schattenteufel: That's tacky. Not as tacky as this:

[www.nationalcollectorsmint.com image 600x432]

...but still, it's tacky.

It makes me wish I didn't have this damned sense of ethics. Otherwise I'd buy a few gross of these things, slap a serial number on each one and maybe glue a "24k gold-clad lmited edition collector's medallion" on the front of each one that featured the twin towers or a crying eagle or some damn thing, add a "certificate of authenticity" and then sell them to suckers for $50-100 ea

wildsnowllama: *sniff* We've done our part. We've spread capitalism to the Middle East.

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That's why we're there, right?

*Spread* capitalism to the middle east? Like Algebra , Astronomy, and Arabic Numerals, that was one of those ideas that went the other way round. While Thomas Aquinas was bloviating that it was immoral to buy something and sell it at a higher price (and god help you if you lent money at interest), The Arabs had become the merchants (and more specifically the middle men) to the known world.

As backwards as they may be in so many other ways, Middle Easterners are, by and large , world -class capitalists.

I'll take two, along with a bag of Timmy O'Toole's baby teeth.

I wonder if one will end up in the wall of the Chicago Tribune tower alongside their fragments of things like Notre dame Cathedral, the Great Wall of China, The Hagia Sophia, The Taj Mahal, and yes even a mother-farking moon rock
You gotta love the good old days of Cultural imperialism sometimes

ArcadianRefugee: I have a basement full of bricks. All from bin Laden's home. Yeup. For realz, yo.

So you're Osama brick laden then.

Note the lower case l in laden and pronounce accordingly.

doglover: Bathia_Mapes: doglover: cman: So?

You can find pieces of the Berlin wall all over the place, and lets not forget that people died trying to cross it, too.

What about all the blood spilled in Jerusalem? Every grain of sand there was probably bled on by someone famous. Let's start exporting the sand out at a penny a grain.

IIRC, people were hawking bits of rubble from the WTC online too

I would if I was that kind of person. It makes sense.

Personally, I gave away my only copy of the 9/12 issue of the newspaper to the first person who asked because I don't save newspapers and similar mementos of things I wasn't involved with. It's just not in my blood.

Now antiques on the other hand. I love the idea that one of my favorite kitchen knives was used by my grandmother and now I've got it. Ideally, since I have so many knives, my kids will eventually have it if I can scrape together enough dough to get married here soon. That's the kind of history I like.

I'd never buy a piece of someone's house unless it was the whole house itself and I was able to move in.

I'd say that too but, well, Habitat for Humanity is one of those groups that I really am a sucker for. So, yeah, that is one of the charities that gets a goodly sum of cash from me twice a year so I guess I buy a lot of pieces for houses that I won't get to own nor will I even know who ended up with them. Ah well.