"Mr. Jaggers" lugburzman[at]yahoo[dot]com wrote in message
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oly wrote:
On Sep 24, 5:10 pm, "Mr. Jaggers" lugburzman[at]yahoo[dot]com wrote:
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On Sep 24, 4:57 pm, "Mr. Jaggers" lugburzman[at]yahoo[dot]com
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oly wrote:
On Sep 24, 4:00 pm, "Mr. Jaggers" lugburzman[at]yahoo[dot]com
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oly wrote:
On Sep 24, 12:47 pm, "The Giant Brain"
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"Arizona Coin Collector" wrote in
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September 24, 1869

Gold prices plummet

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-h...rticle&id=6117

JAM

Hello

The good news is crude oil also dropped.

You can check the spot trade price on Bloomberg at the links
below. It is now showing at $998.70.

http://www.bloomberg.com/markets/com.../cfutures.html

Folks, we have a contender for most clueless response to a
post. Shall we close the nominations now and all acclaim
Arizona Coin Collector the
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Well, it's the stupidest RCC response since the "Giant Brain"
expounded with ultimate authority that that nice 1841 British
Gold Sovereign was worth melt, or about $225 - not the 8,000
pounds that it catalogs at.

So it's the stupidest response in about three weeks.

All this argument is meaningless to me, having just lost my
entire nest egg due to this latest gold crash. This could be my
last post, because I can see someone pounding at my front door,
yelling something about how he's going to repo my computer, and
he's got a U.S. Marshal with him.

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Jay Gould survived the 1869 debacle for many many years - and died
rather old and still rich.

You will too, mon vieux.

They don't repo computers. Used computer is worth three cents on
the dollar to the finance company. They will harass you for the
money to the fullest extent they can get away with - but
remember, they don't want the computer back, ever.

Whew, it was just a couple of my neighbors from down the street
pulling a prank. Now I can get back to my Scrooge McDuck roleplay.

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Scrooge McDuck had his money bin full of both gold and greenbacks.
Wouldn't a real dyed-in-the-wool miser have had only gold???

He uses the gold to fill the tub for his bath. The greenbacks are
carried to leave a dollar tip for waiters.

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Scrooge is a Scotsman!!! NO WAY would he be leaving a whole dollar
for the waiters!!!

Hughey, Dewey and Louie were lucky to get a quarter apiece from the
old fart on their birthdays!!!

oly

Some 19th century American miser (I believe the fellow might have been
a lawyer too) issued a token (or something exo-numismatic) that said
"Never Trust a Paper Dollar Until Tommorrow".

That vieux canard (some would say connard) écossais learned his lesson the
hard way when Daisy deep-sixed the old flatulence for tipping a quarter
one time at Maxim's. Ever since then he's been gazing from afar while his
lady love cavorts with his no-good nephew Donald.

James the Cartoonist

I trust that this is an accurate recitation of the event and not some foul
quackery in the form of a canard canard?

- mazorj
"Cognates and puns conflated while you wait."