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TenBears
Penny Hoarding Member
873 Posts |
Posted - 08/26/2008 : 09:35:08
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Some Sheriff's deputy filmed a chupacabra down in south Texas a few weeks ago. Belief in the chupy is not an impediment to Rational Thinking membership. We recently lost Nickelless who went off the deep end in claiming to find not only a wild Indian but also a 1909 VBD. I am wondering how many of us Rational Thinkers are left?
Chime in here if you still wash your hands after sorting, use an inside toilet, and don't believe in Santa (or wild Indians).
Deal, Mistero, are you still with me? |
"Rich," the Old Man said dreamily, "is not baying after what you can't have. Rich is having the time to do what you want to do. Rich is a little whiskey to drink and some food to eat and a roof over your head and a fish pole and a boat and a gun and a dollar for a box of shells. Rich is not owing any money to anybody, and not spending what you haven't got." Robert Ruark
there are too wild Indians...
there are too wild Indians...
there are too wild Indians...-----still taunted
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M83striker
Penny Sorter Member
USA
90 Posts |
 Posted - 08/26/2008 : 10:48:25
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| I'm still with you Tenbears! I double sort through my Ryedale and handsort through all of the copper, but still no Injuns. Trust me, I wash my hands after sorting and still use the indoor toilet! I have a 5 year old boy who helps me open rolls and loves to see wheat pennies fall in the bucket after the zinc re-sort. Rest assured that I won't ever have to explain what a wild indian is to him unless I buy one from the coin dealer down the street. I'm raising him to be a rational thinker and not cloud his head with thoughts of Santa Claus, Tooth fairy, Easter Bunny or Wild Indians now. I'm backing Tenbears 100%. |
When my wife got after me it sounded like "Blah,Blah,Blah", but now it sounds like "Clink,Clink,Clink". Its amazing what that Ryedale can do for a hounded husband. |
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Kurr
Penny Hoarding Member
576 Posts |
Posted - 08/26/2008 : 11:58:15
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| Stop looking in your coppers for IH's. BOTH of the ones I found were about to be returned in my zinc pile. Pure luck I looked down and saw them. |
Always willing to trade copper for pm's
A number of people are educated beyond, sometimes way beyond, their intelligence. - Tenbears
My Ebay items: http://tinyurl.com/5pqkho |
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M83striker
Penny Sorter Member
USA
90 Posts |
Posted - 08/26/2008 : 12:08:21
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| I use a 1979 in my Ryedale to sort all of my pennies that I get from the bank. When that sort has been completed I change the 1979 to a 2001 penny and re-sort all of the zinc to make sure that all of the really old wheats have been plucked. Will any wild indians still be with the zinc even after the re-sort? I'm confused now |
When my wife got after me it sounded like "Blah,Blah,Blah", but now it sounds like "Clink,Clink,Clink". Its amazing what that Ryedale can do for a hounded husband. |
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NotABigDeal
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1848 Posts |
Posted - 08/26/2008 : 17:15:30
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I'm with you TenBears. Nice avatar by the way. M83striker, I do a zinc sort first with the sensitivity tweaked just right. Then I do a copper resort. I find all kinds of goodies in the reject bin. All kinds except Injins....
Deal |
I'm so sick over pennies....I frequently trade a dime or two for the whole "take-a-penny" container if sufficient coppers exist. That will get you some odd looks. |
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TenBears
Penny Hoarding Member
873 Posts |
Posted - 08/26/2008 : 17:39:04
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Well, at least there are three of us left with Striker, Deal and me. Three of us who practice good hygiene so that we don't become infected by the wild Indian pathogen.
Thanks on the avatar change. I wanted something unique that no one else had. Understandably at this forum, the IHP is a popular avatar.
I sort like you two do, a zinc sort followed by a copper sort. I have a tame Indian which falls with the copper in the first sort. That is when I know I have "Indian Hunter" (the name for my Ryedale) set right. I have it set so that Indians fall with the copper rather than the zinc. Then in the next sort of everything that fell with the copper, I set Indian Hunter again so that the tame Indian falls in with the rejects along with older wheats. I have found a bunch of old wheats this way, but never one of these fantasy wild Indians. |
"Rich," the Old Man said dreamily, "is not baying after what you can't have. Rich is having the time to do what you want to do. Rich is a little whiskey to drink and some food to eat and a roof over your head and a fish pole and a boat and a gun and a dollar for a box of shells. Rich is not owing any money to anybody, and not spending what you haven't got." Robert Ruark
there are too wild Indians...
there are too wild Indians...
there are too wild Indians...-----still taunted
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knibloe
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
537 Posts |
Posted - 08/26/2008 : 20:40:42
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| They say that crazy people talk to themselves. I think that TenBears is getting close to qualifying for that club. |
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legacypac
Administrator
Canada
1653 Posts |
Posted - 08/26/2008 : 23:02:48
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I don't believe in Wild Indians either, and definately not in Canada. No Canadian pennies equivilants predating the Maple Twig either - they don't exist in the wild either so no need to look for them either. I don't do the indian dance in either direction!
I do believe in the Easter bunny since he was stamped on 1967 Canadian Nickels and chooses to make an appearance in my accept bin occasionally. But I have yet to see Santa Claus.
Definately wondering how many penny fingers were licked by NDFarmer before he claimed to find 4 in one bag! |
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NDFARMER
Penny Collector Member
USA
294 Posts |
Posted - 08/27/2008 : 10:32:37
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| I presort all my bags before they go through the Ryedale. That way I get most of the wheats out, and I don't miss any Indians because they can't hide in amongst those Memorials when you have them under a magnifying glass. And that way I can pull out all the bent coins and the ones that are stuck together and this makes the old Ryedale run smooth. I have run 50,000 coins through several times and not had one jam. |
COPPER - the "poormans" precious metal!!! |
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kieblera5
Penny Collector Member
USA
334 Posts |
Posted - 08/27/2008 : 10:40:46
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| I'm with you! The wild indian cult tries to suck us in with their promises of "Oh, of course you can find wild indians!". And then... when you least expect it... they....STRIKE! Well maybe not, but they like to plant indians in certain peoples boxes to try to persuade them. Sometimes, the one that I found whispers to me... come with usssss...... You know you waaaanntt tooooo.. in a creepy eerie tone. |
Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.
Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and then beat you mercilessly with experience.
An Obama nation is an abomination.
There's more money in one cent than in a dollar bill. |
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knibloe
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
537 Posts |
Posted - 08/28/2008 : 21:26:13
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| And you guys think we are crazy. |
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TenBears
Penny Hoarding Member
873 Posts |
Posted - 08/28/2008 : 22:05:49
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Originally posted by knibloe
And you guys think we are crazy.
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"Rich," the Old Man said dreamily, "is not baying after what you can't have. Rich is having the time to do what you want to do. Rich is a little whiskey to drink and some food to eat and a roof over your head and a fish pole and a boat and a gun and a dollar for a box of shells. Rich is not owing any money to anybody, and not spending what you haven't got." Robert Ruark
there are too wild Indians...
there are too wild Indians...
there are too wild Indians...-----still taunted
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HoardCopperByTheTon
Administrator
USA
3603 Posts |
Posted - 08/29/2008 : 00:09:20
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Ah.. Now I understand why you guys are missing them. Methinks it is intentional because you want to remain Rational Thinkers. The problem is in the sorting method. I used to sort both ways like you guys do in the hopes of having a wild Indian drop into my lap. Then one day last year I found 6 Indians in one day.. all in my zinc box.. all after it had been sorted for copper and then gone through the zinc resort. Seems those crafty wild indians were clinging to the zinc for cover no matter how you tried to sort for them. So in an effort to capture more wild Indians I changed my sorting method. I will admit that I love machines.. and I get great use out of them.. but no machine can do everything.. no matter how good the machine. Sometimes you have to trust your eyes.. even when clouded by the wild Indian pathegon.
The way I sort now is to do a copper sort first. Then I hand sift through the zinc rejects to pluck out wild Indians and older wheats before dumping the chaff into a counter or rolling machine to be processed for return to the bank. This method has yielded 12 wild Indians so far this year. 
I don't believe in the chupacabra. |
If your percentages are low.. just sort more. If your percentages are high.. just sort more.
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TenBears
Penny Hoarding Member
873 Posts |
Posted - 08/29/2008 : 08:41:55
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Originally posted by HoardCopperByTheTon
I don't believe in the chupacabra.
I got a chuckle out of that. There is yet hope for a cure for the wild Indian pathogen. |
"Rich," the Old Man said dreamily, "is not baying after what you can't have. Rich is having the time to do what you want to do. Rich is a little whiskey to drink and some food to eat and a roof over your head and a fish pole and a boat and a gun and a dollar for a box of shells. Rich is not owing any money to anybody, and not spending what you haven't got." Robert Ruark
there are too wild Indians...
there are too wild Indians...
there are too wild Indians...-----still taunted
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dthelucky1
Penny Sorter Member
USA
28 Posts |
Posted - 08/29/2008 : 09:31:21
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| It's a numbers game 0.000006 of all pennies in circulation are wild indians.... according to my percentages. How's that for rational thinking? |
Always selling copper pennies @ http://shop.ebay.com/merchant/danbrks |
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HoardCopperByTheTon
Administrator
USA
3603 Posts |
Posted - 08/29/2008 : 10:41:20
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| Nah, the percentage is much lower than that. Most wild Indians are no longer in circulation.. they have been domesticated. They are even scarcer than your calculations would suggest.. especially in Texas. |
If your percentages are low.. just sort more. If your percentages are high.. just sort more.
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