| Author |
 Replies: 52 / Views: 4,261 |
|
|
|
Pillar of the Community
United States
1000 Posts |
In July of 2010, KurtS runs a contest to celebrate 12,000 posts and calls it his triple palladium pillardom contest. He makes a mistake and mentions that he plans on awarding everyone who enters something.  His contest gets posted on multiple sites including Yahoo,MSN and Google's home page and gets picked up by the media circuit. Every local news cast reports on the story and KurtS is even interviewed on the Jimmy Kimmel Show. KurtS is such a riveting interview, that he receives multiple offers including his own TV show and a book deal. Over 5 million new members join the CCF website to enter his contest. Luckily KurtS is now a Multi Millionaire and buys 5 million slabbed 1989P nickels for his contest giveaway at $.08 a piece or a mere $400,000. Now how to mail them all?  KurtS decides to hand deliver them during a stadium book tour across the world. He also gives away a slabbed "Cupro-nickel bullion" with every book purchase. As a side note Metalman still has more posts  |
|
Pillar of the Community
Canada
965 Posts |
Quote:As a side note Metalman still has more posts Best line so far! LOL! Edited by Topher
07/03/2008 10:35 am
|
|
Pillar of the Community
 United States
5318 Posts |
"He makes a mistake and mentions that he plans on awarding everyone who enters something." Oh man, that depends. Disclaimer: prizes are while supply lasts, at my discretion. It's not like I'm the US Treasury, printing money on a whim.  Hilarious stuff guys! |
|
Moderator
 United States
188660 Posts |
Quote:Quote:As a side note Metalman still has more posts Best line so far! LOL!  Quote:
He makes a mistake and mentions that he plans on awarding everyone who enters something. Just make sure you give "Newman" a coin, or he might be tempted to make them "disappear" en route to all of the winners! |
|
Pillar of the Community
United States
5318 Posts |
Quote:
Just make sure you give "Newman" a coin, or he might be tempted to make them "disappear" en route to all of the winners! (Inside joke--Jbuck's last milestone prize got swiped by the post office) Oh, if I must...Newman gets one too. But I'm sure that's all been arranged.  |
|
Moderator
United States
188660 Posts |
|
|
Rest in Peace
United States
2668 Posts |
Due to the high cost of transportation, building materials became prohibitively expensive. The grandson of one famous collector, and HSN addict, desperately needed to roof the dilapidated house he had inherited. Necessity became the mother of invention and soon he had covered a significant portion of his home with a 'slabbed' roof. He became a local celebrity and soon he converted the whole roof to 'slabbed' while people were coming by and cheering him on. He was interviewed on syndicated programs and seen on magazine covers. Soon celebrities were fighting to hire him to 'slab' their roofs. Rapidly imitators sprang up all over and it was the rage to have a slabbed roof. Jokes were even made about cooking coin collectors if they were caught 'nibbling' on your roof. But, alas, all fads come to an end, whom among you don't remember the ugly revelations of the fake Zimbabwe 'slabs' scam? |
|
Pillar of the Community
United States
5318 Posts |
This has been a very funny continuation of my original scenario--thanks everyone for playing!  Since closure is a good thing, you're invited to nominate the best stories, or I'll simply pick the top 5,10, etc. Then I'll post a list of coins, and the winners get to pick based on their place in the tier. |
|
Rest in Peace
United States
1729 Posts |
With the cost of diesel fuel edging past $12 a gallon in 2010, the board of directors of UnionPacificBurlingtonSantaFeMKTB&O realize that to keep their engines running and to avoid bankruptcy they'll have to find an alternative source of fuel. In a flash of inspiration, one board member shouts, "Buy the slabs!" And so they do, although they have to modify their fuel system slightly to accept both toxic burning plastic and melting metal. No problem! The fumes are recycled to turbocharge the engines; and as the metal coins melt from the heat of combusting plastic, the metal pours into appropriate molds for little 2-4-2 locomotives and Skyliners, which are then sold at the usual inflated prices on HSN. Voila! Bankruptcy is avoided, and the trains keep running!
|
|
Moderator
United States
188660 Posts |
2011 - It was determined that there might be enough of these "worthless" slabs to build "highway" from the earth to the moon. This will allow anyone to see that we did indeed put a man on the moon! What was surprising is that there ended up being more than enough slabs to build several "Kramer Lanes" to the moon. 2013 - The engineers still had enough slabs to build the necessary 500 "truck stops" along the way, for food and fuel. 2015 - The initial project was complete, but less than 20% of the slab hoard was used. It was determined that Disney should be able to use the remainder in the construction of LunarDisneyland. Of course, several resort chains and competing attractions built around the Disney development. But even they could not use them all. 2017 - After LunarDisneyland opened, it was discovered that barely 35% of the hoard had been consumed. A new project was created: The Lunar City. 2020 - The Lunar City is complete. It comfortably houses five million lunar inhabitants and all of their business endeavours! 2025 - It was discovered that the Lunar City left about 25% of the hoard intact. The "Far Side of the Moon" project was able to use them to build a giant stationary reflector, allowing people on earth to see the far side without need to travel there. 2029 - There are rumours that about 12~15% of the original hoard still exists, somewhere, deep in space... |
|
Pillar of the Community
United States
5318 Posts |
Ok, I'm going to close the contest--I think there's enough entries, and I need to get a rough inventory of giveaways before I proceed further. Thanks everyone--it was a lot of fun!  |
|
Pillar of the Community
United States
5318 Posts |
We have winners! Thanks for all of you playing along! It sure was a tough call to rank the winners, because you all made me laugh! Besides, the prizes aren't too different. Winner ranking and prizes.Here's how this will work. I will contact #1, who gets first pick of the coins below, which will then be #2's turn, and so on. If you don't get back to me in a day or so, your chance to choose will go to the next person.  The Winners! #1. Cheungsta and the "Ilses of Numamania" #2. Ellekitty's plastic roof tiles reminded me of old TV ads. #3 Topher's bike reflectors--nice invention! #4 jBuck's LunarDisney—where Disney has goes lunatic! #5 Spedward's "Noah's Ark of Unsinkable Slabs" #6 pls untapped hyrdrocarbon resource #7 Mint_marq furniture movers—I bet that would work! #8 Jser's building a bubble from a bubble #9 HABIB's experimental medical procedure #10 Parklane—one more roofing idea—but everyone needs a new roof!    The prizes (in no particular order)Australia 1928 3 pence (silver) in VG(Claimed by Cheungsta) Canada 1951 25c in UNC(claimed by Jser) Australia 1962 Shilling in F (claimed by Parklane) 2 Canada George V nickels: 1932 and 1934 VG-F (Claimed by Spedward) Canada 1977 "Low 7" nickel variety in VF Canada 1953 "shoulder fold" and "no shoulder fold" nickel set (2 coins) AU-UNC (Claimed by ElleKitty) Canada 1951 steel and nickel varieties (2 coins) VF-EF 1992 US mint uncirculated P and D date set (claimed by Mint_Marq) Australia half penny: 1954 and pennies: 1942-I and 1943(m) and 1956 VF-EF (Claimed by pls) 2 IHCs: 1880 and 1890 in Good (claimed by Jbuck) Canada 1943 Tombac nickel in AU (claimed by Topher) Edited by KurtS
07/10/2008 4:14 pm
|
|
Valued Member
United States
271 Posts |
WOOHOO!!   Glad you liked the story of the "Isles" =P Thanks for the contest! PM sent =) |
|
Pillar of the Community
United States
819 Posts |
Yay! I'm glad you liked my advert!
I'm too lazy to send an additional PM though. Might I select the Canada 1953 "shoulder fold" and "no shoulder fold" set (2 coins) AU-UNC as my prize?
Edited by ElleKitty
07/08/2008 04:53 am
|
|
Pillar of the Community
United States
5318 Posts |
Ellekitty--yes, I have all the info, no need to PM me again. Btw, I forgot to mention--those are 2 NSF and SF nickels. |
| |
Replies: 52 / Views: 4,261 |
First Page
Posted 07/03/2008 10:12 am
