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Posted By: <b>leon</b><p>You dream about a snipe on an E221 Bishops on ebay......<br /><br />You think of what you can sell to finance your next card purchase.....<br /><br /><br />anyone else....????<br /><br /><br /><br />You know you are addicted when ......
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Posted By: <b>Dave F</b><p>you like the "nicer" cards...so you only have 5 left in your collection and you have to sell one of them each time you purchase another high dollar card...<img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14>
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Posted By: <b>Corey R. Shanus</b><p>you're reading this Board instead of focusing on your job
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Posted By: <b>Eric B</b><p>..you don't have a job, you cashed out your 401k to pay the bills, but you still keep bidding on items. But your wife doesn't know since you are home getting the mail.<br /><br />
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Posted By: <b>Jerry</b><p>When your whole day revolves around waiting on the mailman. <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Typing revolves made me think of the Beatles Revolver album, Great Album
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Posted By: <b>Steve Murray</b><p>You have 29 keyword searches that you check every day on ebay.<br /><br />You call the mortgage company that holds your HELOC to see if you can get a credit increase so you can buy more cards.<br /><br />You lull yourself to sleep at night not counting sheep but reliving in great detail the "Find" of a lifetime you imagined you made this weekend at that obscure antique shop.<br /><br />And this one is for real: You drive six hours just to go to a card show.<br /><br />Edit: And that's only to get there.
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Posted By: <b>Jeff Prizner</b><p>you're reading your company reports and you notice many of the copied pages are slightly off-centered.
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Posted By: <b>Dan Bretta</b><p>You're selling items you said you'd never get rid of to purchase a "once in a lifetime" item.<br /><br />Heh! That's what I'm doing right now. <img src="/images/wink.gif" height=14 width=14>
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Posted By: <b>Neal</b><p>TOTALLY ADDICETD!!!<br /><br />All of the above so true, constantly on this site throughout the day instead of working. Looking on Ebay,waiting for mailman,who just came with a few cards and a few MOs,etc,etc,etc.<br /><br />
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Posted By: <b>pstratt</b><p>...you're out to dinner with a woman and she's saying something, but all you hear is "blah, blah, blah" because you're wishing you would have set your snipe higher.
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Posted By: <b>Dave F</b><p>You'd rather see Cap Anson in a corset and thong then your wife...<img src="/images/sad.gif" height=14 width=14><br /><br />ok..yes, that was taking it too far.
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Posted By: <b>Al Simeone</b><p>You auction off a large piece of your collection<br />and then buy one of the items back!!!!<br />TRUE STORY!!
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Posted By: <b>peter chao</b><p>When you spend your days and nights arguing about whether the T206 Wagner was cut from the sheet or whether it was trimmed later on. Then you further speculate as to whether PSA knew the Wagner was trimmed when it was graded an 8.<br /><br />Peter C.
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Posted By: <b>cmoking</b><p>...you wonder if it is ethical to cut off the edges of your bread when making a sandwich.
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Posted By: <b>Jeff Prizner</b><p>when you eagerly await what Peter Chao will type next.
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Posted By: <b>leon</b><p>I knew there would be some great comments and yours is certainly one of them......I always share the joke about the graders drinking with us after each day at the National. We hold up each beer bottle and inspect it as you do a card....You really have to be there but it's pretty funny....
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Posted By: <b>Steve Murray</b><p>That is the best one so far. <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14> <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14> <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14>
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Posted By: <b>Steve</b><p><img src="http://www.network54.com/Realm/tmp/1189451943.JPG"> <br /><br /><br />
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Posted By: <b>Jay</b><p>You're starting to think that Bo Derek was really a 6 before restoration. Well, maybe that was not that far fetched.
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Posted By: <b>barrysloate</b><p>I'm not addicted, but at least I am getting a chuckle out of this thread. <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14>
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Posted By: <b>Dave F</b><p>Barry...at least I went with Cap Anson instead of you in a pair of thongs <img src="/images/sad.gif" height=14 width=14>
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Posted By: <b>barrysloate</b><p>I wish I had a clever retort, but I don't! <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14>
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Posted By: <b>peter chao</b><p>The other sign of addiction is when you have to remind yourself that your not addicted.<br /><br />Come on guys give me a break, my posts aren't that earth-shaking. <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14><br /><br />Peter C.
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Posted By: <b>Dave F</b><p>Peter C...<br />Each weekend in the fall, I go to downtown atlanta when georgia tech has home football games...usually, it will involved 6-8 hours of tailgating, then walking 2-3 miles to the stadium...now, while i'm down there its pretty much a given I'll have 5-10 down on their luck homeless gentlemen come up to me and say some pretty strange stuff....your statements Peter ARE more earth-shattering...<img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14>
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Posted By: <b>Jason L</b><p>why do you park 2-3 miles away from the stadium?<br /><br />might as well leave the car at home...at some point during that, I would probably go back home and watch it on tv...
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Posted By: <b>Jason L</b><p>I can stop whenever I want to<br /><br />-and that's EXACTLY what I told that group of friends and family that came over on Saturday night for an intervention!<br /><br /><br />
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Posted By: <b>barrysloate</b><p>Jason- I used to be an addict like you guys but I kicked the habit years ago.<br /><br />Today I'm clean and sober. But since I am selling product to all you other addicts aren't I kind of the pusherman?
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Posted By: <b>Dave F</b><p>Jason...not too steer this too far off topic, but Georgia Tech is about the worst campus in the country to try to do anything on....parking on campus is limited...and its just easier to tailgate at the spot we have off campus...plus we just pay $20 to park there instead of $40..but yes, there are times when I definately wish I stayed home....<img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14>
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Posted By: <b>John S</b><p>...you start a side business (three summers ago) to finance your habit.
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Posted By: <b>DD</b><p>Every vacation includes the obligatory search for card/antique stores, including Malaysia and Aruba, just in case an ex-pat opened a store there.
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Posted By: <b>Jason L</b><p>I've never been there, but that sounded like an awfully long hike!<br /><br />how are you ever expected to make it back to your car with that long of a walk after that many beers?! <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14><br />If you head off in the wrong direction from the start, you could wind up 5 or 6 miles from your car before you get it straightened out!!!<br /><br />
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Posted By: <b>Joseph</b><p>...the cards are part of the pre-nup.
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Posted By: <b>Paul</b><p>Your watching the movie 10 with Bo Derek, but you'd rather have an SGC10 of a card you need for your set.
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Posted By: <b>Shane Leonard</b><p>You interrupt a very important phone conversation with a client and ask your assistant if the person that just came through the door is the mailman.<br /><br />
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Posted By: <b>Bob Pomilla</b><p>As you scroll through these posts, you keep nodding your head in sympathy.
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Posted By: <b>Bill</b><p>You're one week away from a 15 month deployment and you're trying to figure out what big card you're going to buy with the extra money from the deployment when you get back.<br><br>Change your socks, drink water, and drive on.
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Posted By: <b>Chris Mc</b><p> When your New Years resolution is to complete a set before starting another and January 2 your resolution is broken.
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Posted By: <b>Dave Haas</b><p>When you're out in the garage wearing eye protection while you crack slabs to resubmit to another grading company. If only it was a 7!!!
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Posted By: <b>Joe D.</b><p>you shut your computer down for the evening and head to bed....<br />on the way to the bedroom you check the site using your cell phone<br />"just in case".<br /><br /><br />
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Posted By: <b>Matt E.</b><p>you make the effort to attend a card show with less than 10 tables and one guy has 4 of them.
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Posted By: <b>Jason L</b><p>I'd say you can afford to be addicted if you have a big enough house that you have enough time to check your cellphone while walking from your PC to your bedroom...<br /><img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14>
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Posted By: <b>MikeB</b><p>You spend money on any thing else(ie: groceries, vacation, gas for the car,etc) and<br />then think how many cards you could have bought instead.
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Posted By: <b>Tony Andrea</b><p>your wife thinks you love cards more than her, so you agree to go out<br />to a nice dinner with her to bond only to find yourself asking to use her <br />Blackberry phone minutes into the date to see if you won the snipes you set <br />before you left. "DOHHHH!!! <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14><br /><p>Tony<br /><br />
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Posted By: <b>Randy Trierweiler</b><p>You silently get mad at your wife for wasting money on things like food and clothing.
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Posted By: <b>E, Daniel</b><p>you think you can accurately grade most things in life, from the Saturday roast - to sex with your wife - to your 4 year old's pre-school art project.<br /><br /><br />Daniel<br /><br /><br />
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Posted By: <b>barry arnold</b><p>...when you're 56 years old, sitting on a hard chair at your laptop because<br />your desktop quit, eagerly checking N54 FIRST and probably ONLY.<br /><br />great fun Leon et al.<br /><br />all the best,<br />barry
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Posted By: <b>Dave F</b><p>he has so much money tied up in cards he is having to sit at a hard chair in front of his laptop because he didn't have any money left over for a new desktop <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14>
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Posted By: <b>Jason L</b><p>you know Barry Arnold is addicted because when using a laptop, he doesn't even take time to MOVE to a comfy spot because he's got to get online FAST!!!<br /><img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14>
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Posted By: <b>Kenneth A. Cohen</b><p>.... I took a trip to Italy with my kids and told them to keep an eye out for a Julius Caesar rookie card.
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Posted By: <b>boxingcardman</b><p>go to Cleveland for the National than to a resort with a woman.
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