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Epoxy glue a coin on to the center of a street where there is a lot of traffic
And was done on Franklin Avenue in Downtown Chicago. |
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TonysPics- interesting idea, but they wouldn't there be lots of germs on the icing from the circulated coins? Nope. Silver kills bacteria. The first thing that happens to newborns is a couple drops of silver nitrate solution are put in their eyes, for exactly this reason. It prevents eye infections that may be picked up if mom has gonorrhea or chlamydia. Back before good refrigeration, people would put a silver coin in a pitcher of milk, to delay it from spoiling. |
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When I was younger at an amusement park I tried to elongate a 1943 Wheatie. Dang magnet. Back when those machines took a dime and a cent, there were signs in them telling you not to use steel cents. I suspect the problem was that steel is a lot harder than copper, and the machine wasn't burly enough to roll it out. |
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Back when I was in the Army stationed in Germany there was a guy in my platoon that was, well how can I put this nicely...
ODD
He was so money hungry he would do darn near anything for change. It became a sort of entertainment for the rest of us. We would change in a few dollars for coin and just run this guy ragged. If a truck drove by one of us would throw a few coins on top of it and he would chase it down. We were digging post holes one day and tossed in a couple of coins just to watch him spend 5 minutes trying to stretch his arm to the bottom and be just short of reaching the bottom.
One of my personal favs was when we were on a temporary duty assignment we were staying in a building where the stair case was several floors up and when you looked down you could see all the way to the bottom floor at the very center. We would drop coins all the way down and watch him run down those flights of stairs to retrieve them. Then we wouldn't drop any more until he had climbed all the way back up. We kept him running up and down for hours. Why pay to go to the movies or a bar? Just get a few cold ones and a few dollars in change for all night entertainment.
Now before anybody can say it, no we weren't being cruel. The whole time he was doing this he kept laughing at us telling us how stupid we were for just throwing away money. We tried to explain that it was entertainment for us... but we were still the idiots in his eyes.
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When I was in college, we attached a wooden table top on an empty beer keg, glued pennies on the wooden top, then polyurethane to make it smooth. I have no idea where that ended up.
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I once paid off a bet in pennies. I stacked them in a mold and then poured jello over them and let it harden. The guy was wondering why I was bringing over jello and then he looked harder at it and he busted out laughing. A small New England paper used to print the entire police blotter. The local grouch went on vacation, and all the kids (and prolly a few adults) chipped in to buy enough Jell-o to turn his swimming pool into something too thick to drink, but too thin to plow. When he returned, he called the police, who pointed out he really didn't want to file a report, did he? Pool pumps can't handle semi-solids. |
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But when a baby is born, a Silver Dollar is taped to the belly button where it was cut. The coin will supposedly prevent an "outie" and the baby will end up with an "innie" I suspect in or out has to do with how the doctor tied off, but maybe the constant pressure of the coin would help force an innie. If nothing else, the silver would prevent infection. Along the same lines, coins were often put on the eyelids of the dead. |
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Also, when I was a kid, I saw an older neighborhood kid pound down a nickel to the size of a quarter with a sledgehammer, and then use it in a pinball machine at our local mom&pop store. I was shocked that it worked!
If you pound out a nickel between pieces of leather, you can bring it up to quarter size or larger with no distortion. |
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Now before anybody can say it, no we weren't being cruel. The whole time he was doing this he kept laughing at us telling us how stupid we were for just throwing away money. We tried to explain that it was entertainment for us... but we were still the idiots in his eyes.
And today he is a wealthy stock broaker or banker. He who laughs last, laughs best.  |
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I've been reminded of how I paid for laundry in college. We played foosball, four players on a 20ยข table. Two opponents paid a nickel each, Andy'd get a nickel profit and the other nickel paid for two #14 brass washers with tape over the holes. I'd play free. We played a lot of foosball. |
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lol those are all very interesting stories. I like the jello mold 1 a lot
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The story of the guy chasing coins reminded me of time in the Navy when we threw coins in the water to Jamaicans. They would retrieve the nickles, dimes, quarters but not the pennies. They would dive and get the coins then put them in their mouths. Thanks for the memory jog.
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Odd to no one mentioned putting a coin in a socket in a fues box instead of those lousy fuses that keep blowing out.
Yeah, they did, and it's a great way to burn a building down. The cure for fuses thaty keep blowing is to fix the problem, not the safety device. The fuse or circuit breaker is designed to stop the flow of electric and prevent overheating of the wire from drawing too much current through it. Use a coin, and you might as well just hook the wires up directly to the meter. Then there was the genius who discovered that a 22 bullet was the same size as the blown fuse in his car. Worked for awhile, but we don't need to worry about any "little" geniuses. |
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Dad used to tell of an operator at work who'd bet anyone $20 that he could pick up a dime off the concrete floor with his forklift.
By the time I catch up with my reading, maybe someone can figure it out.
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Our high school auditorium was used as a study hall. The bottom half was sloped to the stage, the top half had rows in a stair system.
Kids would roll cents and an occasional nickel from their seats and with luck, it would get through the other seats and hit the stage, clickety, clickety, clickety...ping!
The supervising teacher told me it didn't bother him at all--some days he'd make as much as a quarter picking up the coins that made it to the front.
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