Allow me to share, and contribute. :)

[FrankWakefield]

Rob D, I admit to liking that avatar... not trying to provoke you into changing it. Hope you keep it!!

[Al C.risafulli]

this forum was originally supposed to be about Vintage cards.

You're absolutely correct, Joe. Which is why I expected more from YOU.

One of the cool things about the new Net54 forum is that it's very easy to search the posts of any specific member of this forum. Just the click of a button, really.

So, without further ado, allow me to summarize the content of your last 25 posts on this board.

1) A response mentioning the healthcare and unemployment problem.
2) A post about Coventry, and your time with the airlines.
3) A stab at me, and something to do with crossovers and searching or something.
4) A stab at someone else, about Little League.
5) A stab at Matt about Cleveland, and touching a "slab nerve."
6) Another stab at Rob, about Little League.
7) An explanation about why this thread initially made no sense when you started it.
8) A post about how vintage slabheads never talk about vintage cards.
9) The beginning post of this nonsensical thread.
10) A post in another thread, referring readers to this one.
11) A post mentioning you're interested in filling open slots in the T210 series (GASP - a card-related post!)
12) A stab at the crook with the Old Mill overprints.
13) A wisecrack about getting a Drum pouch with an Old Mill overprint.
14) A friendly post toward Ted.
15) A post about how you refrained from bidding on a card because the seller insisted on Paypal.
16) Another post about the same topic as #15
17) An insult toward a person flipping cards.
18) A post that I think has something to do with politics or something.
19) A post that seems like an insult directed at somebody, but I can't quite figure it out.
20) A friendly post towards Iggy.
21) A post that seems to be a tongue-in-cheek reference to SGC.
22) A post referring SGC's slabbing of the altered Doyle eight years ago.
23) A post asking if grading companies slab soak jobs
24) Another post asking the same thing
25) A post containing nothing more than an asterisk, ostensibly because you edited your post.

So please, Joe, I ask you in the name of all things card-related: please. PLEASE. Try and refrain from posting about grading and restrict your posts to topics that are related to vintage cards.

Thanks in advance,
-Al

[Tcards-Please]

I'll be back in a minute, I have to get my popcorn

[Rob D.]

In all fairness, Al, Joe's Little League stabs were in responses to posts I made, so maybe those could be excluded from your list.

[Al C.risafulli]

My point, and I apologize to Joe if I was too insulting in the way I tried to make it, was that I'm really tired of hearing people insulting grading, the grading industry, and in this case "crossovers" as if people who have opted to go that route are second-class citizens.

I collect graded cards. I like to think that doesn't make me a second-class citizen as I immerse myself in the sets I collect as much as any raw collector I know (except some of those T206 guys like Ted). Meanwhile Joe, who unquestionably has a wealth of card-related knowledge, is spending an awful lot of time criticizing the nature of other people's posts while he himself is, over his last few dozen posts, averaging about 5% card-related subject matter.

As a parallel, I don't collect PCL stuff. When there's a topic on 54 about Zeenuts or Pacific Coast Biscuits, I just don't read it. I don't find a need to start a thread complaining about it. It's all related to the same hobby.

-Al

[Ladder7]

Slabheads rule you raw card fools!

[Bamacollection]

Net54 has a health care & unemployment problem???? Leon, are you alright????

[Potomac Yank]

Before I start, I want to make sure that T's Please, and anyone else is back in front of their PC with their favorite bowl of popcorn.

Al, as for your post #24, I hope that you're not one of our community lawyers.
That was a lame, and piss poor attempt at a summation for your case.
Looks like you were struggling for some kind of justification.

I believe in giving credit where credit is due.
Rob D, and I for some reason, or another, have been having some kind of a fun mental fencing duel.
As Rob pointed out, and I have to give credit to his fair mindedness, you selected a come back, a parry from our fencing match.
Not only that, but most of your other selections were from other comebacks.
I know you're from somewhere in Jersey, but in NYC, that's unacceptable.
Come on Al, you can do better than that.

Next case.

[Al C.risafulli]

Joe, I didn't "select" anything. I listed out the last 25 posts you have made on this board. They are what they are.

Exactly one of them was about vintage cards, and all that one did was mention that you were looking for T210s.

If you recall, I'm not the one who started this thread to complain about the content of other people's posts. It was you who did that.

My point is simple: if you're going to criticize posts about graded cards, then please add some value. Post about cards and quit whining about what everyone else posts. I don't need to be a NYC lawyer to be able to make a case - I don't even need to make a case. You make it for me.

-Al

[Bicem]

Originally Posted by Potomac Yank

Before I start, I want to make sure that T's Please, and anyone else is back in front of their PC with their favorite bowl of popcorn.

Al, as for your post #24, I hope that you're not one of our community lawyers.
That was a lame, and piss poor attempt at a summation for your case.
Looks like you were struggling for some kind of justification.

I believe in giving credit where credit is due.
Rob D, and I for some reason, or another, have been having some kind of a fun mental fencing duel.
As Rob pointed out, and I have to give credit to his fair mindedness, you selected a come back, a parry from our fencing match.
Not only that, but most of your other selections were from other comebacks.
I know you're from somewhere in Jersey, but in NYC, that's unacceptable.
Come on Al, you can do better than that.

Next case.

[Old Mill Man]

Originally Posted by t's please

i'll be back in a minute, i have to get my popcorn :d

lmao,nice comeback!!!!!!!

[Rob D.]

Originally Posted by FrankWakefield

Rob D, I admit to liking that avatar... not trying to provoke you into changing it. Hope you keep it!!

Until I flip it, Frank, it stays. (I always could replace it with a mug shot of Dick Wakefield.)