Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for May 16, 2019

Pig, watching people with too much disposable income bidding over a Brasher Doubloon didn’t get your heart racing?

Pig was watching C-Span – the cameras caught members of Congress counting their 30 pieces of silver for betraying their constituents.

Oh, and I went to see John Wick 3. The action scenes were stellar and I was burning the candle at both ends.

When the first Harry Potter book was published in the UK, it was titled, “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone”. But when it was released in the U.S., it was called “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone”.

Because, you know . . . Philosophers.

Was it anything like The Accountant?

Meh, just a guy who always has to put his 2¢ in.

I didn’t know they made a movie about Spider-ham, aka—Peter Porker.

Nice try Pig ! What did your date think of the movie ? ……. Croc Power !

Did he handle the stamps with a jeweled glove?

I want to see “The Vexillologist.” Flying proudly like the flags of the world, she’ll vex her foes by flapping her gums about cantons and fields and fly ends.

I heard Tom Hanks making fun of his role in “The Da Vinci Code”, about the exciting moment when his character suddenly shouts “Quick! We have to get to the library!”

The Numismatist would be more likely to be an early Marvel supervillain. Stan Lee would use anything. “With the power I draw from these coins I can rule the world! Here, Spider-Man, you were not prepared for my Liberty Double Eagle Gas Bomb!”

Actually, I would think Pig would like that kind of movie.

More action in The Lepidopterist!

you can count on that…

The Numismatist is an adventure where some of his coins roll down the drain and he sets upon a remarkable adventure to get them back.

But it was still a better love story than Twilight.

He gives no quarter to the villains of the world.

PIG has lost all “cents” of valuables

What accounts for the popularity of super hero movies these days?

Soon to be joined by the philatelist, the Errinophilist, cagophilist and brogologist in the next marvel team: The COLLECTORS!

http://www.hintsandthings.co.uk/games/collectors.htm

The only constant to a numismatist is change!

Someone you know may be a numismatist.

Pig must have gone to a dollar movie.

The hero drops a dime on the perps.

The Accountant had its moments.

When you get a rare 1910 wheat penny, you are free to jump around naked. https://www.etsy.com/listing/678326143/rare-1910-wheat-penny?ref=pla_similar_listing_top-2&frs=1

Doesn’t fit the bill.

If you ever find a coin with the ‘S’ mint mark, chances are you are holding stolen property as that coin is from a proof set and never released to circulation!

Also watch for pennies with a ‘W’ mint mark this summer. The West Point, NY mint is releasing a fixed amount of pennies for the first time. Isn’t THAT exciting!

I myself am a numismatist. My superpower is to be able to determine by the sound it makes the denomination of any coin dropped on a floor of any surface, even carpet.

Lots of flipping.

It sounds more interesting than the average repetitious “superhero” movie. If you want to know what the plot of the latest is, I can tell you: the same as the last one, and the one before that, and the one before that, and . . . .

Well…he or she could be an Indiana Jones-type numismatist.

Faster than a speeding quarter!

Don’t forget to get the soundtrack to The Numismatist.

The action scenes not too good, that makes cents. ;-}

That would be the worst movie ever his partner would be penny man.

And still it was more exciting than the latest Batman movies…

That made me laugh out loud. Thanks Mr. Pastis, I really needed that today.

The Cheese Eater seems like it might be more interesting.

I’d just as likely go to see The Numismatist as any Avengers flick that wasn’t an oldie featuring John Steed and Mrs. Emma Peel….

I’m a Numismatist!!

Pig sure had a great vocabulary for someone so dumb.

True coin trivia: the United States once made a $4 gold coin (1879-1880). It was called a “Stella”, which you have to admit was less than “Stellar”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stella_(United_States_coin)

I’m an amateur numismatist! It’s not as boring as it sounds…