Tulving is Bankrupt

[Xtal]

I also had a really slow order from Goldmart.  I switched to Apmex and they seem fine.

[MediumTex]

Of course I should note that all my physical gold holdings were tragically lost in a high speed train collision in China. 

It would be interesting to start a thread with all of the interesting and tragic ways in which gold collections have been lost or destroyed.

I was a huge gold coin enthusiast, but then one day I went to Long John Silvers and got into an extended conversation with the guy working the register using nothing but "pirate-speak."  At one point, he looked outside at my car and said:

"Aye mate, must a been a real scallywag what sold you that barnacle barge; I'd have a hempen halter for any son of a biscuit eater who hornswaggled me with a rusty anchor like that." 

Then he looked over at my wife, who was getting napkins and ketchup, and said:

"Aye, yer a cleverer Jack Tar than I figured, but I see yer play now.  Yer a rusty anchor collector!  Well, a tip of me hat to you sir; that well-worn lass is a perfect complement to that piece of shit you pulled up in."

In a sudden passion, I said:

"Well you be an ignorant scurvy dog if you think that blasphemous bilge pouring out of yer hatch isn't a bunch a empty chatter from a dim squiffy.  Truth is, mate, I got a hoard a gold in me backyard that'd make yer meager pay here at this chum bucket look like a sack a sand."

And two weeks later someone came into my backyard, dug up my gold, and made off with it.

And that's exactly what happened.

[MediumTex]

I had stashed all of my gold in a compartment in my small intestine, but then one night I went to Tijuana and got drunk and the next morning I woke up in the desert feeling groggy and felt a pain in my side and noticed a small incision.  I had apparently been drugged and all of my gold had been surgically removed.

[Reub]

How do we know that unscrupulous outfits like Tulving aren't selling some counterfit coins if they are about to go under?

[WildAboutHarry]

[quote=Reub]How do we know that unscrupulous outfits like Tulving aren't selling some counterfit coins if they are about to go under?[/quote]

We cannot know who is or is not selling counterfeit coins, based on their scruples or lack thereof.  In fact, one could imagine that any counterfeits sold by the most scrupulous vendors would be the "best" counterfeits and therefore the most difficult to detect.

Knowledge of the product is the only way and even then it is tough.

[MediumTex]

MT, you speak some pretty good pirate.  It's not an easy language to learn.

I took two semesters of buccaneer dialects in college, and that really gave me a strong foundation.

[WildAboutHarry]

MT, you speak some pretty good pirate.  It's not an easy language to learn.

I took two semesters of buccaneer dialects in college, and that really gave me a strong foundation.

Please, please.  "Pirate" and "Buccaneer" are forms of hate speech!  The proper term is "Gentleperson of Fortune".

[MediumTex]

MT, you speak some pretty good pirate.  It's not an easy language to learn.

I took two semesters of buccaneer dialects in college, and that really gave me a strong foundation.

Please, please.  "Pirate" and "Buccaneer" are forms of hate speech!  The proper term is "Gentleperson of Fortune".

Given that American sports teams tend to be named after things that we were frightened of in the past (e.g., in football there are Giants, Bears, Lions, Jaguars, Panthers, Buccaneers, Redskins, Chiefs, and Raiders), I wonder if in the future the following will be popular names for sports teams:

The Terrorists
The Evildoers
The Liberals
The Insurgents
The Assault Weapons
The Radicals

Well folks, tonight we've got a matchup for the ages.  The undefeated Milwaukee Evildoers are facing the Tampa Bay Liberals.  The Liberals have two losses, one to the Atlanta Assault Weapons and one to the Nashville Terrorists, but many are still picking the Liberals to go all the way this year, though the Evildoers would probably take issue with that appraisal.  Whatever happens to tonight, though, each team will have to make a quick recovery because the Liberals will meet the Detroit Insurgents next week and the Evildoers are going to try to work a little evil on the Kansas City Radicals.

[MediumTex]

MT, you speak some pretty good pirate.  It's not an easy language to learn.

I took two semesters of buccaneer dialects in college, and that really gave me a strong foundation.

MT, I figured as much.  I wish more universities would wake up and offer such programs. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve struggled over some very difficult concept in life, and have desperately wanted to go see how it was described in the original Pirate writings.  But alas, I can’t understand a lick of it. Sometimes I feel like a guy that’s blind in one eye.

I had a couple of really outstanding professors who made all the difference.

[WildAboutHarry]

MT:

El Camino College (southern CA) went the other direction for a mascot in the mid-1960s.  The Ostrich.  They even tried to hatch an ostrich egg.  The ostrich was to be (or was, I don't remember if they were able to hatch the thing) called ECCO.  El Camino College Ostrich. 

I believe the school colors where pink and white lace.

And of course, UC Santa Cruz's mascot is the Banana Slug.

[barrett]

Let us not forget that great symbol of Canadian pride the beaver. Would love to see The Mighty Beavs face off against The Ostriches!

What has this thread come to? Perhaps someone can skillfully tie it all together.

[6 Iron]

...wanted to go see how it was described in the original Pirate writings.  But alas, I can’t understand a lick of it. Sometimes I feel like a guy that’s blind in one eye.

Don't give up, man. You are almost there!

[Reub]

It would be interesting to start a thread with all of the interesting and tragic ways in which gold collections have been lost or destroyed.

The kid who played "Mikey" in the Life cereal commercials in the 1970's met an untimely death when he drank a can of Coca-Cola shortly after accidently swallowing 3 gold coins.  The passivated Au2O3 layer on the 1/4 oz Kruggerands reacted with the carbonic acid in the Coca-Cola, causing a violent explosion in Mikey's stomach -- and killed him instantly.  His parents were able to recover the gold, however, and it was buried along with him in an unmarked grave in Yonkers, NY.

So I guess this wasn't exactly a tale of lost gold.  Oh well.  It is sad, nonetheless.

You mean that Mikey's gone? I just can't bear it! 

[MediumTex]

...wanted to go see how it was described in the original Pirate writings.  But alas, I can’t understand a lick of it. Sometimes I feel like a guy that’s blind in one eye.

Don't give up, man. You are almost there!

Sounds like it's not too early to go parrot shopping.