what does everyone do to pay for their habit, er, hobby?

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Posted By: <b>warshawlaw&nbsp; </b><p>I'm a lawyer in LA, primarily involved in real estate, construction and insurance cases. And I'm a card-a-holic.

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Posted By: <b>Tom</b><p>an Export Compliance mgr for a large brown transportation company.........also addicted. Need good 12-step program if anyone knows of any.

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Posted By: <b>john</b><p>I do nothing now which explains why i dont buy anything now besides t206 commons with money made from non-vintage ebay sales whenever i feel like doing that....but i used to manage a resturant,which i will be doing again shortly(unless someone wants to pay me to read about baseball all day,im getting good at it).....now i sit on the computer all day looking at stuff i want to buy

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Posted By: <b>Jaime Leiderman</b><p>Fast Food Franchises in Costa Rica & Venezuela.

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Posted By: <b>Marc S.</b><p>Help lawyers figure out damage claims....<BR><BR>Jaime, where in Venezuela are your franchises? I'm getting married in Caracas in four months...

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Posted By: <b>Jaime Leiderman</b><p>In Caracas.<BR><BR>Please let me know if you need any help there, I spend almost a week every month in Venezuela.<BR><BR>jleiderman@hotpop.com<BR>

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Posted By: <b>leon</b><p>try my hardest to hide it from the wife <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14> and sell computers (when they were still needed).....regards

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Posted By: <b>runscott</b><p>...usually over a network, which explains why I'm always online!

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Posted By: <b>Lee Behrens</b><p>I manage a Bowling center, the one sport I really excelled at. The owner allows me to go to Twins games in the summer, it is 120 miles west of Minneapolis. I use to have a card store, it was a dream job. I am single and have no expenses. Savings accounts suck and the stock market is iffy. Why not vintage cards? I love them <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14> .<BR><BR>Lee

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Posted By: <b>MW</b><p>I play with baseball cards all day long! <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14>

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Posted By: <b>HalleyGator</b><p><BR>I'm a personal injury attorney. Our firm was one of the Florida firms to win the case against Tobacco companies.<BR><BR>Check me out if you care:<BR><BR>www.fonhink.com

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Posted By: <b>Keith O'Leary</b><p>I slave in front of a computer all day for crumbs as pay. I'm a programmer/analyst for county government, and have no desire to cure my habit.

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Posted By: <b>Andy Baran</b><p>I'm the Midwest Regional Sales Manager for the largest Bottled Water company in the US. So I sell an item that everyone basically gets for free out of the sink, and I charge more per gallon than gasoline. Go figure. This is a great country that we live in.

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Posted By: <b>David</b><p>My wife's maiden name is Getty.

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Posted By: <b>Julie Vognar</b><p>I'm a docent (lead tours) at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, I read late 19th and early 20th century novels to an old lady with Parkinson's disease, I help a blind girl balence her check book and send out birthday cards once a month, the government sends me two checks every month, and my cousin dribbles out little bits of money my mother left me in a "Special Needs Trust" (you lawyers might know what that is) so that the government won't stop sending me the two checks.<BR><BR>The museum pays me nothing, the old lady pays me $10 an hour, the blind girl pays me $7 an hour,the government pays me about $700 a month, and the Special Needs trust pays me as much as my cousin thinks she<BR>can get away with sending me.<BR><BR>Now my step-mother has died, and within a year I will inherit sufficient money so that I will have to start paying for my own medications, hospitalizations, psychoanalysis, and, in short, I'll need some supplemental insurence for my Medicare.<BR><BR>You didn't really want to know all that, did you?<BR><BR>As for baseball cards, I beg, borrow, earn and steal as much as I can to buy them, and have for 22 years.:)

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Posted By: <b>Julie Vognar</b><p><img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14>

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Posted By: <b>Kevin Cummings</b><p>Regular trips to the <font color=red><b>blood bank</b></font> and organ donation center. But that is starting to take its toll. <BR><BR>Anyone want to buy an EXMT 18 year old boy with exceptional programming skills? <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14>

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Posted By: <b>Anthony</b><p>Advertising photographer in Los Angeles. I help convince people to buy things they don't really need, while convincing myself I do need the cards I really don't. Instant karma in action. Tom, when you get that 12 step group together I"m there!

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Posted By: <b>John</b><p>i want Lees job,i think that sounds like a great job,at least doing something you like....dont tell me old boss,but i used to pay 2 kids each $20 a day out of my pocket,they would do all my work and i would watch tv for my whole shift and still make some money,and i didnt care because i lived at home and had no bills...i think its called subcontracting or something,i called it getting paid to watch tv and eat free food

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Posted By: <b>Marty</b><p>I sell cards to Anthony. I have been buying and selling cards for several years. All profits go back into paying expenses and buying more cards.

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Posted By: <b>Mike Williams</b><p>for now I write "code" for a private company called GeneFormatics. We process DNA sequences at the amino acid (or protein) level then....determine their function, then structure. Hopefully one day, we will provide data to big pharma so they can cure/treat various diseases. Remember the name (shameless plug!).

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Posted By: <b>Plastic Dog</b><p>I'm in medical school with a wife and 3 kids. No income. But that doesn't stop the real card addicts.

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Posted By: <b>Lee Behrens</b><p>I forgot to mention, I have a title, it took 5 yrs. to achievebut I now am "Mr. Bowling Shoe Giverouter Guyer". I am a true American Hero, and proud of it. I have work shirts with that title right on them.<BR><BR>Proud to have a title,<BR><BR>Lee<BR>

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Posted By: <b>Jay Miller</b><p>I am a commodity trader for Sempra Energy Trading. For most of my career I traded crude oil but for the past year I have traded a commodity basket involving everything from energy to grains to precious and base metals to soft commodities(sugar, coffee, cocoa, cotton and orange juice).

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Posted By: <b>Jim</b><p>It's only an addiction <u>after</u> you acknowledge it is a problem. I have no problem with it, so...<BR>I buy large large lots of cards at auctions - wanting to keep two or three of them, and sell the rest on Ebay. I basically break even. But, at least I upgrade my set and not have it eat in to my salary from my "real" job - Network Manager for Tufts Medical School, Boston. Plastic Dog: what school are you at? I have a wife (somewhat less than understanding) and a 3-year old daughter (much more understanding). Lee, big balls or candle pin? (no pun here) Jim

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Posted By: <b>Jeff Obermeyer</b><p>I'm the guy you never want to have to work with... because if you do it means that something really, really bad has happened to you. I'm a property claims adjuster for an insurance company, and I specialize in what my company considers "intermediate sized" losses (between $30,000 and $100,000 in damage). Usually these are residential house fires, and I do about 3-4 of them a month.<BR><BR>Amazingly I have not yet had a claim that involved a significant (over $1,000) amount of sports cards or memorabilia... although I'm sure that I just jinxed myself.

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Posted By: <b>runscott</b><p>...early 1900's distance runner on t218

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Posted By: <b>Lee Behrens</b><p>The bowling Center i work at is the kind of bowling you see on TV. You must live out East, I think that is the only area left that has candlepins. Did you guys Know that there is a candlepin boeling center beneath Fenway Park?<BR><BR>Mr. Bowling Shoe Giver Outer Guy,<BR><BR>Lee

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Posted By: <b>Jeff Obermeyer</b><p>Runscott - I believe that he is a distant relative, but I've never been able to prove it (there aren't all that many Obermeyer's around). If you looked at a picture of me from my early 20's and compare it to the card, I think that I look almost exactly like him. It's kind of spooky, really. Also, all of my family is from New York, which is where he was a runner. I've got 3-4 of the cards, but if anyone has any they want to sell cheap, let me know.<BR><BR>Now if only I could convince the Obermeyer ski clothes family that I'm a long lost relative...

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Posted By: <b>Tom</b><p>in Trading places? Frozen Concentrated Orange Juice and Pork Bellies?

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Posted By: <b>Robert</b><p>Hi Jeff--<BR><BR>I've read some things you've written about insuring one's collection (I think it may have been in VCBC, either in letter or article form) and I had one question: I've been trying to locate an insurer for both baseball cards and memorabilia, and only have been able to find insurers of postcards and ephemera who won't insure baseball cards. Do you have any suggestions?<BR><BR>Any responses would be very much appreciated!<BR><BR>Robert

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Posted By: <b>W.M.</b><p>I see dead people. I'M a Homicide Detective.

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Posted By: <b>runscott</b><p>...

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Posted By: <b>W.M.</b><p>Nope not even a dead consultant.

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Posted By: <b>Tim</b><p>I am Chief Meteorologist for a private weather firm based out of Fargo, ND (thankfully, I am not there much!). We specialize in cloud seeding for rain enhancement and hail suppression. YES, it works! I work in a radar and direct planes around thunderstorms. The company has projects worldwide. Currently, I am in Argentina...maybe not for long!<BR><BR>Tim

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Posted By: <b>Julie Vognar</b><p>at some point, we all got bitten by the same bug.<BR> <BR> Julie <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14>

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Posted By: <b>Todd (nolemmings)</b><p>I too am an attorney (commercial litigator), with little or no business acumen. Thus, I pay for my hobbit by incurring more and more debt.

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Posted By: <b>Jeff Obermeyer</b><p>Robert,<BR><BR>One of the most affordable ways to insure your collection is to shop around basic homeonwers policies. Some carriers have limits on sports cards in their policies (usually $1,000 maximum), while others do not have limits. Your agent/broker should be able to tell you which policies are available without limits. Of course, you've also got to make sure that you are comparing apples to apples with respect to the rest of the policy.<BR><BR>Unfortunately I can't be much more help than that... I don't sell insurance, and I only adjust claims based on the policies of one company, so I really don't know how most of the other policies read or how their claims departments apply coverages.

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Posted By: <b>RB Craik</b><p>On the assembly line at the very end. My delegation of empowerment is to close their eyes just before the can's lid is sealed. <BR>Very rewarding but my wife says I smell funny.

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Posted By: <b>warshawlaw</b><p>accounting

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Posted By: <b>David</b><p>But when I was younger I inherited money from my family. Not that I'm rich, but I can do what I want. Or, more importantly, not do what I don't want.

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Posted By: <b>Darren J. Duet</b><p>I'm a Family and Sports Medicine Physician living in Cut Off, Louisiana--about an hour South of New Orleans--in the swamps.

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Posted By: <b>Rob L</b><p>Geologist, running an environmental company that specializes in assessing and remediating contaminated soil and ground water.

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Posted By: <b>Jeff Lichtman</b><p>I'm a criminal defense attorney in New York City and represent people all over the country. And I wish I had an identical twin so that we could charge twice as much and buy twice as many cards....<br /><br />

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Posted By: <b>Glenn</b><p>I'm a Ph.D. student (for at least one more year) studying the psychology of human mating. Had an NSF Fellowship, but that ended, so now I'm a math tutor and an ebay Powerseller. Every penny I make on ebay, and no more, goes back into the card and memorabilia collection.

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Posted By: <b>Dave Williams</b><p>I own a business selling janitorial supplies, cleaning products, and shipping supplies.<br /><br />I also have 2 rental properties.<br /><br />www.williamssupplycompany.com<br /><br />

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Posted By: <b>barry arnold</b><p>I'm a medical ethicist,serving as Director of a Center for Health Care Ethics, a cooperative effort involving the university and a regional health care system.<br />I also have a private counseling practice.<br />My wife gives me a card allowance. <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14><br /><br />barry arnold

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Posted By: <b>Chris</b><p>I'm in marketing for a large financial firm in Raleigh, NC. Anyone else in North Carolina?<br /><br />I also run a charity that raises money for cancer research and other programs. If anyone's interested: www.eabfund.org.<br /><br />On a related note I had a boss tell me once I should dress for the job I want. But I thought it would be a bad idea to show up to work in a Yankee uniform.

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Posted By: <b>Mark Tylicki</b><p>I work for BearingPoint as a consultant implementing SAP software - Materials Management (MM) and Sales/Distribution (SD). Currently I'm on a project in San Jose configuring a new SAP product that screens orders for foreign trade compliance - sanctioned party lists, embargo, etc. It also generates the appropriate export/import paperwork for U.S. Customs.<br /><br />Tom - maybe we can help you <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14>

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Posted By: <b>Julie</b><p>but mainly, I steal. <img src="http://www.network54.com/Realm/jphotos/110103_diving_prv.gif">

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Posted By: <b>quan</b><p>used to be a computer programmer, now i help run a website with my friends, lots more money in the private sector!

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Posted By: <b>Josh K.</b><p>Im a partner with a law firm. I specialize in employment law - primarily defending companies that have been sued for discrimination, harassment, etc. I also handle quite a bit of wage and hour litigation (i.e. employees who are alleging that they didnt receive overtime, etc.).<br /><br />

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Posted By: <b>Pcelli60</b><p>I'm a mailman in Suffolk County, Long Island New York..You can catch me in the 'cheap' seats at Shea on off days...

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Posted By: <b>Steve Dawson</b><p>I'm an active duty Air Force master sergeant. Been in the Air Force for 20 years as of last month.<br /><br /><br />Steve<br />

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Posted By: <b>ockday</b><p>Just had my 25th anniversary working in family owned business manufacturing women's and kids activewear

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Posted By: <b>Mark Evans</b><p>I'm an attorney for a small agency within the federal judiciary and promote the legislative agenda of the federal judges (salary increase, more judgeships, discretion in criminal sentencing, etc.). Eligible to retire soon and hoping to identify a second (preferably part-time) career.

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Posted By: <b>Anonymous</b><p>Architect

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Posted By: <b>davidcycleback</b><p>I met a 20-something woman at a dinner party who was a tax lawyer for one of those big accounting firms. She said she had troubles doing a tax related form for one of the clients, because his personal income had more digits in it than the form allowed! There literally weren't enough boxes to fit his income ... I don't know who this person was, but she had mentioned that her firm did the taxes for the Seattle Supersonics ... She said it's depressing when the margin of error in a client's income is larger than her income.

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Posted By: <b>john/z28jd</b><p>Nice to see this old thread come up so i could remember the good ole days when i sat around and did nothing but read about baseball.<br /><br />Now i deliver food for my friends restuarant,the one i used to manage but i realized the drivers were making more than twice what i got paid for about 1/5th the work so i stopped managing and started driving. Also when theres no deliveries i watch tv and still get paid for it.<br /><br />

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Posted By: <b>Max Weder</b><p>In my spare time, I practice tax dispute litigation with a large law firm in Vancouver BC, spending my days fighting with the Canada Revenue Agency on everything from net worth unreported income (but surely never from unreported sales of baseball cards <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14>)to complex corporate tax disputes. <br /><br /><a href="http://www.blgcanada.com/professionals/bio.asp?LKey=942" target="_new" rel="nofollow">http://www.blgcanada.com/professionals/bio.asp?LKey=942</a><br /><br />Max

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Posted By: <b>Anonymous</b><p>still in college...so i use my loan money...i think it supposed to be for books or something like that

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Posted By: <b>joe</b><p>I'm an editor at a New York City-based newspaper. Currently, Mr. Discover card pays for my purchases. I'm working on paying him back.

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Posted By: <b>Julie</b><p>don't take plastic! I did find out that some people who accept paypal don't mind if you add a credit card to your account and use it--but I believe there's some sort of drawback to seller for doing this (you're not as sure buyer won't yank the money out from under you, or something). But paypal told me that the seller of the 1919 World Series ticket stub WOULD take credit cards through paypal (nice of them, I must say--paypal, I mean), and seller confirmed it, so I now owe Visa dough and have a ticket stub.<br /><br />Terry K takes plastic, too...<br /><br />But. not. Mastro...<br /><br />Boy, you wouldn't catch ME paying for the privelege of accepting a plastic card for goods!

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Posted By: <b>Aaron</b><p>I'm an entertainment lawyer in Los Angeles (cliche, I know). My wife is a litigation attorney also working in-house in the entertainment industry. I fund my collecting by maintaining an uneasy truce with my wife based on dollar-for-dollar matching of her shoes to my sports memorabilia. She has alot of shoes.

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Posted By: <b>rob</b><p>I am an equity trader at a hedge fund...prior to that I was a school teacher while coaching soccer, basketball and lacrosse (which I was an All-American in college).

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Posted By: <b>Ted</b><p>I was the auditor of a major bank holding company in Michigan, but my 30 year career ended about 5 years short of the perfect retirement when we were acquired. I became a synergy. So I moved to Texas, do some consulting work in regulatory compliance, security and internal audit, and play with baseball, hockey, football, basketball and boxing cards. Looking forward to the day when I can play with cards all day and dump the consulting gig. But then my kids are only 10 and 13, so I have to be somewhat of a role model and do something other than play.

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Posted By: <b>Mike Peich</b><p>Having spent the better part of my life listening to people say, "Oh, you're an English professor? My worst subject in college was English," I've learned to accept my profession. Those of us in the professoriat don't have a lot of money, so I rely on buying and selling cards off-line, and I've learned a lot in this regard from Tim Newcomb (my colleague at West Chester University), and Ron Barrett and Rand Bailey, two of the nicest dealers ever to have graced a card show. I should add that I'm two cards short of completing my <br />T-3 set (Evers and Willis), so help me out folks. <br />I'm so pleased to know who Bowling-shoe-giver-outer-guy is (Lee, I think it's a great name). Finally, my hat is off to my wife, Dianne, who accepts my habit, and believes me when I tell her that my cards are part of our retirement plans.<br /><br /> Yours in the habit, Mike

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Posted By: <b>Dan Koteles</b><p>carpet store owner. <br /><br />Qualifications are 2 parts mathmagician and 2 parts psychotic and 1 part megma.

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Posted By: <b>jay behrens</b><p>My background is nuclear engineering, but I now flip burgers. It affords me a lot of free time to do what I want to do. I also the own and help run Attic2Cash with my brother Lee. <br /><br />Jay<br><br>I've just reached Upper Lower Class. I am now officially a babe magnet for poor chicks.

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Posted By: <b>Kevin O</b><p>I'm a college professor--Medieval Religious History. I also write commissioned histories and historical survey reports for institutions looking to obtain national historic status and the accompanying shekels. My card money comes almost exclusively from that freelance writing and part-time electrician work (my Navy skill from the early eighties).

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Posted By: <b>joe maples</b><p>Worked with computers for 30 years, last job as a Data Base Administrater, got out while I was still alive. Now on the internet and going thru auction catalogs all the time. Sell new stuff to buy old stuff.<br /><br />Joe

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Posted By: <b>tbob</b><p>Chief Public Defender for the 21st Judicial District. <br />Everything and everyone from hot check writers to serial killers. (Two last year). A little of my 60's idealism survives or else I'd go back in to private practice and make more money to spend on cards. I miss the days when I was just a trial lawyer and not trial lawyer/administrator/babysitter/mediator/referee for everyone in the office <img src="/images/sad.gif" height=14 width=14>

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Posted By: <b>Richard Lloyd</b><p>I'm a rocket Scientist for an Aerospace Corp. and on Roster to the United Nations as a Trained Weapon Inspector. I am always on the go with much travel and<br />find it hard sometines bidding on ebay while I am on the road.. <br />Best

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Posted By: <b>Preece1</b><p>I am an investment banker for a German bank. I work in New York City (Midtown).

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Posted By: <b>Bryan Long</b><p>a Marketing Director for a two hospital system in Southern Ohio.

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Posted By: <b>shellyjaffe</b><p>I have been selling steel for the last thirty five years. I did have a little time off for selling forged items in the autograph business. The total time off was six months. The total cost of doing what i did was $100,000,00.

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Posted By: <b>Bill Kasel</b><p>I am a network design engineer (sales consultant <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14>)for a technology firm in Madison, WI. Essentially I help businesses develop data and voice networking solutions. When I'm not doing that I am a full time husband and father of a perfect two year old son.<br /><br />

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Posted By: <b>ramram</b><p>I have my own engineering company that specializes in blast consulting. The 4th of July isn't quite what it used to be.<br /><br />Rob M.

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Posted By: <b>Shannon</b><p>I guess Im kinda the the jack of all trades so to say I do a little bit of everything building, plumbing, roofing just about anything to do with building or remodeling of homes

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Posted By: <b>Morrie</b><p>Another college professor here. I teach industrial psychology, specializing in personnel issues (hiring, testing, etc.). And lots of stat courses. I pay for my habit by letting my wife feed her own addiction for online gaming (rpgs, not gambling), and perhaps more importantly, by controlling the checkbook...<br /><br />Morrie

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Posted By: <b>brian p</b><p>I am a merchandizing guru at an industrial hardware store that sells just about every wacky widget and thingamabob there is, where guys literally spend hours spelunking down aisles with their jaws open as if they had just seen their parents procreating (spelunking is not quite the appropiate word, as the store is well lit, and frisky elderly folk are discretely directed to the nether regions of the stockroom). The English Lit/Creative Writing major may have helped me out in that last sentence, but it has had no real bearing on my career path. We do, however, sell bearings. <br /><br />Not the most lucrative of jobs, but thanks to the careless handling of baseball cards by the youth of the first few decades of the last century, I can still afford this hobby (when I can keep my fascination with styrofoam cups under control).<br /><br />Brian<br />

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Posted By: <b>Julie</b><p>you all sound like the class of '57 at Carlton College. The professors couldn't have been more radical. The students couldn't have been more conservative. I was doing all right there, till I suddeny became unable to read my senior year, due to a psychological-psysiological problem, and had to go to the U. of Chicago the following summer to get my diploma signed.<br /><br />I was also a college English teacher for a while. Nobody ever noticed that I couldn't spell.

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Posted By: <b>Shane</b><p>I'm a criminal justice student so my student loans are my support

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Posted By: <b>Scott Cowan</b><p>I am the online sales director for Tacoma Goodwill. I run a online antiques and collectibles business. We take the donated items of interest and value and put them online for sale on sites like eBay and shopgoodwill.com It is the perfect job for someone who loves collectibles (of all types) and has computer skills. We get in tons of cards too.... it's just too bad they are all new ones =) The best thing to have come in while I have had this job is a couple of early 50's Mickey Mantles........ no really good stuff yet... but everyday there is a great chance of it!

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Posted By: <b>Dave</b><p>As little as possible. <br /><br />Actually, I've been in the test equipment business for over 30 years. Working for a large company you all would know. For the past 15, I've been focused on cellular phone test. My company now has about 2/3 market share for test equipment used around the world for production of all cell phones. Yes, that is a lot of business. I've been on a standards committe on how these things work for the last 12 years. Funny thing is that I just got my own cell phone about 6 months ago. A real technocrat.<br /><br />I travel a lot, like good wine and good food; need to balance those against my waistline.

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Posted By: <b>Little Lee</b><p>I'm a disabled Veteran, that's why my collection grows so slowly that moss some times developes on the binder before any thing new is added.<br /><br />My main funtion in life is holding down my easy chair and changing the channels on the TV. &lt;gg&gt;<br /><br />Little Lee<br><br>"Of all the things I lost in life, I miss my Mind the most" "Smith's Law, Murphy was and optimist"<br />

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Posted By: <b>Trae R.</b><p>I am a Systems Administrator for the college I graduated from. I have been there 5 years now. Cool.

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Posted By: <b>Paul Griggs</b><p>I'm a maintenance tech, for Freescale Semiconductor. I'm currently working on SemiTool platers, but most of my 13 yrs have been in hivac/metals.

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Posted By: <b>Gilbert Maines</b><p>I am an instrument repair technician. Ive done other stuff, but it always included instruments and repair.

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Posted By: <b>Chuck Ross</b><p>I'm a professor of physics at a university in Virginia. For fun (in addition to blowing money on cards) I've written several books dealing with physics and the US Civil War, with a couple History Channel appearances thrown in.

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Posted By: <b>Joe_G.</b><p>I'm a Powertrain Engineer with Chrysler. I've worked on several projects over the last nine years but for the last couple have been happy working on the Hemi. My typical day includes testing on dynomometer, analyzing data, requesting new content, and sharing results with co-workers on how we will continue to produce a dominate engine.<br /><br />Joe Gonsowski

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Posted By: <b>Peter Thomas</b><p>Like Murcefan, I am an Architect, worked 20 years with a national firm in Boston area where I grew up and went to school and now have my own practise in Miami, doing work in Miami and Central America. Work is mostly high rise residential and schools. Pretty diverse group with a common illness - come to think of it not many doctors to help with a cure.

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Posted By: <b>Hal Lewis</b><p>1: I used to play fiddle for the "Soggy Bottom Boys."<br /><br />2: Then I was a data processor for S.C.M.O.D.S.<br /><br />3: Then I worked in a Turkish Prison.<br /><br />4: I was the Dean at Faber College.<br /><br />5: I worked on Wall Street for a while with Mortimer and Randolph Dukes.<br /><br />6: I did a stint of undercover drug work for the LAPD with two guys named "Fat Sam" and "Gummy."<br /><br />7: Then I sold unpainted furniture in Arizona.<br /><br />8: I was a groundskeeper for a while at a golf club named Bushwood.<br /><br /><img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14><br /><br />Name those movies!<br />

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Posted By: <b>Scott Jeter</b><p>I'm an Accountant here in Las Vegas and I sell on ebay. <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14>

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Posted By: <b>rob</b><p>airplane<br />trading places<br />fletch<br />caddyshack<br /><br />...for starters

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Posted By: <b>Hal Lewis</b><p>1: Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?<br /><br />2: Blues Brothers<br /><br />3: Airplane<br /><br />4: Animal House<br /><br />5: Trading Places<br /><br />6: Fletch<br /><br />7: Raising Arizona<br /><br />8: Caddyshack

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Posted By: <b>rob</b><p>3 airplane<br />5 trading places<br />6 fletch<br />8 caddyshack

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Posted By: <b>barrysloate</b><p>Hal- You seem like a pop culture maven as I am, so here are two tougher movies for you:<br /><br />1) I work as a hit man for Marcellus Wallace<br />2) I run a video store next to a convenience store, but I'm always closing so I can hang out next door<br /><br />Others besides Hal are welcome to answer

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Posted By: <b>Josh K.</b><p>1. Pulp Fiction<br />2. Clerks<br /><br />Hal didnt provide enough time for me to answer his. I think we need to get a bit tougher here:)

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Posted By: <b>barrysloate</b><p>O.K., it was too easy. I thought Clerks would be the tough one. Cool movie.

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Posted By: <b>jay behrens</b><p>my favorite family friendly line from Clerks is "What do stormtroopers know about plumbing? All they know is killing and white unforms."<br /><br />Jay<br /><br />I've just reached Upper Lower Class. I am now officially a babe magnet for poor chicks.

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Posted By: <b>rob</b><p>1. "flying blind on a rocket cycle?"<br />2. "here's a picture of my sister, you can all have her, i hear she's very good"<br />3. "listen, do you smell something?"

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Posted By: <b>barrysloate</b><p>Almost every line is a classic, but they are not appropriate for this board. Kevin Smith made that movie for $27,000, and its a classic (and I know Bill is going to delete this thread-we are way off topic).

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Posted By: <b>Dave</b><p>1. Flash Gordon<br />2. Caddyshack<br />3. Ghostbusters<br /><br />

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Posted By: <b>rob</b><p>1. flash gordon<br />2. not caddyshack<br />3. ghostbusters

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Posted By: <b>Brent Butcher</b><p>Contract design Engineer specializing in military vehicles and fitness club owner. Would love to buy and sell cards for a living but unfortunately I enjoy buying more than selling!

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Posted By: <b>Julie</b><p>1. "To England I'll steal, and there--I'll steal, and patches will I get unto these scars, and swear I got them--within these present walls!" 1945<br />2. "A man who don't know where he belong, gotta be in a whole lotta pain!" 1984<br />3. "Not the station where all the trains stop; the station where all the stations stop." (most of movie is subtitled; this is in English)1988-89<br />4. "They weren't too big on ballpoint pens in '43." 1994?<br />5. "Think you're funny?" (most of movie is subtitled; this is in English)2003

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Posted By: <b>Josh K.</b><p>2. Spies Like Us - great movie<br /><br />To those Clerks fans out there - I agree, absolutely one of the funniest movies ever made.

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Posted By: <b>rob</b><p>2. spies like us<br /><br />very good <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14>

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Posted By: <b>Bruce Babcock</b><p>I'm a composer, orchestrator and conductor of music for television, films, recordings, based in Hollywood. I've worked with a wide range of folks, from Angela Lansbury to Metallica.

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Posted By: <b>Hal Lewis</b><p>Did Metallica do the theme music for "Murder She Wrote?"

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Posted By: <b>jay behrens</b><p>Julie, I'm a movie junkie and have over 300 movies on DVD, but you are getting too esoteric in your pics even for me. I have no clue what movies those are. I am not exactly into mainstream movies. Lee will vouch for that.<br /><br />Jay<br><br>I've just reached Upper Lower Class. I am now officially a babe magnet for poor chicks.

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Posted By: <b>Julie</b><p>1) (Olivier's) "Henry V"<br />2) "A Soldier's Story" ( D. Washington's first big part)<br />3) "Wings of Desire" (German)<br />4) "Angel Heart"<br />5) "The Barbarian Invasions" (French-Canadian)<br /><br />Didn't realize I was THAT weird...

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Posted By: <b>Gilbert Porter</b><p><P>Barely 24 hours after this is posted, and there are 60 responses as to what you do for a living. When do you guys actually earn your living??????</P><P>I too am a lawyer - specializing in financing matters in the NY area. I usually tell people that I specialize in structuring long-term investments in countries nobody wants to visit for more than 5 minutes - that cuts the conversation short.</P>

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Posted By: <b>barrysloate</b><p>Julie- those were very esoteric movies- even I didn't get one. And Bruce,I didn't know you worked with Metallica. Did you know that Beavis and Butthead wore Metallica and AC/DC t-shirts all the time? I know that, because they are my heroes. I model my life after them.<br /> Anyway, I didn't even contribute to this site yet. I have been a full-time dealer of baseball memorabilia for more than twenty years, and for someone who is lazy and doesn't really like to work, it has been in many ways the ideal profession for me. Before that, I taught English at at C.W. Post college on Long Island while simultaneously working at the Village Chess Shop on Thompson Street in Greenwich Village getting paid to play chess with the patrons (and sell a few chess sets and books as well). Imagine getting paid to play chess.

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Posted By: <b>This Is Your Capt Speaking</b><p>And it's on its way to Cuba!<br /><br />Julie and Barry are at the controls. <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14><br /><br />Feel free to walk about the ocean!

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Posted By: <b>Julie</b><p>"esoteric" by Jay behrens, NAMED the 5 movies, got told they were esoteric by Barry Sloate. How have I hijacked this thread?<br /><br />IMHO, you guys have NO taste in movies...not even "A Soldier's Story"? Where have you BEEN?<br /><br />...and a trimmed Yum Yum to you!<br /><br /><img src="http://www.network54.com/Realm/jphotos/BYYWelcht002.jpg">

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Posted By: <b>jay behrens</b><p>Actually, Hal is the original culprit in the hijacking of this thread. Julie, don't take offense to my comment, it just means that if can stump me on the movies, then have almost zero chance of anyone else on this board recognizing them. I've probably seen thousand movies or more in my lifetime and I've heard of a few of them on your list, but never seen them.<br /><br />Jay<br><br>I've just reached Upper Lower Class. I am now officially a babe magnet for poor chicks.

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Posted By: <b>Glenn</b><p>A thousand? I've easily seen three thousand movies. I keep a ranked list of my top 500. Wings of Desire, by the way, is on there, although I confess I couldn't place the quote. Anyone seen Eight Men Out? (I'm trying to steer us back to vintage baseball. Should I start a new thread where we can debate the merits of Eight Men Out and Cobb?)

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Posted By: <b>Ben</b><p>I have seen 4 out of Julie's 5 movies. My two favorites were "Wings of Desire" (Wim Wenders, 1987) and "Les Invasions Barbares". Jay, you'll have to relinquish your self-proclaimed title of film expert until you've seen "Wings of Desire"....truly a great film. There was an American remake in 1998 called "City of Angels" starring Nick Cage and Meg Ryan - I'm sure you've seen that one, Jay.

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Posted By: <b>barrysloate</b><p>I'm a movie freak too. How many out there can say they've seen all of the extant silent movies of Greta Garbo? I think I've seen them all. But I prefer off beat cult classics, like "Performance", "O Lucky Man", "Pulp Fiction", etc. But we're off topic again and Bill is going to pull the plug.

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Posted By: <b>Richard Masson</b><p>that image of the pig-man shivering under the blanket is still with me 30 years later...

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Posted By: <b>Travis</b><p>Write books.<br /><br />www.sfmasher.cjb.net<br /><br /><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/thesfmasher/cover.jpg"><br /><br />Some reviews:<br /><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/thesfmasher/lastscan.jpg"><br /><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/thesfmasher/vapors.jpg"><br /><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/thesfmasher/traviskinterview.jpg">

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Posted By: <b>ChuckkieB</b><p>I work for a global news organization as a Client Relationship Manager. It's a job that pays me well enough to afford me the luxury of spending way beyond my means, particularly on vintage cards. <br /><br />My wife is pretty understanding (most of the time) of my addiction, not because she shares my passion for vintage cards, but because I consistently flower her with gifts to distract her. Diamonds, jewelry, spa days, and lots of chocolate usually does the trick, but they have lost their effectiveness over the years. As a result, I devised a plan that created the biggest distraction of all - kids! Two kids later, and she barely has a second to speak to me, let alone complain or notice my gluttonous spending! :-P

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Posted By: <b>Julie</b><p>Glenn: In "Wings of Desire," Peter Falk (playing himself) is taking a walk in Berlin, and sees a derelict train station. He's remembereing his (German, I guess), grandmother talking about a train station, the big one, "Not the one where all the trains stop, but the one where all the stations stop."<br /><br />It is NOT exactly in keeping with the plot of the movie that Falk should have a German grandmother to remember, if you remember it...but in that scene, he does.<br /><br />Barry, I've sent you capsule descriptions of all 5 of the movies.<br /><br />The new Forum I joined "groups@yahoogroup1919BlackSox:--or something like that, has some serious questions about 8 men out. Not just the movie, but the book as well. I enjoyed both a lot. Asinov wrote a follow-up called "Bleeding between the Lines,' which is really about Susskind trying to steal the rights to his book, but he gets in a conversation with Hap felch and some other juicy stuff.

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Posted By: <b>barrysloate</b><p>The pig man scene is one of the most horrifying things I've seen on film, because they made it seem so real. Did you know that Alan Price, who played piano and wrote the music for the film, was the original organist for the Animals, and played all the great organ on "House of the Rising Sun"

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Posted By: <b>barrysloate</b><p>Since this thread is so far off the topic of baseball, here's a baseball joke I made up. Actually, it's more of a riddle.<br /><br />Q: What did the batting coach of the 1910 Cubs say when he noticed a hitch in the swing of his star second baseman?<br /><br />A: Did anyone here tinker with Evers, by chance?<br /><br />Don't laugh too hard.

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Posted By: <b>Glenn</b><p>Thanks, Julie. Seen Faraway So Close?

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Posted By: <b>jay behrens</b><p>It's possible seen far more than 1000 movies. I erred ont he side of conservative. A number of movies I've seen an insane number of times like Rocky Horror Picture Show (301 times), Star Wars (several hundred times) and Pulp Fiction, Fight Club and Snatch are right up there too. Moulin Rouge also gets a lot of play just for background music. <br /><br />Right now, I'm trying to find a copy of Metropolis with the 20 minutes of perviously unknown footage they found a few years ago. The copy I have right now have the the nudity put back in it that the censors lopped off.<br /><br />Jay<br><br>I've just reached Upper Lower Class. I am now officially a babe magnet for poor chicks.

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Posted By: <b>Julie</b><p><img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14>

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Posted By: <b>barrysloate</b><p>Metropolis is great (1926, I believe). I've seen it, but not with the nude footage. But it rings a bell.

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Posted By: <b>This Is Your Capt Speaking</b><p>Unbeknown to each other, they're from different factions.<br />After a heated debate, they have voted down the movie "Citizen Kane" and replaced it with "Love Finds Andy Hardy".<br /><br />I've just been informed by one of the attendants, that after hearing Barry's Tinkers to Evers to Chance joke, two of the terrorist have decided to leave us, and didn't want any company coming along with them.<br />They decided on a dual strangulation.<br />Their passing will have no affect on the Andy Hardy vote.<br />Not to worry, they have been placed in the last row, and have their seat belts on.<br /><br />I'll get back to you with the weather in Havana.

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Posted By: <b>smokeyjoes-r- us</b><p>pick me up a box or two of Monte #2's and PSD4's whilst in Havana...<br /><br />...or if you happen to swing into Brazil<br /><br /><img src="http://www.trond.com/brazil/images/brazil41.jpg">

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Posted By: <b>shellyjaffe</b><p>My favorite movies are. Ecstasy with Heidi Lamar. The Thief of Baghdad with Sabu. Blazing Saddles. Lost Horizons and the first Thin man movie with William Powell.

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Posted By: <b>jay behrens</b><p>Brazil is a great movie. I love Terry Gilliam's work. I am lucky enough to own the Criterian Edition on DVD. Last I heard, it's going for over $200 now. For those that aren't into DVDs, it's always worth picking up Criterian Editions of DVDs, they have great resale value.<br /><br />Jay- needs to collect fewer things so he can spend more money on cards.<br /><br /><br /><br />I've just reached Upper Lower Class. I am now officially a babe magnet for poor chicks.

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Posted By: <b>David</b><p>Retired Land Surveyor residing happily-ever-after in Honolulu. Inherited a whack of money a few years back. Enough for groceries and the odd Joe Wood card. <br />Some favorite movies: Footlight Parade, The Best Years of Our Lives<br />Some movie lines: 1)You want my advice? Go back to Bulgaria. 2)Have you ever heard of the Giant Rat of Sumatra?<br />(I can tell you which film the "Bulgaria" line is from; I do not know where the "Sumatra" line comes from, probably from a Sherlock Holmes movie. It is useful when ordering coffee at Starbucks).

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Posted By: <b>ramram</b><p>Just about anything that came out of Slim Pickens mouth in the movie "1941". Especially when the Japs were trying to get him to sh*t out the Cracker Jack compass that he swallowed.<br /><br />"You sneaky little bastards ain’t getting’ doodly-**** outta me!”

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Posted By: <b>Rhys</b><p>Jay<br /><br />What is a Criterien Edition of a DVD?<br /><br />Rhys

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Posted By: <b>jay behrens</b><p>Rhys, they are DVDs with a silver band at the top of the box that Criterian Edition. It's pretty hard to miss. Mostly from Paramount and MGM. They have lots of special features and a very high quality picture transfer. If you are a movie buff, you will notice the difference.<br /><br />Jay<br><br>I've just reached Upper Lower Class. I am now officially a babe magnet for poor chicks.

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Posted By: <b>Julie</b><p>Never buy a DVD for under $10--it will just be a transfer from some old VHS tape.

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Posted By: <b>Julie</b><p><img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14> ("Lost Horizon"--isn't it singular, not plural?

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Posted By: <b>Dave</b><p>Speaking of Heidi Lamar, did you know that she actually was issued a patent on a secure radio trnsmission scheme where the source and receiver hopped frequency on a pre-determined pattern. This was in the early 40's. You gotta love the history of technology.<br /><br />I'm sure she was a big BB fan. That puts this back on topic, maybe.

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Posted By: <b>This Is Your Capt Speaking</b><p>It is with a heavey heart that I must inform you that it was one of the movie options that were found unacceptable by the Terrorist, and Sabu.<br />Andy Hardy it is.<br /><br />You may continue to walk about the ocean, and please don't disturb the two passengers in the last row, that are in a deep sleep.<br /><br />Oh yes, one more thing.<br />This is indeed a bad day.<br />I've just been informed that the duty free store at the La Habana Areopuerto no longer offers Monte #2's - PSD4's or any tobacco of any kind.<br />As per Castro:<br />Welcome To Tobacco Free Cuba! <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14><br />

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Posted By: <b>Julie</b><p>It is MENTIONED by Watson as a tale "the world is not yet ready for," in one of the Sherlock Holmes stories..naw, I don't know which one. The Firesign Theater put out an album by that name in 1974 (I think they were a quite good comedy group), and a man wrote a not-so-hot novel called "Sherlock Holmes and the Giant Rat of Sumatra" fairly recently..<br /><br />End of report.<br /><br />And a VERY interestingly miscut Pud Galvin to you!!<br /><br /><img src="http://www.network54.com/Realm/jphotos/BN172Pud001.jpg">

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Posted By: <b>This Is Your Capt Speaking</b><p>And those on the right will see some more blue ocean.<br /><br />Here in the cockpit, we find ourselves in a slightly different scenario.<br /><br />We have a Julie, Barry and a Jay fighting over the controls.<br />One of them is saying something about Berkley.<br />Then we have someone in the background by the name of Pud, screaming that he wants to get back to Pittsburgh.<br />Outside of that, sit back and enjoy your flight.<br /><br />Oh yes almost forgot, while you're walking about, please don't disturb the two sleeping gentlemen in the back. .... thank you.

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Posted By: <b>warshawlaw</b><p>"That's Hedley!"--Blazing Saddles, my #1 movie.<br /><br />

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Posted By: <b>Julie</b><p><br />"Mary Cecilia Brown<br />Came to town on the Hollywood bus<br />She climbed to the top of the Hollywood sign<br />And with the smallest possible fuss<br /><br />"She jumped off the letter H<br />Cause she did not become a star.<br />She died in less thasn a minute and a half,<br />She looked a bit like Heddy Lamar."<br /><br /> Dory Previn

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Posted By: <b>JimB</b><p>I am a professor of Buddhist philosophy. I translate and explain ancient Indian and Tibetan philosophical texts including some translation work for His Holiness the Dalai Lama. I sometimes like to think of the research as intellectual archeology. You can find one of my books by entering my name at amazon.com.<br />Julie, if you are a docent at the Asian Art museum in S.F., we would probably have something to talk about other than baseball.<br />Jim

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Posted By: <b>Julie</b><p>and "compassion." I wondered if you agreed with it. The Thunderbolt reprents "skillful means" in the hands of a monk, priest or lama, but "campassion" in the hands of a bodhisattva.<br /><br />Er--maybe we should adjourn to e-mail?