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Ricky
SFN Die Hard
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Gorgo
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 07/29/2004 : 15:03:27 [Permalink]
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Crap! IT'S BEEN SOLD!! I'll never find another!
How much is that in U.S. money? |
I know the rent is in arrears
The dog has not been fed in years
It's even worse than it appears
But it's alright-
Jerry Garcia
Robert Hunter
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
6891 Posts |
Posted - 07/29/2004 : 16:26:27 [Permalink]
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something like $150-$175
Best ebay auction I ever saw was for an "ass beating". |
Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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ktesibios
SFN Regular
USA
505 Posts |
Posted - 07/29/2004 : 21:33:53 [Permalink]
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IIRC, some guy tried to auction his soul on ebay.
I think they pulled the auction down since there wasn't any way that he could deliver on the sale.  |
"The Republican agenda is to turn the United States into a third-world shithole." -P.Z.Myers |
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R.Wreck
SFN Regular
USA
1191 Posts |
Posted - 07/30/2004 : 08:21:42 [Permalink]
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| $150 for a plastic bag! Pure genius! |
The foundation of morality is to . . . give up pretending to believe that for which there is no evidence, and repeating unintelligible propositions about things beyond the possibliities of knowledge.
T. H. Huxley
The Cattle Prod of Enlightened Compassion
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Randy
SFN Regular
USA
1990 Posts |
Posted - 07/30/2004 : 13:30:41 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by R.Wreck
$150 for a plastic bag! Pure genius!
I'm skeptical. Probably a set-up.
But then again, Pet Rocks did make its inventor a millionaire. |
"We are all connected; to each other biologically, to the earth chemically, to the rest of the universe atomically."
"So you're made of detritus [from exploded stars]. Get over it. Or better yet, celebrate it. After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all?"
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
26022 Posts |
Posted - 07/30/2004 : 19:41:11 [Permalink]
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| A coworker of mine and I calculated that one could probably make (and put on Ebay) about 10 of these an hour, for a gross profit of somewhere in the neighborhood of $1,600. |
- Dave W. (Private Msg, EMail)
Evidently, I rock!
Why not question something for a change?
Visit Dave's Psoriasis Info, too. |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 07/31/2004 : 03:21:53 [Permalink]
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Why is this noteworthy? We are, after all, a species of idiots.
Consider how much scratch John Edward and Uri Geller pull in from a gullible public. At least this turkey got a nice, clean, rather colorful, plastic bag out of it. The victims of Edward and Geller, and the rest of the psychic grifters, as well as sundry, motormouth preachers of various stripes, and not to mention Scientologists  , et al., return doodly squat beyond pleas and even demands (usually successful) for yet more money.
Friends, whatever field of endevor you might be into, it's the wrong one. If you wish quick fortune, drop everything right now and get yourself some sort of figurative crystal ball, or do like L. Ron Hubbard (who wasn't all that great a writer, IMO) and start a cult. Go for the gold!
Oh yeah, get out there and shear them willin' sheep. That's where it's all at. After all, anyone who'd actually want to pay for a plastic bag, available at any grocery store -- just ask the cashier and she'll give you one -- should be easy.
I wonder what the bag was wanted for. I rather doubt it was for kite-flying (according to the blurb, the longest it flew was four seconds). Is the guy possibly a glue or paint sniffer and the grocery store cut off his supply? If so, that would explain a lot!
Edited because I too, am an idiot who writes only a little better than Hubbard once did.  |
"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
13477 Posts |
Posted - 07/31/2004 : 08:01:05 [Permalink]
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| I wonder what kind of interest there would be for the sale of a used mantra... |
Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
Why not question something for a change?
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Ricky
SFN Die Hard
USA
4907 Posts |
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satans_mom
Skeptic Friend
USA
148 Posts |
Posted - 08/01/2004 : 13:49:01 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by filthy
Friends, whatever field of endevor you might be into, it's the wrong one. If you wish quick fortune, drop everything right now and get yourself some sort of figurative crystal ball, or do like L. Ron Hubbard (who wasn't all that great a writer, IMO) and start a cult. Go for the gold!
Oh yeah, get out there and shear them willin' sheep. That's where it's all at.
I am actually in the process of constructing what would seem to be to the sheep as undeniable proof in the legitimacy of a cult that you should all be hearing about in the news within the next 15 years. Yes, it seems like a lot, but In 15 years, I'll be a mere 33 years old, and own a fortune! And if you wonder why I propose this exciting new cult here, be rest assured that it's because the Friend's network is definitely not my targeted audience, although my clever symbolisms will be noteworthy to most of you, that I feel most assured. |
Yo mama's so fat, she's on both sides of the family.
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 08/01/2004 : 16:30:07 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by satans_mom
quote:
Originally posted by filthy
Friends, whatever field of endevor you might be into, it's the wrong one. If you wish quick fortune, drop everything right now and get yourself some sort of figurative crystal ball, or do like L. Ron Hubbard (who wasn't all that great a writer, IMO) and start a cult. Go for the gold!
Oh yeah, get out there and shear them willin' sheep. That's where it's all at.
I am actually in the process of constructing what would seem to be to the sheep as undeniable proof in the legitimacy of a cult that you should all be hearing about in the news within the next 15 years. Yes, it seems like a lot, but In 15 years, I'll be a mere 33 years old, and own a fortune! And if you wonder why I propose this exciting new cult here, be rest assured that it's because the Friend's network is definitely not my targeted audience, although my clever symbolisms will be noteworthy to most of you, that I feel most assured.
Go for it, mama!
But we'd apprecate it if you'd not be cruel to the impoverished, the widows and orphans, nor disabled veterans. That's the religious right's and the neocon's perogitive and they are so good at it that not even Beelzebub can compete.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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