A Bear! A Big Bear! - 2 Personal Celebrations

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  1. paddyman98

    paddyman98 I'm a professional expert in specializing! Supporter

    Hi all,
    Today I am celebrating 2 special events.
    First as I always do.. this is my 26,000th like celebration! :woot: thanks to @Johndoe2000$ for that like! ;)
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    And the other event I am celebrating.. Today is my 2nd year Wedding Anniversary! :kiss::couchpotato:

    So here is what happened yesterday.. My wife and I took our nephew to a local playground with water sprinklers. As I was sitting I eyeballed a huge coin on the ground near our bench. I went picked it up and it was a 2 Dollars Canada coin :wideyed:.. She looked at it and said "Hey there is a bear on it just like that bear sculpture over there" I laughed and said that the bear on the coin is a Polar Bear and the sculpture looks like a Grizzly :bear: (or maybe it is a polar bear?)

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    Me holding the 2 Dollar Canadian coin
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  3. cpm9ball

    cpm9ball CANNOT RE-MEMBER

    You're standing behind a Griz! Happy Anniversary!

    Chris
     
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  4. eddiespin

    eddiespin Fast Eddie

    You’re finding them now without even a metal detector. Or they’re coming out of the ground finding you. :)
     
  5. Stevearino

    Stevearino Well-Known Member

    Congratulations twice over. That bear looks like a polar-grizzly hybrid. No hump like grizzlies seem to have, but the face of a polar bear (but a bit chubby body). I bet you can research it Paddyman.

    Steve
     
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  6. Stevearino

    Stevearino Well-Known Member

    @paddyman98, were you referencing John Candy's lines in the Great Outdoors? That scene almost made me wet myself.

    Seve
     
  7. willieboyd2

    willieboyd2 First Class Poster

    Near the end of "Gone With the Wind" Clark Gable says to his little daughter "A Bear, a Big Bear" after she complains that a bear got into her room.

    :)
     
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  8. happy_collector

    happy_collector Well-Known Member

    Happy Anniversary, and congrats to your 26k! :)
     
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  9. spirityoda

    spirityoda Coin Junky

    Congrats on the 26K and 2nd anniversary.
     
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  10. Tlberg

    Tlberg Well-Known Member

    Happy Anniversary!
     
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  11. Inspector43

    Inspector43 Celebrating 75 Years Active Collecting Supporter

    Congratulations to you and your beautiful wife. You might get another 1000 likes for this post.
     
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  12. cpm9ball

    cpm9ball CANNOT RE-MEMBER

    POLAR BEAR.jpg
    GRIZZLY BEAR.jpg

    The polar bear has a longer neck with ears set farther back and to the side of the head.
     
  13. MeowtheKitty

    MeowtheKitty Well-Known Member

    Congratulations! May you have may more anniversaries in your life.
    You really seem to have a really nice life. Meow is happy for you.
     
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  14. BuffaloHunter

    BuffaloHunter Short of a full herd Supporter

    That's the first thing I thought as well!

    Congrats on the anniversary @paddyman98 and here's to many more!!
     
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  15. Stevearino

    Stevearino Well-Known Member

    @cpm9ball, you're right; grizzly it is.

    I've watched Gone with the Wind, but don't recall that line. I guess John Candy actually said, "B-b-b-bear. B-b-b-big b-b-b-ear," or something like that. The other two scenes of his that never fail to make me LOL are the "principal's wart" in Uncle Buck and being in bed with Steve Martin in Planes, Trains and Automobiles. Man, I miss that guy.

    Steve
     
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  16. tommyc03

    tommyc03 Senior Member

    Congratulations and "Live Long & Prosper".
     
  17. John Skelton

    John Skelton Morgan man!

    I have to say, of the four pictures posted, I like the last one the best!

    Congratulations!
     
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  20. Inspector43

    Inspector43 Celebrating 75 Years Active Collecting Supporter

    What are the little swirls on the Toonie?
     
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  21. gxseries

    gxseries Coin Collector

    Nice one! Congrats.

    When I saw the topic of two bears - I thought of this first

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