Posted on 10/30/2011 3:10:05 AM PDT by lowbridge
^5! HAHA!
I had a wooden plate once for sale on ebay and on it was a carving of the city of Berchtesgaden - it got pulled from auction because someone complained.
I had sold another one the previous week and no one said anything.
White Elephant Gift that became a clay pigeon...
;o)
I have Jose Canseco rookie cards. :)
I have a friend with an almost complete set that every now & then offers, (or threatens), to give to me. Do I really want a yellow elephant? Not because I think they are worth anything but I value the historical viewpoints of any old book or magazine.
I have the Nat. Geo. set on CD - very poor quality scans of the images, have heard the DVD reissue is somewhat better, but still not the quality of the dead tree version.
Now I'd love to have a complete collection of Popular Mechanics, Mechanics Illustrated or Popular Science, but I'm not going to pay ten or a hundred dollars an issue, which is what the Internet sellers want, (they may sit on that magazine for ten years or more before they find a buyer), but I might pony up a few dollars for a well scanned set if the publishers were to put one on the market.
Might have been my cousin! :-)
Ouch.
I think she was just in a hurry to use my bedroom for a storage room. Her only explanation was “I didn’t think you’d mind.”
To which you reply, “Yeah, I got tired of that Honus Wagner card anyway.”
At the time I really didn’t care about the cards. I did care about the guitar. Years later when the market opened up for baseball cards I often thought about them.
I believe that the entire Popular Mechanics archive is available on the web.
The few scans I have seen looked very good. Here is a few quick Google search links on the issue
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/gadgets
http://books.google.com/books/about/Popular_Mechanics.html?id=Vc8DAAAAMBAJ/news/4295218
Regards
alfa6 ;>}
It is, along with many others. I go there a lot, it's not quite the same as having the dead tree version in your hands.
Thanks for the links though.
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