Mike Lamb Posted February 20, 2013 Report Share Posted February 20, 2013 Click to Enlarge 30.63 KB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Les Posted February 20, 2013 Report Share Posted February 20, 2013 title enhances the image. nice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Raymond Posted February 20, 2013 Report Share Posted February 20, 2013 A tarnished Capitol stuck in a ball of lint. Remarkably accurate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Baird Posted February 20, 2013 Report Share Posted February 20, 2013 Tom, Is that not the Jefferson Memorial on the back of the Jefferson nickle? Or is it not Monticello? (The memorial may just be a knockoff of the mansion on the mount). BTW, when I visited UVA the coolest Jeffersonian design I saw was the single-wythe serpentine brick garden walls. (When you have a wall with a six-foot amplitude from top to bottom of serpentine layout, it is self supporting without lateral buttressing). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurt Posted February 20, 2013 Report Share Posted February 20, 2013 Yes, it's Monticello. It's disgusting and thought provoking. My first reaction was "eeewwwe....", then into metaphorical stuff. I waver back and forth on merit. Swing, not a miss, not sure what. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Kogel Posted February 20, 2013 Report Share Posted February 20, 2013 It is a little raw. Could you psychedelisize it, maybe? A nickel with hair? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Raymond Posted February 20, 2013 Report Share Posted February 20, 2013 I got the building wrong, but the metaphor still applies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Lamb Posted February 20, 2013 Author Report Share Posted February 20, 2013 It is a little raw. Could you psychedelisize it, maybe? A nickel with hair? I think I'll leave it politically, metaphorically, aesthetically bleak. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Baird Posted February 21, 2013 Report Share Posted February 21, 2013 I know politics are verboten...that's why I posted in response to Tom's comment. We cannot take the media's metaphor about what goes on in the broader scale of things as anyway being a reflection of "life on the planet". It really is, with apologies to the Bard, "a tale told by an idiot". Besides that, who here has seen those serpentine walls of which I speak? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurt Posted February 21, 2013 Report Share Posted February 21, 2013 I have. Beautiful. I've been to Monticello too. The vegetable gardens @ Monticello are magical. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Kogel Posted February 21, 2013 Report Share Posted February 21, 2013 Click to Enlarge 30.65?KB Y'all may have heard this, no more pennies in this country. We will now round 3 and 4 up to a nickel or 1 and 2 down to a zero. Bad for morale, but good for the economy. Now I can drill pennies and use them for washers without fear of repercussions. There is no cheaper washer than a Canadian penny. The Canadian penny for many years has had an iron core. I used to sort them from the 'silver' with a magnet. Nowadays, all the coins will stick to the magnet. [] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Baird Posted February 21, 2013 Report Share Posted February 21, 2013 My father flew in the Berlin airlift in 1948-9. I have some steel German coins that came in a coin-slot operated mechanical Glockenspiel kind of thingy that spun brass punctured discs on a horizontal axis. The brass burrs strike the metal soundboard (an arrangement of metal plates) to make tingly music. The whole thing sits in a wood cabinet with feet and runs on a big spring wound by a hand crank on the side. Some of the coins are copper, some steel. The steel ones have these Nazi symbols (eagles and swastikas and crap), and look creepy. Sadly, the steel ones have oxidized from ambient moisture and are not in good shape. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Kogel Posted February 22, 2013 Report Share Posted February 22, 2013 Jim, this guy is charging high prices for nazi coins. http://stores.ebay.ca/Pfennigman/NAZI-C ... ml?_fsub=3 Before WWII, inflation was so bad, German money had to be hauled in wheelbarrows. Click to Enlarge 44.63 KB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Baird Posted February 22, 2013 Report Share Posted February 22, 2013 Creepy. That guy's coins don't look so rusty, tho. I'm told that as a three-yr old I spoke more German than English, as our family, living the conquerer's life in Weisbaden, had the luxury of a local "nanny" who took care of me. On return to US, after dad's untimely death piloting a military plane that crashed into a snowy mountain in France, my grandfather took me to a soda fountain, paid for fountain cokes (which he called "dope") with a nickel, which I supposedly pointed at and declared, "Das is ein pfennig!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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