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WOW!! This is rivaling coins!! COOLimage

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    SciotoScioto Posts: 955 ✭
    And another has some fun:

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    Jeter Topps card has Mantle, Bush in background

    NEW YORK (AP) -- As President Bush smiled and waved from the stands and Mickey Mantle looked on from the dugout, Derek Jeter swung his bat. Talk about pressure.

    The game never happened, though. It was just someone's idea of a visual gag -- pulled off in a recent Topps baseball card through digital manipulation.

    "Somewhere in between the final proofing and its printing, someone at our company -- and we won't name names -- thought it would be funny to put in Bush and Mantle," said Clay Luraschi, a spokesman for Topps in Tuesday's edition of the Daily News.

    The president's image is superimposed on the picture, while whoever played the trick took some time blending Mantle into the background of Jeter's card, No. 40 in the set.

    Luraschi said that the gag was discovered during proofing of the card, but that it was already in the set. "We couldn't do anything but laugh," he said.

    It's not the first card to have silly errors or odd prints, said T.S. O'Connell, the editor of Sports Collector's Digest. "For collectors, there's a real giggle factor for something like this," he said.

    The Jeter card could join other famed oddball cards, like the 1969 Topps of Aurelio Rodriguez. That card featured a photo of a bat boy instead of the infielder.

    Another collector said the joke would raise the price of the card, which currently goes for $2 on eBay.

    Jeter told the News said he didn't know anything about the card. A White House spokesman declined to comment.

    Luraschi said he doesn't know whether the card would be corrected in the future.



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    VolverVolver Posts: 753
    In the main forum both these topics have their own threads going
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    SciotoScioto Posts: 955 ✭


    << <i>In the main forum both these topics have their own threads going >>



    I'm a coinee and only post here to annoy those who dislike NASCAR. image
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    VolverVolver Posts: 753
    I see...NASCAR fan, eh?
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    SciotoScioto Posts: 955 ✭


    << <i>I see...NASCAR fan, eh? >>



    Yep... Canadian, eh?
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    gosteelersgosteelers Posts: 2,668 ✭✭✭
    NASCAR sucks...
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    SciotoScioto Posts: 955 ✭


    << <i>NASCAR sucks... >>



    AND

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    stevekstevek Posts: 27,755 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I've heard rumors there's gonna be a Mini-Cooper race car circuit happening soon.
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    SciotoScioto Posts: 955 ✭


    << <i>I've heard rumors there's gonna be a Mini-Cooper race car circuit happening soon. >>



    It's already here!
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    stevekstevek Posts: 27,755 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>I've heard rumors there's gonna be a Mini-Cooper race car circuit happening soon. >>



    It's already here! >>




    Almost unbelievable. LOL

    Wonder if our banned buddy Axtell has an entry? image
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    stownstown Posts: 11,321 ✭✭✭


    << <i>

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    << <i>I've heard rumors there's gonna be a Mini-Cooper race car circuit happening soon. >>



    It's already here! >>




    Almost unbelievable. LOL

    Wonder if our banned buddy Axtell has an entry? image >>



    I found one of the judges:

    image

    DISCLAIMER

    This is a completely random picture I found of some guy, who probably bats for the other team (not that there's anything wrong with that), with man boobs, and posing in front of a mini-cooper. If the above person actually is a current/former member of this forum, it's a complete coincidence. Since said person has waived their rights to privacy by posting this picture without any restrictions, the author of this post takes no responsibility of what happens to said picture.
    So basically my kid won't be able to go to college, but at least I'll have a set where the three most expensive cards are of a player I despise ~ CDsNuts
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    VolverVolver Posts: 753
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    perkdogperkdog Posts: 29,521 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    kcballboykcballboy Posts: 1,405 ✭✭✭
    And there's even another one in the parking stall behind his man boobs. Musta been a convention.
    Travis
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    stownstown Posts: 11,321 ✭✭✭
    Perhaps some claims of him really being a her are true image

    Hypothetically speaking, of course...........
    So basically my kid won't be able to go to college, but at least I'll have a set where the three most expensive cards are of a player I despise ~ CDsNuts
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    stevekstevek Posts: 27,755 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>

    << <i>

    << <i>I've heard rumors there's gonna be a Mini-Cooper race car circuit happening soon. >>



    It's already here! >>




    Almost unbelievable. LOL

    Wonder if our banned buddy Axtell has an entry? image >>



    I found one of the judges:

    image

    DISCLAIMER

    This is a completely random picture I found of some guy, who probably bats for the other team (not that there's anything wrong with that), with man boobs, and posing in front of a mini-cooper. If the above person actually is a current/former member of this forum, it's a complete coincidence. Since said person has waived their rights to privacy by posting this picture without any restrictions, the author of this post takes no responsibility of what happens to said picture. >>



    That pic is just plain funny! LOL



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    stevekstevek Posts: 27,755 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>

    << <i>

    << <i>

    << <i>I've heard rumors there's gonna be a Mini-Cooper race car circuit happening soon. >>



    It's already here! >>




    Almost unbelievable. LOL

    Wonder if our banned buddy Axtell has an entry? image >>



    I found one of the judges:

    image

    DISCLAIMER

    This is a completely random picture I found of some guy, who probably bats for the other team (not that there's anything wrong with that), with man boobs, and posing in front of a mini-cooper. If the above person actually is a current/former member of this forum, it's a complete coincidence. Since said person has waived their rights to privacy by posting this picture without any restrictions, the author of this post takes no responsibility of what happens to said picture. >>



    That pic is just plain funny! LOL



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    Heck - a LOL isn't good enough.

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    perkdogperkdog Posts: 29,521 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yea I will throw another LOL out there as well, and I never really butted heads with him either....image
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    stevekstevek Posts: 27,755 ✭✭✭✭✭
    And what helps make the pic funny is he seems so proud of it - like it's a brand new Corvette or something. If I owned a Mini-Cooper, I would only drive it on moonless nights down dark streets so as to try as best as possible not to be seen in it! image
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    perkdogperkdog Posts: 29,521 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Kinda like a "moped" fun to drive as long as your buddies dont see you ( you know what I mean imageimage ) image
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    pandrewspandrews Posts: 7,598 ✭✭✭
    is that really axtell? her left titty is bigger than her right..
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    kobykoby Posts: 1,699 ✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>

    << <i>

    << <i>I've heard rumors there's gonna be a Mini-Cooper race car circuit happening soon. >>



    It's already here! >>




    Almost unbelievable. LOL

    Wonder if our banned buddy Axtell has an entry? image >>



    I found one of the judges:

    image
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    This guy with the man boobs is Axtell??? Holy crap! What an embarrassing picture.
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    stownstown Posts: 11,321 ✭✭✭
    I cannot say with 100% accuracy that it is nor is not. It may not be but then again, it may..

    All I know is that it's some dude, with man boobs, proudly standing in front of his mini-cooper.

    PS - I'm also positive that picture was not taken by a crappy camera phone image
    So basically my kid won't be able to go to college, but at least I'll have a set where the three most expensive cards are of a player I despise ~ CDsNuts
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    grote15grote15 Posts: 29,531 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Nah....nevermind...


    Collecting 1970s Topps baseball wax, rack and cello packs, as well as PCGS graded Half Cents, Large Cents, Two Cent pieces and Three Cent Silver pieces.
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    stevekstevek Posts: 27,755 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Nah....nevermind... >>




    But it was the anti-axtell thought that counted. image
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