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Though thousands of miles away, on the other side of the world and having never met him, the news of mugs’ passing has saddened me to tears. What a wonderful man he was, selflessly searching and posting so much information on gold and the precious metals, encouraging all of us in the pursuit of happiness and beneficence.  I do hope somehow his family might be made aware of just how far reaching his kindness was felt.

There’s a gold bug downunder whose bin sitting on preshuss since US $250 and slivver sinceNZ$5
He values his sleep so avoided foreign markets like the plaque
Happy happy joy joy the boom has only just begun
Got a little laff on 3 Oct with NZ preshuss pricing then
Today it’s NZ$7353.33

My cup is less erudite but nevertheless as true

Tomatoes.  Look after them and they’ll look after you.

A ssay again
I’d forgotted about the Kitlish dick shunnery, in my deefence (while sitting on the fence) it was almost 25 years ago.  Found it gathering (gold) dust in a corner of my shed.   I’ve recently given up the gushies after more than half a century of gushing out.  Been thinking about the hippy trail I did then visiting countries that noone can visit now like Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Czechislavia etc.
and somewhere I complied a gold buggery calendar. Not sure where that ended up.

Kitlish dictionary below.

Pb1.
I was “lead” to believe that you thought my title Herr Trump was incorrect, but you’ve just called your “Christian” prezzy a Nazi thug.

Not that I disagree with you…

The effect of the Twump regime is gonnna taint the ROW’s view of the USA for decades. 

Fastest dollar decline in 50 years
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6N5SaNazvTk

I’ll rewrite history because I can


The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History this month removed a label referring to President Trump’s two impeachments, a move museum officials said was part of a review of the institution’s content for bias, the New York Times reports.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toRgrAtgXG0

Sherlock reincarnated  chocolate song. 41612

Had to share my current slippers

I gotta get me over to the wonderful USA   I mean if Herr Trump has cut drug prices by 1200%  1300% 1400% 1500% not a mere 50% then I guess the big pharma will pay me to take their drugs. 

His grasp of maths is out of this whirled. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RzEZYsFOpc&t=876s

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We're missing your valuable contributions.

Rest up and take all the time you need to heal. Your health is most important

This BBB will destroy the US constitution and ensure that Herr Trumph and his offspring can rule forever.

PB in complete agreeance with you on that, he’s just a puppet, no clue, no moral compass, a liar obeying his masters.

“It took decades forAmerica to build its global agricultural dominance, it has taken less than one year to dismantle it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTjGHgjpB4A

Aren’t there alternative parcel delivery services besides UPS?  It don’t matter no how. These tariffs have disrupted international trade, the whirled will never be the same.  Do I care? Na. The Chinese Xi has been making diplomatic cuddles with SE Asian countries to enhance trade between them. I certainly don’t want to live in a Commie Chinese dominated whirled but the way Trump is mocking his one-time allies (they all want to kiss my arse, he said) don’t look good for any Western Alliance.

The site censored the word ra ape?
Seriously?

FeSS
Know that your levity and humour has lifted the smiles and spirits of folk on the far side of this whirled more frequently than we’ve let on.
Wishing you peace and happiness for the rest of your journey on this erf.


The gold rat.

Reading “The Drifters” did the same thing for me… much travelling in my youth.  Now in China, and my eyes are opening again.  One of the safest, if not the safest place to travel.

Zigg
I’m in China* now, and in the hotel room there’s a Phone on the wall.
* Guangzhou pop 15 million

And the moon landing??

Rack or raw*?
How does one hide?  Which setting says “hide me”?


*hide

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For a mere NZ$ 337.81 (US$ 198.63) + taxes (maybe) you can purchase a 2 oz Ag Batman “coin”.  The FIRST in the series.

Try telling me that, with a mere 1000 “coins” issued they won’t increase substantially in value over their lifetime (500 or so years?) not yours, so of course, one will have to pass them down through several generations to realise that gain.  But, what a trophy 🏆.

https://www.nzmint.com/products/comix-batman-1-2oz-silver-coin?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=COMIX™%20–%20Batman%20%231%202oz%20Silver%20Coin%20%282023-11-06%29&_kx=N7iRvkEDp5EZU1NauRjeOl4bZDxemE_CXRFw4x7ROOOSHUoOuFXLLrKWyOVeZOag.H2pwhd

ROAN
Am also on medical prescribed MJ. Is a cost,  but legal.  Good muscle relaxant.
CBD at night brain relaxant.


Perm
I know nothing, and care less, about your current Prez.  Thanks, anyway  for a glimpse into ANOTHER politician’s lying eyes.

Tramadol is fully funded here, but I’ve had to prove to my new doctor that I use Trammies only when needed.  The body accustomises to opiates, so your 8 a day for 2 years may have made them useless by the end of the 2 years.

When I was recovering from my spinal fusion back operation 50+ years ago I told myself 2 things: I’d never use the excuse “I have a bad back” to avoid things I could do and secondly I’d never take pain killers if I didn’t need them.  My old doctor of 20 years believed me and now so does my new one.

My old doctor used to say “as long as you are in pain, you know you’re alive.”

I’m ALIVE. !!

FeSS (aka pyrites). 14965
“Have to rely on tylenol.”

Just goggled tylenol, it’s an anti pyretic.  !!!

I know arthritic pain is a ****, but this tylenol is out to get ya.

Can you get tramadol?  Works for me.

As comedian Dave Alan would say,

Thank you and take your god with you.

Couldn’t find my copy of Zen and the art etc, (probably lent it out) but did find 1st paperback edition 1971 of Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas.. “what goes on in these pages make Lenny Bruce seem angelic.”
And F & L on the campaign trail 1972.
Both books foxed and annotated and falling apart.

PB1
It really hit me a few years ago when I looked at my college deploma and its insigna.

Numen Lumen  (New Light  from Latin)


I was taught Latin for several years, and googled Latin whirds for much longer
Numen Lumen:-

The phrase "Numen Lumen," developed as part of the University of Wisconsin-Madison's seal and motto, is Latin and can be translated to mean, "God, our light."

I think someone’s blown out the candle.

Atlas fugged??
Read everything on these coins.

Ahhh memory!!!
It’s a spectrum. Some (un)fortunate souls have an eidetic memory, they do not have the power to forget, and I’ve met a couple of peeps with eidetic memory. And it’s not all good.
 I’ve been blessed (though some might question the blessing) with SDAM. I remember very little about my life, though I can quote Shagspire quite freely.

I’d like to introduce the word FORGETTERY, it’s the ability to forget when you want to.  I discovered the word just a week or so ago, but forget where…

Forgettery, like memory, has its uses, and, as you grow older your forgettery increases.

So, I’ll just stick the crap into the forgettery and keep moving forward.

315
Here’s the clip from The Grand ol Opry
She’s a kiwi, playing in a band called the French Family, or something but the song was written by a Canuck.Ann Murray

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZumqR735Wps

for the check to the undertaker to bounce….

Are checks (aka cheques to us Ingrish speakers who ignored old Noah W) still acceptable in the US?

They’ve not been acceptable in the Antipodes for about 12 months.  In fact, very few people here use cash for transactions either.  Most transactions done by electronic credit/debit cards or direct banking.

Of course, they need a retina scan too.

Aurum non olet

This was snipped out of my Daily Gold Calendar for 10 April…

Yup, the first kitco post, on the first kitco board was made this day in 1996 making the forum 27 years old. 
I’ll lift my glass to that..


ON This Day
 
1606 Charter granted to The Virginia Company
1717 It was decreed that John Law's notes could be accepted in payment of
taxes.
1843 Eight labourers were employed in grubbing up trees at Tufnell Park, near
Highgate, London, and during their labours, lighted upon two jars containing
nearly four hundred sovereigns in gold. They divided the money... but soon
afterwards Mr Tufnell, Lord of the Manor, claimed the whole of it as his treasure
trove. .. While the labourers puzzled over Mr Tufnell’s claim, the real owner
stepped forward and told a singular tale. He was a brass-founder, living in
Clerkenwell, and being nine months before under temporary mental delusion,
he one night took out two jars of sovereigns and buried them... Being able to
prove these facts, his claim to the money was admitted.
W & R Chambers’s Book of Days 1864
1996 Kitco’s first day as an online discussion group.
2003 California, the Gold Rush state adopted the United State’ toughest
restrictions on open-pit metallic mining. The regulations require mining
companies to refill new open-pit metal mines when they're depleted and flatten
mine waste piles back to nearly the natural landscape. Now large commercial
operators will look to other states to mine gold and other precious metals, said
California Mining Association Manager Adam Harper. `The mining of the state
mineral has pretty much been made impossible by this regulation today,'' Harper
said. http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-2550335,00.html
“This yellow slave
Will knit and break religions, bless th’accurst,
Make the hoare leprosy adored, place thieves
And give them title, knee and approbation
With senators on the bench.”
-- William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Timon
of Athens Act 4 Sc3.

And

The best way to test gold is to pass the
nugget around a crowded bar, and ask them if
it’s gold. If it comes back it’s not gold.”
-- Lennie Lower (1903-1947) Here’s another
(1932) ‘What Gold Is’


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And I just realised that”today” on this board is yesterday to me on other side of the whirled.

Though there’s a lot of political and medical bullshit posted here, I heard tell that this site is for gold orientated peoples, so, for the goldbugs, here’s a wee story from New Gum Sarn (that’s the name early Chinese goldminers gave to Noo Sealand) about good old fashioned gold hunters still plying their trade
I Broke My BIGGEST GOLD NUGGET RECORD In New Zealand

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcj8Uf21Okw

Grief is the price we pay for love

Full quote

The pain of grief is just as much part of life as the joy of love:it is perhaps the price we pay for love, the cost of commitment. To ignore this fact, or to pretend that it is not so, is to put on emotional blinkers which leave us unprepared for the losses that will inevitably occur in our own lives and unprepared to help others cope with losses in theirs

Dr Parkes. Bereavement: Studies of Grief in Adult Life.

Hollywood legend Dick Van Dyke turns 97 today, December 13 


Asked what his secret is to a long and healthy life, he laughed and said:

'If I'd known I was going to live this long I'd have taken better care of myself!'

 

Once had a large plate of honeyed dragonflies in Bali.  Crispy, crunchie, sweet.. yum   They fly around the paddy fields and are easy to catch.
Nice to try them.

Wolavka 459
bleached bath birds

Translation, please.?
Not sure if you’re talking chickens or blondes bathing or…..?

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As a celebrated coiner, didn’t think you’d make this numismatic error….408

…. queenly image emblazoned on the back….

Actually
The queenly image is always on the front (obverse) of the coin.  Hence heads*
cf tails (reverse).

Help,please
At the old site, the link would take me to the last post (*) I saw the last time I logged in. Link I have for this new site takes me to the top of this page.
Can someone please show me how to link to the last message I read last time?

* rumours of the last post have been greatly exaggerated.

315
The demonstration in Wellington was provoked by “Bishop” Brian Tamaki.  He is a self-proclaimed Bishop of a church he created himself to leach off the underprivileged.  Churchgoers are committed to a 10% tithe.  He regularly asks them to donate more cash every Sunday.  Many of his followers are on state-sponsored dole so have to skrimp and save  to be blessed by Tamaki. I mean, it costs a lot to keep his fleet of Mercedes and a private jet.  Being a self-proclaimed leader of a church he created himself he is subject to no taxes.  I’ll say that again. The church pays no tax.
Now, as to his followers… they do what he tells them to do.

The recent Wellington demo attracted a couple of hundred of his churchgoers and a bunch of gang members looking for trouble.

I’m sure the international press exaggerated the demo, cos that’s what reporters do…get the most lurid pictures splash them around the dailies, hopefully an international paper will pick up the story, more coins in the fountain.

To all the goldbugs who like to sniff out a deal with our preshusss..
The man with the golden nose

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUyCib32j5Q

Speaking of the wisdom of our fathers… hey, FeSS looking forward to receiving your father’s bon mots when they’re ready.

Of course China is endorsing crypto currencies.
Unlike gold and cash, Cryptos olet

The whole point of Cryptos is they contain a unique string of alphanumeric symbols.
A unique string that is, with the right analysis, entirely traceable.

If I purchase a crypto coin, the history of that ‘coin’ is contained within its unique string.  If, in that history, the coin was used for illegal purposes (think broadly here, we’re talking about China) then it’s entirely possible for “the authorities “ to cancel the coin, change your ‘social ranking’ or…..

Pecunia non olet
Crypto stinks to high heaven


Willing to be proven wrong…..

Good to hear you have good medical processes around you.

Now, I said, don’t rely on the zebranet for answers….so here goes…
 An old friend had a hip replacement a few years ago, the surgeons used surgical mesh, as this was, at the time, considered to be a good solution.  As years passed surgical mesh has been revealed to be bad, very bad for the bod.  He’s had several additional operations to remove the mesh.
Hopefully Mrs PB1 has no surgical mesh

Lonestar
Never confuse a conspiracy theorist (CT) with facts..
So look away CT

How long does it take for moonlight to reach the earth?
Asked by: Cara

Answer
Light travels through space at just over 186,000 miles per second. The moon is just under 250,000 miles from Earth, so light from the Moon's surface has to travel more than one second (about 1.3 seconds) to reach us.

Among other things, the astronauts left reflecting mirrors on the moon. By shining a laser beam on those mirrors from Earth, and measuring the time (less than 3 seconds) it takes to see its reflection, the length of the round trip can be easily calculated to within a few inches!

If you've watched any of the videos of the moon landings, you might have noticed that the radio responses from the moon walking astronauts sometimes included a delayed echo of the questions. That also was a result of the 3 seconds it takes for a radio signal to travel to and from the moon, since radio waves are another form of light waves.

Since moonlight is reflected sunlight, it originates at the Sun's surface 93 million miles from the Earth/Moon system. It takes about 8 minutes for that trip, so the short, final hop from the Moon to the Earth is trivial by comparison.

Found one verse lingering in this southern land…


Ol' MacDuppy had a farm
e i e i o
and on that farm he grew some Weed
e i e i
With a roll-up here
And a hookah there
Here a puff
There a puff
Everywhere a puff puff
Old MacDuppy toked his farm
Ei ei o

Ah, the trials and tribulations of crypto crapto croinage
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