Ever Get Made Fun Of For Metal Detecting? Any Good Comebacks?

[SaginawIan]

Some jokers at the office were giving me a hard time for metal detecting. All in good humor, of course. So what is SOOO funny about metal detecting? Just wondering if anyone else has been the "butt" of a few jokes. Any good comebacks?

Ian

 

[jeff of pa]

Never.

Not even from Certain Friends who I thought for
sure would have a Smart remark.

I'v gotten' the usual


Geiger Counter & Gold Comments,
But not what I would consider being made fun of.

 

[ivan salis]

come back---to "para" phaze-----"come backs---we don't need no stinking come backs"

 

[Michigan Badger]

Been laughed at for years. It all started even before I got my first detector. It was approx. 1962 in the library of Spring Lake Junior High in Spring Lake Michigan.

I showed fellow students Ted Smitt and Bruce Chrisman the Whites detector ad in a magazine and they laughed me to scorn for believing an electronic gismo could find coins.

My come back was hundreds of coins I dug over the next few years.

Badger

 

[ivan salis]

electric gizmo to find metal objects? --ha hah ha---as high school age students they should have understood---metal conducts electric current (metal wires) for electrical power objects-(so why would not a electric feild made by the detector react to metals in the ground? even in high school this made sense to me) DUH--why were you hanging out with the thick as a brick types? see them at the class reunion? the laughs on them ---putz's.

 

[Doctor Detroit]

I found out some of the girls in the office talked about me detecting. I brought in pictures of my finds and now I show them what I find in the dirt and water. They are impressed that I get them for free. But I just enjoy being able to get out once in a while and hunt. It's exciting to me. I can afford to buy better stuff then I find, but it's not the same.

 

[spankster13]

True story. While detecting in Key west Dec. of 05 a young couple was giving me a hard time about metal detecting. 2 hours later her husband came running down the beach a half mile and said said he was sorry for the hard time he gave me BUT!!!! I lost my keys and if that thing really works can it find them? Said well thanks for the apolagy and yes I would help. To make a long story short, The keys beeped right away but after 1/2 hour of faking told him I guess I wasn't any good sorry I could not help. As they called aaa and walked away I went over and got the keys from under his lounge chair and threw them in the ocean. Call me mean , but I had the last laugh!!!

Spankster

 

[Michigan Badger]

True story. While detecting in Key west Dec. of 05 a young couple was giving me a hard time about metal detecting. 2 hours later her husband came running down the beach a half mile and said said he was sorry for the hard time he gave me BUT!!!! I lost my keys and if that thing really works can it find them? Said well thanks for the apolagy and yes I would help. To make a long story short, The keys beeped right away but after 1/2 hour of faking told him I guess I wasn't any good sorry I could not help. As they called aaa and walked away I went over and got the keys from under his lounge chair and threw them in the ocean. Call me mean , but I had the last laugh!!!

Spankster

LOL! AWESOME!

Badger

 

[ivan salis]

should have asked whats it worth to find the keys in cash ? that would have been even better!!!! make them pay!!!! cruel but fun after getting razzed by them.

 

[gallileo60]

They aren't usually expecting a clean-shaven, well-dressed, young college professor. But at least I challenge that silly stereotype.

Heh, try being a long haired heavy metal musician... I'm about as far from the stereotype as one can be.

Harley riding, race car driving, biker type here........

 

[mastereagle22]

People at work make fun of me all the time. I don't let it bother me.

I have used the following lines:

What are you doing?

1. Looking for a metorite that fell near here that is supposed to be radioactive.
2. There is a main leak and I am trying to find it before it blows!
3. I dropped my gun running from the cops the other day and I'm trying to find it (said to a really really smart alek kid!)
4. Looking for bodies.
5. I parked my space ship somewhere around here and I am trying to find it.
6. Not really a response but if approached by an annoying person I will start talking to them and then say something like, "Hold on a second, (and then I will turn to the side and start talking to the open air like someone is there something like) gosh can't you see I'm talking to this person would you stop singing for a second, (then turn back to the person) you were saying.

 

[mastereagle22]

OH by the way I have used this one only once when a really smart alek drunk wouldn't leave me alone.

DRUNK: What are you doing
ME: This is and idiot detector and I was trying it out, looks like it works!

 

[cazar]

laugh, first time I have ever posted here...so this is my standard comebacks..

lady( soccer mom ) asks me...excuse me sir, do you ever find anything with that..
i raise up my 10baht necklace with gold piece on it...and wink...she then looks at
me ...are you married?

group of yuppies ask me...what kind of detector is that..I say whites..they say ..you
finding anything with it...I say sometimes...they ask ..how much money you make...I tell them enough to afford this...they ask ..what kind of car do you drive..I say i dont ..I ride a bike..they say schwinn? ..I say ..nope electra glide..they ask..who makes that? ..I say
harley davidson..they say are you a middle aged crisis guy..I say nope..only when I find
something that I have to have my lawyer through proxy sell....

three young kids run up to me and ask...can you find my mom's wedding ring? ..i said sure.. ten minutes later ring is found..kids then ask...will you buy us an ipod?
I say why? ..they say mom said that you have money if you can afford not to work and
metal detect..I say why do you think I am unemployed? ..they say all guys with detectors
and wearing beat up clothes are unemployed...no comeback to this one...

I work on a ship...so I get to detect some foreign beaches...japanese guy and his wife ask me in saipan..do you find any treasure...I said no just old coins and jewelry..wife asks how much detector cost...I said 700 american dollars...she says does it detect all metal..I said mostly ..but not all metal...I then dig up on the beach 2 necklaces and a ring while talking to them...a torrent of japanese comes forth..I understand hai and oh so desu ku..I ask them what they are saying..japanese gent says ...I buy one tomorrow...I said why..he says
I need new watch..so I find treasure and buy watch...wife asks me....you find any guns?
I ask why..she says i shoot husband soon...i tell her...dont shoot buy metal detector for him and he be happy....

...in guam on beach( public ) found rolex watch..still runs and I wear it..my shipmates who kid me about my hobby ask me ...did you find any treasure today?
I said just modern treasure...beer cans, soda, junk...and this watch...they freak...where
when ..how much worth...etc etc...I tell them...if you want to make fun of someone , be sure that you can take it in kind.....

at home i dig up some clad etc from public park...some gangsta kids ask me what I am doing ( last year I had shoulder length hair) ..I said I work for the govt and there is some
buried ordnance here...they ask what is that..I said bullets and shells... they all walk off
and say, why are you looking for it...I said they pay me to find this stuff for the safety of the public... he says to me..are you the govt safety officer...I said sure...he says..let me
see your ID.. I show him ...he says..*************** you are the DEA ...you are looking
for the drugs so and so lost in here...I said I am..?? he says yes... I said no no...I am looking for other stuff..... he says is the ordnance bad? ..I said yes, radioactive...my detector beeps when I hit it...taking off my headphones I run it across some pull tab...beep beep beep ...they go runnin...

ever find anything...yes....why do you do this...calms my nerves...how much one of them cost...the prices vary..what do you find mostly...coins and beer cans...ever find a dead
person..only when I was policing...ever find anything unusual...my girlfriends rings she
lost..where did you find them...in my house...why do you wear earphones...to not hear
1000 questions...what do you do..I am a bum living on the beach...did you go to high
school...yes graduated ...college..yes graduated..why do you wear a knife..cut up snakes
I find...you detect snakes? ..yes...they come to vibrations in the ground and smell with their tongue...ever find anything? ...and on and on

 

[SaginawIan]

Cazar - is your real name Jerry Seinfeld? That was funny stuff. I loved reading it. Plus we all got to know you a little bit in your first post. Welcome to treasurenet and I look forward to seeing more posts from you!


Ian

 

[cazar]

thank you Ian...

forgot another one....

where my home of residence is a large area with farms dating back to the middle 1800's
found all kinds of metal, few relics, few coins...etc etc ...best find is a couple of gold coins
and some civil war stuff..anyway...

a few years ago the local sheriffs dept asked me to bring my detector out and find a couple
of items from a crime...1 hr later I had found 7 items...some been buried a while, while the one they were looking for was found within 15 minutes....

I asked the sheriff ( whom I have known for 25 yrs ) If I could keep anything but the item they were looking for ( gun ) he said sure....

When I pulled up 4 ( guns ) and 2 ( knives ) and one auto hubcap...deputies came running..
I said you said I could keep them.... I didnt get to ....2 other crimes were solved with this discovery...I really wanted to keep one of those guns...oh well....

a week later one of the deputies asked me to find a knife he had lost as a kid..found it in
1 hr...after digging up enough trash...his wife asked me to find something in the flower bed
and on and on and on...needless to say I spent 4 days there...found all kinds of interesting
items...

as for a comedian...I have been a cop, farmer, prison guard and now an engineer on a govt
owned vessel...so you have to keep your humor up...

as for my funny story to me...my father rest his soul...took me and my sisters to florida one
year ...1978..I took my trusty radio shack detector with me...found hundreds of beer cans..
laugh...and 2 spanish coins...one around my neck now...
the ten baht chain was found in the USA on a beach in Hawaii...ever tried to tell a lady in a thong that no you cannot buy the chain...?? hard to do ...

ok one more and I have to get to work...

3 yrs ago I was detecting near an old house site that I had secured permission to hunt.It was during the spring during fishing season...I caught several fish that morning and then
went to metal detecting..but my sense of humor set in....I was close to a major road and decided to have a little fun. I tied a large fish I had caught on my line and every time a car
would drive by I would haul in the fish...had several stop and look...

Next day I went back to the same area...and there were around 85 people fishing...

I did find around 18.00 in clad when all the fisherman left later that afternoon after not
catching anything......


keep smiling...makes folks wonder what you are thinking

 

[MalteseFalcon]

Heh, try being a long haired heavy metal musician... I'm about as far from the stereotype as one can be.

I understand completely. I have no metal detector, but being a heavy metal guitarist has not been without ridicule, at least in my life.

 

[MalteseFalcon]

LMAO!!!

Grate stories.

You should write a book!

thank you Ian...

forgot another one....

where my home of residence is a large area with farms dating back to the middle 1800's
found all kinds of metal, few relics, few coins...etc etc ...best find is a couple of gold coins
and some civil war stuff..anyway...

a few years ago the local sheriffs dept asked me to bring my detector out and find a couple
of items from a crime...1 hr later I had found 7 items...some been buried a while, while the one they were looking for was found within 15 minutes....

I asked the sheriff ( whom I have known for 25 yrs ) If I could keep anything but the item they were looking for ( gun ) he said sure....

When I pulled up 4 ( guns ) and 2 ( knives ) and one auto hubcap...deputies came running..
I said you said I could keep them.... I didnt get to ....2 other crimes were solved with this discovery...I really wanted to keep one of those guns...oh well....

a week later one of the deputies asked me to find a knife he had lost as a kid..found it in
1 hr...after digging up enough trash...his wife asked me to find something in the flower bed
and on and on and on...needless to say I spent 4 days there...found all kinds of interesting
items...

as for a comedian...I have been a cop, farmer, prison guard and now an engineer on a govt
owned vessel...so you have to keep your humor up...

as for my funny story to me...my father rest his soul...took me and my sisters to florida one
year ...1978..I took my trusty radio shack detector with me...found hundreds of beer cans..
laugh...and 2 spanish coins...one around my neck now...
the ten baht chain was found in the USA on a beach in Hawaii...ever tried to tell a lady in a thong that no you cannot buy the chain...?? hard to do ...

ok one more and I have to get to work...

3 yrs ago I was detecting near an old house site that I had secured permission to hunt.It was during the spring during fishing season...I caught several fish that morning and then
went to metal detecting..but my sense of humor set in....I was close to a major road and decided to have a little fun. I tied a large fish I had caught on my line and every time a car
would drive by I would haul in the fish...had several stop and look...

Next day I went back to the same area...and there were around 85 people fishing...

I did find around 18.00 in clad when all the fisherman left later that afternoon after not
catching anything......


keep smiling...makes folks wonder what you are thinking

 

[The Standard]

"_ _ _ _ off" usually works for me.

 

[SaginawIan]

the standard,

I love it, short and to the point. I think I'll use that one!

Ian

 

[ivan salis]

say --I wonder if you would taste better with a red wine or beer? tha'll get them moving along and will cut out the chit chat too I bet--- Ivan

 

[diggerfororo]

I have had hundreds of people stop me to ask if I am mak ng any money detecting, but here is my best one.
I was detecting in the water at a lake in MO. A fisherman pulled in in a $15,000 boat and ask me how much I had to pay for my detector. When I told him $1,000 he commented that I would never get it paid for?? I sold over $6,000 worth of gold I found in 06.
GO FIGURE.

Les