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Re: Thursday is numismatic poetry day. My poem inside, Please add yours .
The Humblest of All ------------------------- A lonely old house, full of empty rooms And the dust of centuries gloomily looms on the horizon. It seeps and it sags, The broken window panes droop and drag. A child! A child, humblest of all, Skulks in the house and slinks down its old hall. The house, shocked out of slumber… -
Re: What is killing my interest in helping newbies here
I haven't noticed. Spammers with coins to sell have always skirted the edge of the forum, during my time here, sometimes openly, sometimes daring the overloaded moderators to take action. There has also always been a significant jerk population on the forum, can't say that has increased either. If anything, the troll… -
U.S. Postal Service Cracks Down On Cyberscams
U.S. Postal Service Cracks Down On Cyberscams With new and increasingly inventive cyberscams surfacing every week, the Postal Inspection Service's workload isn't likely to get any lighter. By Larry Greenemeier InformationWeek Jun 4, 2007 03:00 PM When you think about the U.S. Postal Service, you don't normally envision a… -
Work in Progress (FF informative thread)
Got my scanner going. Some of my pics were clearer than my scans! I'll update as time allows. 4 or more versions were left off. Will post once confirmed legit and/or my buddy obtains them. ODDBALL FAKE VERSIONS & MISC. FF FF (BLACK INK OFFSET-PRINT FLAW) FF SAW FF SAW (BLACK INK OFFSET-PRINT FLAW) WHITEOUT WHITE BOX (not… -
Re: 'rover links'
Tinyurls can be found in the same manner by placing your mouse pointer over the link without clicking and seeing what comes up in the status bar. From Wikipedia TinyURL (tinyurl.com) is a web service that provides short aliases to redirect long URLs Criticism The convenience offered by a TinyURL also introduces potential… -
Re: A+R 1853 half
I'm planning to put this on on the bay tomorrow just to ....OFF.... the thing. Didn't look CLOSELY enough. Glassed, but the problem is really ..... f a i n t. There's grafitti under the original tone though. Just wanna get it out at whatever someone bids (with full disclosure) Gonna take the lumps and move on. VERY nice… -
Donations to charity.
The United Way realized that it had never received a donation from one of the city's most successful lawyers. So a United Way volunteer paid the lawyer a visit in his lavish office. The volunteer opened the meeting by saying, "Our research shows that even though your annual income is over two million dollars, you don't… -
odd where is Joe Axtell with this
Umpires acknowledge another missed call in Series By MIKE FITZPATRICK, AP Baseball Writer 51 minutes ago Buzz Up PrintPHILADELPHIA (AP)—For the second time in two days, umpires acknowledged they missed a key call in the World Series. The Philadelphia Phillies scored in the first inning of Game 4 on Sunday night after Jimmy… -
Re: Future Numismatic Fallout from the Ohio Situation...
With few exceptions, most people who lost lots of money in the financial markets were victims of scams and hype. The perpetrators of such fraud for the most part a) did time in jail b) are being tried currently, or c) are doing time now. All you need to do is read the occasional Wall Street Journal to be aware of this.… -
Re: Official swap meet/estate sale and flea market FIND thread
Some thoughts on estate sales and swap meets. I basically spent a large chunk of my childhood at swap meets, mostly because that is how my parents started out their business, this was back in the early 70's's to about the late 80's. Back then it was very easy to find shoeboxes full of "old" baseball cards, most of which…
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