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Yeah, I know it's not D&D but close.

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You guys have been slacking off..................

I recently went looking for my late printing, original cover Deities & Demigods book.  For the life of me I couldn't find it.  I looked everywhere.  So, I went to eBay to find a cheap copy, but I kept getting outbid.  I wasn't looking for a Cthulhu version, just an original cover version.

So I turned to Amazon to look at the used copies available there.  I grabbed one that sounded decent (listed as Very Good condition) and only cost $1.89 + $3.49 shipping ($5.38 total).  I got the package last week, opened it up and noticed that the book felt a little heavier than I remember, and also felt thicker.  I figured the impossible may have happened, so I flipped through the book and there they were:  Cthulhu and Melnibonean mythoi staring back at me.  To top it off, the book is in absolutely gorgeous shape. I would rate it about a 9 or 9.5 out of 10.  Not bad at for the grand total of $5.38.


I was also lucky enough to pick up the Best of Dragons volumes I-IV for $1 each, inclusive of shipping.  Vols. I&II are the revised versions, but all four are in excellent or better shape.

rosenkav wrote:The postman ringed my bell as it didn't fit in the letterbox.

That's the difference between Italy and the UK. My postman would have managed to get that through my letterbox. Even if he had to drive his van over it.

The fact is that I hanged a very kind sign on my letterbox instructing to do so... as other packages have been... hmmm... lost putting them there in the open  :?

mbassoc2003 wrote:

rosenkav wrote:The postman ringed my bell as it didn't fit in the letterbox.

That's the difference between Italy and the UK. My postman would have managed to get that through my letterbox. Even if he had to drive his van over it.

Sorry man, its really not funny, but I can not stop laughing at this image thats in my head seeing it happen.

I had tears in my eyes picturing it.
My mailbox is 6"x6", so I have had issues with the Post Office. I caught the mail broad cramming my Netflix DVD's into the box three weeks ago. I asked her why she was ramming them in there, and she said " They don't seem to fit", whereupon I asked her why she didn't lift her fat index finger and push the f*cking buzzer to alert me she was there. She looked at me like the brain-wasted bovine she resembles, and quietly handed me the mashed DVD's.
She buzzes me now.
I truly do not care if I appeared to be a dick. I certainly do not go to my customers' sites and wreck their merchandise, and I expect the same treatment from the mail bytch.

KingOfPain, look closely at the picture for the second game.  Why is our intrepid D&D adventurer wearing a button down western shirt, belt, and what appears to be jeans or cords?  

What exactly did the artist think this game entailed? "Contemporary cowboy travels to ancient castle to battle giant scorpions.  With a spear."

 :?:  :?:  :lol:

Deadlord36 wrote:I had tears in my eyes picturing it.
My mailbox is 6"x6", so I have had issues with the Post Office. I caught the mail broad cramming my Netflix DVD's into the box three weeks ago. I asked her why she was ramming them in there, and she said " They don't seem to fit", whereupon I asked her why she didn't lift her fat index finger and push the f*cking buzzer to alert me she was there. She looked at me like the brain-wasted bovine she resembles, and quietly handed me the mashed DVD's.
She buzzes me now.
I truly do not care if I appeared to be a dick. I certainly do not go to my customers' sites and wreck their merchandise, and I expect the same treatment from the mail bytch.

    When I first started delving into online in the 90's, I had a house on a "walking" route, the mailboxes were by the front door and the mailman had to walk the neighborhood after parking his little mail truck.  Things went ok for awhile, then the inevitible transfer left some lazy ace in charge of my route.  Even though he was younger and presumably healthier than the guy he replaced, instead of walking the route he would drive, stopping in front of each house and running to the front door to drop his stuff.  After about a week I guess he thought he might have been exerting himself too much, because instead of bringing boxes and packages to the front porch, he simply dumped them at the end of the driveways, saving himself a whopping 20 feet of exercise.  People started complaining because their packages were basically being left on the street instead of on their covered front porch (not to mention being left on the driveway, when it rained you might get home to a soggy package of grandma's cookies or whatever).  Of course receiveing valuable RPG items I made several visits to complain about this, with assurances that the guy was new and "just learning the route", and he'd get better if I just gave him a chance.  
     Nothing was done until the fateful day when he ran the route and did his usual stop and drop....it was around Christmas time and lots of people in the neighborhood were getting holiday packages, but unfortunately it was also trash day and this moron dumped all the packages in his truck along the route right next to everyone's trash, and the trashmen did their job and promptly picked up and tossed every package on the guy's route that day.  When about 50 extremely pissed off people crowded into the local post office right around Christmas time (when the place is already packed anyway), screaming and threatening physical violence and filing dozens of complaints and claims for lost packages (even azier than a lazy mailman is a lazy supervisor, they hate to actually have to deal with people), they finally transferred the moron off a route.  The funny addendum is that a couple of months later my wife and I recognized working at the local car wash, where his talents probably ran more true to form.  

Mike B.