Last days of work....

[Humpybong]

Well on Fiday 11th July I retire and will now have more time to spend on my collections (that is after I do all of the jobs around the house my wife has lined up for me). 

Also want to do a bit of travelling around Australia, visit coin shows, coin clubs (again if wife will let me)   

Not sure how long each day I will be here in the castle but will be less that I have been when in my office.


So many coins, so little time.     

[AdamL]

Congratulations on your retirement!

[longnine009]

Congratulations.  But I heard husbands never retire from the  "honey-do" list as long as  they're above ground. 

[Triggersmob]

Congratulations on your retirement.

If you go travelling around Aus, don't forget to call in.

[scottishmoney]

Congratulations on your retirement

[CoinCrusader42]

Congratulations!!

I'm semi-retired, but one day soon I'll quit my part-time job also.

It's nice not to have to get up and go to work in the mornings.

 

[ElleKitty]

Congratulations, on your Retirement!

[Muckeye]

Hi Barry,
First stop.
Due west to Nanango.
Beds available or room for a van.
Don't ask, just come.
regards,

(poor grammar)

[Paint Your Wagon]

Congratulations

If you have an extralegal pension consider taking it all in a lumpsum to the bank of your choice . This is what I did since I do not thrust the American multinational nor the English multinational to continue paying untill my death . Now if I loose it I did loose it myself 

[TwoShadows]

So Barry is going to take on coin collecting as a full time job? I don't know if that will boost the Australian economy, with him not working, or put more of a burden on us? Guess we will find out if Australia raises it's coin prices? I would think, should the Aussie economy go down hill, they could force him back to work? 
We can probably offer HumpyBong our full time Sheriffs job right here! He would be just the guy to keep all these wild collectors in order. We can offer him the same salary that ElleKitty gets! But I can see we would have to pay all our tickets and fines in silver and gold. He won't take no scrap metal!!!

[tiddyathome]

Have fun today Barry 

[CoinCrusader42]

I would propose to pay him at least twice what we pay Kitty!!

 

[Humpybong]

Ahaaaa...The Sheriff of Nothingham     

[Triggersmob]

Last day, today, is it?

Hope you have a good one.
Try not to cry on your way out. LOL

I've still got to wait another 16 years. it seems so far away.

[ElleKitty]

Hey, I wanna raise!

And Barry, Congratulations again!

[GregK]

Better late then never they say.  Barry, all the best Mate  enjoy.  If you ever get down this way, give me a shout!!

[tyjulie]

Well Done
enjoy you're retirement

[Muckeye]

Two 'sherrifs' on double pay, both sides of the globe covered, both speaking reasonable English. I think we can afford if.

Hands up those who say Yea

Muckeye (1) Gizmo (2).  Come on, don't be shy.

regards,

[Humpybong]

Thanks for all your kind wishes.

Not sure if I will have any time to be the sheriff of nothingham though!   

[Paint Your Wagon]

Thanks for all your kind wishes.

Not sure if I will have any time to be the sheriff of nothingham though!   

Yes retirement is hell 
First you sleep late in the morning. Then you have to catch up with the news and the finantial world that could pose a threat to your retirement .
By then it is noon and you have to eat extravagantly cause you got the time to cook it that way . Then you need a few cognacs to brace yourself for the markets in europe and america to open and watch the price of gold . Then you have to work on a dozen projects in the one hour spare till supper . After supper you have to troll ebay for cheap coins whilst having a few whiskeys to digest dissapointment . That just leaves time for a single movie of your choice and go exhausted to bed .
The only day off is Sundays on which you have to balance your bankaccounts 

[TwoShadows]

The Sheriffs duties may be very extensive but one must remember YOU will still have all your Deputies to delegate ALL the work too! I think you can handle that while online checking on your market progress! Who knows, we will probably be referring to you as the Fuzz before long!   I can see it now--------

FUZZ HUMPYBONG or should we go with HUMPYBONGFUZZ?  Humpybongfuzz would sure be a conversation starter as most U.S. folks don't have a clue what Humpybong is and FUZZ can be many things other than a cop! Humpybongfuzz is defintely it! Wait till the feedback starts coming in on this one!

[Paint Your Wagon]

This make me think of something I heard in a film which of course had no Flemish translation

Chunge los puercos

and they meant the cops or fuzz or flatfoots or coppers or heat
well you get the drift

Oh I don't mean our shariff o course 

[ElleKitty]

PYW, that definitely doesn't translate into something nice or family friendly!

"F--- the pigs." Pig being a slang term for police.

I certainly hope you don't mean Humpybong. ^^;

[Paint Your Wagon]

PYW, that definitely doesn't translate into something nice or family friendly!

"F--- the pigs." Pig being a slang term for police.

I certainly hope you don't mean Humpybong. ^^;

I speak Spanish from Spain so I had a good idea what the american filmmakers meant and I was amazed they got away with it allthough it was an english spoken film and not even rated . I forgot the film but not the expression .
Would that spanish be Catalan ?
I know it is perfectly allright in Spain to Coger un Taxi whereas in South America that probably would entail something unspeakable with the exhaust pipe of the taxi 
Anyways a spanish friend of mine told me never to use the verb coger outside spain 

PS I like them Aussies very much so no disrespect will ever be meant to Sir Humpybong or any other downunderknight(ess)

[Tobyle]

Congratulations on your retirement, Barry - hope you started out with a relaxing, enjoyable weekend!

[ElleKitty]

Mexican Spanish is as different from Castillean spanish as is British English to American English. 

You can generally read the signs, but you sure as hell can't talk to the guy on the street corner. ^^;

[EgCollector]

Congratulations on your retirement.

Best Wishes