Bad Bob's "Thought for the Week"

RAM · Post by **RAM** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 9:11 am

Four reasons to be happy you were outbid on eBay:

1) You now know there is at least one and maybe several collectors out there who are crazier than you.

2) You still have the money.

3) You don't have to go to the Post Office in the rain and purchase a money order or pay interest for months on the charge to your credit card.

4) You won't fret for up to ten days whether those fuzzy pics with no end plate view were hiding something.

There are others. These should do for now. Bad Bob

Ron Mc · Post by **Ron Mc** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 9:17 am

now you can raise your max bid on the reel you really want

Robin Sayler · Post by **Robin Sayler** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 9:26 am

You can now use your student loan money for school related items...although reels raise moral and high moral helps class go easier...sorry i'm still in class and i'm getting bored. Learning drafting for the umpteenth million time, gives me quality ebay time.

RAM · Post by **RAM** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 9:39 am

Young Guy-My idea of a class! Surf the web for reels while the prof drones on. What will they think of next? Wireless internet in class rooms. When I was in school hand held calculators were the in-thing! Bad Bob

Farace · Post by **Farace** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 9:51 am

This makes me seem older than I am, but in my sophomore year in high school ('75-'76) we were not allowed to use calculators, they were too new. We were required to have a slide rule. By my senior year that had changed.

Now I could probably sell the slide rule on eBay . . .

Ron Mc · Post by **Ron Mc** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 9:54 am

younguy wrote:You can now use your student loan money for school related items...although reels raise moral and high moral helps class go easier...sorry i'm still in class and i'm getting bored. Learning drafting for the umpteenth million time, gives me quality ebay time.

my nephew and his wife bought a sailboat on Lake Ponchetrain with her student loan money, and put her Tulane Law School tuition on Visa.
Guess they're working in Indonesia now to pay it off.

m3040c · Post by **m3040c** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 10:17 am

When I was in school my biggest problem was my fountain pen running out of ink and trying to see the garter belts of the girls in the class.

Funny thing about EBaying, I won a reel about two months ago, the bidding got a bit carried away, (The Ugly Longbeach). After I won the bid the guy that was intensely bidding against me sent me an email Thanking me for winning.

Ron Mc · Post by **Ron Mc** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 1:36 pm

Farace wrote:This makes me seem older than I am, but in my sophomore year in high school ('75-'76) we were not allowed to use calculators, they were too new. We were required to have a slide rule. By my senior year that had changed.

Now I could probably sell the slide rule on eBay . . .

that dates you all right, you old...

we weren't allowed to use slide rules on exams, but I kept two sheets of semi-log paper at the bottom of my paper stack so I could make my own...

drexelantiques · Post by **drexelantiques** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 11:28 pm

I have also had underbidders thank me for winning. I have also breathed a sigh of relief when I was outbid, especially when I had several bids standing for different expensive items.

It seems the items I want always show up just after I paid too much for an item, or when I have no money to spend.

When I am flush, with plenty of money to spend, nothing I want is listed.

Richard Lodge · Post by **Richard Lodge** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 10:42 am

Oh yeh, the thing we used to use to hold the old window open in the classroom when it got too hot.
Truth be told, I picked up one of those circular slide rules (there's probably a better name for it, but that's what it looked like to me) a couple years ago and sold it on eBay for around 20 bucks. Almost pure profit - and I didn't have to learn how to use it, which is a blessing for a wordsmith.

Ron Mc · Post by **Ron Mc** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 10:51 am

the concept is phenomenally simple. Multiplication is adding logarithims, division is subtracting logarathims. Add a scale for sines and cosines and you're on your way.

RAM · Post by **RAM** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 11:00 am

How in hell did my litlle post deteriorate to sines and cosines? Bad Bob

Farace · Post by **Farace** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 11:24 am

I was actually using sines the other day when I needed to figure out something to do with the cross section of a hexagonal bamboo fly rod. Didn't need a slide rule or even a pocket calculator, because Google has a calculator built in that does all sorts of calculations and conversions.

Now, if I could only remember what I was calculating and why . . .

Post by **john elder** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 12:19 pm

LOL...and we've spent the last 20 years making fun of the kidz at McDonalds that can't make change if the cash register doesn't tell them...so you can imagine what it will be like in 10 years if Google goes down

We won't even know how to brush our teeth!

Steve · Post by **Steve** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 1:52 pm

It's okay, John. We won't know when the 10 years are up.

drexelantiques · Post by **drexelantiques** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 11:13 pm

About two months ago I found myself with some gold colored Sacagawea dollar coins. I stopped by to get an egg McMuffin, and a ham bisquit, paid with those coins. They were returned to me by the McDonalds cashier with the statement "
We don't take Mexican money."

Reel Geezer · Post by **Reel Geezer** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 7:39 am

We don't take Mexican money."

In John's and Steve's 10 years it probably will be Mexican money.

RAM · Post by **RAM** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 10:09 am

Ok-Now we have gone form sines, cosines, and logarithms to foreign exchange rates. And imagine-I started with "reasons to be happy you were outbid on eBay".
By the way, Garrison Keiller said he had heard that the 300 millionth U.S. citizen was born in Mexico. Now we are into demographics. Amazing! What next? Bad Bob

Ron Mc · Post by **Ron Mc** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 10:12 am

my favorite cigars are strong with a silky shade wrapper.

RAM · Post by **RAM** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 10:23 am

That sounds like a code message in a spy novel. Bad Bob (alias Agent 005)

PS I understand cigars are outlawed in all blue states. Anything to that?

Farace · Post by **Farace** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 11:31 am

RAM wrote:PS I understand cigars are outlawed in all blue states. Anything to that?

I live in a blue state that actually grows wrappers.

I recently tried smoking a cigar for the first time since high school, when I worked behind the candy & cigarette counter at a local pharmacy. It almost knocked me off my chair. Back then, I got back at my buddies for playing Frampton Comes Alive on the 8-track player all the way from Connecticut to New Hampshire by lighting up a big, stinky 15-cent Muniemaker. That sure coated the inside windows of the '74 Toyota Celica we were riding in.

Ron Mc · Post by **Ron Mc** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 12:13 pm

RAM wrote: PS I understand cigars are outlawed in all blue states. Anything to that?

in Omaha, NE, they ask you to call 911 if someone is smoking in a public place - truthfully.

Robin Sayler · Post by **Robin Sayler** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 1:25 pm

whats the penalty for that horrible offense?

Ron Mc · Post by **Ron Mc** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 2:03 pm

I don't know, but I'm glad there's no penalty for threadjacking. jester

Post by **john elder** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 2:19 pm

Speaking of wrappers, I really hate rappers.

.but I digress...edit..edit...I had a well, duh moment for those that read the missing paragraph...guy won for 999.90 because that was the reserve...he bid more...

Bad Bob's "Thought for the Week"

Bad Bob's "Thought for the Week"

school and ebay

What's a slide rule?