Current Currency Rant

I will save you the trouble of a rant of any kind at any time !!

They are called Barbers because they were designed by Charles E. Barber !!



Rick

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Originally posted by Buffaloboy5

I'm tired of all the dum changes in nickels and quarters and now dollars they never stop changing the stupid design I mean seriulsy whats next a half dollar that has a Iraqi memorial on it or a design that has no piont to america whats so ever like a nickel with Macdonalds on it and it says "Jefferson's favorite fast food" I mean really. Look at the State Quarters they are running out of ideas to put on the back of them I bet for alaska there gonna put a fishing trawly and its motto will be "Good ol' fishing and those new dollar coin who is going to buy a picture of Hilary clinton and a gold coin that makes me go seriously


And thats my rant of the month tahnk for hearing me out

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If I might offer a suggestion, and that would be that a prospective Knight knows how to spell, capitalize and punctuate properly. School may be out and this isn't a English class, but even if it isn't, there is no reason to get absolutely sloppy.

How do you know he wasn't kidding? About the barber. I thought it was funny.

Buffaloboy: In my opinion, having opinions is a fruitful thing, especially when you test them by telling them to others. At the risk of sounding patronizing, at your age, developing the habit of having opinions is far more important than most of the actual opinions one has, no matter what anybody says. Your opinions will change as you get older. Nobody escapes that.

But I'm guessing you're smarter than you let on. I expect you're aware, at some level, of the irony of calling what you wrote a "rant." It's an old trick. Preface your opinions by calling them irrational: it automatically apologizes for what follows (rants are, by definition, irrational), and so blunts criticism. Plus, if you let go of that term ("rant") and the idea behind it, your opinions have to be more careful, like your grammar, because opinions always attract criticism, which is an excellent state of things, if you ask me.

I agree with Dan about the grammar. It doesn't have to be the Queen's English; you just have to learn how not to distract readers with lazy spelling and sloppy word-chains that only pretend to be sentences. Reading your posts sometimes feels like walking through a minefield. Of course, message boards aren't supposed to be bastions of English rhetoric. But you have to be clear. Even when you're being complicated.

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Originally posted by Buffaloboy5

To tell you the truth

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Always a very good policy!

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Originally posted by Buffaloboy5
I'm very good at grammer. I'm one of the best writers in class(when I take my time like right now). I know why Barber coin are called Barber coins.

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Thank you for the exlanation, and I never for one minute thought you were that stupid. Sometime it pays to slack off and not try so hard to call attention to oneself. If you know what I mean!
Slow it down and learn from any of these people who are here to help and make your collecting practices a little more refined.

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to distract readers with lazy spelling and sloppy word-chains that only pretend to be sentences. Reading your posts sometimes feels like walking through a minefield. Of course, message boards aren't supposed to be bastions of English rhetoric. But you have to be clear. Even when you're being complicated.
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That sounds like me as well..
but I think mine is mostly-my mind working faster than my fingers typing
but in staying in line with what you all say. Study hard it will get you far...

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To tell you the truth I'm very good at grammer.

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:D ... I just can't get over the irony...

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I'm just trying to make the forum a funner place ...

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funner indeed!!

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Originally posted by Metalman

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Buffaloboy

Here's a tidbit of info for you !!

coin collectors find it funner to talk about coins ,share information about coins, see what others have added to there collections, expand their knowledge based on others knowledge.

forum integrity is built in a persons posts, being consistent , and most importantly of all not playing games with other members for your own pleasure.

The interrnet and forums are a great resource but they lack certian humanising qualities, such as facial expressions, and body language ,voice inflection which can often times be used to determine the quality of a persons words, quality being, seriousness, joking, confused, or any of a myriad of other emotional states ,,

just food for thought !!

Rick
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Ok Ill stop Metalman but you are right about humor and ill stop

Yes thank you for that idea