what else do you collect?

"PC" wrote in message
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"note.boy" wrote in message
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The pheasant has to be dumbest bird, they will stand at the side of a
road in Scotland and at the same time when the one car that comes along
that road per day it will then decide to cross the road. Billy

Sounds like deer to me.


About 8 in the morning on my way to Fort William several years ago a deer
ran across the road in front of me and I missed it by about 2 seconds, as I
was travelling at about 70mph at the time if I had hit it would probably
have come through the windscreen.

I then was watching out for the other one as they often travel in pairs but
I saw no sign of it. Billy

"tony cooper" wrote in message
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On Sun, 27 May 2007 19:57:58 GMT, "note.boy"
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"tony cooper" wrote in message
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On Sun, 27 May 2007 13:25:42 -0400, "John Ahnen"
wrote:

Another collection, which at times seems like controls me, are barnyard
fowl. Chickens, turkeys, peafowl and guineas, which are multiplying out
of
control.

My suburban-born daughter just spent a few days visiting some people
in rural North Carolina. Previously, she had not been near any turkey
that was not on a plate or in a sandwich.

She was absolutely amazed watching a tom turkey. She brought back
many pictures of the wattle (is that the right term?) in various
stages of color. It changes from gray to bright red depending on the
turkey's disposition. This particular tom was like an outdoor
housepet, and followed her around like a puppy. I guess he liked
being on camera.

It is claimed that turkeys are not too bright, but my daughter claims
that the guinea fowl makes the turkey look like a genius.

The pheasant has to be dumbest bird, they will stand at the side of a road
in Scotland and at the same time when the one car that comes along that
road
per day it will then decide to cross the road. Billy

The pheasant isn't all that dumb. At least it made it to Scotland.
It could have chosen to go to Cleveland to stand by the road.


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Tony Cooper
Orlando, FL

What have go got against Cleveland? :-) Billy

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wrote in message news:MYn6i.514530

any model kits left?

I still have quite a bit of the VVS still crated.


But due to export restrictions and the fact that they are State secrets they
cannot be sold or exported. In fact I really want to build the Yak 1b of
Lilya Litvak, but haven't time. I only recently completed model of PO-2 of
Night Witches.

On Mon, 28 May 2007 10:34:11 GMT, "note.boy"
wrote:

About 8 in the morning on my way to Fort William several years ago a deer
ran across the road in front of me and I missed it by about 2 seconds, as I
was travelling at about 70mph at the time if I had hit it would probably
have come through the windscreen.


When I was in college at Indiana University in the late 50s, a
fraternity brother had a Studebaker Golden Hawk...a low, sleek,
aerodynamically-designed car for the day. He and I were in that car
driving - about 70 mph - from Bloomington to Indianapolis one evening
when a deer suddenly appeared in front of the car. He hit the deer,
and it rolled over the hood, windshield, and top.

The car's paint was scratched, but there was no serious damage. We
stopped and looked for the deer but couldn't find any trace of it. If
the deer was injured, it at least was able to run away.

A Golden Hawk: http://www.hubcapcafe.com/ocs/pages01/stud5701.htm
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Tony Cooper
Orlando, FL

wrote in message
oups.com...
I collect chemical elements as well. I think it is a fun set of
things to collect, *almost* finite, but as others have mentioned, the
artificial elements are not obtainable. In fact, most of my 'coin'
collecting is actually element collecting... (I am into paper money
more than coins, but I mainly read this newsgroup cuz the paper money
one has very little traffic.) E.g. I have a couple of 1/10 oz bullion
coins for Au and Pt, a bigger one for Ag. I also just discovered that
many fairly recent Canadian coins are pure nickel, and so now I have
the goal of a set of each type of pure nickel coin that Canada has
issued. I think this will be fun, and inexpensive - nobody cares much
about nickel. My local coin shop had some circulated Canadian
quarters for sale cheap, so I bought 100 of them, and my latest
element sample is a jar of nickel coins. It is fun buying coins for
their metal content at 10-15 cents each.

- Mark


Hey, what a neat idea- I think I'll try to make a "type set" of all the
different materials coins have been produced from. I'll start with all US,
but I think I'll have to start including world coins - I'm sure far more
materials have been used abroad than have been used in the US. Of course,
identifying the scope and limits of the project is going to be tough! I
think I should limit it to actual circulating legal tender (so no wooden
nickels!).

So, let's see:
Copper
Brass
Zinc
Nickel
Manganese
Iron
Silver
Gold
Platinum
Hmm, I'll have to differentiate between different alloy compositions. The
gold Buffaloes vs. the gold Eagles, 90% & 40% silver, etc. With the pure
gold Buffalo, I suppose that's the first pure "elemental" coin produced in
the US, all the others are alloys, is that right?

My main coin collecting focus is a US type set, always has been. It's about
the only "collecting" thing that I've never tired of.

My other big collection is antique Coca-Cola advertising memorabilia, I
especially like those old button signs.

"Sibirskmoneta" wrote in message
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"Sibirskmoneta" wrote in message
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wrote in message news:MYn6i.514530

any model kits left?

I still have quite a bit of the VVS still crated.


But due to export restrictions and the fact that they are State secrets
they cannot be sold or exported. In fact I really want to build the Yak
1b of Lilya Litvak, but haven't time. I only recently completed model of
PO-2 of Night Witches.


I ordered from Airfix a plastic model kit of Iraq's WMD but when it arrived
the box was empty. :-) Billy

On Mon, 28 May 2007 14:30:22 GMT, note.boy wrote:

"Sibirskmoneta" wrote in message
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But due to export restrictions and the fact that they are State secrets
they cannot be sold or exported. In fact I really want to build the Yak
1b of Lilya Litvak, but haven't time. I only recently completed model of
PO-2 of Night Witches.

I ordered from Airfix a plastic model kit of Iraq's WMD but when it arrived
the box was empty. :-) Billy

Ah, you got the post-Clinton-wait-without-watching-them model.

wrote in message news:ixE6i.132328

PO-2, the biplane the women flew to keep the germans awake?
didn't they cut their motors and glide over the germans to
bomb them? took bravery.

Why they called them the night witches, because they would literally fly all
night long sometimes 4-5 missions in a plane that did no more than 95mph,
but usually they did not cut their engines on bombing runs, they were going
slow enough already and really they were more of a hazard to German morale
than a strategic hazard. But consider that the Germans in their range never
got rest, because they fought against the army all day long then were kept
awake by the night witches all night long.

The women that did not die quickly in these missions, the "lucky" ones,
often racked up several hundred missions in a very short period of time, a
feat that most men in the VVS never approached.

I inherited an incomplete collection of Elements when a buddy went off
to college. Many, he had to get as compounds -- uranium fluoride, for
instance -- but it was fairly complete with only the obvious
transuraniums missing and a few of the rarer rare earths.

About 1993-1995, I twice heard Cliff Mishler give his "stump speech"
to the MSNS about collecting and collectors.

Mishler has called collecting "a gene you are not born with." Non-collectors simply do not "get" what we do. And even among collectors as a class, collectors of one object are viewed as odd by collectors of other objects, who are themselves odd in the views of still other collectors. For all of that, people who collect one thing often collect others. Whatever is collected, the collector needs no justification.
(Newsgroups: rec.collecting.coins, From: Marotta, Michael E.
, Date: Wed, Apr 11 2001 8:28 am,
Subject: Natterers and Leaders)

On May 27, 7:24 pm, "Dale Hallmark" dalehall at cableone.net wrote:
I have collected many things over the years but ...
rocks and minerals ... paper match books, mint of course :-) ... pens and pencils ... tools ... maps ...

I also collect(ed) many things, but never with the true passion of a
collector who needs to have one of each to feel complete. My idea of
"one of each" oftens starts and ends with "one = one of each." I have
meteorites, but only three: one of each -- iron, chondrite,
achondrite. I have fountain pens including goosequills. Books include
a biography of Alexander Hamilton by Henry Cabot Lodge, William Graham
Sumner's History of American Banking, a few more along that line. I
have the Ramparts Magazine with Che Guevara's Diary and New Times with
Patty Hearst's abductors, both originals off the newsstand. My
science fiction is hardcover first edition cyberpunk supplemented with
the original magazine appearenace of "Johnny Mnemonic" and others.
Stamps, yes, but in lieu of "baseball cards" I have astronaut cards
and John Glenn signed his for me. I am not much for autographs though
I bought my daugher Leona Helmsley's, you know, sort of a role model.
Other astronaut stuff includes my passes from working at the Cape, the
Hotwheels John Glenn tableau, mission patches from projects I was on,
mamy others given to me, actually. Aviation collectibles run a full
range of stuff and nonsense, but include "Air Boys" adventures from
before World War One. I like postcards, especially with stamps,
cancellations, and messages and have two from an air show in Chicago
in 1911. When my father-in-law passed away, we found out that as a
carpenter, he collected woods.

'Nuff said...
Mike M.

wrote in message news:13J6i.137163
the history channel mad a big deal about the silent
glides...they practice being wrong.
yesterday they had a pic of the hawk 509 rocket motor and
called it the swallow jet.
morons!

History Channel programmes are good entertainment, but not always
historically accurate. They are commercially produced programming with an
emphasis on attracting advertising dollars. Basically a lot of the
programming suggest it is put together by compilers and not historians. I
have seen good programming more for entertainment value on History Channel,
and do watch it. But I take it with a grain of salt.

With reference to watching historically accurate information I would stick
to watching programming on PBS as it is much more objective, and checked out
as it is critically viewed.