My card shop adv...does Stephen Hawking collect cards?

buddyholly

Hello all,

I haven't stepped foot in a card shop since 1991. I am building a '55 Topps collection and also needed some graded card sleeves, so figured I'd support a local business and see the current state of the local scene. I live in KY and picked one of maybe four local card shops...

Upon entering, everything seemed normal enough...young kid plowing through some bargain bins...old man on crutches jawing with the owner. Granted, I'm in my 30s and am not a luddite or Ted Kazinski (sp?), but really do not understand today's cards. So bear with me as I try to describe what happens next from my perspective...

The old timer is opening some Chrome Metal X Turbo Refractor Cards and tells the owner that he just landed a Ryan Howard Parallel Universe Sanforized LED Chromatic Spectrometer Hybrid Sonographic Limited Edition card....hmmm and it is 237 of 555.

I tried to catch a glimpse of his card, but apparently it is so rare and desirable it actually exists only in the 5th dimension (in all fairness, the light around his hand did seem a bit distorted) perhaps some temporal worm hole had opened...

He was able to insert his hand into some sort of plasticized air lock, thus, capturing the card in all it's 5th dimension Quasar Mint glory and mentioned having the get to a dry cleaner's with it as soon as possible...

I bought my sleeves and a card box (they were the only two items I could understand and identify). I am currently at home re-reading "A Brief History of Time" and boning up on my string theory and quantum physics in the hopes that maybe in the future I can buy a modern pack of cards.

I'm just not sure Spook Jacobs would have wanted it this way...

My best to you and happy collecting,

Shawn

goose3

QUITCRAB

That was really funny-I dont understand the new stuff either....I find it weird when the new stuff (brooks robinsoncard) is numbered like 5/500...and they feel that should bring a premium brcause Brooks was #5...Crazy!

gregmo32

Has anyone ever seen the Stephen Hawking action figure from the "Simpsons" line?

SDSportsFan

Very good Buddy, and



Steve

milbroco

What a phoney..........I have that insert numbered # 237 of that Howard card! I have it in a lead box for protection.

RedRomad275

That was very funny. I don't want to say I understand modern cards as I'm in my late 30's but I do have a vague grasp. To me all that would be frustrating to collect and/or understand.


Red

ArnyVee

#237?!!!

I have numbers 236 AND 238....I must find that one so that the time capsule will finally open up and my dreams of world domination will finally come true! ::Enter Evil Scientist Laugh Here:: BWAHAHAHA!!

djspann

I'm not into modern cards either, but "A Brief History of Time" is a good book.

But, if you get a wormhole with one of those new rare cards, I might have to start buying packs.


Doug

BugOnTheRug

Any cards you find with black holes in the middle were produced by Steven Hawkings. The most valuable are the ones where the whole card is a black hole.