Re: Wallace Nutting

In rec.antiques  T-13 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>
>>I'm surprised eBay hasn't produced their own price guide format  - "The
>>Big eBay Price Guide to Everything Yearbook" -  
>----

>I hope they aren't listening. Jeez, they'd DO it if they ever thought
>about it. 
>

Mmmmm, BINGO!! our quick fix to that million bucks T. In your case your
first million, in my case, my second million. We'll float it on the Dow
Jones first thing in the morning and hire old Marshall as the editor in
charge. Nah!! forget that!! Marshall is too honest.


>Perhaps one day in the not too distant future there
>will be a gigantic data base that does indeed list the "price" 
>of all things collectable. 
>

Yea, 'The Flying Pig' database.


>
>In the end everything on Earth will have a price -
>Granny's crap maple furniture, used condoms, a pat on the
>back, the memory of sunlight reflected off the hubcaps
>of a shiny new car that passed by you one day when you
>were a kid - all of it will have an easily ascertainable
>value.
>

Now that's pushing US imperialism just a tad too far, old boy.


>We will all be slaves to the values we receive from our betters,
>those who control the data base, because we are unwilling to
>ascribe value on our own. We are unsure and lazy. We want
>the official word on things. 


Geez!! .... just pass the ice-cream around and then we'll all leap off
this cliff together.





***NB: don't forget you bastards at eBay I thought of it first***






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Ronnie