That was him. I guess by hacking maybe he was thinking he can sneak back on and get past our low level security measures. I have good information he came back as an alias and was subsequently banned again. My guess is it will happen again.

This is why I love this board!!

As Leon said, that's him. Maybe during slow Sundays between auctions we should resurrect some "classic" moments on Net54. Maybe the Andrew Wagner should be next?

It all pales compared to Peter Chao.

That's hilarious. This makes twice this week that I've burst in to uncontrollable laughter at something on this board.

I've got to admit, diversions like that are sometimes quite welcome

I would add Barkman and Chicago206 to the list.

My "favorites" were the Bruces and Lichtman. :rolleyes:


Note to Self: Never get on Leon's bad side! :D


Steve

They had their moments, yes, but Chao was in a class by himself IMO. Any man who debuted with a post asking if Joe Jackson didn't wear shoes how did he avoid getting spiked. and went from there to reacting to the Virginia Tech shooting by wondering what would happen if Barry Bonds had a gun, has no peer.

I think Cole Bartiromo deserves an honorable mention. I am sure we are all waiting with baited breath for the activation of his stealth accounts.

I believe Jeff is still a member in good standing; however, could be wrong about that. As for Bruce, may he rest in peace.

Best regards,

Eric

my vote
 

for most popcorn worthy participants would be in the following order - I have had no life for basically forever and followed them all. Each had their moments - some more consistently than others.....

Adrain
Barkman
Chao(S)

the Bruces (RIP) not so much

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It is an unimaginable tragedy, thirty-one young adults have died. It's a senseless shame. This is the reason that we play sports. It allows us to take out our agressions on the playing field. Can you imagine Barry Bonds with a gun, or Wilt Chamberlain with a gun. Thank God for sports.

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Jason L.,

Maybe I'm exaggerating the importance of sports. But how about Jesse Owens at Hitler's Olympic games. Wasn't he in fact showing the master race, that blacks could compete. If I'm totally off-base let me know. Without doubt the killings were a tragedy, but think of what this world would be like without the Olympics every four years.

Peter

All the Armpit collectors vote for the Bruces.........
And they have made 3 deals whilst the rest of us were bickering.......

But..........RIP..........

My goodness

When the Bruces threatened to sue Archive
 

Default Who is Archive and why is he using our name?
In his post with regard to the 1938 Goudey Archive attributes a post to us
that we never made.

We take our posts very seriously, and we believe that attributing a post to
someone else is a crime.

Archive please issue am immediate apology. We are prepared to take further
action, if necessary


Bruce Dorskind
America's Toughest Want List


the full thread, the fun really begins on page 5
http://net54baseball.com/showthread....+goudey&page=1

There can't be better only different. RIP Bruces

Okay, the part about pondering what specific people might do if they had a gun and no sports outlet is dumb, but I think his greater point is valid.

Sports are an outlet for normal competitiveness. And the Olympics do draw people from different countries together. Americans cheering for Olga Korbut going through her gymnastic routines, for instance, has a real subliminal effect in making people realize that while governments sometimes have idiot leaders, people from different nations are generally very much like us.

I've always felt that in Europe in 1944, let's say, the average American and average German soldiers didn't hate each other at all... they probably both hated Hitler for being put in the ridiculous position of having to try to kill each other to survive.

Sports wouldn't be so universally popular if they didn't serve some real purpose. Part of that purpose is directing things like aggression, physical release of adrenaline, community or national pride and identification, the desire to be victorious (even if our actual role is to sit on a couch with a bag of Doritos cheering for our team,) into contests that are governed by rules, and don't involve bloodshed (boxing aside.)

Here in Minnesota, the Sioux Indians (in the south) used to send raiding parties against the Chippewa Indians (in the north) with regularity. Now, we send the Vikings over to Wisconsin and let them bring us glory by beating the Packers.

Yeah if I didn't have sports teams to release my aggression vicariously I would be out there committing violent acts.

This is just a hunch but maybe the Sioux and Chippewa ceased fighting each other because we killed both of them and took their land, then relegated them each to reserves that we didn't want.

And here I thought it had something to do with pro football.

Very entertaining.

Time for a Best of net54 Forum.

Not sure why you use the word "we." I didn't kill anyone, did you?

Actually, European settlers didn't have battles with the Chippewa - they got along quite well in fact. The Chippewa saw white people as a valuable ally against the Sioux. Europeans were very frequently helped by the Chippewa, and they reciprocated by showing them how to parch their rice so it wouldn't go bad during the long winter (starvation had been an annual challenge.) And, they did quite a bit of trading, so it was a mutually beneficial relationship on the whole.

Even today when driving through the Nett Lake reservation, it's amazing, but every native American you pass on the road pauses what they're doing to wave greeting.

So yeah, I know it's politically correct to think Indians were saints and White people were purely evil, and you can continue to think that way if you choose.

Minnesota reservations involve some very good land by the way, and the exclusive deal Indian tribes have to run casinos brings them quite a bit of revenue.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2012...illion-a-year/

I was just trying to make the point that sports have value in providing peaceful competition, which I think is pretty obvious, but some people here are more interested in ridicule, so never mind.

Of course sports have value. It's your suggestion that they somehow channel aggression that would otherwise be expressed as violence that is IMO dubious. And what any of this had to do with the Virginia Tech massacre is beyond me, yet you were somehow defending Chao's "larger point."

One thing I remember is, when this thread was active, a PSA 4 '52 Topps Mantle could be had for about $14,000 (I think Adrian got his for a BIN of $14.1).

Ah, those were the good ol' days.... :)

Adrian paid 12 and change. He offered it to me for 9 and change LOL.

He loses money on every deal but makes up for it in volume.

Good one.

This reminds me of a joke; Two farmers buy hay for $2 a bushel and take it to market to sell for $1 a bushel. They cannot figure out why they are losing money. After hours of debate, finally one of them speaks up, "I got it. What we need is a bigger truck" :)

We have a phrase in the music industry, though less prevalent with the decline in physical product these days....a spectacular flop would ship gold, but return platinum.

Who are the Bruces and why are you all RIPing them?

Bruce Dorskind was a former member who had a knack for referring to himself in the plural all of the time. He had an incredible collection but was controversial for numerous reasons in the way he interacted with others here. He passed away a few years ago.

Oh, that's a shame. :-/

Don't know if I want to ask for links to some of these threads or not, sounds like a rabbit hole down which I could lose a day or two.

Scott, check out the thread "1938 Goudey Proof". The fun starts around post #50.

Or search any thread started by Zone91.

I spent a good three hours yesterday reading Zone91 threads. Not how I envisioned spending a good chunk of my Sunday, but I couldn't stop. I went from being amused, to horrified, to sympathetic to disgusted. What a piece of work.

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All totalled I wonder how many hours this board has cost our members from reading old threads? For me it's thousands of hours......15 Years of nuggets.


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Reminds me of the old joke about the Lone Ranger and Tonto surrounded by hostile Indians. The Lone Ranger says "I guess we're really in trouble now" and Tonto says "What's this 'we' $h** white man?"

The Brucii had moments of utter insanity mixed with an extreme internet troll persona. He threatened to sue "Archive" for plagiarizing one of his posts and once wished me dead because I did a parody of William Shatner's SNL outburst about Trekkies who need to get a life, with him as the basement-dwelling virgin (see my tag line below). Mike O'Keefe even did an article in the NY Daily News about the craziness he pulled here.

Sometimes it's best not to know, or even think about.