Re: Gold prices plummet!

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September 24, 1869

Gold prices plummet

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&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/commodities/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
winner?- Hide quoted text -

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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.

James the Homeless- Hide quoted text -

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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.

James the Miser- Hide quoted text -

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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."- Hide quoted text -

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It's pretty difficult to catch James mistaking something factual
from the history of Paris - if it happened at Maxim's, he's
probably "right on the money".

Normally, though, what happens at Maxim's stays at Maxim's.

James, 3, Rue Royale- Hide quoted text -

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I'd like to respond en francais, but my verbs seem hopeless tonight.
I've had the pleasure of strolling by the terrasse of Maxim's on
several occasions, but feel that the joint is beyond my pocketbook.
It pleases me to think of Scrooge and Daisy eating there, however.

For at least a period of time, admittance was by recognition only. You had
to be a regular, and getting a window seat, well, another matter entirely,
to be negotiated with the maitre d'.

Absent that talent, there's always the Tour d'Argent.

James the Palmgreaser



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