Comments on: Abe Lincoln in Pennies http://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/23/abe-lincoln-in-pennies/ The Neat Side of the Web Tue, 02 Dec 2008 08:10:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: stacyj http://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/23/abe-lincoln-in-pennies/#comment-456655 stacyj Sat, 23 Feb 2008 22:34:26 +0000 http://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/23/abe-lincoln-in-pennies/#comment-456655 Aww, that's awesome that they made a father-son project out of that - and how interesting, too, I mean I'd always realized different pennies were lighter or darker than others, but it had never occurred to me that the difference was so extreme that you could actually take advantage of it in making a picture ... (And btw, I love the turn of phrase, "do something about his collection" instead of 'do something -with- it,' it almost makes it sound like a problem that needed to be addressed (and let's face it, 30 years' worth of pennies kind of -is- a problem) =) Aww, that’s awesome that they made a father-son project out of that - and how interesting, too, I mean I’d always realized different pennies were lighter or darker than others, but it had never occurred to me that the difference was so extreme that you could actually take advantage of it in making a picture …

(And btw, I love the turn of phrase, “do something about his collection” instead of ‘do something -with- it,’ it almost makes it sound like a problem that needed to be addressed (and let’s face it, 30 years’ worth of pennies kind of -is- a problem) =)

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