Re: [spoon-discuss] Re: [Spoon-business] repeal-o-prop

["Baron von Skippy" <bvs@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>> >It's a very long and sordid story. BvS, want to explain?
>> 
>> Anyway, I was walking around his backyard when he tripped on something and fe
>> ll flat on his face. Turning around, he discovered a piece of metal sticking 
>> out of the yard. Once dug up, it turned out to be the plates from the printin
>> g machinery that had produced the Alpha, Beta, Unlimited, and Revised edition
>> s, whose disappearance had caused Wizards of the Coast to start making new ca
>> rds in great quantities instead of tweaking the appearance of the old ones. R
>> ealizing that the plates were worth a bloody fortune, I sold them on eBay for
>>  93 dollars and a piece of string. The person who purchased the plates paid p
>> romptly, so I gave them good feedback.
>> 
>> This purchaser, who we shall call "you" to keep this story confusing, took th
>> e plates to your office, a printing press. There, you started mass-producing 
>> "authentic" old cards. As a result, the value of cards from those sets has dr
>> opped 99%, especially since you hired a team of complete and utter geeks with
>>  nothing better to do (due to a lack of social life) to handle each card for 
>> a few hours so they all look somewhat used, making it impossible to tell the 
>> fakes from the reals, except in the case of Serra Angels - you stopped lettin
>> g them handle those after one declared one of the Angels to be his girlfriend
>> . Bit of an embarassment, that.
>
>That's hilarious. I guess that's what you get for "investing" in pieces of
>colored paper manufactured by a company which specializes in selling
>artificially scarce pieces of colored paper. (Not you, personally, but the
>general you.)
>
>On the other hand, MtG isn't a bad game, and I'll bet now I could put
>together a good deck and have fun for cheap. Ha!
>
-...You do realize that I made every sentence of that up, except for the part about my computer not having an eight of spades in the solitaire deck, right?-

[[BvS]]
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