Jeff,

That is funny. I saw a late-night infomercial like last year where they are selling all 6 seasons of that great comedy variety show on DVDs. I saw John Wayne in one of the clips they showed. He didn’t seem the type of actor that would be funny, but he obviously was.
Lily Tomlin was & is still a great comedian & actress who I really like. I saw her first appearance on the Carol Burnett Show in its early years around 1969 or 1970 on a rerun the other nite & she did a 1-woman sketch scene that she wrote & it was funny & very well scripted by her. Carol Burnett just turned 90 recently & they filmed a Hollywood celebration for a 1-hour tribute to her that airs on April 26. I met her once in San Antonio where she was born & got her autograph on her memoir book & I told her something that made her laugh! I saw her again in “Concert” for a ticket fee at Trinity University in San Antonio & she was great. Her character of Eunice Harper in “The Family” sketches & later on the t.v. show “Momma’s Family” were my favorite. She is still working in Hollywood. I love to laugh out loud! LOL

NumisdudeTX

Hi Seth,
I was 10 when it ended. I recently caught a re-run of it. Saw lots of faces I hadn’t thought of for a while now. Arte Johnson, Ruth Buzzi, and more. I remember Goldie Hawn too, of course, but I have thought of her regularly over the years (haha), unlike the others. I cannot remember if I saw her on this particular episode, though. John Wayne was making a guest appearance. In one skit, the setting was him with a woman in a bedroom and she told him in a sexy voice “what would you do if I attacked you right now?” He replied he “would circle the beds”.

Kaiser,

I remember watching “Laugh In” as a kid. Even though I was ages 6 to 12 during its run & I didn’t understand all the jokes, it was “electric” & eclectic enough to hold my attention. I had such a crush on Goldie Hawn!

NumisdudeTX

Kaiser,

Yes, for sure the supply vs demand factor rules.

As I’m sure you know, the U.S. Mint was the last government Mint to still use .900 fine silver planchets that had to be procured at a higher cost due to the planchets being a custom-made item for them. The rest of the Mint’s in the world use .999 fine or .9999 fine silver planchets. The U.S. Mint in all its messy, bureaucratic glory was late to the game & didn’t switch over to .999 fine silver coins till 2019.

NumisdudeTX

Sir Kaiser, $2,000 gold is an important, psychological level. The historical high for gold is $2,064, which was reached in March, 2021. The gold price zone between $2,000 and $2,064 is dangerous for the gold shorts, not the longs, for if the price breaks out of this zone it will shoot up to a new all-time high. Therefore, the gold cartel (shorts) will do everything in their power to push gold down below $2,000 and keep it contained from breaking out of the $2000 – $2064 price zone. The fighting is like what we saw today with spot gold being knocked back down to $1,984 from yesterday’s close at $2,005.

I vaguely remember silver at $5 and even a little below $5 per ounce sometime in the1990s. The average cost at the time to bring an ounce out of a silver mine at the time was about $5.50 per ounce cost to the mining company. Yet, the U.S. Mint at the time had no problem getting silver planchets from vendors for its ASE $1 coins, the silver coins Proof sets (they started back again in 1992 after a 28 year absence), & its silver commemorative $1 coins.
Times surely have changed in that regard!

NumisdudeTX