And if God hadn't made it UNBELIEVABLY fun, the human race would have died out eons ago.

[_lucy_]

Congratulate me. For I have successfully downloaded ten episodes of House even though it takes up lots of space and comes out on DVD in approximately one month. And our computer is extremely full due to my family saving EVERYTHING. There were over four hundred copies of pictures in my sister's file. That, my friends, is a lot of space. She has

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[randomtimes]

How much does a sixpence cost these days? Certainly not six pence I would assume?

[_lucy_]

Ohhh, anywhere from 20USD to 1000USD.

[randomtimes]

Wow, that's quite a bit. I should dig out the ones we have.

[_lucy_]

That's what I'm using as reference. You should sell them! Old ones are much more expensive though ;)

[randomtimes]

If I keep them they might be worth more, and I can sell them to wedding people who don't have them.

The link didn't work by the way.

[_lucy_]

Things are always worth more if you keep them, but then you never end up selling them.

Worked for me. It's quite easy to find a reference to price. The $1000 coins are from the 1500's, which I doubt you've got floating around.

[randomtimes]

Yeah, if I did I think I would have sold them already. That would totally awesome. I love old stuff.

[_lucy_]

I don't give old coins a proper display though. Like the stuff we've got is chucked in a box and put on a shelf, rarely (if ever) taken out. Someone out there probably has more respect for them than I do, just as I hold respect for things that they probably don't care about.

[randomtimes]

Well totally, there's never enough shelf space for all the old things that are stashed in a box somewhere. I have so much stuff in boxes that I'll never get out because there's nowhere to put it. And even then, I don't really have any reason for putting a load of old stuff out on show. Maybe if I was a museum, but I'm not.

[_lucy_]

Someday I'd like to have a fabulous collection of amazing things (probably from WWII...I'm obsessed). Right now my mom's got a 50-odd-foot of wall covered in old things, some family, some just fabulous. It's like a teeny museum almost.

[randomtimes]

50 foot of wall? That's a lot of wall.

I used to have some pieces of airplane that I found in a glacier in Iceland that were either from WWI or WWII. I don't know if I stiff have them though. It was a most exciting find.

[_lucy_]

Yep, she's quite proud.

That would be exciting. I don't know as much about WWI, but WWII is my obsession.

[randomtimes]

I really don't like being taught about modern history, like the wars. But I do find them really interesting out of personal interest. I don't really think I need to know how many people died at each battle, I just like to hear the stories and about what happened.

[_lucy_]

The Holocaust is really interesting to me. It's my favorite museum in Washington DC. That sounds so wrong, but it's my favorite. I love the Band of Brothers book by Stephen E. Ambrose and then the miniseries. A few of those guys live around me. I secretly want to find out their addresses and see their houses.

[randomtimes]

I haven't seen Band of Brothers yet, or read the book, but I intend to. I didn't know there was a holocaust museum over there. Really need to do a tour of museums one day.

[_lucy_]

The museum is very moving. Everytime I go in it makes me cry. It's very haunting...Then they've always got something equally as fascinating. This past May it was an exhibit on Mengele's medical experiments. They are especially fascinating. The Nazis were really far ahead of their time, medically, minus the whole anti-semitism thing. They knew that asbestos caused cancer (but so did Jews) and they had lots of restriction on cigarette smoking.

You should see it and/or read it. I watch it constantly.