Should I have done it?

[oggbashan]

Today at a very low tide I put on my wellington boots and walked out over our beach to the edge of the sea about a kilometre below high tide mark.

As I went I dropped a succession of old coins and pushed them down into the sand/mud. They are very worn coins from the 1860s and 1870s, mainly Emperor Napoleon III, some Italian, and a couple of Victorian Bun Pennies.

The coins are so worn that they are useless for coin collectors.

I thought the coins might excite our local metal detector fans.

My wife thinks I've misled them and that I shouldn't have done it. She thinks I have been unfair to the metal detector nerds.

I think they will be pleased to find some genuine old coins instead of remains of beer cans.

What do you think? Would you be pleased to find an old coin even if it has only been there a week? Or would you feel that you have been cheated?

Og

 

[logophile]

I think it was a wonderful thing to do.
Good on you, Og!

 

[Guest]

I can appreciate the good intentions behind your act. The metal detactors won't know how long the coins have been there and they'll be excited about their find.

Excited enough to tell all their metal detector friends as well as the coin dealer they have them appraised at and within a few days your beach will be crawling with people trying to find "King Soloman's Mine". This will be foolowed by a fleet of boat filled with divers looking to find the sunken pirate ship that isn't there.

The crowds of searcher will attract crowds of watchers and that in turn will create enormous rumors that will attract your local media and CNN will not be far behind.

"A butterfly flutters it's wings in central park..."

 

[Guest]

 

[Guest]

I envision a dad and a young son or daughter, happily searching for buried treasure along the beach. It isn't a cheat at all. What fun for them to actually find something!

What a wonderful thing to do, Og. Good for you.

 

[Guest]

 

[Guest]

AND searching in vain for MORE!!!
MUUYYHAHAHHAHA!!!!


(actually sparking there imagination and rekindling their interest)

Evil lad!

They'll gush happily for weeks, telling everyone within earshot over and over all about their exciting adventures discovering pirate treasure.

They'll save the coin carefully until school starts again in the fall, just to bring it to class and boast yet again.

If dad (or mom) does the research to test for value they'll even enjoy that. Exciting - kind of like buying a lottery ticket.

And even when they find out the coins aren't worth millions I bet they still enjoyed the ride. With a cracker jack prize at the end.


(Now - if greedy fortune hunters discover it and feel angry - who cares?)

 

[Guest]

 

[Guest]

what Ogg didn't tell us..is that there is a CURSE on those coins! Those who possess them will forever be the undead (LIKE OGG!!!! remember how old he is?)...now he is passing on the curse!


OH NO!!!!
I hope no one ever finds them!


only to reveal their TRUE selves in the moonlight. (i saw pirates of the CAribean!!) I KNOW!

I once revealed myself in the moonlight.

It was great.

 

[cloudy]

I once revealed myself in the moonlight.

It was great.

and I wasn't there to see it? Damn!

Og: I think it was a lovely thing to do.

 

[Guest]

 

[rgraham666]

I once revealed myself in the moonlight.

It was great.

Now there's a vision that will keep me awake tonight.

 

[Guest]

Now there's a vision that will keep me awake tonight.

Now I'm blushing.

One of the many reasons I love you, Rob.

 

[Guest]

 

[Guest]

figures.
she "loves" you (rgraham) and ignores me (as I ignore that she is also ignoring Cloudy being ignored...all the while noticing Cloudy wondering how/when she might reveal herself)

Laughing -

Shall I share to everyone that a certain rhino was also revealing matters in the moonlight?

No?

(and cloudy and I have future plans)

 

[Guest]

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

I once revealed myself in the moonlight.
It was great.

I used to reveal myself in the spotlight, five times every night.

I can no longer do that, now that I am the hostess at a snooty restaurant.

Not even once a night!

 

[Guest]

 

[SeaCat]

Hey Ogg,

I think it was a great thing to do. It's too bad more people didn't do things like that, it would make more people happy. (Now you've given me a couple of ideas.)

Cat

 

[Lisa Denton]

Today at a very low tide I put on my wellington boots and walked out over our beach to the edge of the sea about a kilometre below high tide mark.

As I went I dropped a succession of old coins and pushed them down into the sand/mud. They are very worn coins from the 1860s and 1870s, mainly Emperor Napoleon III, some Italian, and a couple of Victorian Bun Pennies.

The coins are so worn that they are useless for coin collectors.

I thought the coins might excite our local metal detector fans.

My wife thinks I've misled them and that I shouldn't have done it. She thinks I have been unfair to the metal detector nerds.

I think they will be pleased to find some genuine old coins instead of remains of beer cans.

What do you think? Would you be pleased to find an old coin even if it has only been there a week? Or would you feel that you have been cheated?

Og

Og, that was a nice thing to do, fuck your wife (huh), well, I don't mean literally (huh), well, yes I do, what the hell, let her wear the hat too. Anywho, what I was sayin is that this may start something which will be on-going. Researchers could flock to the area attemptin to determine if Napolean was an Victorian Italian, or sumpthin like that. They may start diggin up the beach and find some real stuff from long ago, maybe cavemen or sumpthin neat like that. Of course they will prolly get real excited and bulldoze down your house to dig up underneath it so it is also a great sacrifice you are makin on behalf of science and stuff. Maybe you should bury a Tomb-Raider DVD to get them wonderin just what the hell they have stumbled upon, or one of those bottles with a note in it, since you are an erotica writer you could put a short porn story in the bottle. Use a old bottle so they will think they have discovered the first known porn-in-a-bottle from a thousand years ago, put some dinosaurs in your story, but not beastiality dinosaurs, just like have the caveman and cavewoman getting really hot watching some dinosaurs and then they fuck like savages maybe. Or they could see some lesbian dinosaurs getting it on, and then some gay male dinosaurs, and the cavepeoples could speculate how the dinosaurs might one day become extinct, in between hot kinky sex and stuff, or sumpthin like that. Who knows, the scientists might actually dig up some lesbian dinosaur bones, and in the Smithsonian Institute exhibit it will say "Contributing Discoverer, Og" or sumpthin. I will be watchin the news closely to follow your cavepeoples sex exploits, and lesbian dinosaur discoveries. Keep up the good work, your scientific collaborator, Lisa.

 

[Penelope Street]

What do you think? Would you be pleased to find an old coin even if it has only been there a week? Or would you feel that you have been cheated? Og

I think you're sweet. I think you have a twisted sense of humor. I think the treasure hunters will be thrilled so long as none of them read this forum. But mostly I think you have way too much time on your hands.

Take Care,
Penny

 

[Guest]

 

[dr_mabeuse]

When archaeologists have to cover up a dig where they've been working, they throw in a penny or two to serve as a time-marker, so that in the future no one will think that some of the stuff they left behind are acosiated with the earlier period.

I don't think anyone would draw any sweeping historical conclusions from one or two coins found on the beach. It's far more likely they fell out of someone's pocket (or were planted) than that they're suddenly surfacing after a couple hundred years.

 

[Amy Sweet]

When archaeologists have to cover up a dig where they've been working, they throw in a penny or two to serve as a time-marker, so that in the future no one will think that some of the stuff they left behind are acosiated with the earlier period.

I don't think anyone would draw any sweeping historical conclusions from one or two coins found on the beach. It's far more likely they fell out of someone's pocket (or were planted) than that they're suddenly surfacing after a couple hundred years.

Oh Doc! You're no fun.

Ogg- I'm glad you did it, and I'm glad you told us about it. I'm having fun reading the silly posts here. It kinda reminds me of that children's book, "If you give a mouse a cookie."

I think, even if they new it was planted, they will still enjoy it. In fact, I'm on my way to search for it now...

And now, Doc- my dear, shield your eyes. For here comes the biggest serviving sigline on lit. Sorry (I'll only post it once in this thread- promise)

Sweet.

 

[Amy Sweet]

With all this talk about folks revealing themselves in the moonlight, homosexual dinosaurs, caveman sex and priate treasure, this is practically a 'story ideas' thread. I hope at least one story comes out of this discussion. I'd love to see a humour story or something fun like that. BTW, Lisa, did you ever write a dirty story about me yet? (so long ago, I don't remember what the details were)