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Post Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 3:33 pm 
 

<Also pulled down from  Interesting items on EBay>

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Daimajin wrote:As long as it includes strippers and Old Milwaukee I'm in :P


Gah, you drink The Beast?!?!?

Get that man a Guiness, stat! ;)


Heh, I do love Guiness ( might have seen my post about it being on my tap, that "keg" in a can aerator idea does it no justice ) but I must admit that for $14.00 a 30 pack it's a good filler between Guiness refills. :)

I got hooked in college...at something like $7 a case you couldn't beat it.....As for strippers...being in Art school we had to settle for The Kings Inn in Dartmouth...where every other stripper was a Crack Ho in training. 8O

  


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Post Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 3:38 pm 
 

I take it we either have a moderator now or else users are voluntarily moving their posts.

Either way, thank you.

The "interesting items" threads have been averaging about 40-percent off-topic posts lately ... :?

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Post Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 3:59 pm 
 

afoolandhis$ wrote:
faro wrote:(January 1974, my foot... ^^ ).


Not to mention there were 1000 copies of the 1st print woody produced, but "By January 1975, there were perhaps 2000 or so of those brown boxes...in the hands of Players", while the printing date of the 2nd print was Jan. 75.

Probably just poor memory, but a little sloppy as well. Nonetheless, he obvioulsy wasn't writing that essay with an eye toward anyone's research interests.

Dangerous, huh?

Well at least being very sloppy to such a degree is easy to spot and discount in entirety, whereas just a single fact being wrong is a pain-in-the-neck, if presumed to be true (that January 1974 foreword date being the publication date, for example).

Actually, I'm rather happy now, because it's quite liberating to see such a litany of errors to reconfirm that primarily evidence-based critique is the way forward, regardless of whether that appears to trample the word of those who should be "experts" (having been there, in this case!).

*is quite happy to be proven wrong, too* :)


(yes, distribution date should be after that, too, presuming no other delays; and also allowing for there still being 1st prints in stock to sell, too! Admittedly the latter of those is not quite so large an issue when the printer is just down the road...)


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Post Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 4:04 pm 
 

faro wrote:evidence-based critique is the way forward


It's the only way forward in my discipline, and I'm glad of it, even though it can be quite painful to be corrected.

  

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Post Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 4:12 pm 
 

afoolandhis$ wrote:
faro wrote:evidence-based critique is the way forward

It's the only way forward in my discipline, and I'm glad of it, even though it can be quite painful to be corrected.

We're not quite in the same field here ;)

  


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Post Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 10:17 pm 
 

I got some funny a$$ fedback today.  Seems Mr Badolato has sense of humor: :P

eBay Feedback Profile for bclarkie

:lol:  :lol:  :lol:


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Post Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 10:20 pm 
 

bclarkie wrote:I got some funny a$$ fedback today. Seems Mr Badolato has sense of humor: :P

eBay Feedback Profile for bclarkie

:lol: :lol: :lol:

*rofl*. That's cute! :D

Nice one, Mike.

  

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Post Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 10:48 pm 
 

faro wrote:
bclarkie wrote:I got some funny a$$ fedback today. Seems Mr Badolato has sense of humor: :P

eBay Feedback Profile for bclarkie

:lol: :lol: :lol:

*rofl*. That's cute! :D

Nice one, Mike.


LOL

Well, I leave my feedback in bunches and get tired of the cut and paste typical response, and Brian buys from me often....
So I jazzed it up a bit for him...thought the JonB reference was appropriate being as BC was his main nemesis...
Now don't everyone go thinking I'm leaving individualized feedback for them, it's back to cut and paste..... :D

Speaking of the Devil, is this the longest down time between JonB appearances?  Wasn't his last sighting in May 2005 or thereabouts? Didnt' he once take about a year off when he was the Game Emporium?

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Post Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 10:54 pm 
 

Badmike wrote:Speaking of the Devil, is this the longest down time between JonB appearances? Wasn't his last sighting in May 2005 or thereabouts? Didnt' he once take about a year off when he was the Game Emporium?

Mike B .


Good ole jonb was deactivated most recently on July 7th. I would suspect thst since he monitors this forum, he is possibly still waiting until the furor recedes again perhaps before he shows up  for the 4th time.


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Post Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2006 1:06 am 
 

bclarkie wrote:
Badmike wrote:Speaking of the Devil, is this the longest down time between JonB appearances? Wasn't his last sighting in May 2005 or thereabouts? Didnt' he once take about a year off when he was the Game Emporium?

Mike B .


Good ole jonb was deactivated most recently on July 7th. I would suspect thst since he monitors this forum, he is possibly still waiting until the furor recedes again perhaps before he shows up for the 4th time.


So it's just been barely 6 months.  He's got a few more months to hopefully make everyone forget him, maybe spring or summer this year. One only hopes he's stupid enough to keep recycling the same listing format so he'll be spotted again quickly.

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Post Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 11:11 am 
 

Wow!! This went a lot cheaper than I thought it was going to go for:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... %3AIT&rd=1

Nice win stratochamp. :)   Where was everyone else on this one?  I didnt expect it to go over $1000 or anything, but geez $66.66? :o


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Post Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 2:18 pm 
 

bclarkie wrote:Wow!! This went a lot cheaper than I thought it was going to go for:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... %3AIT&rd=1

Nice win stratochamp. :)  Where was everyone else on this one? I didnt expect it to go over $1000 or anything, but geez $66.66? :o

Could ask you the same question, Brian. $65.66? ;)

The usual, phps; a bit too recent, not quite enough "interest", nor the money around just now?
Must admit I'd expected around the $100 mark, though, even with all that.


Oh, and Al and Ian weren't leading out the bidding, of course. ;)

  

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Post Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 2:21 pm 
 

faro wrote:
bclarkie wrote:Wow!! This went a lot cheaper than I thought it was going to go for:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... %3AIT&rd=1

Nice win stratochamp. :) Where was everyone else on this one? I didnt expect it to go over $1000 or anything, but geez $66.66? :o

Could ask you the same question, Brian. $65.66? ;)

The usual, phps; a bit too recent, not quite enough "interest", nor the money around just now?
Must admit I'd expected around the $100 mark, though, even with all that.


Oh, and Al and Ian weren't leading out the bidding, of course. ;)


i had ONE item on my watch list....and that was it.

was at my mum n dads for lunch - and i missed the end by 4 mins :(

i was going to bid $84.89

ah well less money spent :)

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Are we nearly there yet?

  


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Post Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 2:24 pm 
 

faro wrote:
bclarkie wrote:Wow!! This went a lot cheaper than I thought it was going to go for:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... %3AIT&rd=1

Nice win stratochamp. :) Where was everyone else on this one? I didnt expect it to go over $1000 or anything, but geez $66.66? :o

Could ask you the same question, Brian. $65.66? ;)

The usual, phps; a bit too recent, not quite enough "interest", nor the money around just now?
Must admit I'd expected around the $100 mark, though, even with all that.


Oh, and Al and Ian weren't leading out the bidding, of course. ;)


My bid was simply a, WTF it seems to be dragging along with no activity and maybe I will get it on the cheap bids. :) I never even expected to be in the ballpark for 2 reasons: 1) it is an official tournament, but more importantly 2) it was a burntwire brothers auction where people seem to lose all self control and just go nuts. :wink:


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Post Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 5:55 pm 
 

bclarkie wrote:Wow!! This went a lot cheaper than I thought it was going to go for:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... %3AIT&rd=1

Nice win stratochamp. :)  Where was everyone else on this one? I didnt expect it to go over $1000 or anything, but geez $66.66? :o


I probably would have bid on it if the burntbrothers hadn't advertised that it was also available in Polyhedron... I actually didn't know that until this auction, and then felt little need to bid.  Perhaps others felt the same way.

  


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Post Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 6:15 pm 
 

No time to trawl through the hundreds of unread posts.  So, apologies if I'm repeating someone.

True Love is but a +2 Broadsword away. :lol:
Error 404 (Not Found)!!1

Fleeting visit.  Tax return deadline midnight 31/1/2006.  And I'm too Yorkshire not to do it myself.  Bye...

  


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Post Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 10:08 pm 
 

johnhuck wrote:No time to trawl through the hundreds of unread posts. So, apologies if I'm repeating someone.

True Love is but a +2 Broadsword away. :lol:
Error 404 (Not Found)!!1

Fleeting visit. Tax return deadline midnight 31/1/2006. And I'm too Yorkshire not to do it myself. Bye...


Welcome back, John, however briefly.  I was wondering whether you'd been taken down by one of those vicious black belts or something.

  


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Post Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 7:07 am 
 

afoolandhis$ wrote:Welcome back, John, however briefly. I was wondering whether you'd been taken down by one of those vicious black belts or something.


All too frequently I'm afraid.  But I'm hoping to join that rank in one discipline in the next year and start dishing out some of my own cans of whup-ass :wink: Just need to avoid the injuries.  :?

And as we're on the subject, this also made me laugh
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