So far it's mostly a private and free-lance element of the Great British Paranoia Faire, but where the luxury hotels lead, dare Parliament and No. 10 Downing fail to follow?
(Thanks to my buddy John in the GMA who is an expert.)
Jan 25, 2010
Quote of the day
Big auction. Tools, guns, everything, even boxes of parachutes.
It seems like tons of the stuff sell for new price plus a little. Couple-three of us make the usual noises about half the world being dumbbutts who don't have the slightest idea of what they're doing.
Ken shakes his head. "This explains how Obama got in."
Jan 24, 2010
Birthday
You might want to swing over to Tam's place and wish her a happy birthday. If you're close enough you might even try to catch up with her and offer hot chocolate or a mask and snorkel set.
Happy birthday, Tam.
The gunny book business
I went shopping at www.gunbroker.com and searched "books." The engine returned a three-page list of 109 separate books or lots of books. The total number of bids is zero. I find that disheartening. As a hobby group are we really that anti-literate?
But one entry tickled me, a partial (13 out of 16) set of one of the several "complete" (sic) editions of Theodore Roosevelt's writings. One of the volumes was author-signed. Opening bid was $99,999.99, modified by a not astounding offer to accept land or a nice motor home in full or partial trade. Maybe even high quality doubles.
It was probably mean of me to poke around in a bibliographic database and discover another seller opinion that the complete set was worth $600. No volume was signed, but I tend to doubt the old Rough Rider's signature is valued at a hair over $99,000.
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