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killjoy32
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Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 8:12 am

aia wrote:a question: looking at pic #1, central area, 4th shelf from the bottom... am i wrong or i do see 8 whitheys and 9 woodies???

some folk are just never happy with one!

in fact, why have one, when you can have nine?

:roll:

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AdderMcOne
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Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 9:08 am

Now that collection is simply UNBELIEVABLE

Frank, when you say something is in shrink - It's in shrink!! (first 3 pics)

Whenever you open a box of items, is it like rediscovering them again?

(Al, we'll skip Gencon and just stand at Frank's house for the four days)

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Prufrock
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Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 9:21 am

I look at these pics and relate them in a different way. I see 9 woodies and think: wow, 2 of those would payoff my college loans. The other seven would help put together a nice down payment for a house. 7 whities would garner me enough money to take a trip to England and visit Al. Selling off any one shelf would help extend the trip to Italy to talk to aia about his avatar. So forth and so on....

Martin

killjoy32
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Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 9:36 am

AdderMcOne wrote:Now that collection is simply UNBELIEVABLE

Frank, when you say something is in shrink - It's in shrink!! (first 3 pics)

Whenever you open a box of items, is it like rediscovering them again?

(Al, we'll skip Gencon and just stand at Frank's house for the four days)

thats the thing. i think i would forget to eat or drink for 4 days....i would be just utterly mesmerised! i mean i would spend that time just looking through manuscripts - they are what i like most for sure....simply just awesome though

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killjoy32
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Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 9:37 am

Prufrock wrote:I look at these pics and relate them in a different way. I see 9 woodies and think: wow, 2 of those would payoff my college loans. The other seven would help put together a nice down payment for a house. 7 whities would garner me enough money to take a trip to England and visit Al. Selling off any one shelf would help extend the trip to Italy to talk to aia about his avatar. So forth and so on....

Martin

ah but mart. he could do that anyway, without selling anything

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Prufrock
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Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 10:16 am

That's the point Al - He could; I cannot.

But I absolutely agree to your wonderment of Franks stacks. It would take me a day to decide what I would want to look at first.

Martin

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Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 11:14 am

Prufrock wrote:I look at these pics and relate them in a different way. I see 9 woodies and think: wow, 2 of those would payoff my college loans. The other seven would help put together a nice down payment for a house. 7 whities would garner me enough money to take a trip to England and visit Al. Selling off any one shelf would help extend the trip to Italy to talk to aia about his avatar. So forth and so on....

Martin

Bingo. Martin is on my wavelength. I saw the 9 woodies and thought "New car!!!". I saw Frank's stuff and thought "Retirement account!". I've been selling this stuff too long to appreciate just hoarding it!!!

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killjoy32
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Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 11:26 am

Badmike wrote:
Bingo. Martin is on my wavelength. I saw the 9 woodies and thought "New car!!!". I saw Frank's stuff and thought "Retirement account!". I've been selling this stuff too long to appreciate just hoarding it!!!

Mike B.

well i know that when the day comes and i haul in my nice big multi-millions lottery win, i will be contacting two people

actually maybe 4....but them 2 to start with

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Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 11:37 am

killjoy32 wrote:
well i know that when the day comes and i haul in my nice big multi-millions lottery win, i will be contacting two people actually maybe 4....but them 2 to start with

Al

WotC to buy D&D and to bring OD&D back?

And who's the other one? Oh yes, the President of Ebay to buy ebay and to force all US sellers to ship overseas :lol:

killjoy32
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Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 11:40 am

lokiwookie wrote:
WotC to buy D&D and to bring OD&D back?
And who's the other one? Oh yes, the President of Ebay to buy ebay and to force all US sellers to ship overseas

nah 1 call to frank m - how much for the lot. 1 call to strato: i will just buy the room, 1 call to deadlord for all the boxes stored and then one call to blackmoor, for his stuff.

sorted, then i can retire and spend the next 30 years reading

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Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 11:48 am

killjoy32 wrote:
nah 1 call to frank m - how much for the lot. 1 call to strato: i will just buy the room, 1 call to deadlord for all the boxes stored and then one call to blackmoor, for his stuff.

sorted, then i can retire and spend the next 30 years reading

Al

I am hoping to get my stuff all out on display soon ( I am hoping before gencon

) Lot of work. Strato and Frank got me beat significantly I might add

I probably have more minis than them though

Games can get you through times of no money but money can not get you through times of no games!!

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Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 12:48 pm

Blackmoor wrote:Strato and Frank got me beat significantly I might add

But I always thought that you owned a dozen warehouses in Chibougamau, just for the minis.

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Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 1:12 pm

When I die, I'm shipping it all to Al.
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I have about the same volume as Strat, I think, but I don't have a bed of brownies. Hell, I'm not even sure WHAT I have anymore. I'll figure it out as I unpack...

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Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 1:16 pm

killjoy32 wrote:
nah 1 call to frank m - how much for the lot. 1 call to strato: i will just buy the room, 1 call to deadlord for all the boxes stored and then one call to blackmoor, for his stuff.

sorted, then i can retire and spend the next 30 years reading

Al

well, i think you excluded me simply cause i still havent found my collection... but since today i feel generous, here we go:

...now: would you consider even my stuff to buy?

copycat
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Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 2:31 pm

OK, it is now time to laugh and make fun of me....

Please remember my collection is a playing collection - I use these (well, 99%) of them, anyway:

Link to Slideshow

Those who can, don't. Those who should not, do.

killjoy32
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Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 2:51 pm

serleran wrote:OK, it is now time to laugh and make fun of me....

Please remember my collection is a playing collection - I use these (well, 99%) of them, anyway:

Link to Slideshow

hey serl

thats a cool little hoard man!

you have way more than me let me tell you. my collection is very small, but i only keep what i really want. mind you that doesnt count a room of about 12,000 judges guild books

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Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 5:30 pm

serleran wrote:OK, it is now time to laugh and make fun of me....

Please remember my collection is a playing collection - I use these (well, 99%) of them, anyway:

Link to Slideshow

A very excellent, workmanlike collection. Interesting how much stuff we both have that is the same but also how my game collection kind of crosses yours at a tangent.

I have not noticed a large magazine collection as part of any of the collections I have viewed on the Acaeum. About half of my collection is magazines of various types...especially Dragon.

Is it that you guys just don't put your Dragon magazines out on shelves or do you not collect it?

"But I have watched the dragons come, fire-eyed, across the world."

JZavoda
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Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 5:40 pm

FormCritic wrote:
A very excellent, workmanlike collection. Interesting how much stuff we both have that is the same but also how my game collection kind of crosses yours at a tangent.

I have not noticed a large magazine collection as part of any of the collections I have viewed on the Acaeum. About half of my collection is magazines of various types...especially Dragon.

Is it that you guys just don't put your Dragon magazines out on shelves or do you not collect it?

Most of the collections seem to be stored spine out like books. Hard to do it with magazines. I always kep mine bagged and sometiems boarded in magazine boxes except for a few framed special issues.

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