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The E-Sylum: Volume 17, Number 36, August 31, 2014, Article 18

NUMISMATIC GODFATHERS, LT. COLONELS, AND POOBAHS

With permission from the sparring participants, I'm publishing the below email exchange with grew from Joel Orosz's request for a review of an upcoming a "Numismatic Bookie" column he drafted for a November Coin World issue, wherein Joel referred to Dennis as 'the “Godfather” of coin literature'. -Editor

Dennis Tucker wrote:

Looks good to me! I chuckled at the “godfather” comment; last night I watched the “Seinfeld” episode where Jerry does what Elaine calls the “world’s worst Godfather impression.”

Joel Orosz wrote:

Dear Dennis:

Although I have never heard of any documented case of a Whitman author awakening with the severed head of a horse in his bed, I would never want to push you too far to see what might happen! (Perhaps a guillotined book spine)?

With respect,

Joel

Dennis Tucker wrote:

Colonel-Dennis-B-Tucker certificate Not too long ago, for my work in book publishing, I was granted the title of Lieutenant Colonel, Aide de Camp, Governor’s Staff by the State of Georgia. While most Georgia colonels mistake this as a purely honorary sinecure, or use it solely to plump up their curricula vitae, I’m not afraid to take full advantage of holding a command position in the state’s military.

Don’t force my hand, is what I’m getting at.

-- Colonel Dennis Tucker, former d-mned Yankee

Dave Bowers wrote:

As numismatic director of Whitman I hereby confer upon you this additional title, in view of your intelligence, personality, and other attributes:

Grand Poobah of Numismatology, First Class

Joel Orosz wrote:

Dear Lt. Col. Tucker, Poobah First Class:

Springing, as I do, from a long line of forebears who ran away, not to fight another day, but rather to run away again, I hereby proactively tender my surrender to the Georgia troops you are leading. I count on your status as an officer and a gentleman to provide me with a prison berth that stocked with the essentials--Cuban cigars, French Champagne, Russian caviar, etc. War is Hell.

Your Prisoner,

Joel J. Orosz, Craven Coward J.G.



Wayne Homren, Editor

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