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Old February 22nd 06, 02:43 AM posted to rec.radio.shortwave
 
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Might as well known it would be the notorious red curtain backdrop.
cuhulin

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Old February 22nd 06, 03:04 AM posted to rec.radio.shortwave
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In article ,
"Mark S. Holden" wrote:

MnMikew wrote:
"Telamon" wrote in
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gy.com.. .

In article ,
"Michael Lawson" wrote:


"Telamon" wrote in
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gy.com.. .

In article ,
"IonSpot" wrote:


You gotta check this out....it was bound to happen sooner or

later.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=5870131179

So what happened? The auction was pulled with no other
information

when

I used the link.

It was a spoof of R-M. Instead of overpriced radios (which can be
lemons), the spoofer was auctioning off a real lemon. Had R-M's
spiel down pat.

Was the lemon sitting on a red cloth?

Sounds funny and I'm sorry I missed it.


Yup. Perhaps it got archived somewhere.



I can't keep it up long, but

http://users.adelphia.net/~msholden/radiomartspoof.htm


Thank you very much Mark. This page had me laughing out loud.

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Telamon
Ventura, California
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One night when I was in New Orleans at the French Quarter,there was a
guy sitting on the curb in front of Houlihan's and there was loud jazzy
music and people were dancing in the street.(Bourbon Street) The guy had
an old Zenith Trans-Oceanic transistor radio sitting by him.He would get
up every few minutes (he was drunk just like a lot of those other people
were drunk too) and dance a few steps and then sit back down on the curb
for a few minutes.Oviouslly the radio didn't work because the round dial
thingy that is for tuning in stations kept falling out of his radio on
the curb.
cuhulin

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Old February 22nd 06, 03:50 AM posted to rec.radio.shortwave
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Telamon wrote:
In article ,
"Mark S. Holden" wrote:



I can't keep it up long, but

http://users.adelphia.net/~msholden/radiomartspoof.htm



Thank you very much Mark. This page had me laughing out loud.


I suspected it wasn't long for this world, so I saved the page on my
office computer, and it was still up when I went home for lunch so I
snagged another copy there.

Personally, I thought it needed more puffery, private bidding and a
story of someone drinking tea with a lemon just like this one while some
important historical event took place.

My favorite line in the listing was:

"If the item received is not as expected please CONTACT ME, before
leaving negative feedback, as I always try to retaliate."





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Telamon wrote:

In article ,
"Mark S. Holden" wrote:

MnMikew wrote:
"Telamon" wrote in
message

gy.com.. .

In article ,
"Michael Lawson" wrote:


"Telamon" wrote in
message



gy.com.. .

In article ,
"IonSpot" wrote:


You gotta check this out....it was bound to happen sooner or

later.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=5870131179

So what happened? The auction was pulled with no other
information

when

I used the link.

It was a spoof of R-M. Instead of overpriced radios (which can be
lemons), the spoofer was auctioning off a real lemon. Had R-M's
spiel down pat.

Was the lemon sitting on a red cloth?

Sounds funny and I'm sorry I missed it.


Yup. Perhaps it got archived somewhere.



I can't keep it up long, but

http://users.adelphia.net/~msholden/radiomartspoof.htm


Thank you very much Mark. This page had me laughing out loud.


That pic with the multimeter reminds me of a picture of Scientology
founder L. Ron Hubbard hooking up an electrical meter (called an E-meter
in the cult) to a tomato via a nail driven through said tomato in an
attempt to "audit" the vegetable. (For more info visit xenu.net and
search for this pic.)

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Old February 22nd 06, 04:17 AM posted to rec.radio.shortwave
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In article ,
"Mark S. Holden" wrote:

Telamon wrote:
In article ,
"Mark S. Holden" wrote:



I can't keep it up long, but

http://users.adelphia.net/~msholden/radiomartspoof.htm



Thank you very much Mark. This page had me laughing out loud.


I suspected it wasn't long for this world, so I saved the page on my
office computer, and it was still up when I went home for lunch so I
snagged another copy there.

Personally, I thought it needed more puffery, private bidding and a
story of someone drinking tea with a lemon just like this one while some
important historical event took place.

My favorite line in the listing was:

"If the item received is not as expected please CONTACT ME, before
leaving negative feedback, as I always try to retaliate."


I liked this:
"This is all done primarily to protect me from the people who buy food
items, consume them, and want to send it back to me as non-working and
expect a refund."

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Telamon
Ventura, California
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Telamon wrote:


I liked this:
"This is all done primarily to protect me from the people who buy food
items, consume them, and want to send it back to me as non-working and
expect a refund."


There are those who have said what they bought amounted to "used food".

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Old February 22nd 06, 05:47 AM posted to rec.radio.shortwave
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Mark S. Holden wrote:

Telamon wrote:


I liked this:
"This is all done primarily to protect me from the people who buy food
items, consume them, and want to send it back to me as non-working and
expect a refund."


There are those who have said what they bought amounted to "used food".

LOL! It's still food, just reprocessed food! Organically separated
ingredients!

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