Aussies will get lolI didn’t want to have to bring out my Barry Morgan from Morgan’s world of organs pic but my hand was forced
Yeah, I'm not Aussie, can you break it down, please?Aussies will get lol
Looking at your old money pics jogged an old memory from the deepest depths of my brain that I had forgotten about for years. It was my very first smuggling experience.I wish, he was a brick layer before he retired. My parents used to travel a lot. I don't remember them ever talking about going to Russia. There wasn't coins in the book. I meant the coins that we have now compared to the old $1 bill. We have a loonie and toonie for our $1 and $2 coins.
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Just google him, there are a bunch of his vids and "Spicks and Specks"He’s an Aussie comedian that did a skit and in it people would be having a whinge. He would roll past on roller skates or on his organ making faces like that in ridiculous costumes in the back ground. Trying to find footage
I just couldn’t find the skit meh.Just google him, there are a bunch of his vids and "Spicks and Specks"
Looking at your old money pics jogged an old memory from the deepest depths of my brain that I had forgotten about for years. It was my very first smuggling experience.
My dad and I were coin collectors from around 1962-63 forward.
And we had relatives in Nova Scotia and Toronto that we would visit on summer vacations.
In 1967, it was the 100th anniversary of the dominion up there and the Canadian mint offered special proof sets that included a $20 gold piece.
But it was illegal to leave the country with them and I think they threatened jail and fines over these gold pieces.
So my dad ordered 5 of the proof sets through our relatives and mailed them home, minus the five $20 gold pieces. (He didn't want to cross the border with the Royal Mint presentation cases.)
He decided that he wouldn't risk the gold pieces being discovered in the mail and siezed, so he had them buried in a suitcase.
For miles, on the way to the border, my dad kept briefing my Mom and I on how to 'act normal' when we crossed the border with the 5 illegal to import gold pieces (as though they were heroin or something). I wish I had a tape of our 'instructions'. Lol.
Long story short, there was zero trouble at the border, we were just a vacationing family after all. And my dad bragged for 50 miles non stop on the other side about how brilliant his idea was after we made it through, lol.
He did sell all 5 of them at a handsome profit for the times and told that story for years how he had to 'coach' us to get them through. He admitted later he sold them all to avoid getting caught with them, even though the odds of getting caught were like 10 million to one.
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I wish he would have kept one, worth like a $1000 today, he got like $100 each for them, Lol.
Love the detail in the that coin. Great smuggling story. I wonder if you could get in trouble in the US over a Canadian gold coin? The Canadian Mint is painting their collector coins now which looks cheap IMOLooking at your old money pics jogged an old memory from the deepest depths of my brain that I had forgotten about for years. It was my very first smuggling experience.
My dad and I were coin collectors from around 1962-63 forward.
And we had relatives in Nova Scotia and Toronto that we would visit on summer vacations.
In 1967, it was the 100th anniversary of the dominion up there and the Canadian mint offered special proof sets that included a $20 gold piece.
But it was illegal to leave the country with them and I think they threatened jail and fines over these gold pieces.
So my dad ordered 5 of the proof sets through our relatives and mailed them home, minus the five $20 gold pieces. (He didn't want to cross the border with the Royal Mint presentation cases.)
He decided that he wouldn't risk the gold pieces being discovered in the mail and siezed, so he had them buried in a suitcase.
For miles, on the way to the border, my dad kept briefing my Mom and I on how to 'act normal' when we crossed the border with the 5 illegal to import gold pieces (as though they were heroin or something). I wish I had a tape of our 'instructions'. Lol.
Long story short, there was zero trouble at the border, we were just a vacationing family after all. And my dad bragged for 50 miles non stop on the other side about how brilliant his idea was after we made it through, lol.
He did sell all 5 of them at a handsome profit for the times and told that story for years how he had to 'coach' us to get them through. He admitted later he sold them all to avoid getting caught with them, even though the odds of getting caught were like 10 million to one.
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I wish he would have kept one, worth like a $1000 today, he got like $100 each for them, Lol.
Did he have the windows open?Yesterday, dude from Washington traveling with the youngun’s , dashboard growView attachment 4345850
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They would be baked in about 30 mins around here, and not in a good way. Mornin all.Yesterday, dude from Washington traveling with the youngun’s , dashboard growView attachment 4345850
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"rolling past on his organ" is a bracing mental imageHe’s an Aussie comedian that did a skit and in it people would be having a whinge. He would roll past on roller skates or on his organ making faces like that in ridiculous costumes in the back ground. Trying to find footage
This might be one of the vanguard of brave young gene wranglers exploring the envelope of awesome that is Stress WeedDid he have the windows open?
If not it seems like it might get awful hot if parked sitting there.
Lol’dAuto flowers surely