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Yesterday, while I was walking down the street, my boot hit something that made a noise similar to a coin. Sure enough, I looked down and, much to my surprise, I FOUND A PENNY! It was awsome. i picked the penny up, cleaned off the dirt and grime, and stuck it in my pocket. When I got home, I washed the penny with soap, and examined it. It was an 88'! Wow, what a find! I put it in my "Hooters" piggy bank, and hope to one day use it toward buying beers for Briar Rabbit, Father Goose, Mile Monster and Birch.

Thanks for letting me share this awsome experience with you!
Buddha Bear
9:24:27 AM
3/10/03

Was it from the Denver mint, BB???
Father Goose
9:26:32 AM
3/10/03

Damn, some guys have all the luck.
Artex
9:26:35 AM
3/10/03

I lost one the other day.... it could be mine - where did you find it?
ynamiynami
9:27:49 AM
3/10/03

No, it has no mint area recognizable on it. Maybe it's worth a keg right now.

BTW - Artex, I'm saving nickels I find to buy you beers.
Buddha Bear
9:28:45 AM
3/10/03

On my way to Hooters in Cleveland, Ohio.
Buddha Bear
9:29:12 AM
3/10/03

Somehow I knew this would be a BB thread, but I though it would be about finding a Hooter's Girl named Penny. :-)
le Subtil
9:35:35 AM
3/10/03

A mental exercise
Approximate frequency of finding a penny on the ground: once every week

Approximate out-of-pocket expense of knee repair surgery, not counting time off, and lost earning opportunites during recuperation: $250.00

Number of pennies you'd have to pick up to pay for surgery, assuming you never fell and hurt yourself again, and assuming you actually retrieved the first penny: 24,999

Time pick up that many pennies, based on average frequency of finding a penny on the ground: 480 years, 9 months.

Moral of the story: Leave the damn penny on the ground. Or better yet, have your kid get it for you.
bitpusher
9:36:20 AM
3/10/03

Thats awesome!!! Thanks for sharing.
Will Hooters make change for that penny?

I think I just pulled a muscle in my cheek. LOL

Hey speaking of pulling cheek muscles where is TB when you need her?? ;-o
Briar Rabbit
9:37:48 AM
3/10/03

Whoa, in that case, Buddha Bear.. A penny saved is a penny burped!
Artex
9:43:11 AM
3/10/03

I found a penny too. How cool, from the year of 1939, one of those wheat pennys. Cool stuff!
Gemini
1:16:01 PM
3/10/03

Gemini, we have so much in common. If you were single, I'd prolly ask you out. I mean, what are the odds that we BOTH would find a penny?
Buddha Bear
1:44:00 PM
3/10/03

I think he's hitting on you Gemini
ynamiynami
1:46:47 PM
3/10/03

I found a penny also. It was a 63 Denver, very cool. I really feel blessed when things like this happen. It truly makes me appreciatte all of the freedoms we have in this GREAT NATION. In Russia you can be beaten by the secret police for finding a ruble.
Bric Brockwell
1:50:49 PM
3/10/03

more like the normal Russian police will liberate you from your roubles. Two kind police officers freed me of many of my roubles as I sat on the banks of the Niva last summer
ynamiynami
1:53:42 PM
3/10/03

I love you too Buddha. ;)
Gemini
2:00:33 PM
3/10/03

Ain't love grand? Just my two cents worth, as it were.
Geobeet
2:03:26 PM
3/10/03

LMAO Geobeet!

I never knew Gemini, I never knew. :P
Buddha Bear
2:07:34 PM
3/10/03

LMAO
Gemini
2:17:21 PM
3/10/03

Wow, we're that much closer to a beer? It adds up. Thanks for including me. Now, how do split $0.01 worth of beer five ways?
MileMonster
4:36:47 PM
3/10/03

I found a '43 Steel penny in decent shape the other day the dude was asking like $24 for it. I was like, what a screw so I bought the 3 cent nickel for $32.
Peter Glideswell
9:04:00 PM
3/10/03

For Mr. Glideswell
Buddha Bear
5:42:11 PM
8/08/03

I found another one today. It was so exiciting, i just had to share with you all! :)
Buddha Bear
2:15:50 PM
8/14/03

I found one yesterday, but it was my own. Does that count?
bitpusher
2:16:49 PM
8/14/03

pennies can all burn in hell!
lyra
2:18:12 PM
8/14/03

Thbbpt, I found Susan B. Anthony!
treebait
2:19:05 PM
8/14/03

pennies from heaven?

I think not
mapleleaf
2:20:39 PM
8/14/03

I found a penny in my ice cream! =P
Sassafras
2:36:47 PM
8/14/03

Does she have a sister ??
MDSHiker
2:39:58 PM
8/14/03

i found one yesterday. tail was up...is that bad luck??
Gemini
8:38:09 PM
8/14/03

Big deal I found a dollar :P
Free24
9:11:02 PM
8/14/03

I bet no one is finding any pennies in NYC right now.
bitpusher
9:13:46 PM
8/14/03

I found a penny yesterday, I think it was the one that they used to replace the fuse that took out the electricity to the right of Chicago! ;-}
stumprider
8:55:10 AM
8/15/03

Gawd tell me about it! I have a spreadsheet made up now for people who post stupid threads with ambiguious tittles. Make a thread called "Sorry but..." that sucks me into a intelectual vacuumm of a void? Bam, you're on my spread sheet and you officially owe me 5 seconds of YOUR life. Matt should create a new icon for thread creation with a bull taking a dump.

Sittin' around at work wasting the companies time and just can't get up the gumption to go to the bathroom and masterbate again so you creat yet another stupid thread about "What's your favorite dildo?" or ice cream? That's OK with me. At least I know not to waste my time with it. But if ya make a thread called, "What's your favorite...?" and then ask about favorite dildos or ice cream IN the thread...bam, on the list ya go. When someone reaches 24 hours they have wasted of my time I come and collect. You will recieve 24 hours in the pit in my basement...

"IT PUTS THE LOTION ON IT'S SKIN!!!!"
Nigal
9:17:06 AM
8/15/03

Nigal
Do you have enough room in your basement?
Buddha Bear
3:25:56 PM
8/15/03

I liked Penny from the "Penny cartoons" on PeeWee's Playhouse. She was a dear.
Limpy
3:35:09 PM
8/15/03

Ooops, I posted on the wrong penny thread.
Sorry.
Limpy
3:36:26 PM
8/15/03

You're sentenced to be buried in pennies in Nigal's basement.
bitpusher
3:39:37 PM
8/15/03

Are there spankings in your basement?
Free24
3:45:31 PM
8/15/03

Nigal: You suck and if you try putting lotion on me, I'll pull a flashback bacpac on you.
Phaedrus
4:11:07 PM
8/15/03

found a dollar this morning on my walk :D! WOOHOO!
Free24
1:00:00 PM
9/28/03

It's mine! I saw it first!
Buddha Bear
9:31:47 PM
1/08/04

that's ok. You can have it. I'd have to ask you how to spend it, anyway.
yam
9:39:38 PM
1/08/04

I found a nickle while taking down my Xmas tree...1994.....

;)
divinity
9:39:54 PM
1/08/04

It's MY Muther Fuching Penny, and you sorry assed biytches can't have it!
Buddha Bear
9:41:44 PM
1/08/04

you ain't gonna get laid talking to women like that!!!!
Yam...darlin..I'll share my nickle with ya......
divinity
9:44:21 PM
1/08/04

"you ain't gonna get laid talking to women like that!!!!"

divinity
09:44:21 PM
01/08/04

Oh really?
Buddha Bear
9:45:21 PM
1/08/04

2. Get laid as often as possible."
Buddha Bear
09:40:01 PM
01/08/04

really!!!
divinity
9:47:54 PM
1/08/04

Ooooops, sorry, I was refering to young good looking women. Please excuse my comment. :)
Buddha Bear
9:48:58 PM
1/08/04

sure u were
ScorchFire
9:54:34 PM
1/08/04

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