I give up, people are dumb as rocks !

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  1. 10gary22

    10gary22 Junior Member

    and some of my friends are "dumb". lol
     
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  3. cpm9ball

    cpm9ball CANNOT RE-MEMBER

    She may not know who is on the $100, but I guarantee that if you put a C-note on the refrigerator door with Franklin's name spelled with magnets holding it in place, the magnets will still be there.

    Chris
     
  4. Conder101

    Conder101 Numismatist

    Good question, do you know the answer? (Full legal name please.)
     
  5. Treashunt

    Treashunt The Other Frank

    "I give up, people are dumb as rocks ! "

    Please!








    Don't insult rocks!
     
  6. gbroke

    gbroke Naturally Toned

    I think you mispelled that.
     
  7. lucyray

    lucyray Ariel -n- Tango

    Are you all aware of how unique and pretty almost all rocks are? If you assemble a whole stack of rocks side by side, they can hold a hill back from erosion, and no two are alike.

    Ever hear the phrase, "solid as a rock"?

    I now feel a bit like your bag of rocks right now, for writing this, but in all seriousness, I hope this is just to tease your wife a bit, and that you wouldn't really put her down this way. If so, then you just might be the one dumb as a sack of rocks!

    Lucy
    (If labeled a rock, please designate Petoskey Stone for me!)
     
  8. fretboard

    fretboard Defender of Old Coinage!

    My wife would probably get caught up in the same way with that question but dumb as rocks? Wow!! :D
     
  9. Honolulu Dick

    Honolulu Dick Junior Member

    I'm certainly pleased to learn that no one is picking on pet rocks. I've several of those. Actually, the more people I meet, the more I appreciate my pet rocks.

    Also have a pet bullet left over from my days of being a Vietnam war criminal. It's a 30mm giant, liberated from the Air Force. Knew they wouldn't miss just one. Anyway, spend hours talking to it. Never thought of it as being dumb; not like a rock.
     
  10. rockdude

    rockdude Coin Collector

    Give her a sheet of paper with the word 'over' on each side. It'll keep her busy for days
     
  11. cpm9ball

    cpm9ball CANNOT RE-MEMBER

    How do you spell "misspelled"?

    Chris
     
  12. rickmp

    rickmp Frequently flatulent.

    William Thomas Grant? (the founder of the WT Grant's department stores)
     
  13. cpm9ball

    cpm9ball CANNOT RE-MEMBER

    Wrong! He's buried in the lingerie department.

    Chris
     
  14. 10gary22

    10gary22 Junior Member

    Dick, shame on you ! I mean, couldn't you have fired it at something ?
     
  15. faceglider

    faceglider Member

    I've met people with college degrees who don't know who is on a penny.
     
  16. Honolulu Dick

    Honolulu Dick Junior Member

    Aloha Gary,

    Good to see you're still active. If memory serves me correctly, I still owe an answer to a PM that was sent many many moons ago. Had started drafting an answer when poof, the message vaporized. Have lost track since then. Sorry 'bout that.

    To answer your question directly [even though it's asked in jest] ... no, I haven't fired it yet. Like me, it's a dud!!!

    Also in jest, thanks for asking.
     
  17. Collect89

    Collect89 Coin Collector

    silly trick question

    Did you ask her who is buried in Grant's tomb
    No I do not know the full legal name but I would have guessed Ulysses S. Grant or something like that. It was actually intended to be a silly trick question. Nobody is "buried" in grant's tomb. It is a "tomb". Grant and his wife are entombed there and they are not six feet under. That's why it's Grant's Tomb, not Grant's Grave.

    Also, the war of 1812 had a few famous battles & campaigns. I believe that they all occured after 1812.
     
  18. Collector1966

    Collector1966 Senior Member

    Well, the Battle of Detroit was in 1812 (US lost), but most of the famous events of the war (Ft. McHenry, Battle of Lake Erie, Battle of Lake Champlain, burning of Washington D.C., Battle of New Orleans) occurred after 1812. The Battle of New Orleans, in fact, occurred in January 1815 after the war was officially over.
     
  19. Conder101

    Conder101 Numismatist

    I'll give you that one I hadn't considered the Tomb part.

    President and Mrs Hiram Ulysses Grant.

    He always went by Ulysses and when he applied to West Point he listed his name as Ulysses Grant. The administrator assumed that Ulysses was his first name and that his middle name was that of his mothers maiden name Simpson (a common practice at the time) and registered him as Ulysses S Grant. Grant never corrected the error because it was better at West Point (Think hazing) to have the initials USG than HUG.
     
  20. coinman0456

    coinman0456 Coin Collector

    As a " Numismatist" , opportunities to share your knowledge must be answered with the same efforts as you would have another fellow collector share their knowledge with yourself.
     
  21. vnickels

    vnickels Matt Draiss Numismatics & Galleries

    Nice!
     
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