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PlacentiaSoccerMom · #1 Post by **PlacentiaSoccerMom** » Fri Apr 11, 2008 8:09 am

I like your new Avatar Dan!

#2 Post by **littlebeast13** » Fri Apr 11, 2008 8:20 am

Uly has a new avatar!?!? Someone alert CNN!!!!

PlacentiaSoccerMom · #3 Post by **PlacentiaSoccerMom** » Fri Apr 11, 2008 8:22 am

littlebeast13 wrote:Uly has a new avatar!?!? Someone alert CNN!!!!

If it's a slow news day, it might be a big story.

peacock2121 · #4 Post by **peacock2121** » Fri Apr 11, 2008 8:26 am

I like lb's new avatar.

Reminds me of my garage.

and of Millie.

ulysses5019 · #5 Post by **ulysses5019** » Fri Apr 11, 2008 8:41 am

This avatar is fresh off the presses. I had it taken last night at an event I was shooting at Dodger Stadium. There was presentation by someone who specializes in sales of memorabilia. He had various presidential signatures including Andrew Jackson's. He also had a baseball signed by Joe Dimaggio and Marilyn Monroe. He explained how they go about obtaining sports star's autographs and authenticating them. He had a particularly funny story about Mickey Mantle. The Oscar I'm holding is one that he can legally sell since it was presented before 1960. Apparently, awardees are not supposed to sell them if they received them after 1960. The one I am holding is for Best Original Screenplay, 1959 for Pillow Talk. I think it cost him $200,000. He had bats used by Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth.
I asked him what piece of memorabilia he would most like to have. He said it would be Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech. I told him that I know the person who has it and that I have seen it too, and even held it. Of course he knows that person too. He said the value of that piece of paper would sell for a minimum of five million.

PlacentiaSoccerMom · #6 Post by **PlacentiaSoccerMom** » Fri Apr 11, 2008 10:34 am

ulysses5019 wrote:This avatar is fresh off the presses. I had it taken last night at an event I was shooting at Dodger Stadium. There was presentation by someone who specializes in sales of memorabilia. He had various presidential signatures including Andrew Jackson's. He also had a baseball signed by Joe Dimaggio and Marilyn Monroe. He explained how they go about obtaining sports star's autographs and authenticating them. He had a particularly funny story about Mickey Mantle. The Oscar I'm holding is one that he can legally sell since it was presented before 1960. Apparently, awardees are not supposed to sell them if they received them after 1960. The one I am holding is for Best Original Screenplay, 1959 for Pillow Talk. I think it cost him $200,000. He had bats used by Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth.
I asked him what piece of memorabilia he would most like to have. He said it would be Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech. I told him that I know the person who has it and that I have seen it too, and even held it. Of course he knows that person too. He said the value of that piece of paper would sell for a minimum of five million.

Very cool!

MarleysGh0st · #7 Post by **MarleysGh0st** » Fri Apr 11, 2008 10:46 am

ulysses5019 wrote:The Oscar I'm holding is one that he can legally sell since it was presented before 1960. Apparently, awardees are not supposed to sell them if they received them after 1960.

So it's not so much an award as a restricted license, detailing what the recipient may and may not do with it?

ulysses5019 · #8 Post by **ulysses5019** » Fri Apr 11, 2008 11:24 am

http://tinyurl.com/42kz8c

PlacentiaSoccerMom · #9 Post by **PlacentiaSoccerMom** » Fri Apr 11, 2008 11:30 am

ulysses5019 wrote:http://tinyurl.com/42kz8c

I wonder if somebody could get around the $1 rule by offering a long term lease to somebody for a post 1950 Oscar.

minimetoo26 · #10 Post by **minimetoo26** » Mon Apr 14, 2008 7:27 am

Deere John,

What's up with the John Deere?

MarleysGh0st · #11 Post by **MarleysGh0st** » Mon Apr 14, 2008 7:48 am

minimetoo26 wrote:Deere John,

What's up with the John Deere?

Sprots googled that image in tribute to his littlebeastness.

viewtopic.php?p=52933

So where have you been, mini? Has another visitor been camping out in the computer room?

#12 Post by **littlebeast13** » Mon Apr 14, 2008 7:52 am

minimetoo26 wrote:Deere John,

What's up with the John Deere?

Can't you tell? It's so me.....

lb13

minimetoo26 · #13 Post by **minimetoo26** » Mon Apr 14, 2008 7:56 am

MarleysGh0st wrote:
minimetoo26 wrote:Deere John,

What's up with the John Deere?
Sprots googled that image in tribute to his littlebeastness.

viewtopic.php?p=52933

So where have you been, mini? Has another visitor been camping out in the computer room?

Yup. Mini-me's First Communion was this weekend.

We have a very similar toy--metal, weighs a ton, but has a wagon trailer on the back rather than spikes on the front. Rain Man got it for Christmas when he was two, and Erin rides it now. It's virtually indestructable.

MinisKidToBeNamedLater · #14 Post by **MinisKidToBeNamedLater** » Mon Apr 14, 2008 8:01 am

minimetoo26 wrote:We have a very similar toy--metal, weighs a ton, but has a wagon trailer on the back rather than spikes on the front. Rain Man got it for Christmas when he was two, and Erin rides it now. It's virtually indestructable.

I'm up to the challenge!