would someone please explain to me this one thing;
What in the friggin hell is up with this MadMarty guy?
Anyone? Anyone?
Peace!!
Jim
I've been lurking around here for about two years now, just digging the show and picking up a ton of knowledge along the way. I'm not much of a coin collector, probably lucky to get $1k for what I own. My brother is more of a collector, his recent (umm, only?) big score is 30 reverse '07 ASE's, sent of to NGC (Yes, I know), 6 came back MS69 and 24 came back MS70!!. Nice score bro!! Good guy that he is, he tossed me one of his raw ones, seriously, he took it out of the holder, gave a quick "heads-up!!" and tossed it to me from across the room, just kidding, but he did give me one.
Is there a "You Suck by Proxy" award?
Just wondering.
You want to know about me!?, Well, where to start. I'll start at the end and make it quick. I am a retired Chief Quartermaster with the U.S. Coast Guard. I pulled the plug when I was 39, took 2 years off and got hired back as a civlian. I work as a Search and Rescue Controller in New Orleans.
Hurricane Katrina?
Right smack in the middle of it, remember the non-stop images of the Chinook helos bombing the levee break with the big white sandbags? They were picking them up 100 yards west of where I was working and dropping them 200 yards down the canal to the southeast. 6 days of glorious, non-stop, joyous insanity before I got a break!!
Disaster? Not for me, I worked 22 hour days for the first 6 days until I finally got relieved and got out of the city, it was the time of my life.
Well, enough about me
One last, for the 2 years I have been lurking around here, there has been one question that plagues and perplexes me. One thing that I cannot get a handle on figure out or understand. A puzzle wrapped in a riddle inside conundrum.
Would someone please explain to me this one thing;
What in the friggin hell is up with this MadMarty guy?
Anyone? Anyone?
Peace!!
Jim
**WINNER**illini420's "Most Confusing Giveaway Ever Award"
**WINNER**Lordmarcovan's "2008 Most Righteous Giver-Away of Good Loot Award"
**WINNER**Lordmarcovan's "2008 Most Righteous Giver-Away of Good Loot Award"
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As for MadMarty - I'll let him answer.....
“In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock." - Thomas Jefferson
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Hello Jim, and welcome!!
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"America suffers today from too much pluribus and not enough unum.".....Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
any coast guard coins out there in honor of your service to our country?
it's more fun to post than to lurk
He is a serious collector with eclectic tastes in coins
and medals. He has a wonderfully wild and exotic
sense of humor and has a constant companion, who just
happens to be a rubber chicken named Charlie. Mad Marty
is a perfect example, of what represents normalcy on this
Forum.
While this Forum is heavily coin oriented, we all have to laugh,
let off steam and decompress, from the stress of the real world
outside. Mad Marty has , with his usual good nature, allowed us
to make him a long running poster boy for wackiness.In actuality,
he is a serious numismatist and a heck of a nice fellow.
Camelot
"If I say something in the woods and my wife isn't there to hear it.....am I still wrong?"
My Washington Quarter Registry set...in progress
That's some great luck your brother has, nice to see him share the wealth!
About MadMarty.............
-Paul
thank you thank you, left my password for the other account at work and left on a 5 week sabbatical, hence the "1"
Just kidding about the Mad One, of course, you can't spend too much time lurking here before getting a good sense of his - that character.
I dream for the day when I get my hands on one of MadMArty's weeinies!!!!
ummm, wait, let me rephrase....
<< <i>Welcome to the forums.... I like your humor.... enjoy... Cheers, RickO >>
thank you very much, then your sure to love this!! Post #1!!!
http://forums.collectors.com/messageview.cfm?catid=26&threadid=661034&STARTPAGE=1
And hey Mach 19!! Glad you chimed in!! Still need some Red Sox - Yankees tickets? Trade for a raw reverse 07 ASE probably not the fairest trade these days. In a few I will proposition you with another offer (hubba-hubba!!)
(and Mach 19, that's like wicked fast)
<< <i>any coast guard coins out there in honor of your service to our country? >>
Do you mean the commemorative type, usually bronze like medals/coins? Their is one, if you're interested I'll find you one
<< <i>Welcome to the madness Jim, I got out in June of 1970(GM2) and never looked back. >>
Damn, we always talk about "old Guard" for me that's pre-80's, pre-70's is really going back, tell me John, do you know what a "Square Grouper" is? Did you ever catch one and if so what did you do with it?
<< <i>MAD... WHOSE MAD? >>
Hmmm, well I don't know, certainly not her, she is one right thinking individual, looks like she might get knocked off the crazy-trainwreck-pedestal by that young up-and-comer, Miley Cyrus, ehh?
<< <i> welcome to the new quarter master from an ol boats...;-) >>
thanks Boats!!
Ahh, Mud Duck or Squid?
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<< <i> welcome to the new quarter master from an ol boats...;-) >>
thanks Boats!!
Ahh, Mud Duck or Squid?
What are we running here, a seafood restaurant
for Old Navy and Coast Guard Personnel?
Camelot
“We are only their care-takers,” he posed, “if we take good care of them, then centuries from now they may still be here … ”
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