Robbed by a Minelab swinger. And not just ANY old Minelab I found out!!!! This one was Elton's!!!!

[scubadetector]

One of my friends called me up to go out and play in the woods with our machines. We were talking about this forum and he told me that he has Elton's old Minelab!! Well he cleaned my clock today! Along with his new finds and a couple of wheats , he got a rosey, a merc, a standing lib and a Washington. LOL I got NO silver at all!! My take is two quarters 11 dimes, 1 Canadian nickel, 23 houses and 2 wheat cents.

I know my machine hits as deep as his, I just didn't get my coil over anything good!! I guess this makes up for the gold rings I have pulled out of what he calls his back yard. Lake St. Clair!!!

Greg is a good friend and a very good detectorist. Congrats Greg.

 

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[therick]

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[Vernon in Virginia~Formerly Alaska]

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[Elson(La)]

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[Vernon in Virginia~Formerly Alaska]

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[Vernon in Virginia~Formerly Alaska]

[size=large] According to the Word Detective, "To begin at the beginning, "clock" has been slang for the human face since the mid-nineteenth century, based on its supposed resemblance to the face of a clock. "Clock" as a verb has also been slang for "to punch in the face or strike violently" since the early 20th century, again based on the clock-face metaphor.

"Elsewhere in the world of fisticuffs, according to the Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang, "clean" has been slang for "vanquish" since the early 19th century. The Random House dictionary also lists "fix someone's clock" as a slang term for "to finish someone," first attributed to the writer O. Henry in 1908. Curiously, the first citation for the whole phrase "clean someone's clock" comes only in 1959, but we can assume it had been around for awhile before that.

Even with all this evidence tying faces and punches together, I must say that there is another possible source for "clean someone's clock." In railroad slang, an engineer who applies the train's air brakes in an emergency is said to "clean the clock" or "wipe the gauge" as the speedometer needle drops to zero. It seems logical that such a graphic metaphor would be the perfect way to describe stopping an opponent in his tracks, and even if this is not the source of the phrase, it may have contributed to its popularization."
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[Elson(La)]

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[therick]

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[Magyar]

I'll be "watching" for someone to one -up me on this.

Magz

 

[Elton]

Now if I can just train my New one to do the same .... LOL

 

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[Elson(La)]

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[TwoRivers]

Looks like you had a good hunt............................................................................................................John

 

[Vernon in Virginia~Formerly Alaska]

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[Clad 2 Meet U]

Yep, I've had that SE since March of '09 and it still finds a silver or two.

 

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