What, exactly, does 500 look like?

 500 Scrabble tiles

500 grams of jelly beans

 500 baseball cards

Alex  Rodriguez's 500th home run

500 business cards (ever heard of linkedIn?)

 500 buttons

 a 500 calorie supper (in the South we call that an appetizer)

 500 Legos in either batch

 500 pieces of vintage Lincoln Logs

 500 marbles

 500 Mardi Gras doubloons

(call me in February, I'll hook you up)

 a 500 piece jigsaw puzzle

 500 pieces that make up a thinga-ma-jiggy

 500 Roosevelt dimes

 500 used stamps

 a 1948 Botany 500 suit ad

(my Dad called it his "Marryin' and Buryin" suit)

 1953's Indianapolis 500 yearbook

and a ticket stub from 1994

 1957's Ford Fairlane 500 ad

 a classic 1985 Mercedes-Benz Series 500 SEL

 a $500 used car (1997 Buick LaSabre)

 a $500 used ring (yes, please)

 the Fortune 500

$500 a month rent is what you'd pay for a luxurious Gramercy Park-like

New York City apartment which includes eight rooms, Murano glass

chandeliers, 20 ft ceilings, maids quarters, and a private elevator.

Uh, yeah, that was back in 1905.

The Lord's Prayer etched on the head of a pin, magnified 500x

 a Nike 500 Mile Club t-shirt which I did not earn

a $500 bill (I didn't recognize the President, either) 

Superman's 500th issue

 Pre-Columbian Mayan pottery from 500 AD

500 new beer coasters

500 old wine corks

(they're not all mine)

 a $500 bottle of Screaming Eagle Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon

because 

and 500 thanks for reading my 500th post today!