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    Hey, Puffah didn't you win one yesterday?

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    Quote Originally Posted by rgdominguez View Post
    Tony, if only any of us knew not only about this but about many things! Like Wal-Mart stock, California and Hawaii land prices and a million other things!

    Hell, I would be happy with learning to talk to women a few years sooner...

    Or had the good sense never to talk to my wife.....




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    Quote Originally Posted by murph View Post
    Hey, Puffah didn't you win one yesterday?
    I did Murph, I was bidding for it for a friend of mine. I'll hate him if it's a good hone

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    This one's setting new precedent. If the trend keeps up people will boast about the bargain Eschers they only paid $150 for. You still in the game, Rich? With the new eBay system of blocking bidders, I lost track of who to root for.

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    ST, I've decided to back off this one. I'll watch it though.

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    <<<I figured that these stones weren't as good as the "newfangled" man-made stones, but since I didn't have the money to buy "new", I had to settled for this old "sh$t".....>>>

    Funny how we often long for the newest technology only to miss out on the real deal.


    Your story reminds me of my Grandfather. Back in the late 1960's he decided to sell his '49 Buick Roadmaster. Another local oldtimer wanted it since he already had one and figured this one was nicer than his. They agreed on $200. My Grandfather delivered the car across the river, got paid and got a lift back home. Once there, his son, my uncle, asked about the money. My granfather commented he stopped at the bank on the way home to get "real money" as the oldtimer paid him in those old fashioned silver dollars......200 of them in a sack, and "nobody uses them anymore".

    If only he knew

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    This is going off topic, but it's a good story too.

    The mother of a friend of ours once had a complete set of coloured wine / spirit glasses that she didn't like. She got them from her mother or grandmother and they were old but still mint.

    Eventually she threw them in the glass bin at the recycling park because they were occupying too much space in the cupboard.

    Apparently she had never hear of the manufacturer named.... Val Saint Lambert....

    That was one horribly expensive handmade Crystal set shattering to pieces....

    Our friend really turned white when we carefully explained to her how much money went down the drain that day. VSL is a Belgian manufacturer of handmade crystal. Think of Mastro Livi, but for crystal sets.
    They make excellent cognac glasses and whisky tumblers that I really would like to be able to afford.
    Til shade is gone, til water is gone, Into the shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath.
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    When I sold off my machine shop, I sold the Bridgeport milling machine and the Southbend lathe to another machine shop in the area, and I think I tossed in the bits, and the stones, and various accessories with the deal... So the next guy in the story got the Eschers for FREE....

    That was almost 30 years ago. I wonder where they are now???

    Maybe they ended up in some landfill somewhere, or maybe they're still floating around some machine shop in Queens New York, or for sale at some flea market, or junk-yard for some lucky guy to spot & pickup for $4.00 each, and then sell on eBay for $400.00....

    Such is life...

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