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Posted By: leon
Hey Folks, |
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Posted By: leon
and I realize that a safe...like where I keep my cards IS a noun.....so none of that wisecracking....and "every time" is 2 words.....later |
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Posted By: Hankron
Perhaps safes and birds were the premiums. |
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Posted By: Hankron
Personally, I'm shocked that SGC doesn't have a second grade for grammar, spelling and narrative consistancy. However, this would mean that few no 1981 Fleer could grade above a Fair. |
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Posted By: Hankron
I can hear the future board debates: |
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Posted By: Bob Luce
"You're safe" seems to make grammatical sense. I would say the real mistake is that the cards read "your" instead of "you're". |
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Posted By: Julie
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Posted By: Hankron
Bob, I wasn't being serious. I don't even know what "Have a cuckoo!" means. Perhaps that's what Connie Mack had when someone accidentally sat on hat. |
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Posted By: leon
Thanks for joining our happy little forum. That is exactly what I meant by this thread. Without the apostrophe it looks like the cards are saying "you are a safe" etc, when it should obviously be "you're safe"....take care |
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Posted By: runscott
(provided I knew there was no apostrophe in the word they were saying, which would be improbable) |
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Posted By: TBob
was an art form for little pieces of cardboard which were given out to kids who bought candy in the early 1900's. If the cards were printed today, they would have said "You're, like, out! Don't Go There. Whassup with a Cuckoo." |
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Posted By: Hankron
I think the baseball card collectors, auction houses and card graders of the world can be confident that it's not supposed to mean "If you eat Close's Chocolates you are a safe." A strange marketing ploy, at best. |
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Posted By: MW
If I were to guess, I'd say that a "cuckoo" is a type of candy or confection produced by the George Close company. Then again, with the previous grammatical error and the oft-confusing early 20th century lexicon, who knows? |
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Posted By: runscott
(Grandpa Simpson) |
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Posted By: warshawlaw
SGC listed this item exactly as it should be listed: the way it is [mis]spelled on the card itself. If the card has a spelling error that is part of the identifying information, it is not the job of the grader to correct it. This comes up quite often with T225 cards, where the Khedivial company for some silly reason misspelled its own name as "Khedival" on a lot of cards, and with the T226 Red Sun "Puglistic" Subjects. In both cases, the correct designation on the holder is the designation on the card itself. I suppose that the grader could use [sic] to indicate he is aware of the error and is replicating it on purpose, but what is the point of that on a card holder? |
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Posted By: leon
You corrected me for something I didn't say. Go back and re-read my first post. Where does it say that I am talking about SGC? I am talking about the back of the cards. I agree that grading companies SHOULD put exactly what is on the card and sometimes they put the correction too, which is ok by me. I think Bob might have thought I was implying something about SGC too. I wasn't. With all due respect to the best grading company I like my cards more than their slabs.....later (I, or someone, will start a thread but how 'bout them auction prices!!) |
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