[TheForge] Re: OT Goats [was: Beware the quiet welder]

[Washington, Aubrey O.]

When I was in Junior Hi in the mid-60s the local junior college would pay their staff part of their salary in December each year in silver dollars.  So there were tons of them in circulation.  I collected a bunch, but I'm not sure what became of them after I left home.

Aubrey

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From: theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net [theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Mike Spencer [mspencer at tallships.ca]
Sent: Monday, September 01, 2008 12:37 AM
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Subject: [TheForge] Re: OT Goats [was: Beware the quiet welder]

> A fellow that lived here in Uvalde had a goat that went everywhere
> with him.  It was said that he invented the automatic transmission,
> and was worth millions....He would always pay his bills in person,
> and with silver dollars.

Good yarn, Robert!

When I was in high school, late 50s, I used to go to the bank whenever
I had more than a sawbuck and buy silver dollars -- real ones, not
Susan Bs -- and spend them.  I got a kick out of the consternation.
Many people in Springfield, Mass. apparently had never seen a silver
dollar and a couple even refused to take them.

No goats were involved, unless I was the goat for not putting them in
a piggy bank and keeping them for 20 years until the Hunt brothers did
their thing.


- Mike

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