02-19-2021, 09:16 PM
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Dan=iel Enri.ght
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Join Date: Mar 2010
Posts: 370
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Exhibitman
An example of how crazy things are. Run a search on eBay for sales of Allen & Ginter cards of bitcoin...amazingly, people are paying into three figures for this trash. I thought it jumped the shark when people were chasing A&G 'bug' cards a few years ago, but cards of a fake currency...we're into Seinfeld 'show about nothing' territory
GEORGE: See, this should be a card. This is the card.
JERRY: What?
GEORGE: This. Just a non-existent form of money that we make up. Call it "cryptocurrency".
JERRY: (dismissing) Yeah, right.
GEORGE: I'm really serious. I think that's a good idea.
JERRY: A non-existent form of money that no one issues and no government backs? Well what's it about?
GEORGE: It's about nothing.
JERRY: No real money?
GEORGE: No, forget the real money.
JERRY: You've got to have something to back a currency.
GEORGE: Who says you gotta have that?
JERRY: And who supports this money? What does it look like?
GEORGE: I could be on the coin
JERRY: You?
GEORGE: Yeah. You could base a coin on me.
JERRY: So, there's a coin showing George Costanza?
GEORGE: Yeah. There's something wrong with that? I'm a character. People are always saying to me, "You know you're a quite a character."
JERRY: And who else is on a coin?
GEORGE: Elaine could be a coin. Kramer...
JERRY: Now he's a coin. (Pause) So everybody I know gets to be on a coin?
GEORGE: Right.
JERRY: And it's a currency that doesn't exist and is backed by no one and nothing?
GEORGE: Absolutely nothing.
JERRY: So you're saying, I go in to Topps, and tell them I got this idea for a card about coin that is nothing.
GEORGE: We go into Topps.
JERRY: "We"? Since when are you a writer?
GEORGE: (Scoffs) Writer. We're talking about a baseball card maker.
JERRY: You want to go with me to Topps?
GEORGE: Yeah. I think we really got something here.
JERRY: What do we got?
GEORGE: An idea.
JERRY: What idea?
GEORGE: An idea for the card set.
JERRY: I still don't know what the card is about.
GEORGE: It's about nothing.
JERRY: Right.
GEORGE: Everybody's doing something, we'll do nothing.
JERRY: So, we go into Topps, we tell them we've got an idea for a card about nothing.
GEORGE: Exactly.
JERRY: They say, "What's your card about?" I say, "Nothing."
GEORGE: There you go.
(A moment passes)
JERRY: (Nodding) I think you may have something there.
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That was brilliant, you could definitely write Seinfeld fan fiction. 
I'd read it.
What a show that was.
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