Mildly interesting
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wrote on 23 May 2022, 11:34 last edited by
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wrote on 23 May 2022, 11:53 last edited by
Nice ring! I wonder what a ring like that would sell for in an auction. That's a real piece of history.
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Nice ring! I wonder what a ring like that would sell for in an auction. That's a real piece of history.
wrote on 23 May 2022, 11:56 last edited by@Klaus said in Mildly interesting:
Nice ring! I wonder what a ring like that would sell for in an auction. That's a real piece of history.
If it belonged to Caligula, I'd hate to think where it's been.
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wrote on 23 May 2022, 11:56 last edited by
Not surprisingly, the ring caused a sensation when it was made available for purchase on an auction by Royal jewelers Wartski.
“This ring is one of the prestigious 'Marlborough Gems', having previously been in the collection of the Earl of Arundel.
It is crafted entirely of sapphire. Very few hololiths exist and I would argue this is the best example you can find.
We believe it belonged to the debauched Emperor Caligula and the engraving shows his final wife Caesonia,” Kieran McCarthy, Wartski director said.
Caligula’s ring was finally sold for close to £500,000 in 2019.
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wrote on 23 May 2022, 14:32 last edited by
Given what people pay for a pair of socks from Elvis, or a burned toast resembling the face of Jesus, 500,000 $ sounds like a rather low price for an item like that.
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wrote on 23 May 2022, 14:49 last edited by
It would be interesting to track the ring's journey from Caligula's day to today -- where it ended up, with whom and why, and so on.
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It would be interesting to track the ring's journey from Caligula's day to today -- where it ended up, with whom and why, and so on.
wrote on 23 May 2022, 14:58 last edited by@Catseye3 said in Mildly interesting:
It would be interesting to track the ring's journey from Caligula's day to today -- where it ended up, with whom and why, and so on.
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@Catseye3 said in Mildly interesting:
It would be interesting to track the ring's journey from Caligula's day to today -- where it ended up, with whom and why, and so on.
wrote on 24 May 2022, 01:29 last edited by@George-K interesting story behind the ring.
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Given what people pay for a pair of socks from Elvis, or a burned toast resembling the face of Jesus, 500,000 $ sounds like a rather low price for an item like that.
wrote on 24 May 2022, 01:42 last edited by jon-nyc@Klaus said in Mildly interesting:
Given what people pay for a pair of socks from Elvis, or a burned toast resembling the face of Jesus, 500,000 $ sounds like a rather low price for an item like that.
My very first thought was that was an incredibly low price. Honestly I would personally have bid higher had I known it was being auctioned.
I mean, if I had Horace’s riches.
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@Klaus said in Mildly interesting:
Given what people pay for a pair of socks from Elvis, or a burned toast resembling the face of Jesus, 500,000 $ sounds like a rather low price for an item like that.
My very first thought was that was an incredibly low price. Honestly I would personally have bid higher had I known it was being auctioned.
I mean, if I had Horace’s riches.
wrote on 24 May 2022, 02:15 last edited by Horace@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:
@Klaus said in Mildly interesting:
Given what people pay for a pair of socks from Elvis, or a burned toast resembling the face of Jesus, 500,000 $ sounds like a rather low price for an item like that.
My very first thought was that was an incredibly low price. Honestly I would personally have bid higher had I known it was being auctioned.
I mean, if I had Horace’s riches.
I would only bid if you did. I would drive up the price to your maximum, a point I would know because of my ability to read minds. Then I would post on TNCR a list of philanthropic projects you could have used that money for. Defeated financially and spiritually, you would retire from TNCR in shame. Only to be welcomed back by my own benevolent hand of forgiveness. Humbled and improved, you would return, wearing your Caligula ring, now engraved with a simple “H” in honor of this greatest transformative experience of your life.
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@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:
@Klaus said in Mildly interesting:
Given what people pay for a pair of socks from Elvis, or a burned toast resembling the face of Jesus, 500,000 $ sounds like a rather low price for an item like that.
My very first thought was that was an incredibly low price. Honestly I would personally have bid higher had I known it was being auctioned.
I mean, if I had Horace’s riches.
I would only bid if you did. I would drive up the price to your maximum, a point I would know because of my ability to read minds. Then I would post on TNCR a list of philanthropic projects you could have used that money for. Defeated financially and spiritually, you would retire from TNCR in shame. Only to be welcomed back by my own benevolent hand of forgiveness. Humbled and improved, you would return, wearing your Caligula ring, now engraved with a simple “H” in honor of this greatest transformative experience of your life.
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@Horace The beautifully balanced and downright songlike cadence of your post above, I can only say, makes me sigh in appreciation.
wrote on 24 May 2022, 11:00 last edited by@Catseye3 said in Mildly interesting:
@Horace The beautifully balanced and downright songlike cadence of your post above, I can only say, makes me sigh in appreciation.
Horace has kissed both the Blarney Stone and Caligula's ring.
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@Catseye3 said in Mildly interesting:
@Horace The beautifully balanced and downright songlike cadence of your post above, I can only say, makes me sigh in appreciation.
Horace has kissed both the Blarney Stone and Caligula's ring.
wrote on 24 May 2022, 11:28 last edited by@Doctor-Phibes said in Mildly interesting:
Horace has kissed both the Blarney Stone and Caligula's ring.
And other things.
PM me and I'll tell you what.
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@Horace The beautifully balanced and downright songlike cadence of your post above, I can only say, makes me sigh in appreciation.
wrote on 24 May 2022, 15:45 last edited by@Catseye3 said in Mildly interesting:
@Horace The beautifully balanced and downright songlike cadence of your post above, I can only say, makes me sigh in appreciation.
+1
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wrote on 24 May 2022, 19:19 last edited by
Circuit older than that were racist because they were not integrated, right?
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@Klaus A Bob Newhart sketch.
A roomful of monkeys, each sitting at a desk and banging away on a typewriter. Men in white coats wandering the aisles, observing. One of them stops, stares, and cries, "Jim! Jim! Get over here, quick!" The other man joins the first, who points to what the monkey had typed: "To be or not to be, that is the geframenplatz."
wrote on 24 May 2022, 19:39 last edited by@Catseye3 said in Mildly interesting:
Link to video@Klaus A Bob Newhart sketch.
A roomful of monkeys, each sitting at a desk and banging away on a typewriter. Men in white coats wandering the aisles, observing. One of them stops, stares, and cries, "Jim! Jim! Get over here, quick!" The other man joins the first, who points to what the monkey had typed: "To be or not to be, that is the geframenplatz."
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wrote on 25 May 2022, 12:55 last edited byThis post is deleted!
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@George-K said in Mildly interesting:
Circuit older than that were racist because they were not integrated, right?
The 555 was not the first IC.
The first IC was invented in 1958 by an engineer at Texas Instruments.