morality of collecting????

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ORANGE
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Why bother! Morality didn't exist then and it doesn't exist now!
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  • itzagoner
    itzagoner Posts: 8,753 ✭✭
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    i think i bit my tongue
  • stown
    stown Posts: 11,321 ✭✭✭
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    << <i>What is with this moral trip that people are on about the collecting. >>





    << <i>I have one of the ultimate collections around >>



    : rolls eyes :
    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
  • bluemarlin
    bluemarlin Posts: 627 ✭✭✭
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    " I have one of the ultimate collections around"

    Well arent you special.
  • gumbyfan
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    << <i>I have one of the ultimate collections around >>



    You must be proud.
  • 2dueces
    2dueces Posts: 6,870 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    " I have one of the ultimate collections around"

    Errrrrr. I don't think so. Take a good look at that statement and re think it.
    And then edit it out and then take a look at about 100 top collections
    and see were your 80's and 90's collection stands. Just last week one
    ultimate collection came available for sale in Mastro's. Estimates are that it
    will sell for 7 figures.
    W.C.Fields
    "I spent 50% of my money on alcohol, women, and gambling. The other half I wasted.
  • pandrews
    pandrews Posts: 7,606 ✭✭✭
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    my collection is way more ultimate than your collection..
    ·p_A·
  • pandrews
    pandrews Posts: 7,606 ✭✭✭
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    my collections is on the roids..
    ·p_A·
  • lawnmowerman
    lawnmowerman Posts: 19,477 ✭✭✭✭
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    << <i>morality of collecting???? >>



    The use of the multiple question mark really bugs me. I can understand if people use it joking or just playing around but used in this manner to express anger bothers me to no end.

    I can just see you kicking the wall as you bite your fist with rage image

    After the topic all I see is imageimageimage

    ...expect for this hilarious statement



    << <i>don't understand your problem with Barry Bonds either >>



    I dont have problem with him. He is the best chemically enhanced *asterisk* hitting homerun king to be ever!

    1994 Pro Line Live

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  • drewsef
    drewsef Posts: 1,894 ✭✭
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    you know what they say about those guys that brag about what they got image
  • jmbkb4
    jmbkb4 Posts: 2,963
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    Is this what a stream of consciousness is like?
  • itzagoner
    itzagoner Posts: 8,753 ✭✭
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    is it too early to start posting girlie pics to this thread????
  • ORANGE
    ORANGE Posts: 136
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    not if the girlies are hot
    ORANGE
  • pandrews
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    << <i>my collections is on the roids.. >>



    but it has a small penis.. image
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  • nearmint
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    If the cards are in alphabetical order of star players, where do the other players go?
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  • ORANGE
    ORANGE Posts: 136
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    See that's the thing 80s and 90s cards are worth dick so who cards are worth money forties fifties sixties SEVENTIES??????? Now this lottery thing I think I get...
    ORANGE
  • nearmint
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    << <i>See that's the thing 80s and 90s cards are worth dick so who cards are worth money forties fifties sixties SEVENTIES??????? Now this lottery thing I think I get... >>



    Exactly what I was thinking.
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  • Downtown1974
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    << <i>my collection is way more ultimate than your collection.. >>



    You are correct, my collection sucks! I am spitting on it right now! image
    BTW Perry, when can you choose your title?
  • itzagoner
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    i'm kinda hesitant to post girlie pics with the poofing and all, but i did wanna show off a couple pics of my collection, so here goes:

    image
    this is a pic of my collection in its infancy stage, there's not really much to tell about it, the pic is self-explanatory.....i was very proud, though



    image
    and here's a pic of my collection in the later stages of development, as you can see it takes some pretty strong guys to help me carry it around


    well, that's all for now, i just wanted to let you know that my collection is pretty much like everyone else's collection, and it's a beautiful world!
  • blaze42
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    Actually my collection kicks his collection for sure
    image
  • stown
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    << <i>See that's the thing 80s and 90s cards are worth dick so who cards are worth money forties fifties sixties SEVENTIES??????? Now this lottery thing I think I get... >>



    You took the words right out of my mouth.



    << <i>Actually my collection kicks his collection for sure
    image >>



    Aggie, huh?

    I'm sorry 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
  • Jdurg
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    My collection kicks everyone's butt because the stuff I have in my collection is stuff I want, not stuff that some "expert" says I should collect or what $$$$ tells me I should collect. If I buy it, it's because I want it to be a part of my collection and that's it.

    In regards to how collecting has changed, back when I was a kid you bought packs so that you could get a complete set. You wanted to have one of every card that the company produced that year. Some of those cards would be valuable at that time, yes that's a given, however back then you didn't buy a pack hoping to get some ultra uber-rare card that you could immediately sell and make money off of. Now a days, people buy packs not because they want to complete a set, but because they want these ultra short printed variations and other "one of a kind" type cards that they can immediately sell and make money off of. The problem is that collecting really isn't for collecting anymore. It's for turning a big profit and that is really kind of sad.

    (Please note that not EVERYBODY collects for the lottery aspect of it. There are still those of us who collect for the sake of collecting. It's just that this lottery mentality has made the price of collecting skyrocket and if you are a one-player type collector who wants one of every card made for a certain player, you lose. You CAN NOT complete those collections, EVER. That's just how it is today in the 1/1 madness. Let's see somebody get the 1/1 platinum, the four 1/1 printing plates, the copper and gold variations as well as the first edition variation and the red and white backed cards for 2007 Topps for any player in that set. You just can't do it).
    I collect the elements on the periodic table, and some coins. I have a complete Roosevelt set, and am putting together a set of coins from 1880.
  • ORANGE
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    Doesn't make any difference. The sport was the same. The Pucketts and Dimaggios are always there. The Problem with Barry Sanders? He QUIT too damn soon. I don't collect people. I collect cards. then give them to people who like sports.. call me dumb if you don't wanna give stuff away there's a giant tub at the salvation army.....all in rubber bands
    ORANGE
  • Downtown1974
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    JDurg, Your post sums it up. Well said!! You are right, your collection kicks butt.
  • ORANGE
    ORANGE Posts: 136
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    By the way have you got some xtra mendelevium?

    My author icon is way more radioactive than yoursimage
    ORANGE
  • ORANGE
    ORANGE Posts: 136
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    I'll trade you a 1/1 collectors plate of Sammy Sosa AND a superfractor of Mark McGwire for a microgram of 258md. This stuff with half-lifes how do you keep that stuff? Do you think the FBI is watching you because of your hobby? I know I do.
    ORANGE
  • pandrews
    pandrews Posts: 7,606 ✭✭✭
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    you must not know bout me
    you must not know bout me
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  • tennesseebanker
    tennesseebanker Posts: 5,434 ✭✭✭
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    image
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  • pandrews
    pandrews Posts: 7,606 ✭✭✭
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    +1 for that chick..
    ·p_A·
  • SoFLPhillyFan
    SoFLPhillyFan Posts: 3,931 ✭✭
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    So if I put all of my cards in order will it be "most ultimate?"
  • SoFLPhillyFan
    SoFLPhillyFan Posts: 3,931 ✭✭
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    Now showing...most ultimate erection.



    << <i>image >>

  • ctsoxfan
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    Thank you for saving the thread tennesseebanker - I was really wondering what the hell I was reading it for, until that post.
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  • pandrews
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    << <i>Thank you for saving the thread tennesseebanker - I was really wondering what the hell I was reading it for, until that post. >>



    she is the morality of collecting..
    ·p_A·
  • ORANGE
    ORANGE Posts: 136
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    she aint the only girl in the world..

    image
    ORANGE
  • Southerncards
    Southerncards Posts: 1,384 ✭✭
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    my ultimate collection can kick your ultimate collection's ass! Collectively speaking that is!


    now sir, please step off the soap box and remember to take your meds
  • Jdurg
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    << <i>I'll trade you a 1/1 collectors plate of Sammy Sosa AND a superfractor of Mark McGwire for a microgram of 258md. This stuff with half-lifes how do you keep that stuff? Do you think the FBI is watching you because of your hobby? I know I do. >>



    The FBI can watch me all they want. I have nothing that is illegal to own and I am not breaking any laws. The only people who worry about the FBI and/or the police are those who ARE doing illegal things. If you aren't breaking the law there is nothing to worry about.

    As for short half-live samples, they are either represented by a photo of the place/person the element was named after, or by a sample of raw ore/debris from locals around the world that would have one or two atoms of the element at any given time. In reality, those are just parts of the collection that nobody can complete.
    I collect the elements on the periodic table, and some coins. I have a complete Roosevelt set, and am putting together a set of coins from 1880.
  • tennesseebanker
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  • mreuter
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    Maybe it's the sinus medicine I am taking but I have been totally lost in this thread, but those pictures, now that's something I understand.
  • pandrews
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    << <i>image >>



    i noticed a couple.. image
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  • itzagoner
    itzagoner Posts: 8,753 ✭✭
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    << <i>image >>



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  • theczar
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    My collection would be a lot more valuable if I could get it in alphabetical order. My problem is that somewhere along the J's or K's I get confused and the whole project falls apart.
  • SoFLPhillyFan
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    moose knuckle n. a (prominent) pudendum; the appearance of the (male or female) sex organs in tight clothing.

    pudendum

    heh

  • ORANGE
    ORANGE Posts: 136
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    << <i>As for short half-live samples, they are either represented by a photo of the place/person the element was named after, or by a sample of raw ore/debris from locals around the world that would have one or two atoms of the element at any given time. In reality, those are just parts of the collection that nobody can complete. >>



    AAAWW, I can't do it because they emit radioactive particles.....image
    AAAWW, I can't do it because there is only one in existence.... image

    "This country wasn't built on 'can'ts'"
    ORANGE
  • storm888
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    image orange
    Folks Who Bite Get Bitten. Folks Who Don't Bite Get Eaten.
  • Jdurg
    Jdurg Posts: 997 ✭
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    << <i>

    << <i>As for short half-live samples, they are either represented by a photo of the place/person the element was named after, or by a sample of raw ore/debris from locals around the world that would have one or two atoms of the element at any given time. In reality, those are just parts of the collection that nobody can complete. >>



    AAAWW, I can't do it because they emit radioactive particles.....image
    AAAWW, I can't do it because there is only one in existence.... image

    "This country wasn't built on 'can'ts'" >>



    There's a HUGE difference between only having ONE in existance (Such as the 1/1s which are becoming popular now for some reason) and the elements like Mendelevium, Nobelium, Ununhexium, etc. in which in the time it takes to extract the one or two atoms which do exist for that element they have long since decayed. I do have in my possesion a sample of EVERY SINGLE ELEMENT which you can LEGALLY own. The only reason I don't have certain elements such as plutonium or protactinium is that it would be against the law for me to possess them.
    I collect the elements on the periodic table, and some coins. I have a complete Roosevelt set, and am putting together a set of coins from 1880.
  • perkdog
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    << <i>she aint the only girl in the world..

    image >>





    Nice Camel........image
  • Jdurg
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    Ahhhh. I think I win the "took ya long enough" award for the day. image I had no idea what animal it was in all those pictures in this thread, but now I know that it is a camel's leg. image
    I collect the elements on the periodic table, and some coins. I have a complete Roosevelt set, and am putting together a set of coins from 1880.
  • theczar
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    but now I know that it is a camel's leg.

    not the whole leg, just the toe!
  • perkdog
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  • CDsNuts
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    I had 4 threads that got poofed yesterday because they were too stupid, but this one's allowed to stay? Wow.

    Lee

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